The European Wild West
“I am so fed up with people migrating to the wild west of the Silicon Valley and then coming back to say Europe sucks. It’s not true!”, says René Obermann. Europe…
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We Are Running Out of Time
No wonder Christiana Figueres is called the “climate saver”. From 2010 to 2016 she was Secretary General of the UN Climate Change Secretariat. Figueres has made a decisive contribution to the adoption…
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E-Baby, E-Government & Education
She not only wants to disrupt her own countrys’ society but the whole regions. Ana Brnabić, prime minister of the Republic of Serbia, has the great vision to lead her country…
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Of Real Planets & Synthetic Cells
One important part of DLD’S DNA are the life sciences. Breaking it down to the essentials, Petra Schwille, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, works on defining what…
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“Light Speed Is Not Fast Enough”
Advanced digital services require innovative infrastructures and a political environment that allows building them. Timotheus Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, talks about the missing links for today’s connectivity demands and the…
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“Engineers Are the Stars”
As the innovation of technology shows no sign of slowing down, all entrepreneurs must think about what keeps them competitive. Florian Leibert (Mesosphere) hosted the DLD panel about engineering leadership in the…
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Are We Out of the Woods?
Europe’s leadership in creating advancements for our society has faded away in the last years. The U.S. and China are way ahead of us in using the grand opportunities that…
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Highlights about Building Community In A Polarized World with Facebook’s Elliot Schrage
Watch Facebook’s Communications Director Eliot Schrage describe what Facebook is doing about community building when the world is becoming increasingly polarized. Here’s the talk he gave at DLD Munich 2018.
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It’s Okay To Say “Vagina”
Celmatix, Elvie, Clue, Prelude Fertility – Women’s health tech companies are up and coming. But still, in a men dominated tech- and investment-world, the struggle is real. Ina Fried, chief…
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5 Ways to Fix the Future
Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our society and culture. This February the internet critic is publishing his new book How…
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“AI Equals New Superpowers for People”
Without doubt, Artificial Intelligence will impact the way we work and live in the near future. AI applications based on machine learning, neural networks and data, are progressing at a…
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The Feeling Machine
The Latin phrase “Cogito, ergo sum” means “I think, therefore I am.” For decades authors and directors have dreamed about the self-aware machine, letting their imagination run high. With AI…
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