BerlinSolve - Where Challenges Meet Solutions

BerlinSolve - Where Challenges Meet Solutions

Join us for an evening of innovative thinking and solution-focused discussions as we explore how entrepreneurship and free-market principles can address today's pressing challenges.

Date: Monday, November 18, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Venue: Prometheus – Das Freiheitsinstitut (Mulackstraße 29, 10119 Berlin)

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About the Event:

BerlinSolve brings together forward-thinking individuals and organizations dedicated to finding practical, market-driven solutions to contemporary challenges. This evening features presentations from a diverse group of speakers and a stimulating debate on fostering innovation.

Agenda:

5:30 pm - Doors Open

6:00 pm - Welcome remarks, by Fjoralba Ago, Felix Hosse, and Federico N. Fernández

6:10 pm - “Problem-solving innovation,” by Federico N. Fernández

6:20 PM - “Clear Conscience - Empowering consumers to fight dictators,” by Felix Hosse

6:30 PM - Title TBC by Bart Urban

6:40 PM - Featured Debate: “How to help innovation help us,” moderated by Anna Tymoshenko

7:30 PM - Networking Reception with Drinks

8:30 PM - Event Conclusion

Organized by:

We Are Innovation

Clear Conscience

About the Speakers:

Federico N. Fernández (ARG) is a visionary leader dedicated to driving innovation and change. As the CEO of We Are Innovation, a global network of 45+ think tanks and NGOs, Federico champions innovative solutions worldwide. His expertise and passion for innovation have earned him recognition from prestigious publications such as The Economist, El País, Folha de São Paulo, and Newsweek. Federico has also delivered inspiring speeches and lectures across three continents, authored numerous scholarly articles, and co-edited several books on economics.

Felix Hosse (GER) is the founder of Clear Conscience, where he amassed extensive knowledge about sanctions and consumer activism. After years of supporting Ukraine through aid deliveries, he made the decision to move to Kyiv to help Ukraine in its fight for Independence. With a background in fundraising, policy, and advocacy, he is passionate about using market forces to challenge authoritarian regimes and protect individual rights.

Clear Conscience empowers consumers to fight authoritarianism by making ethical shopping decisions. It aims to leverage consumer power to promote freedom and hold corporations accountable, starting with companies that continue to do business in Russia. Its platform provides actionable information through a browser extension, a barcode-scanning app, and an extensive brand database.

Felix argues that the free world can easily beat global authoritarianism, but only if the free people leverage their power through technology. Listen to him talking about the role of the free market in this endeavor and which innovations are needed to beat unfreedom.

Bart Urban (GER) is an urban development expert and co-founder of “The Aesthetic City,” a multimedia platform dedicated to transforming urban spaces through thoughtful design and planning. With two decades of experience in urban beautification and livability enhancement, Urban leads the platform's consulting practice while advancing its mission to make beautiful cities accessible to all.

Through “The Aesthetic City's” comprehensive approach—encompassing YouTube content, podcasts, social media engagement, and professional consulting services—Urban champions the proven connection between aesthetic urban design and societal wellbeing. His work is supported by extensive research demonstrating how enhanced urban and architectural planning directly correlates with economic prosperity, civic engagement, public health, environmental sustainability, and community vitality.

About the Moderator:

Anna Tymoshenko (UKR) is CEO of “Ukrainian Students for Freedom” – the most prominent libertarian student organization in Eastern Europe, which was created to safeguard the freedom, encourage just policy-making, and spread the principles of liberty. As the first generation born in independent Ukraine, USF are building the real future of the whole country and fighting for Freedom defending the country on the frontline, providing economic and political science education to the young generation, and organizing protests against freedom-restricting decisions of the government.

Anna is a student at the Free Economy Institute, where she studies the power of markets and policy-making for rebuilding Ukraine. In addition to advocating Freedom in Ukraine, Anna is a 4-th year medical student at Bogomolets National Medical University in Kyiv.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Prometheus - Das Freiheitsinstitut gGmbH / Bibliothek des Liberalismus, Mulackstraße 29, Berlin, Germany