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Maria Ressa’s Fight for Democracy in the Digital Age
“A lie told a million times becomes fact”, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa told the DLD audience in 2020. Her fight against disinformation is more important than ever…
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The Extreme Self
This remarkable DLD Circular session brings together three of the most astute observers of cultural and societal change in the digital age: author Douglas Coupland, writer and curator Shumon Basar…
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How Networks Drive Sustainability
Infrastructure plays a crucial role in making the economy more efficient and saving resources, as this DLD Circular conversation between Victoria Ossadnik (E.On), Markus Haas (Telefónica Germany) and Ann-Kristin Achleitner…
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An Artistic View of Circularity
World-famous artists Es Devlin and Hans Zimmer come together in this DLD session to share their perspectives on sustainability and a circular economy with moderator Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries).…
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Building a Sustainable Digital Economy
What is the role of consumers in a circular economy? How can buyers really make a difference? And when does shifting to a sustainable lifestyle become the norm? These questions…
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Architecture for the Future
Renowned architect Francis Kéré is known for his daring, innovative designs and for pioneering sustainable modes of construction. In this engaging DLD Circular presentation, Kéré combines personal observations with the…
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“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…
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Accelerating Government’s Digital Transformation
“Everybody feels that government still operates like in the 1960s”, Burda Media CEO Paul-Bernhard Kallen observes in this DLD Summer session. “The task is clear: digitally deliver.” Diego Piacentini has…
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Courage & Decency: The Story Behind a Story
The collapse of Wirecard, among allegations of widespread fraud, has become one of the biggest scandals of the international financial world. In this DLD Summer session, Wirecard’s former senior legal…
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Science Works: The Power of Basic Research
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown both the benefits of science as well as the need to explain its benefits better, as Ann-Kristin Achleitner (University of Munich) and Robbert Dijkgraaf (Institute…
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Surveillance Capitalism: Do We Need A New Social Contract?
How can we reap the benefits of social media, and being connected, without surrendering all control to the digital giants who own the platforms? This is one of the key…
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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…
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Welcome to DLD BAIOSPHERE
Bavaria is positioning itself as a global leader in AI innovation, blending cutting-edge technology with a vision for responsible and human-centered progress. In their welcome to the BAIOSPHERE track of the DLD Future Hub conference, DLD founder Steffi Czerny and Michael Klimke,...
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AI, Crypto and the Rise of the Digital Economy
Artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies are fundamentally reshaping the global economy, driving a shift from traditional debt-based systems to a new era defined by energy, information, and speed. That’s the core thesis of this DLD Future Hub conversation between Isabell Welpe (TU...
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