Symposium "Sustainable Water Future"

... is a German photographer. She has been working for ten years on the global photo art project "Tropic Ice_Dialog between Places affected by Climate Change", which focuses on climate change. To this end, she visited indigenous peoples on all five continents and brings the images from the different regions together in installations to show that everything is connected. She graduated from Fachhochschule Dortmund in the early 1990s with a degree in photography. Barbara Dombrowski is a member of the laif agency in Cologne and an appointed member of the German Photographic Association (DGPh).

She works for magazines, agencies and non-governmental organizations and teaches documentary photography in Hamburg. She acts as a juror and curator and gives lectures on her work Tropic Ice. In addition to her cooperation with the University of Kiel and Future Ocean in the South Pacific and Sicily region, she was able to realize a book project entitled "Everyday Worlds of Climate Change" with the Cluster of Excellence at the University of Hamburg. She has presented her work in numerous national and international exhibitions.

... is an Egyptian documentary photographer, photo editor and curator. His reportages and photo essays focus on shining a spotlight on under-documented, forgotten socio-economic issues. With his work, he aims to give these communities a forum in the media so that complex issues and problems receive more attention.
He received his Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts in Egypt in 2008 and started his career as a photojournalist in 2010. In 2015, he received a degree in Photojournalism from the Danish School of Media & Journalism in Denmark. He has since worked for various newspapers and international news agencies. His work has been published by international organizations as well as in various international newspapers and news agencies such as AP, AFP, Getty Images, New York Times, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Le Monde, De Grona Amsterdam or The Guardian.

He has been exhibited in, among others: Institut du monde arabe in Paris, the Hermitage Museum in Russia, the MUCEM Museum in Marseille, the Heads on Photo Festival in Australia, the Bamako Biennale in Mali and many other exhibition venues worldwide.

... was launched in 2018 as an initiative that transcends borders through its broad range of problem-solving ideas, a strong will to act and its ability to bring together interdisciplinary volunteers and industry partners.

The Nile is a symbol of Egyptian heritage and a source of life for Egypt. However, according to the World Economic Forum, it is also one of ten rivers that generate 90 percent of the waste in the world's oceans. By cleaning up the Nile, raising awareness among the local population about the importance of reducing plastic consumption and empowering local communities, the NGO VeryNile ensures that the impact of its projects is not only felt on a local and regional level, but also on a global scale.

VeryNile works to develop sustainable methods of cleaning the Nile, recycling and upcycling solid waste through partnerships with local stakeholders and on a preventative level to reduce the use of single-use plastic and reduce water pollution. Using a variety of methods and approaches, VeryNile removes more than ten tons of plastic from the Nile every month. A workshop for recycling PET bottles and other plastic materials has been set up on the Nile island of Qursaya. The organization works with around 60 local fishermen, over 5,000 volunteers and 21 permanent employees.

... is a graduate in Innovation Management from the German University Cairo (GUC). She started her career as a project manager for five years at companies in the ecological sector, namely RiseUp and the Greek Campus. She then moved professionally into marketing and became the driving force behind the digital transformation of Fabrea Home until she finally landed in the environmental scene as co-founder of "Imagine if", together with Omar Samra & Ahmed Gabr. She is now in her fifth year working in awareness and communication in the environmental sector, currently at VeryNile.