DLD (Digital - Life - Design) is a three-day experience gathering 800 entrepreneurs, investors, philantropists, scientists, artists and creative minds from all over the world. With global diversity in attendees and an interdisciplinary perspective of digital, media, design, art, science, brands, consumers and society, the conference is known as the European forum for the "creative class". 

Chairmen of DLD are Hubert Burda, owner of Hubert Burda Media and art historian, and Yossi Vardi, serial digital investor. DLD has been founded by Stephanie Czerny and Marcel Reichart in 2005 as a global community for digital innovation and beyond. Over the year, the DLD community meets in various styles and formats around the globe, such as DLD Dinners and Events in Palo Alto, London, Tel Aviv, Moscow and New York. 

DLD serves as a platform for progression in times of transition for global thinkers, CEO's, futurists, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, opinion formers and creative talents. It is a melting pot of ideas, experiences and inspirations as well as an initial point for new partnerships, investments and business development. 

 

Speakers and guests of previous DLD conferences include James Murdoch, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, YouTube founder Chad Hurley and Google's VP Marissa Mayer, LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell and BBDO CEO Andrew Robertson, Apax CEO Martin Halusa, biologists Craig Venter and Richard Dawkins, Designer Yves Behar and Ross Lovegrove, curators Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery) and Paola Antonelli (MoMA), Esther Dyson, John Brockman, "Black Swan" author Nassim Taleb and Noble Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, architects Lord Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas, philantropist Abigail Disney, allstar Edwin Moses, film director Luc Besson, media entrepreneurs Martha Stewart and Arianna Huffington as well as senior writers Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and Matthew Bishop (Economist).Every year more than 80 digital entrepreneurs from Israel, India and China come to DLD. 

The conference is covered and attended by numerous media including The New York Times, IHT, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Economist, The Guardian, Fortune Magazine, Handelsblatt, Financial Times, FOCUS, Spiegel, CNBC, 3SAT, Thomson Reuters, Getty, Deutsche Welle, AllThingsD, HuffingtonPost, TechCrunch, PaidContent, Venturebeat as well as distributed via its own video network, YouTube, Bigthink and Sevenload. 

DLD has become a constant national and international media coverage. Compared to the first year of DLD in 2005, coverage has almost sextupled: In 2009, Print, Online TV as well as Web-TV have a total reach of 223,5 Mio. contacts. More than 100 international and highly reputed journalists are reporting from DLD.

Over the last years, DLD has evolved top-level partnerships with many global companies and their global innovation and marketing organizations including Mercedes-Benz, General Electric, CNBC Europe, Deutsche Post/ DHL, Merck, Deutsche Telekom, Kodak, Ernst & Young, Sixt, Thomson Reuters, Hewlett-Packard, Unicredit, Booz&Co, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Lufthansa, Xing, SKY, Nokia and collaborates with various digital market investors including Accel, Acton or Wellington.

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