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Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Gravity Industries founder Richard Browning wearing the jet suit he invented during a demo flight at DLD Campus Bayreuth in 2018.

Up and Away! Iron Man Takes Flight

From DLD to the world’s first jet suit race in Dubai: How inventor Richard Browning is giving the human dream of flying a rocket boost.
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Portrait photo of investor Lexi Novitske, general partner at Norrsken22, in front of a lush green background.

“Africa is Gearing up for Growth”

Find out why DLD24 speaker Lexi Novitske is confident that Africa will become a global leader in tech, overcome its challenges – and where the continent’s super powers lie.
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Award-winning chocolate by Peru Puro, several bars lying on a table.

Eat Chocolate to Protect the Rainforest? Sweet!

With her company Perú Puro, tropical biologist Frauke Fischer supports farmers in the Andes – and delights the taste buds of her customers.
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Hand holding a lens ball, upside down, symbolizing economic change towards sustainability and a circular economy

Circularity: “The Biggest Obstacle Is Managing Radical Change”

Joe Iles, Programme Lead at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, explains how the circular economy can gain traction – in business and our personal lives.
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McKinsey Partner Solveigh Hieronimus presents the Pixels of Progress study at DLD Munich 2023

How Ecosystems Power Progress

Innovation is a global competition, and many regions try their best to win. But what does it take to create future champions? These DLD23 expert talks give answers.
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Amy Wilkinson, management expert, author and Stanford University lecturer

Why Successful Businesses Need Diversity, Agility and Creativity

Amy Wilkinson is one of the world’s leading innovation and entrepreneurship experts. We asked her about the secrets of founders and companies who manage to rise to the top.
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African workers in the digital economy, innovation and investing in Africa

Africa Next: The Continent of Opportunities

From business to health, mobility and education: Digital services give founders and investors the chance to advance an entire continent – and benefit from it.
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circular economy, sustainability, society, consumption, business

Why the Circular Economy Is the Future

Wasting resources is expensive and unsustainable. The circular economy promises progress by preserving natural resources and offers many new business opportunities…
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Margaret Heffernan, author, DLD conference

Make Uncertainty Your Friend!

Don’t try to fight uncertainty, learn to manage it, author and consultant Margaret Heffernan says. Watch her DLD Sync session with Niki Kolev about better ways to deal with risk.
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Klaus Hommels, Stefan Oschmann, DLD Sync

Digital Europe After Covid-19

DLD Sync: Watch investor Klaus Hommels and Merck CEO Stefan Oschmann discuss the continent’s economic future in a post-pandemic world.
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Scott Galloway, speaker, DLD Sync, NYU, marketing, professor

The Great Disruption: Scott Galloway on Business in Times of Covid-19

NYU Prof. Scott Galloway explains why the coronavirus pandemic is likely to make tech companies even more powerful and change entire sectors of the economy…
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Ecosia, search engine, worker planting trees, Indonesia, climate change

Fighting Climate Change, Click by Click

Search engine Ecosia uses most of its income to plant trees. Founder Christian Kroll speaks with DLD about sustainability and running a business that puts purpose before profits…
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Liam Young, Planetary City, DLD Circular, video
The coronavirus pandemic prompted director Liam Young to think about Earth as Planet City: an imaginary world of soon ten billion people, all living in a planet-wide, “unevenly distributed megastructure”, a man-made environment connected by technology and human settlements. “Urban development has...
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Aman Dogra (Financial Times), Hannah Louise Brown (Organifarms) and Alexander Gerfer (Wuerth Elektronik) discuss agriculture and technology at DLD Munich
For the past 100 years, progress in food production has been mostly the result of chemical and industrial advances. Better fertilizers, more efficient pesticides, tractors, industrial food production. Now we’re entering a new age of farming, one in which sensors measure soil...
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