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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.

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  • 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 Ancestor, Empathy 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.

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  • 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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Space – A New Asset Class Has Emerged

For investors who want to venture beyond Wall Street there’s an exciting new asset class to discover: companies that power the next wave of space exploration. This DLD26 expert panel,…
Earli CEO Cyriac Roeding speaking at the DLD Munich Conference 2026. Photo: Philipp Guelland for DLD / Hubert Burda Media

How to Solve a Really Hard Problem

A single genetic “smoke‑signal” inside a tumor can make the body’s own immune system hunt it down. This bold idea drives the research effort of biotech company Earli. CEO and…
Zarah Bruhn (SPRIND) and Audrey Tang (University of Oxford/Cyber Ambassador Taiwan) speak at the DLD Munich 2026 conference. Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / picture alliance for DLD / Hubert Burda Media

From Taiwan to Germany: How Radical Participation Leapfrogs Public Trust

Public trust can be rebuilt faster than many people expect, and one of the best ways is citizen engagement, this inspiring DLD26 conversation between Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s first Digital Minister,…
Video preview of Jennifer Schenker (The Innovator) in conversation with Kay Firth-Butterfield (Good Tech Advisory) at the DLD Munich Conference 2026

Facing AI’s Risks

Kay Firth‑Butterfield, the CEO of Good Tech Advisory and a former chief AI ethics officer at the World Economic Forum, joins journalist Jennifer Schenker to map AI’s impact across every stage of life.…
Scientist Henry Markram (Frontiers) speaking at the DLD Munich Conference 2026. Photo: Philipp Guelland for DLD / Hubert Burda Media

Brain-Based Artificial General Intelligence

Your brain runs on roughly the power of a dim light bulb, yet outperforms machines that consume the electricity of entire power plants. That striking mismatch is the launching point…
January 17, 2026
Yat Siu (Animoca Brands) and Marcel Reichart (Executive & Advisor) on stage at the DLD Munich 2026 conference. Photo: Enno Kapitza for DLD / Hubert Burda Media

From Identity to Ownership: Tokenizing Participation in the Digital Age

Most people using the Internet don’t own their own content – they are, in effect, “digital serfs”, as Animoca Brands chairman Yat Siu puts it in his DLD26 conversation with…
Jennifer Schenker (The Innovator) in conversation with Kamila Markram (Frontiers) at the DLD Munich Conference. Photo: Philipp Guelland for DLD / Hubert Burda Media

Why We Need Open Science

Science without paywalls is not a nice-to-have but the engine of innovation, economic growth, and planetary survival, Kamila Markram, CEO of science platform Frontiers, argues in her DLD26 conversation with…
Author Fiona Bae speaking at the DLD Munich Conference 2026. Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / picture alliance for DLD / Hubert Burda Media

Unlocking the Secrets behind K-Culture

Korean culture is reshaping global taste across music, film, fashion, beauty, food, and fine art. In this DLD26 session, author and cultural consultant Fiona Bae explains the deeper forces behind…
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“Europe Has All It Needs to Become a Digital Superpower”

Keegan McBride, digital governance expert at the Tony Blair Institute, explains how Europe can catch up to China and the U.S. – and find strength in its diversity of cultures.
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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.
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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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