DLD Summer 2021
September 7, 2021 • BMW Welt Munich
Thank you for joining us – online and offline – for our first hybrid conference!
This was a special event, due to Covid-19 restrictions, but it still had the trademark vibe of DLD, building bridges between innovators and bringing together ideas that otherwise live in silos.
You can find videos of all sessions below. For live impressions posted on Twitter, please look for the hashtag #DLDSummer
Exploring Europe’s Opportunities
Accelerating Government’s Digital Transformation
“Everybody feels that government still operates like in the 1960s”, Burda Media CEO Paul-Bernhard Kallen observes in this DLD Summer session. “The task is clear: digitally deliver.” Diego Piacentini has…
New European Bauhaus on Tour
Meet the European Innovation Roadshow of DLD and UnternehmerTUM, supported by the European Commission. Founded in 2005, DLD has become an internationally connected, interdisciplinary community of top-tier innovators, entrepreneurs, business…
Shaking Up Europe
Bestselling author Andrew McAfee (The Second Machine Age, More from Less) takes a long, hard look at Europe in the digital age. In a presentation packed with charts and data,…
Munich: Europe’s Paradise for Tech Startups
In recent years, Munich has seen an unprecedented accumulation of talent, collaboration and entrepreneurial spirit in a compact and highly successful deep-tech ecosystem. At the epicenter of this ecosystem is…
Emerging Europe
Watch investor Hendrik Brandis, co-founder of the highly successful VC firm Earlybird, analyze the European startup ecosystem and changes in the financial world that happen worldwide. Innovation keeps speeding up,…
Innovation In Motion
Big Love for a Vision
This DLD Summer session sees the world premiere of a car: The MINI Vision Urbanaut was designed to make the most of limited space in bustling cities, while at the…
5G Powering the Future of Mobility
All of tomorrow’s mobility concepts rely on connectivity. No autonomous car would find its way without sensors busily exchanging data. Smart cities require vehicles to communicate with each other, as…
Go Green And Prosper!
Fighting Climate Change – A Global Challenge
The Covid-19 pandemic “has reached every continent, taking close to four million lives … and there are even bigger shocks waiting”, EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius warns in his opening statement…
Building Business While Minding the Environment
“We have decided to look not at barriers but enablers – we want to be positive here”, moderator Cristiana Falcone says at the outset of this DLD Summer session about…
The Art of Digital Transformation
Let There Be Light
Here’s your chance to watch “poetry on screens”, as DLD founder Steffi Czerny puts it in her DLD Summer conversation with video artist Betty Mü. The former VJ specializes in…
NFTs – Ethereum’s Killer App?
The newest hit in the blockchain world are NFTs, short for “non-fungible tokens”. These cryptographic certificates are becoming especially valuable for artists, as Joe Lubin and Dan Heyman discuss in…
Fast Forward
Quantum Promises
This DLD Summer session takes a 360-degree look at the potential of quantum computing – in science, business and investing. McKinsey Germany analyst Niko Mohr kicks the session off with…
Robots, Manners and Stress
Yes, robots can stressed out too – and when that happens things can get ugly, even dangerous for humans, as Cambridge University researchers Ross Anderson and Ilia Shumailov explain in…
Space Clouds
The new space race would be quite a slog without cloud computing, as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels illustrates in this engaging DLD Summer talk with Jennifer Schenker, Editor of The…
Space: The New Frontier
Space exploration is a billion dollar global market. It holds the promise of creating unforeseen business opportunities as well as solving global challenges. Big players and visionaries out of the…
Science Works: The Power of Basic Research
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown both the benefits of science as well as the need to explain its benefits better, as Ann-Kristin Achleitner (University of Munich) and Robbert Dijkgraaf (Institute…
Digital Health: Technology’s Next Frontiers
This DLD Summer panel discussion takes a deep dive into the converging worlds of health, medicine and technology. Merck Group CTO Laura Matz and Brainlab founder Stefan Vilsmeier provide expert…
Business & Society
Doing Better with Data and AI
Is artificial intelligence mostly a tool to increase automation and eliminate jobs? “I’m here to tell you that that’s a very lazy view of artificial intelligence”, says Zayd Enam, a…
Courage & Decency: The Story Behind a Story
The collapse of Wirecard, among allegations of widespread fraud, has become one of the biggest scandals of the international financial world. In this DLD Summer session, Wirecard’s former senior legal…
Our Brave New World
In his DLD Summer talk, Rod Beckstrom, former Director of the National Cybersecurity Center in the United States, analyzes the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on both a global and…
Surveillance Capitalism: Do We Need A New Social Contract?
How can we reap the benefits of social media, and being connected, without surrendering all control to the digital giants who own the platforms? This is one of the key…
The Great AI Game
Don’t think about data as the new oil, Oxford economist Carl Benedikt Frey argues in his DLD Summer session with Azeem Azhar – because data alone doesn’t make you a…
A European Framework for AI
In this engaging DLD Summer talk, Axel Voss, Member of the European Parliament, takes stock of the EU’s position in artificial intelligence and the data economy – and what he…
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