Benjamin Seibel ist the Director of CityLAB, Berlin’s first public innovation lab run by Technology Foundation Berlin. He is a renowned expert and public speaker with many years of experience in e-government, the development of digital prototypes and the strategic and technical management of open source- and open data-related projects involving public administration, academia and civil society. Before that, he wrote a PhD thesis on the history of e-government and worked as a journalist and curator in New York, Nicosia, Rotterdam and Frankfurt/Main.