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Europe

“Semiconductors Are At the Heart of Renewable Power Generation”

Local chip production, innovation and green energy: Infineon top executive Andreas Urschitz explains the crucial role that semiconductors play in making Europe more resilient and competitive.

Accelerating Clean Tech

Keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius is an enormous task. In this DLD Munich session, Ann Mettler (Breaktrough Energy), Philipp Furler (Synhelion), Heike Freund (Marvel Fusion) and Rafael Laguna…

Securing Europe’s Future Beyond Energy

In this DLD Munich session, Sven Smit, Chairman and Director of the McKinsey Global Institute, addresses Europe’s challenges in energy and technology dependence. “We went gone global, which is a…

Building Software Out of Europe

What does it take to create new tech giants in Europe and manage rapid growth around the world? This DLD session brings together the founders of two German unicorns –…

German Angst? How To Build A Strong Tech Economy

The German word Angst describes a diffuse feeling of uneasiness, often associated with a hesitance to deal with challenges. This DLD22 session with investors Jeannette zu Fürstenberg (La Famiglia) and…

Digital Bavaria

“We continue to live in difficult times, times that urge us to take action”, Bavaria’s State Secretary of Digital Affairs, Judith Gerlach, observes in her DLD Munich 2022 welcome address.…

Smart, Green & Liveable: Shaping the Future of Cities

Urbanization is one of the defining trends of the 21st century: Cities continue to grow and will play an even more important role in shaping our future. They are economic…

“We’re Not Using Our Best Weapons To Fight Global Warming”

MIT researcher Andrew McAfee explains what should be done to battle climate change, how to regulate innovation and why intuition often leads us astray…

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…

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,…

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…