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Sunday, January 25
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January 26, 2009
11:50 AMVideosummary of DLD09 Day One
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Yossi Vardi, Hubert Burda, Paddle symphony and the rest of the Sunday session. -
January 25, 2009
06:12 PMPhilanthrocapitalism
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- Abigail Disney (Daphne Foundation)
- Sean Parker (Causes)
- Arend Oetker (Oetker Holding)
- Edwin Moses (Laureus World Sports Academy)
- Moderation: Matthew Bishop (Economist)To offer you a better live coverage during this session I'll focus on Arend Oetker (Oetker Holding) and Edwin Moses (Laureus World Sports Academy). At the same time Oliver Gassner will publish content related to Abigail Disney (Daphne Foundation) Sean Parker (Causes).
Matthew Bishop, moderator of this panel, is American Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief for The Economist.
Philanthrocapitalism, his new book (with Michael Green) on the global boom in philanthropy, has just been published by Bloomsbury (philanthrocapitalism.net).
"An examination of how today's leading philanthropists are revolutionizing the field, using new methods to have a vastly greater impact on the world."
In this panel session Matthew will explore philanthropy with the above mentioned DLD panelist.
How we can use this engagement of business to address the most pressing problems from climate change toAbout Edwin Moses: He is the Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy.
What do they do at Laureus World Sports Academy?
- Raise awareness about social illness
- Laureus World Sports Awards.
Their diversity in sport and supporters created a great team of 48 people.About Arend Oetker: He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany, Chairman of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and Vice-Chairman of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
What do they do?
Invest in public and private partners that are motivated and believe in having a strong philanthropic impact.
About Abigail Disney: Along with her husband, Pierre Hauser, Abigail is co-Founder and co-President of the Daphne Foundation, a progressive, social change foundation that makes grants to grassroots, community-based organizations working with low-income communities in New York City.
What do they do?
Support of people that deliver the work. Self sustaining projects in Africa.About Sean Parker: He is the co-founder and Chairman of "Project Agape, or Causes on Facebook, a new network that aims to enable large-scale political and social activism on the Internet.
Sean points out:
Activism and philanthropy are social activities that started to spread on the web just when the web started to be social.Matthew Bishop: New vocabulary of Philanthropy shows the impact and know that you have been affective with your actions. How do you show/measure that you have been impacting?
Edwin Moses (Laureus World Sports Academy)
They set up great practices transferring knowledge to different part of the world. They run projects in 32 different countries that have no infrastructure. Through the sport component and founds they help the community.How do you look at your giving?
Arend Oetker (Oetker Holding)
There's the need of combining the business world with the emotional world. How to do it?
- Peer to peer exchange. It's a quality insurance.
- Have interchange. The founders meet to each other and exchange ideas and methods.
- Engaging with the governments. Generate some movement and push it to understand how the government can jump in and provide help and support
Are there any issues? Yes there are. Transparency and trust. For example about funds: Who and how is managing funds?
What sponsors/brands/celebrities added to your work?Edwin Moses (Laureus World Sports Academy)
At Laureus World Sports Academy they multiplied the 'celebrity effect' by including new dates and stops in new locations. The marketing and media support from their sponsor has been really valuable. It's a good synergy.Note by Sean Parker: Social change (in the social media space) hasn't been integrated yet. It doesn't show up on the radar of mass media.
How is this crisis affecting you?
Edwin Moses (Laureus World Sports Academy)
A contract with a new sponsor will help them to go through this crisis, but the most important thing is to support jobs and education because these are factors that will make innovation sustainable in the long term.Arend Oetker (Oetker Holding)
In crisis time people have less money. Entrepreneurs need to come up with a price concept for low income people and find new ways to serve them. This is how entrepreneurs should think. This is the big challenge.Edwin Moses (Laureus World Sports Academy)
It's time to do something for helping innocent people that suffer. We need organizations to help. -
January 25, 2009
06:10 PMPhilanthrocapitalism II: Abigail Disney and Sean Parker
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[all quotes just roughly verbal]
- Abigail Disney (Daphne Foundation)
:"I get cranky about the word impact. That is a rather eager idea and this was good for this inefficient sector. But we saw this mania for impact mesuring. We don't want to sepnd our money on that though. We do General Operating fund Funding..ey do with it what they want. The mania of control s unheathy. There is a collective effect of those organizations. Other helpers have minimal requirements but don't give the organizations money to cover those costs. That is a stupid dynamic. This is why we fund general operations.
