Colorful illustration by Annette Jung representing the DLD Munich 2026 conference design

DLD Munich 26

January 15-17, 2026

The future doesn’t have a roadmap. It’s a thrilling, untamed frontier. That’s why our promise for DLD Munich 2026 was simple: “It’s Gonna Be Wild!”

For 2 ½ days, the DLD stage was home to the world’s most visionary founders, scientists, and artists. Our speakers ventured into uncharted territories, sharing the latest advancements in AI, quantum computing, biotech, new energy systems – and explore where these developments intersect with mobility, creativity, art, design, and more.

You can revisit the conference right here if you missed it or want to refresh your memory.

Contents

Speakers

  • Environmental portrait of author and philosopher Roman Krznaric, seen looking to his left out of the frame, in front of a natural green background.
    Roman Krznaric
    The Long Now Foundation

    Roman Krznaric

    Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher whose bestselling books, including The Good AncestorEmpathy and Carpe Diem Regained, have been widely influential amongst political and ecological campaigners, education reformers, social entrepreneurs and designers. Krznaric is a Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation and a member of the Club of Rome.

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  • Portrait of E.ON board member Victoria Ossadnik, wearing a colorful scarf, smiling at the camera.
    Victoria Ossadnik
    E.ON

    Victoria Ossadnik

    Victoria Ossadnik is COO and Member of the Management Board of E.ON SE. Previously she was CEO of E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH and Vice President for Microsoft Enterprise Services Delivery, Data & AI. Victoria Ossadnik holds a PhD in Quantum Optics from the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich.

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  • Headshot portrait of Luma AI founder Amit Jain in an office environment.
    Amit Jain
    Luma AI

    Amit Jain

    Amit Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Luma AI, a company at the forefront of visual intelligence and generative video that has raised over $900 million in venture funding. Before founding Luma AI in 2021, Amit Jain was a systems and ML engineer at Apple, where he led Passthrough for Vision Pro and helped bring LIDAR to iPhones.

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  • Headshot portrait image of AI expert and Oxford University professor Carl Benedikt Frey, wearing a suit, seen in front of a neutral grey background.
    Carl Benedikt Frey
    Oxford University

    Carl Benedikt Frey

    Carl Benedikt Frey is one of the world’s leading AI researchers. A Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute, he is also Director of the Future of Work Programme at the Oxford Martin School. Frey co-authored the influential paper The Future of Employment and is the author, most recently, of the award-winning book The Technology Trap.

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  • Headshot portrait of cell biologist Fabian Theis, Director Computational Health Center & Scientific Director of HelmholtzAI at Helmholtz Munich, smiling at the camera, photographed in front of a grey background.
    Fabian Theis
    Helmholtz Munich

    Fabian Theis

    Fabian Theis is the Director of the Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Center and Scientific Director of HelmholtzAI. He uses artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of human cells, exploring the cellular mechanisms behind diseases. In 2023, was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his pioneering work in the analysis, modelling and interpretation of genomic data.

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  • Headshot of Maria Furtwängler, Co-Founder of the MaLisa Foundation
    Maria Furtwängler
    MaLisa Foundation

    Maria Furtwängler

    Maria Furtwängler is an acclaimed and multi award-winning-actress, producer and activist. She co-founded DLD Women. In 2016, she founded the MaLisa Foundation together with her daughter Elisabeth. The foundation’s work focuses on the protection of social diversity, biodiversity and the climate, a crisis that is the central issue of our time, if not our century.

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  • Portrait of Richard Socher, Co-fFounder & CEO of AI-powered search engine You.com
    Richard Socher
    You.com

    Richard Socher

    Richard Socher is the founder and CEO of the AI productivity platform you.com and also co-founder and managing director of AIX Ventures. He previously served as the Chief Scientist of Salesforce. Socher is widely recognized as having brought neural networks into the field of natural language processing, inventing the most widely used word vectors and prompt engineering.

    Speaker Profile
  • Portrait image of technology analyst and media entrepreneur Henry Blodget in front of a white studio background.
    Henry Blodget
    Regenerator

    Henry Blodget

    Henry Blodget is the founder and CEO of Regenerator, a publishing and consulting firm that analyzes the most important questions in tech. He also hosts the podcast “Solutions with Henry Blodget” and founded Business Insider, serving as its editor and CEO from 2007 to 2023. In the 1990s, Blodget was a top-ranked Wall Street technology analyst at Merrill Lynch.

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Videos

Whether you missed a session or want to revisit a special moment: You’re in the right place. Take a look at our highlight video and explore select DLD26 talks. For more, please visit our Youtube channel.
DLD26 highlight video preview: DLD founder Steffi Czerny celebrating the audience.

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Day 1

January 15, 2026

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Building Global Impact with European AI

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Business as a Force for Good

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Century of Plenty

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Day 2

January 16, 2026

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Articulatory Intelligence: New Models for Human and Machine Co-Creation

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BAIOSPHERE Health Track: Welcome

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Being Joyful Is Completely Underrated

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Building A European Tech Champion

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Day 3

January 17, 2026

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Engineering Attention in a Noisy World

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Five Years to Save Europe

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From Identity to Ownership: Tokenizing Participation in the Digital Age

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From Taiwan to Germany: How Radical Participation Leapfrogs Public Trust

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Images

Looking for more images? Our DLD26 Flickr collection has photos of all three conference days plus side events. Enjoy!

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Agenda

Thursday, January 15

09:00 am – 6 pm
DLD Conference Sessions at House of Communication, Friedenstr. 24, 81671 Munich

Friday, January 16

09:00 am – 6 pm
DLD Conference Sessions
7:30 pm – 10 pm
Friday Kraut: Bavarian get-together for all attendees at Zum Franziskaner, Residenzstr. 9, Munich.
10 pm – late night
DLD Party at Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Promenadeplatz 2-6, Munich

Saturday, January 17

9:30 am – 2 pm
DLD Conference Sessions
2 pm – 3 pm
Closing and transfer to Davos.
Program Details

Location

Map of DLD conference location, Serviceplan House of Communication Munich

House of Communication Munich
Friedenstr. 24
81671 Munich
Germany

If you arrive by car please use this address:

August-Everding-Straße 25
81671 Munich

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