• Manfred Eibl, Member of the Bavarian State Parliament, Mayor for many years and founder of the ILZER.LAND e. V. intermunicipal association, Perlesreut
• Dr. Oliver Hermann, Mayor of the town of Wittenberge
• Thomas Kufen, Mayor of the city of Essen (requested)
• Prof. Dr. Michael Krautzberger, former head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development

• Anne Katrin Bohle, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
• Prof. Dr. Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff, Chair of the Conference of Construction Ministers of the States and Minister for Infrastructure and Agriculture of the state of Thuringia (requested)
• Burkhard Jung, President of the Association of German Cities (DST) and Mayor of the city of Leipzig
• Ralph Spiegler, President of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities (DStGB) and Mayor of the Nieder-Olm community

• Bernhard Daldrup, MdB, SPD
• Daniel Föst, MdB, FDP
• Udo Theodor Hemmelgarn, MdB, AfD (requested)
• Daniela Wagner , MdB, Alliance 90/The Greens (requested)
• Caren Lay, MdB, Die Linke
• Kai Wegner, MdB, CDU/CSU (requested)

Breakout arena I: Examples of multifunctional, resilient and co-operative development of city centres
Moderation: Gabriele Kautz, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community and Holger Pietschmann, Plan&Praxis along with the the German Association of Towns and Municipalities

Breakout arena II: Equitable neighbourhoods – future-proofing integration
Moderation: Timo Heyn, empirica ag – provider of research and consultancy services and Anne Keßler, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community

Breakout arena III: New urban districts on formerly used areas
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Heike Liebmann, Bundestransferstelle Wachstum und nachhaltige Erneuerung (Federal Contact Point for Growth and Sustainable Regeneration and Prof. (em.) Dr. Franz Pesch, pp a|s pesch partner architekten stadtplaner GmbH

Breakout arena IV: Smart city dialogue – data strategies for common good driven urban development
Moderation: Kathrin Bimesdörfer, IFOK GmbH with the Association of German Cities

Breakout arena V: Implementing the New Leipzig Charter in Europe: From cohesion policy to the Urban Agenda for the EU (en)
Moderation: Mart Grisel, European Urban Knowledge Network and Tilman Buchholz, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community

Breakout arena VI: Could you please translate 'Städtebauförderung' for me?” – Experiences from abroad (en)
Moderation: Dr. Oliver Weigel, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community and Dr. Bettina Silbernagl, German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ)

followed by
Moderator Anja Heyde talks to:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Kurth, TU Kaiserslautern, Chair of the Expert Advisory Board
• Nina Köksalan, Head of the National Focal Point for the Sendai Framework at the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, member of the Expert Advisory Board
• Dr. Oliver Weigel, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community

Comment: Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, Member of the Board of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

• Nicole Graf, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community 
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Kurth, Chair of the Expert Advisory Board
• Hilmar von Lojewski, councillor, Association of German Cities (requested)
• Sabine Nakelski, Chair of the Special Committee on Urban Development for the Conference of Construction Ministers of the States 
• Norbert Portz, councillor, German Association of Towns and Municipalities (DStGB) (requested)