I helped after 9/11 and we had money coming in without anyone asking for it So there were many ideas how to use it. There was more money than direct need in the people directly affected by 9/11. The same was happening with Kathrina. The Red Cross could not distribute the money fast enough. But in both cases general optations funds for local organizations would have helped for the necessary things to be done. We trust the people with their direct knowledge and skills
We expect complete transparency from our grantees. Sometimes there is leakage, it is not avoidable. We need to use the local knowlange and get help by people who know about the local nuances.
I see myself as an activist with a checkbook.
The film about Zimbabwe helped create a better situation there when we reported about the women protesting for peace, without anyone knowing it. And we were the only ones creating footage of women on sex strike, of women fasting for peace about women threatening to strip naked. The news agencies did not cover it. They generated the next generateion of prejudice by keeping this process invisible. The protesters would have been forgotten and erades from the record.
We unlock a lot by makeing people visible to each other.
The same thing happened at Obama's inauguraion: after 8 years where we thought we were crazy we became visible to each other.
The same happened in Zimbabwe: we made people from 20 organizations visible to each other. This can create massive incredible change.
Mass media enhance demagogues and suppress the small people. 'Causes' in Facebook do the exact opposite thing - I like this.
The crisis makes our grantees suffer. But look at it that we: We just give away the froth on the top of your cappucinos. Those people need us.
The biggest issues: Small arms kill many many people more that other things. There is too little happening. This is because the NRA succeeded in stopping all related conversations."
- Sean Parker (Causes on Facebook)
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"We do the same thing, we put the tools in the hands of the people. We had to learn about discipline, because we do not have the direct emotional gratification of helping. But: About a million people join a cause on Facebook every day.Mobilizing people on social platforms works very well. We create the tools so that the people can be more efficient helping others in the long term.
You have to ask the quesntion:; once something is visible: How do you aggregate the power? In a Democracy this is easy. But otherwise? We hope to create that power by aggregating votes or money. In a way this is what political groups do. But it costs them a lot of money. Look at the NRA. There is an enormous money spent on a small group of people. we hope to put tools those groups use in the hands of everybody.
Until Obama and Cauises have started a bottom up approach everything has been an expensive Top-Down-Approach. Causes needs to interface with the mass media to get the word about those causes out here.
We need to be a full profit company for regulatory reasons.
We are still growing. We are just 12 peoöple, our burn rate is just 150,000 Dollars a month.
We basically help connect business with non-rpofits. This is a growth sector in the advertising world. we are not worried about collapsing.
But being aware of the size of the problems is sometimes overwhelming. But if you pick something specific and pursure it, it helps. So: Maintain openness and compassion without letting the magnitude of the problem overwhelm you."
For the statements of
- Arend Oetker (Oetker Holding)
He finds joy in supporting arts and culture.- Edwin Moses (Laureus World Sports Academy)
Sports celebrities are ambassadors and engage brands with helping people in different countries.- Moderation: Matthew Bishop (Economist) - he wrote a book on "Philanthrocapitalism"
See Andrea's posting.
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January 25, 2009
05:57 PMCompetitive Compassion
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Chris Weeks is Director of Humanitarian Affairs for DHL/DPWN. At DLD09 he talks about the company's program to help in catastrophes worldwide - e.g. the Tsunami in South East Asia or the earthquake in Kashmir.
In cooperation with the UN and other logistic companies the so called disaster response team takes care of organizing the transport of help goods effectively. Logistics often is the bottle neck of helping people in need. That is what Deutsche Post / DHL Disaster's Management does.
