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Gender Equality in the Digital Age
Is AI advancing or prohibiting gender equality? That’s the core issue that computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, Harvard University professor Iris Bohnet and Maria Furtwängler, founder of the MaLisa Foundation, discuss…
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Truth Decay and the Technology Threat
Tristan Harris, Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, speaks with Financial Times journalist Rana Foroohar about digital media, democracy and the loss of trust. Fake news can inflict lasting…
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Leading Change in a Digital Society
In an era of digital transformation, how can leaders manage a team, or an organization, successfully? In this DLD20 discussion moderated by WIRED UK editor Greg Williams, Deutsche Telekom board…
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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…
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New Rules for the Internet
Journalist Tanit Koch and Facebook’s VP of Communications, Nick Clegg, discuss Facebook’s measures to protect the U.S. 2020 election and monitor the spread of misinformation. “It is now possible for campaigns,…
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World’s First Ever Global Action Plan
In this passionate DLD20 talk, climate activist Marc Buckley discusses his global change manifesto and how society can reach the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) outlined by the United Nations.…
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Tackling Turbulences in Tech and Society
All around the globe, major shifts are happening in society, politics and technology. In this DLD20 talk with Hannes Ametsreiter (Vodafone Germany) and Andrew McAfee (MIT Sloan), moderator Amy Wilkinson…
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What Are You Adding?
Clara Barnett of the UK’s Government Digital Service was the inspiration for the DLD Munich 2020 motto, “What Are You Adding?” She opened the conference with an analysis of the…
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Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
“To what extent should our lives be governed by powerful digital systems, and on what terms?”, asks Jamie Susskind in this thought-provoking DLD20 talk. The author and researcher argues that…
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Tomorrows vs. Yesterdays
“We thought the Internet, when it was born, would create democracy and wisdom and freedom”, author Andrew Keen observes in his DLD20 talk. “The opposite is true.” The world is…
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The Age of Foolishness
“I am an increasingly concerned optimist.” That’s the message Siemens Chairman Jim Hagemann Snabe opens his DLD20 speech with. Echoing the words of Charles Dickens, Jim Snabe declares the digital…
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The Coded Gaze: Bias in AI
In her DLD Munich 2020 talk, Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, paints an alarming picture of the racial, gender and class bias present in current AI systems.…
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From Mining to AI: How to Manage Radical Transformation
A 130-year-old Bavarian mining company may seem an unlikely digital pioneer, but Dorfner has redefined what’s possible for traditional industry. In conversation with journalist Jennifer Schenker, CEO Mirko Mondan explains how to make radical transformation work. Facing the limits of finite mineral...
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Making Europe Exponential
Europe stands at a crossroads in its technological journey, grappling with its position in the global innovation economy, while facing structural challenges and cultural inertia. This DLD25 panel discussion, moderated by Azeem Azhar, examines the factors holding Europe back and the potential pathways...
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