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SUMMARY:Fake News\, Cybersecurity\, and Election Manipulation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On November 2\, the ACG and the Hasso Plattner Insitute will host a breakfast briefing with Professor Dr. Christoph Meinel\, Managing and Scientific Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute and Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty at Potsdam University. \nProfessor Dr. Christoph Meinel is Managing and Scientific Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering (HPI) as well as the Founding Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty at the University of Potsdam. He is the Chair of Internet Technologies and Systems and teaches courses on IT Systems Engineering on HPI’s MOOC platform openHPI\, and at the HPI School of Design Thinking. His research currently focuses on security engineering\, knowledge engineering\, and Web 3.0–Semantic\, Social\, Service Web. He is also scientifically active in Design Thinking research. Dr. Meinel is the author or coauthor of more than 25 books\, anthologies\, and numerous conference proceedings. He has had more than 550 (peer-reviewed) papers published in scientific journals and at international conferences and holds a number of international patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)\, Director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program\, Honorary Professor at the TU Beijing and Dalian University of Technology\, Visiting Professor at Shanghai University\, Concurrent Professor at the University of Nanjing\, and a member of numerous scientific committees and Supervisory Boards.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/fake-news-cybersecurity-and-election-manipulation/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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SUMMARY:Navigating Troubled Water:  The Transatlantic Partnership in the Face of Multiple Crises
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On November 4\, the ACG will host a breakfast briefing with Sigmar Gabriel\, former Foreign Minister\, former Vice Chancellor\, and Chairman of Atlantik-Brücke. \nSigmar Gabriel has been Chairman of Atlantik-Brücke e.V. since June 2019. He was the Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 2009 to 2017\, which made him the party’s longest-serving leader since Willy Brandt. Before leaving politics in 2018\, he held three respective positions at the level of Federal Minister: In addition to serving as Vice-Chancellor of Germany (2013-2018)\, Sigmar Gabriel was Minister for Foreign Affairs (2017-2018)\, Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy (2013-2017)\, and Minister for the Environment\, Nature Conservation\, and Nuclear Safety (2005-2009). \nIn 2005\, he was first elected to the Bundestag representing Salzgitter-Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony – and remained a member of Parliament until 2018. Earlier in his career\, he served as Minister-President of Lower Saxony from 1999 to 2003. In the 1990s\, he was Chairman of the Environmental Committee in Lower Saxony’s Parliament and a member of the SPD Executive Committee. In the 1980s\, Sigmar Gabriel\, who is certified as a high school teacher\, assumed various responsibilities in adult education and was elected to Lower Saxony’s Parliament. He has been active in politics since 1976\, when he joined a socialist youth organization.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/avigating-troubled-water-the-transatlantic-partnership-in-the-face-of-multiple-crises/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T120000
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SUMMARY:Germany’s Zeitenwende: A New Chapter for Transatlantic Relations”
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On November 14\, the ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Michael Georg Link\, Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office and Member of the Bundestag (FDP). \nMichael Georg Link is a member of the German Bundestag\, now in his fourth legislative term. He represents the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and his home electoral district\, Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg. Mr. Link is the Spokesperson on Europe of the FDP Parliamentary Group\, and since March 2022 he has been the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office. \nMr. Link is a member of the party council of the European Liberals (ALDE) and a member of the FDP national executive board in his capacity as party Treasurer. He is also a Vice-Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly\, where he collaborates closely with the U.S. Helsinki Commission. As a member of Heilbronn’s city council\, he has remained politically active at the local level. In 2020\, he was the Head OSCE observer at the U.S. general elections. From 2012 to 2013\, he was Minister of State at the Federal Foreign responsible for relations with the United Nations\, the European Union\, the Council of Europe\, the OSCE\, and NATO\, as well as bilateral relations with the United States and Canada. After his military service\, Mr. Link studied Russian and French at the universities of Augsburg\, Lausanne\, and Heidelberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-zeitenwende-a-new-chapter-for-transatlantic-relations/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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SUMMARY:Germany’s G7 Presidency in a Period of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On November 15\, the ACG and the German Consulate General will host a breakfast briefing with Dr. Florian Toncar\, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance and Member of the German Bundestag (FDP). \n  \nDr. Florian Toncar has been Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance since December 2021. Since 2017\, he has also been Parliamentary Secretary of the FDP Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag. In 2009\, he became a member of the National Executive Committee of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Chair of the FDP’s Expert Committee for Home Affairs and Law in Baden-Württemberg\, positions he continues to hold. From 2009 to 2013\, he was Chair of the Financial Markets Advisory Committee\, and he served as Deputy Leader of the FDP Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag from 2011 to 2013. \nDr. Toncar studied law in Regensburg\, Cambridge\, and Heidelberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/germanys-g7-presidency-in-a-period-of-crisis/
CATEGORIES:NYC Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T120000
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SUMMARY:Recalibrating German Foreign Policy After the Zeitenwende
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On November 16\, the ACG and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung will host a discussion and luncheon with Lars Klingbeil\, Party Leader of the  Social Democratic Party of Germany. \nLars Klingbeil is a German politician and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany since 2021. Mr. Klingbeil first joined the SPD in 1996\, and in 2009\, he was elected to represent the Rotenburg I – Heidekreis district in the German Bundestag. Since 2017\, he has been a directly elected representative. From 2017 to 2021\, Mr. Klingbeil was Secretary General of the SPD\, and from 2009 to 2017\, he was digital policy spokesman for the SPD Parliamentary Group and a member of the Defense Committee. He is a founding member of D64 – Center for Digital Progress and a member of AWO\, a national workers’ welfare association\, and IG BCE\, a trade union for the mining\, chemistry\, and energy industries. Mr. Klingbeil was born in Soltau in 1978 and grew up in Munster in the Lüneburg Heath.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/recalibrating-german-foreign-policy-after-the-zeitenwende/
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