After presenting the approach of the company's initiative, Chris Weeks gets illustrative and takes out a DHL shipping bag to show one of the concrete ideas by the disaster response team. He shows how this big red sack can easily be transformed into a family survival pack, filled with goods. One of the sacks's special features is a coincidence: It comes in a bright red color so it can be found easily, in any possible enviroment.
Additional links:
Here is a case study about the Disaster Management Program on caseplace and a press release by United Nations about setting up the initiative.Here is the full video from the competitive compassion panel at DLD09:
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January 25, 2009
04:37 PMRSS feed for the Live blog is here
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January 25, 2009
04:16 PMMore impressions - DLD09 day 1
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A lot of smiling faces, all very enthusiastic about the next two and a half days.
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January 25, 2009
03:46 PMFrom ideas to reality with Phillippe Pouletty
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Phillipe Pouletty is an inventor and entrepreneur in biotechnology and medical devices. He founded several companies and engages in political activity in France as the Chairman of France Biotech (French Biotech Industry Association) and as president of the Strategic Council for Innovation, who advises the French government on innovation and research policy.
In dialouge with Jennifer L Schenker Pouletty talks about the development of an artificial heart that Carmat is working on, one of the companies Pouletty is engaged in. This product is not a simple pump, like the traditional approach to artificial hearts would suggest, but actually mimics what a human heart does with complex sensor and software technology. Complex modelling was key to develop the artificial heart since this is a product where try and error would not be a recommended development approach. Pouletty believes that this is just another step into the era of human replacable bio spare parts. He states that within the next ten years and with the right funding and conversion of the necessary technology there will be many different artificial body parts.
Pouletty is not overanxious to lose investors for his financially intensive developments, he rather has a message to investors: For private equity now is the best time to invest when the stock markets are down. Moreover he is convinced not to have funding problems for his projects, especially since also the French government is invested.
Here is the full video:
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January 25, 2009
03:10 PMGlobal Challenges
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- Thierry Antinori (Lufthansa)
- Kasper Rorsted (Henkel)
- James Turley (Ernst and Young)
- Nani Beccalli (GE)
- Hermann Ude (Deutsche Post)
- Stefan Oschmann (Merck)
- Moderation: Patricia Szarvas (CNBC)Today's global challenges. How do we deal with them? What do we have to keep in mind?
- Don't sacrifice the short term because of the long term.
- We need to maintain our companies position
- High level of performance
- Continue future investment (technology, expand globally, high level of communication and motivation)
- Diversification is not an answer to every challenge.
Core challenge for every company is 'people'.- People are driving the business
- People make the difference
- People is the priority for any CEOThe human side of things. Which role does it play? Is it a value question? Values are going global, can represent a challenge?
Kasper Rorsted (Henkel): You have to ask yourself "How can I make my company better?"
Hermann Ude (Deutsche Post): Today teams are diversified. The community is building the brand. This allows faster moves in crisis times. Company plays an important role in this way.James Turley (Ernst and Young): We want to deliver high value performance. But to do this common values are extremely important.
Nani Beccalli (GE):
People are the most important asset for a company. We need to educate people and make them understand the most important values for the company.Main challenge for your business?
James Turley (Ernst and Young):
- Dealing with the demographic issue is a must
- Capital is shifting to a global scale
Stefan Oschmann (Merck):
- Totally transform R&D model
- The current crisis has low impact in the short term only.
- Government will develop but this industry has to be long term.
About high risk management. How does it feel to work in your field?
Thierry Antinori (Lufthansa):
These are our 'must'
- Increase efficiency to protect our business
- Innovation in product development and people
- Invest on business intelligenceTechnology, Transparency and speed of information. How do you deal with it?
The winners of tomorrow are the ones that will:
- Offer stability to employees, clients and partners.
- Have high flexibility and adaptation. Human beings are good at long term planning but they have difficulties in adapting when the environment rapidly changing.
