Day 1 on the Social Web

Macrowikinomics

Don Tapscott's new book "Macrowikinomics" takes his Innovation-through-Wikification approach to the next level, asking: What is wrong with the world, and how do we fix it? We need, so Tapscott, to reboot our institutions, like financial services,

Fashion

The Fashion Panel was all about the use of crowdsourcing for fashion brands. Vanessa Friedman, Fashion Editor for the Financial Times, moderated the talk with Natalie Massenet from the online luxury fashion retailer Net-A-Porter, who shortly before

New Space Mission

The last three sessions of DLD are a great example of how diverse theDLD program is. From a session about fashion, to a short hip hop concert to full fledged nerdism: Space. On stage, Moderator Spencer Reiss has invited Eric Anderson from Space

Disruption Talk

A very unique combination of two people meeting on stage: Paulo Coelho & Sean Parker. Disruptive talk is a very open format. In the end, it's for the two people in question to decide how to form the question. Coelho and Parker didn't had a chance

Search Beyond Search

Panelists: Mark Drummond (Wowd), Gil Elbaz (Factual), Ilya Segalovich (Yandex) Moderator: Esther Dyson (EDventure) "The future of search is a number of very different verbs" "Search is dead. Filtering is everything."Esther Dyson This panel on

The Digital Wunderkammer

Dr. Hubert Burda, Co-chairman of DLD introduced his book “The Digital Wunderkammer”, “the digital curiosity chamber” he wrote in collaboration with renowned experts like philosopher Peter Sloterdijk and media scientist Bazon Brock. Dr. Burda said

Future TV

Panelists: Peter Hirshberg (starling.tv), Ynon Kreiz (Endemol Group), Brian Sullivan (Sky Deutschland) Moderator: Thomas Künstner (Booz & Co.) "The ways video content is consumed online are changing significantly"Thomas Künstner "People adapt

Edge Conversations

On Stage: Stewart Brand (On Climate and Future), George Dyson (Science Historian on "Turing's Cathedral", Kevin Kelly (On "What Technology Wants") Moderator: John Brockman (Edge.org) John Brockman of edge.org opened the session with thoughts and

China Screens

Panelists: Jeffrey Chan (Bona International Film Group), Wang Lifen (Umiwi Technology) Moderator: Joshua Cooper Ramo (Kissinger Associates) China, a country that finds a lot of media attention, is in many parts very different from what Europe and

Spotlight: James Murdoch

Kai Diekmann interviewed James Murdoch about News Corp business. First they were talking about the iPad app The Daily, which will be sold for 99 cent per week. The price is kept low to keep the barrier low, but bundles or premium-packages could be

Social Innovation

Social Entrepreneurs are helping thousands of people and are the pioneers of Social Innovation. This are the people who solve problems, that stand in between entrepreneurs and their future markets. Nowadays, Social Innovation is less a field of

Eric Schmidt

“With your permisson” Eric Schmidt started his talk with the announcement, that Google will add more than 1000 employees in Europe this year. Than he began a long praise about the achievements and benefits of digital technology. He mentioned

Pivot

Jason Calacanis from Mahalo was talking about his initial plans of making an alternative, better search engine out of Mahalo, a plan he failed with and rebuilt the company into a education platform. He listed some crucial ways to know as an

15 Megabyte of Fame

“Michael Jackson and the Beatles didn’t have Facebook or Twitter.” Jörg Rohleder of Musikexpress was questioning Troy Carter from Coalition Media Group. Troy Carter is the manager of Lady Gaga for four years now. Troy sees the digital revolution as