Felix Rundel as the head of programme of the Falling Walls Conference is responsible for contents and speakers of the science conferences as well as for the new development and advancement of formats within the Falling Walls Foundation. He studied Anglistics and North America studies at the University of Constance; after a master study in the institute of cultural management and media management of the Free University of Berlin he acted as a research assistant in the centre for Audience Development as well as as a project manager and independent curator in several international cultural organisations. Interdisciplinary dialogue processes and the tension fields between science and society count to his main interests.