- Go global. Which means being able to take decisions at different places. This is why getting people in the right place it's fundamental.Technology increases transparency. Today companies have to act in a totally different way to deal with transparency, technology and Instant access to information and most importantly have to use it as an opportunity. Technology creates a new hierarchy of who can be trusted, consequentially new hierarchies represent new challenges for our businesses. Change will come and we have to be ready to face it with a faster reaction time.
Globalization and Innovation.
This period we are living in represents also a structural change for organizations and countries. Great ideas come from within the company, research and from the global community.
Change is here to stay so Europe needs a different innovation attitude. Looking at the crisis that we are going through we see governments that are 'taking over' moving to a slightly more controlled economy which will probably leads to a future where we'll all look more similar.
To keep in mind:
- Globalization is also bringing democratization
- We have to learn to operate in different environments (US, Europe, Asia, etc.)
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January 25, 2009
03:09 PMGobal CEOs about "Global Challenges"
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[All quotes only roughly verbal]
Nani Beccalli-Falco, CEO GE International: We should not sacrifice the long term for the short term. We need to preserve the company and stay in AAA and perform very well. We also need to invest in the future: In technology, we need to keep the global perspective and keep a high level of communication and a clear visoin of the future,
Hermann Ude, CEO DHL.: Most of our acquisitions went ok, except for the US one. We are diversified and not in as bad a situation as for example the press.
Kasper Rorsted, CEO of Henkel: The challenge is actually people. We need to put less money into forecasting (99%) and more into developing people (now: 1%).
Stefan Oschmann CE0 Merck & Co.: If you have worked in big pharma wou have to have developed some paon resistance. (Referring to a prob with his headset.) Our industry went through rough times in the past years. You would imagine that the crises has less impact on pharma. This is right in the short term, but for example the venture funded biothech suffers. So we have to watch the long term.
James Turley, CEO Ernest & Young: People issues are number one. But we also have to watch the global shift in capital, we are much more coupled that we think.
[Had to abort summariszing as I had to be at the ZDF/3sat for an interview / Oliver - Please check Andrea's Posting]
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January 25, 2009
03:06 PMEverybody gets in tune with Itay Talgam
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There is the nice ritual at DLD when Jospeh Vardi asks everybody in his opening speech to turn around and shake hands with the person behind. It's a symbol and it's a technique: To get communication started and to foster a common feel among the visitors.
Itay Talgam's paddle symphony serves the same goal: Tuning everybody in and finding a common groove. We find ping pong paddles and balls under our seats and instantly form an orchestra. Everybody lets the ball hop on his paddle and together create a sound carpet of a onderful ball clicking chaos. The conductor explains: "The essence of music is not always to be together, it can be something different. You can listen to what goes on around you, you cannot understand but still listen! It's a souvenir for the chaos and complexity."
In the end everybody sings "All you need is love" and "All I need is love" together. Now we are nicely in tune and can start the conference.
[Update] It's easier to imagine the performance with this little video:
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January 25, 2009
02:30 PMHubert Burda and Joseph Vardi say: Welcome
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Stephanie and Marcel introduce the tweo chairmen of the DLD conference #5.
Hubert Burda, Head of Burda Media, and Yossi Vardi.
The topic this year is: New Realities.
Hubert Burda quotes Yossi from last year: "The DLD family is gathering again to meet old friends and find new ones."
We will talk about the risks and challenges - and this is a good moment to do it. We will explore the connections between new and old media and a lot of change is going on in media at the moment.
Yossi Vardi: I told people that of my generation no one will understand instant messaging. And I was told my generation was already dead. But our generation has experiences the new generation does not have: real handshakes and real warmthof the hand. This still has to move into social networks. And this is what we provide here: This old style feeling.
Now the DLD ritual takes place: I just shook the hand of the person behind me and the guy next to me.
Yossi:
We invited you for 4 things
- to get food for thought
- to make new friends
- to play
- to love (or laugh? hard to say ;) )
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January 25, 2009
02:30 PMAenne Burda Award 2009 for Esther Dyson
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For the fourth time DLD is proud to present the Aenne Burda Award. The award was named after Dr. Hubert Burda's mother Aenne Burda who created Burda Moden and build the ground for today's success of Burda. Host Steffi Czerny even called her one of the first feminists in Germany. If you like to learn more about this amazing woman visit this website.
