clean-IT: Towards Sustainable Digital Technologies

Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner has been President of the German Federal Environment Agency since 2020. Previously, he was Director of the United Nations Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn and Vice-Director of the United Nations University (UNU). Prior to becoming Director of UNU-EHS in October 2018, Prof. Messner was Director of the German Development Institute from 2003-2018. Prof. Messner is an internationally recognized expert on globalization/global governance, transformation pathways to sustainability, decarbonization of the global economy, sustainability and digital transformation, and international cooperation and social change.

Bernhard Rohleder (born 1965) helped launch Bitkom e.V. at the end of 1999 and has been the association's Chief Executive Officer ever since. Rohleder is a member of the advisory board of the German Institute for Trust and Security on the Internet (Divsi) and of the jury for the "Made in.de" start-up prize. Among other things, he represents the industry on the relevant committees of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). In the 17th legislative period, Rohleder was a member of the German Bundestag's Enquête Commission on the Internet and Digital Society. Rohleder studied political science from 1987, first at Saarland University and later at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, where he graduated in 1991. He received his doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) from Freie Universität Berlin. Rohleder is married, has one child and lives in Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Maik Thomas has been W3 Professor for Modeling Fluid Dynamics in the Earth System at Freie Universität Berlin since 2013 and Head of the GFZ Section: "Earth System Modeling" at Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam since 2007. He received his diploma in oceanography from the Department of Geosciences in Hamburg, and his PhD, which he completed summa cum laude. His main research areas include the numerical simulation of spatio-temporally variable mass redistributions in the Earth system, taking into account consistent mass, momentum, and energy fluxes, especially between atmosphere, ocean, and continental hydrosphere.

Oliver Süme has been Chairman of the Board of eco - Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V. since 2017. Previously, he had been Vice Chairman of the association's Executive Board since 2000 and was responsible for the Policy & Law department. From 2013 to 2018, Süme was also President of the world's largest provider association, EuroISPA, based in Brussels. He has been a lawyer since 1997 and is a partner in the international law firm Fieldfisher in Hamburg. Süme advises companies in the Internet and IT sectors, and life science companies in particular, on data protection law. He is a specialist attorney for IT law and a member of the IT law committee of the Hanseatic Bar Association. Süme is also co-founder of Hamburg Top-Level-Domain GmbH (registry for the domain extension ".hamburg").