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Aenne Burda Award Ceremony 2026
Elisabeth Burda-Furtwängler presents the prestigious Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership to Grammy-winning artist FKA twigs in a session filled with celebration and inspiration. The award comes with a proud…
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When Humanity Looks to AI for Meaning
Millions of people today are turning to algorithms in search of answers to life’s deepest questions. In this DLD26 session, Joanna Shields, Founder and CEO of Precognition, discusses the consequences…
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The Ripple Effect
Spyware enables a new kind of silent attack on victims – one that has a profound effect on invididuals and society as a whole, as this DLD26 session makes clear.…
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Utopia Pragmatism
Merging visionary dreams with everyday functionality serves as the ultimate blueprint for sustainable architecture and the cities of tomorrow, star architect Bjarke Ingels shows in his captivating DLD26 talk. The…
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Future of Media in the Age of AI
In an age of infinite content, the media brands people already trust may become more valuable – precisely because everything else is drowning in noise. That’s a key takeaway of…
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Citizens by Nature: Unleashing the Agency of Everyone
Can democracy be rebuilt in four days? In this DLD26 talk, Jon Alexander, Co‑Founder and Director of the New Citizenship Project, argues that “the future of democracy” is already emerging…
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Reviving the Feedback Loops between Nature & People
The universe and a thriving rainforest share the same fundamental mechanism: feedback loops. From that starting point, ecologist Thomas Crowther (ETH Zurich) takes the audience on a journey from “the…
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Will Ukraine’s Fate in 2026 Define the International Order?
In Ukraine’s agricultural sector, global food security and wartime resilience come together, this DLD26 conversation between Andrii Dykun, Chairman of the Ukrainian Agri Council, and Michael Prinz zu Salm-Salm makes…
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Unlocking Radical Imagination & Falling in Love with our Human Potential
In their inspiring DLD26 talk, Christabel and Ruby Reed, founders of Advaya, invite the audience to rethink natural ecosystems as webs of relationship. “It’s all about relationships, and ecology is…
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What Kind of Defense Innovation Ecosystem Do We Need in Germany and Europe?
Amid global political instability Europe faces an uncomfortable challenge: the need to rapidly scale its defense capabilities – in a resposible way. This DLD26 session, moderated by Tanit Koch (FOCUS),…
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The Quest for a Stable Society
In an increasingly volatile world, true stability stems from equal, decentralized access to essential resources, Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, argues in his DLD26 presentation. While humanity historically shared value…
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AI + Arms is PeaceTech?!
Adding AI to weapons systems doesn’t have to result in a future of killer robots and unavoidable human destruction; it can actually serve as a catalyst for minimizing casualties, author…
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Synthetic humans are generative AI models of culture, behavior and emotion. In her DLD26 presentation, Karin Immenroth, Global Chief Data Officer and Managing Director at Mediaplus Group, shows how these “humans we invented” are reshaping leadership decisions. These models are “not avatars,...
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Sovereignty and Competitiveness: Why EuroStack is Europe’s Moment
How can Europe make up for lost ground in the global tech race, create more digital champions, and become more sovereign along the way? Big questions for this DLD25 panel discussion, moderated by Marc Al-Hames (Hubert Burda Media), that includes tech strategist...
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