The award is meant to honor exceptional women and thus encourage and inspire other women to believe in what they are doing and dare to be successful. Previous winners have been Marissa Mayer, Caterina Fake and Martha Stewart.
This years winner is another extraordinary woman: Esther Dyson.
Esther Dyson is the epitome of the DLD spirit - working not just to study or to profit from the future, but to help create it. While continuing a long career analyzing, investing in and nurturing Internet start-ups, she has now added space travel and genetics to her portfolio. She is currently training as a cosmonaut at Star City in Russia, as a backup to Charles Simonyi, the creator of Microsoft Word.
Russia was a point of interest in both Hubert Burda's and Esther's words: Hubert Burda talked about how Aenne Burda and Esther knew each other and Esther shared the story how she found one of the Burda patterns in an an old book in Russia. Her living in Russia for her training for going to space also was a good for a small joke when receiving the statue:
Presented by Hubert Burda's wife Maria Furtwängler with the words "I hope this will be helpful in space" Esther Dyson replied "It won't weight anything". -
January 25, 2009
02:15 PMWelcome and housekeeping
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Welcome to DLD!
DLD co-founders Steffi Czerny and Marcel Reichart are up on stage.
New business, ideas, needs. DLD hopes to fulfill this. 25 panels will cover in 3 days this new way of doing business, finance and manage our companies. DLD is a great opportunity for networking and meeting new friends.
Hubert Burda (DLD co-chairman): New challenges, risks, and opportunities of this new media landscape.
Joseph Vardi (DLD co-chairman): This Internet era can't replace the great feelings that the human touch give us in the real world... yet!
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January 25, 2009
02:12 PMHow to follow the conversations for DLD09
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Just a quick information about how to follow the different streams of information around DLD:
- Of course on this blog we will provide you with live updates from the sessions and content on the stage
- You might want to follow the videostream on sevenload for on demand broadcast of the sessions, which will be uploaded asap
- See what people are tweeting about DLD / DLD09
- Check images that are uploaded on flickr with the tags DLD or DLD09
- follow the postings on noovoo's DLD group
Make sure to tag everything with dld or even better DLD09 so others can find your content as well!
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January 25, 2009
02:02 PMHave a look at the bag!
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One of the most anticipated parts of DLD always is "what does the bag look like" and "what is in it". As a tradition, it is the same model every year, but with different design. Proudly presenting the 2009 edition:
Thanks to Simone Brunozzi we also have a beautiful shot of the ontent of the bag:
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January 25, 2009
12:46 PMThe conference is about to begin
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Atmosphere: Excited, workful. Everybody is buzzing around, making final preparations for the conference. Soundchecks, crew instructions, organizing the workload.
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January 25, 2009
09:16 AMGood morning!
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It's Sunday morning and Munich is waking up. As we see on Twitter,in the blogs and through many personal text messages and email, many DLD guests have already arrived in town or are on their way to DLD09 as I am writing this entry.
A team of DLD bloggers will be covering all sessions live on the DLD website and coverage will start around noon today with some first impressions.
I would very much like to introduce the embedded blog team to the audience at the DLD venue and everyone reading along on the web: Nicole Simon, Andrea Vascellari, Thomas Praus and Oliver Gassner are all well-known bloggers and have diverse backgrounds matching DLD's breadth of discussion topics and session themes very well.
We are very proud to have them join DLD for the next 2 1/2 days and I hope that our conference infrastructure will remain stable throughout all sessions to guarantee timely session reports and live coverage.
Also make sure to check out the DLD Video Portal as all conference sessions will be made available on depand after each session has closed.
If you use Twitter, or if you blog or post pictures online from the conference, please use the tags "DLD" or "DLD09" and everyone will be able to track your personal conference experience as well.
Let's have some fun - and a great conference!
