The Seattle Warburg Chapter, the Goethe Institut, and the Seattle World Affairs Council will host a discussion and reception with Vladimir Balzer, Award Winning Journalist and Moderator at Deutschlandradio, and Heidi Obermeyer, Senior Strategist for Responsible AI at Google.
The cost to attend this event is $15.00 for ACG/WAC Members and
$25 for Non-Members of either organization.
Vladimir Balzer is an award-winning radio journalist and moderator at Deutschlandradio. He grew up in Leipzig and studied in Dublin, Venice, and Leipzig. He began his career as a presenter, reporter, and editor at Deutschlandradio and MDR. Mr. Balzer hosts, among other programs, the daily program “Fazit – Kultur vom Tage” on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. In 2022, he was selected to be a Kellen Fellow by the American Council on Germany. In 2023, he started as a correspondent at Deutschlandradio’s main studio in Berlin. He is known as a commentator for German Television, such as ZDF. He also regularly reports for his broadcaster from the United States.
Heidi Obermeyer (Moderator) is a Senior Strategist for Responsible AI at Google where she helps develop and scale governance of Google’s AI products. Previously, she worked in geopolitical consulting with a focus on the tech industry and supply chains at Expeditors International in Seattle. She has also worked on technology public policy at trade associations in Washington, DC. She was a 2017/2018 German Chancellor Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin where her research focused on the impact of geopolitical issues on small and medium-sized businesses. She has participated in the Manfred Woerner Seminar with the German Army, the Taiwan-US Policy Program with CSIS, and the German-American Dialogue with the American-German Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a MA in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in international relations, Germanic studies, and anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.