The Gemeinsam Digital: Berlin Team
The team behind the Gemeinsam Digital: Berlin strategy consists of employees from city administration under the central coordination and guidance of Berlin's Senate Chancellery. The implementation is supported by players close to the administration and other experts: the urban innovation laboratory CityLAB Berlin, the Smart City Unit at Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie (Berlin Partners for Economy and Technology) as well as specialists for facilitation and digital transformation.
Chief Digital Officer of the State of Berlin (CDO)
State Secretary Martina Klement is the Chief Digital Officer of the State of Berlin in the Senate Chancellery: in this role she is responsible for the strategic management of the areas of smart city and digitalization, administrative digitalization, and administrative modernization and management.
Smart City – Gemeinsam Digital: Berlin
The Special Unit Smart City/ Gemeinsam Digital: Berlin (GD:B) operates out of the Senate Chancellery. It is responsible for the strategic implementation of the GD:B strategy, including the strategy learning cycle (coordination and steering).
Karen Laßmann | Head of Special Unit Smart City/ Gemeinsam Digital: Berlin
Patrick Lange | Officer
Sebastian Gessert | Assistant
Benyamin Abdülhay | Officer
Magdalena Konieczek-Woger | Officer
Michel Maier-Bode | Officer
Smart City Unit
The Smart City Unit is a separate unit of Berlin Partner GmbH. It is the central point of contact for smart city actors from the areas of business, academia and research, and organized civil society, supporting their projects of innovation. It also serves as the office of the Smart City Berlin network with around 150 institutional members.
Beate Albert | Smart City Unit Coordinator
Sibylle Kubale | Smart City Innovation Manager
Michael Lesch | Smart City Innovation Manager
CityLAB Berlin
CityLAB Berlin is a public innovation lab and a project run by Technologiestiftung Berlin, funded by the Berlin Senate Chancellery, which is also intended to act as a hub for the implementation of key elements of digital policy.
Dr. Benjamin Seibel | Head of CityLAB Berlin
Dr. Niklas Kossow | Team Lead Smart City & Administrative Innovation
Anja Lüttmann | Smart City Designer
Markus Sperl | Project Manager
Edmundo Galindo | Product- & UX-Designer
Experts for process support and digital transformation
Politics for Tomorrow
Politics for Tomorrow is a non-partisan initiative advancing the innovation capacity of the public sector to accelerate transformative change processes for human and planetary wellbeing.
Caroline Paulick-Thiel | Director Politics for Tomorrow
Dr. Philip Hector | Research and Design Lead
Jennifer Jiang | Strategic Design
Henrike Arlt | Organisational Development Lead