Martin Weiss

Portrait image of Martin Weiss, CEO of Hubert Burda Media

Hubert Burda Media

Martin Weiss was CEO of Hubert Burda Media from 2022 until 2024. Previously, he directed BurdaInternational, which bundles the company’s worldwide activities, and BurdaPrincipal Investments, the company’s growth capital arm dedicated to the technology and media industry.

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Solveigh Hieronimus (McKinsey) and Martin Weiss, CEO of Hubert Burda Media, discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on society and the media industry at the DLD AI Summit 2023 in Munich.

Transforming Media in the AI Era

The digital age has deeply disrupted publishing and journalism. In this DLD session, Solveigh Hieronimus (McKinsey) and Martin Weiss, CEO of Hubert Burda Media, discuss the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the media industry. If the cost of content creation goes to zero, thanks to ChatGPT and other generative AI systems, “that means everybody…
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Martin Weiss, Hubert Burda Media, and Almar Latour, Dow Jones, discuss innovation in the media business at the DLD Munich 2023 conference

Future of Media Business

Digital technologies have been reshaping the publishing and media industry for more than 20 years now. Many incumbents have viewed them as a threat. But embracing new technologies can both strengthen existing business models and help to create new ones, as this conversation between Almar Latour (Dow Jones) and Martin Weiss (Hubert Burda Media) illustrates.
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Prof. Lisa Pfeifer receives the Aenne Burda Award 2022 from Elisabeth Furthwängler

Aenne Burda Award Ceremony 2022

“My dream, my passion, my daily motivation is to find a cure for Alzheimer”, Andrea Pfeifer, the recipient of the 2022 Aenne Burda Award, says in her acceptance speech. The disease “takes away your memory, your talents, your personality, your independence, your way to live – and finally, your life”. A growing number of people…
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Fatoumata Ba, Muhammad Yunus, Peter Backenecker, DLD, social businesses

Building Social Businesses

“Talent is very equally distributed, but opportunities are not”, observed Fatoumata Bâ, founder and CEO of social startup studio Janngo. In this lively discussion, moderated by Martin Weiss, Bâ joined Nobel Prize laureate Muhammed Yunus and Mastercard executive Peter Bakenecker to explore how companies and entrepreneurs can contribute to society in a positive way. Bâ…
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Articles

AI-generated image showing a road leading into the mountains, illustrating the unknown future of artificial intelligence.

AI Trends to Watch in 2024

From wearable intelligence to business applications, open source, transparency and regulation – find out what’s next for this game-changing technology.
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DLD20, DLD logo, woman, smartphone

Quick Take: Highlights of DLD20

An astronaut, a Nobel Prize winner, a chess champion, many champions of a sustainable future: Take a look at select videos of DLD20.
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DLD Singapore, Gwendolyn Regina, Asymmetry Media

DLD Singapore: Asia Rising

Our second conference in Singapore illustrated a wealth of business opportunities in a vibrant, fast-growing market.
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Fred Swaniker, African Leadership Group, DLD conference

“Many of the most important innovations will come from Africa”

Today, the second largest continent after Asia is also the world’s poorest. More than 430 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa live on less than $2 per day, according to the World Bank. But a young, open-minded population offers African countries the potential to grow their economies through technological innovation, argues Fred Swaniker, founder of the African Leadership Group.…
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DLD Campus Karlsruhe, 2018

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. Last year, DLD Campus started at the University of Bayreuth, which will once again be the venue on July 12. DLD Campus will also celebrate its premiere in Karlsruhe on…
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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, the Burda board members Paul-Bernhard Kallen, Andreas Rittstieg, Martin Weiss, Philipp Welte, Stefan Winners and DLD managing director Steffi Czerny welcomed the guests to the annual meeting of the influential. In 1995, the party took place for the…
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Events

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels speaks to a packed audience at the DLD Munich conference 2024

DLD Munich 2024

DLD Munich is Europe’s leading innovation conference. DLD24 brought together experts from business, science and culture. Revisit this exciting event here with talks, videos, images…
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DLD AI Summit 2023

This event explored how AI is reshaping every industry: from mobility to health, from agriculture to media, education, science, and politics.
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Stage at DLD Munich 2023, Europe’s leading innovation conference, at Serviceplan’s House of Communication

DLD Munich 2023

Highlights of DLD Munich 2023: Find videos, images and speakers of Europe’s leading innovation conference in one place…
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