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Innovation @Babelsberg 2025 – Technology-supported new culture of remembrance: AI, XR & the future of remembrance

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | Admission 17:30 | Program 18:00-20:00
Media Innovation Center Babelsberg, Stahnsdorfer Str. 107, 14482 Potsdam

Artificial intelligence, augmented reality and immersive media are changing the way we experience and pass on history. Under the motto “Technology-supported new culture of remembrance”, experts from research, the creative industries and the media will discuss how these technologies can have a lasting impact on remembrance and education – in a critical, participatory and historically sensitive way.

Program schedule

17:30 Admission

18:00 Welcome & Introduction
– medianet BerlinBrandenburg & MIZ Babelsberg

18:10-18:50 Panel discussion

Technology-supported new culture of remembrance: AI, XR & the future of remembrance

  • Prof. Dr. Björn Stockleben (Film University Babelsberg)
    Project presentation “Immersive contemporary testimonies of the Holocaust”
  • Lilli Berger (Vyvyt)
    Use of XR in mourning work & remembrance culture
  • Stefan Marx (Zaubar, requested)
    AR solutions for museums & city tours
  • Video message Christian Zipfel (VR-Experience “Die wenige Zeit”)
    Insights into volumetric contemporary witness recording

Moderator: Lisa Nawrocki (UNESCO City of Film Potsdam)

18:50 Open Q&A session

19:00 Get-Together & Networking

Target Group

This event is aimed at:

  • Representatives from the media, politics and cultural institutions
  • Filmmakers & producers
  • MediaTech and XR companies
  • Universities, foundations & memorial sites
  • Professionals from public history, digitization & remembrance culture

Cooperation partner

In cooperation with
Medieninnovationszentrum Babelsberg
UNESCO City of Film Potsdam

In partnership with
Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB)
MTH MediaTech Hub Potsdam