As a speaker and expert Donald Houwer joined national and international panels, conferences, filmfestivals and congresses. He offers insights, opinions, and experiences related to the topics of Green Producing & Streaming & Storytelling and the Filmindustry itself. 

With his longstanding experience in sustainability, Media and Politics he kickstart discussions, inspires new thinking in debates and brings a unique perspective to the mentioned themes.

The last open table he joined as a speaker was the "GREEN FILMING FUTURE NOW" Panel, which was a strong, pan-European signal for Green Filming in Europe, which unvolved involve stakeholders and experts from all over Europe. This expert Talk on the future of sustainable filmmaking was organised by EVERGREEN PRISMA - the unique Competence Center for Green Filming Europe - and INFOSME with the funding support of the The German Federal Film Board. It took place in the Austrian Film Pavilion in the Village International Riviera of the Marché du Film in Cannes 2025. The event brought speakers from numerous European countries and winning alliances together. Read more aboutr it here.

Beyond that he held Impulse presentations for ecample at the Frauenhofer Institute, the Gothe Institute, the international Screen Institute and at Innovation@Babelsberg "Green Production & Clean IT" of the Babelsberg Film University.

Together with the Partnernetzwerk Medien and the BVGCD, he organised the congress about "Storytelling für die Zukunft – Fiktionale Erzählweisen in Film und Fernsehen" in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of research, technologie and space (BMBF). Read more aboutr it here.

If you are interested in having Donald Houwer as a speaker please get in touch via the contact form or send an e-mail to dh(@)donaldhouwer.com.