Martin Weiss
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.
Videos
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…
Video detailsFuture 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.
Video detailsAenne 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…
Video detailsBuilding 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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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.
Article detailsQuick 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.
Article detailsDLD Singapore: Asia Rising
Our second conference in Singapore illustrated a wealth of business opportunities in a vibrant, fast-growing market.
Article details“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.…
Article detailsRegional 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…
Article detailsGlamorous 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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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…
Event detailsDLD AI Summit 2023
This event explored how AI is reshaping every industry: from mobility to health, from agriculture to media, education, science, and politics.
Event detailsDLD 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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