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Glamorous Evening in Davos
As part of this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF), around 600 guests followed the invitation to the Burda DLD Nightcap in Davos. On Tuesday evening,…
DLD Munich 18 in 90 Seconds
DLD Munich 18 was a great success. If you missed a panel or want to watch them again, soon you can find all videos on…
Two Elephants in the Room
Four powerful women on the stage at DLD Munich 18: Kara Swisher (ReCode) moderated a passionate and intelligent debate between Miriam Meckel (Wirtschaftswoche), Hilary Rosen…
Take Responsibility!
Lack of trust is a central issue of our time. Without trust, institutions don’t work and people lose faith in their leaders. What should we do…
Establishing New Standards For EU Digital Single Market
Making her debut on the DLD stage, the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel spoke about the legislation for a European single digital market…
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…
Company Culture In The Era Of New Work
Digital transformation does not only have effects on products, business strategies and processes. A central success factor for successful transformation are the people who implement…
Regional power
After a successful start last year, Europe’s leading innovation conference DLD (Digital, Life, Design) returns to German universities for its regional conference format DLD Campus.…
Closing the Female Leadership Gap
Despite multiple and long-term efforts by business, legislation and politics to balance out the gender gap in corporate leadership, the figures of women in C-suite…
Unicorns Made in Germany
There are a lot of very successful tech companies in Germany – one of them is Auto1 which recently raised $558 million from Softbank to…
Responsible technology: “A New Era of Leaders Will Take Us There”
Winners in the digital economy benefit from network effects and their own popularity, as user growth tends to attract additional users, fueling further growth. In…
Kim Polese: “To Unlock AI’s True Potential We Need Systems That Can Explain Their Decisions”
Computers are numbers guys. It took researchers decades to teach machines that can only handle zeros and ones how to deal with the uncertainties of…
The Promises & Perils of Robotics and Automation
Do intelligent robots take over our work? The expectations of the people and the actual reality on this topic are far apart. The renowned US…
“Uber den Wolken”
Dara Khosrowshahi made a political fashion-statement on stage at DLD Munich 18: The new Uber CEO wore a protest-slogan T-Shirt “We are all dreamers” – an…
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…
Data Collected by Butterflies
Localising forest fires, estimating biomass or carbon storage – analyzing the quality of habitants for certain animal species. All that is possible thanks to remote…
Insights from DLD Speakers
“We believe that our European, human-centric approach is the way forward.”
“We’ve created a system that sucks all the wealth and brings it to the door of some select people. It’s a ticking time bomb – socially, politically and economically.”
“Music is a universal connector. It encompasses everything that is stimulating to us.”
“We can build a totally new, urban transportation system that is roughly five to ten times as efficient as cars, at least ten times as safe, and also cost-competitive.”
“Our European way of life and the future of liberal democracy are closely linked to digitalization.”
“I always thought space was somewhere else – but space is part of where we live.”
“How do we make sure that future technology is hardwired for human progress?”
“Regulation should not stifle innovation – but we should be very careful not to put innovation in a higher order of significance than democracy.”
“Capital is relatively mobile. The resource we crave the most is talent.”
“It’s drugs and technology that look at us as ‘users’. I would say that big data is like Big Tobacco.
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