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Spotlight on Superfoods
There’s an urgent need to find new, sustainable food sources for a fast growing population of more than 8 billion people. This DLD24 session with Martin Havers (Agile Solutions) and…
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Eat Chocolate to Protect the Rainforest? Sweet!
With her company Perú Puro, tropical biologist Frauke Fischer supports farmers in the Andes – and delights the taste buds of her customers.
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How to Accelerate Impact with AI
This DLD session is all about the benefits that AI can bring to the world. The panel brings together experts from business, investing and the United Nations, featuring Manon Littek…
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Tackling the Climate Crisis
“People, the planet is burning”, Club of Rome Co-President Sandrine Dixson-Declève tells the audience at the outset of her riveting DLD talk. In her presentation, she highlights many interconnected global…
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Shifting towards Circularity with New Materials
Sustainable materials, such as banana fiber, agricultural waste and natural fiber composites, can replace plastics in many products, as this DLD Circular panel discussion shows. The session, moderated by Marcus…
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Literature for a Changing Planet
A planet in distress needs positive stories of collective human action, Harvard professor Martin Puchner argues in his DLD Circular conversation with author Andrew Keen. In his book Literature for…
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A New Challenge: Circular Biomanufacturing
Biotechnology can enable circular manufacturing at scale and low cost, as you’ll hear from Jano Costard in this fascinating DLD Circular talk. Costard is head of the Challenge Program at…
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Rewiring Industry for a New Era
What will it take to transform industries, the engines of European wealth creation, for the age of sustainability and a circular economy? That’s the key question at the core of…
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Cleaning Up the Environment for a Circular Economy
When plastic became popular in the 1950s and 60s it seemed like a revolutionary material. Cheap, lightweight, flexible – and extremely durable. Today, plastic pollution is an ever-growing problem that…
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Regenerative Agriculture: There’s Hope
This high-profile DLD Circular 2023 session focuses on regenerative agriculture and how it can help solve problems like climate change and biodiversity loss. The panel discussion, moderated by journalist David…
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The Biodiversity Risk Filter: A Tool to Save Lives
The biosphere sustains all life on Earth but is extremely small relative to the planet, as WWF Germany’s Christoph Heinrich explains in his evocative DLD Circular presentation. “The biosphere is…
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Eat Chocolate to Save a Rainforest
If you love chocolate (or coffee) and care about the rainforest, treat yourself to this captivating DLD Circular talk by Frauke Fischer. A professor at University of Würzburg, Fischer co-founded…
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Innovation in Music Publishing
Is the music industry at a point where the big labels become obsolete? Where artists and creators can take the distribution of their work into their own hands? In this DLD22 session, singer-songwriter Kelsey Byrne – who performs as Vérité – discusses...
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Human-centered AI
Traditional user-centered design isn’t sufficient for AI systems, as they become ubiquitous in our everyday lives, computer scientist James Landay, Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), argues in his insightful DLD25 conversation with Axios journalist Ina Fried. “To...
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