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5 Things We Didn’t Learn from the Pandemic – But Should Have
How much change did the pandemic really bring – and have we perhaps missed any opportunities? “We had this extraordinary inflection point where we could have fundamentally reinvented the way…
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Ethical AI?!
There are a lot of things that AI can do amazingly well. The big question is: How do we deal with the ethical implication of many AI applications? To shed…
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African Leapfrogging
Africa is a continent of tremendous potential and opportunities. This talk focuses on the question of how Africa can realize its potential further, and where the continent is already overtaking…
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Challenges of Generative AI
The rise of generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E has raised both excitement and concerns over the capabilities of artificial intelligence in general. How good, how reliable are these…
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World After Capital
As co-founder of Kitchen Stories, a highly successful cooking app, Verena Hubertz could have enjoyed stardom in the German startup scene. Instead she decided to move into politics. Now a…
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The EU-US Tech Gap
In 2014, MIT researchers Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee published their book The Second Machine Age, which takes an in-depth look at the impact of rapid technological advancement and automation…
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Technology in the Service of Humanity
In this DLD Munich session, Wojciech (Wojtek) Soczewika, CEO of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, presents a groundbreaking new project that aims to expand Holocaust education worldwide by embracing digital technologies. The…
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Translating Climate Data into Art and Impact
Pioneering artist Beatie Wolfe shares her award-winning environmental projects, including an 800,000 year NASA climate data visualization, the world’s first bioplastic record – which she recorded with R.E.M. singer Michael…
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Virtual Society
Virtual worlds are not just about social media and entertainment – they also open up entirely new possibilities when it comes to running simulations that can benefit businesses, research and…
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New News
When it comes to news, how do we find what’s relevant, on a personal level? And how can we be sure that what we’re reading and seeing is actually true?…
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Will Machines Think?
Conversational AI is one of the hot trends in the field of artificial intelligence – especially in the field of search where AI chatbots deliver search results in a conversational…
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Unicorn Tracking: A New World Map
What is the real value that startups have beyond stock markets – and beyond Silicon Valley? This DLD 23 Session featuring Linda Rottenberg, CEO of Endeavor, will introduce you to…
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Breaking the Species Divide
Nature conservation poses many challenges – but there are also plenty of opportunities, particularly when innovative technologies come in, as you’ll hear in this DLD Nature panel discussion moderated by Eleanor O’Keeffe (Edelman). Leveraging AI and data analytics could lead to new...
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Hunting Deepfakes
Giorgio Partini (Deeptrace, now Sensity) and Alex van Someren (Armadeus Capital) discuss how artificial intelligence is abused for the creation of “deepfakes“. The availability of images online has created the ability to manipulate videos and images automatically, at scale, Patrini explains. This has...
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