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April 20, 2009
From Bangalore to Bonn
Suhas Gopinath, founder of the IT-enterprise Globals Inc., is famous in India as Shootingstar of the Hightech industry. German Newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) recently wrote an interesting article about Suhas Gopinath and his plans to capture the European market, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· April 20, 2009 · 05:55 PM· 0 comments
March 31, 2009
Huffington Post to back Investigative Journalism Team
Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, wants to support the ailing investigative journalism in the USA. Huffington is collaborating with the foundation "The Atlantic Philanthropies" to launch the Huffington Post Investigative Fund with an initial budget of // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· March 31, 2009 · 02:23 PM· 0 comments
March 30, 2009
'Junge Wilde' of the financial community
Today, one of the leading German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) published an article about the track record of the independent financial services group Angermayer, Brumm & Lange Gruppe (ABL). The company was founded by Christian Angermayer. Via several subsidiaries, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· March 30, 2009 · 06:35 PM· 0 comments
March 18, 2009
Sebastian Copeland is setting sail
Two years after his expedition to Antartica, Sebastian Copeland is embarking on his new Peary Centennial expedition to the North Pole. The photographer and environmental activist has just left for Canada for what is considered by all to be the // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· March 18, 2009 · 04:21 PM· 0 comments
February 25, 2009
The Key to Risk
Forbes.com recently published an interesting article -- The Key To Risk: It's All About Emotion -- about the economic crisis and how to handle risk in an unpredictable business environment. According to author Kevin Kelly, the crisis was brought on // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· February 25, 2009 · 03:23 PM· 0 comments
February 11, 2009
Results: Burda DLD Skicup WEF 2009
The DLD Team, Hubert Burda Media and Booz & Company were hosting the traditional Ski Cup on the occasion of the 2009 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos on Sunday, 01 February 2009. Many thanks also to our longtime // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· February 11, 2009 · 06:29 PM· 0 comments
February 09, 2009
THANKS TO OUR DLD PARTNERS
DLD09 again brought together entrepreneurs, opinion-formers and creative leaders from all around the world. Companies and ideas have arisen and new friendships have been made. By means of inventive ideas and creative input our Partners support DLD and help to // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· February 09, 2009 · 08:50 AM· 1 comment
February 04, 2009
"Always in touch"
Thanks so much for coming to Munich and becoming part of our DLD community. We hope you had an interesting experience in Munich, made new friends and enjoyed everything around the conference. In the past days, we got a lot // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· February 04, 2009 · 05:03 PM· 0 comments
February 03, 2009
Burda DLD Nightcap & Ski-Cup at Davos
From January 27 to February 1, 2009, once again Davos became the global meeting point for business leaders, politicians and media managers at this year's World Economic Forum. The world's business and government leaders discussed the current economic crisis and // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· February 03, 2009 · 01:53 PM· 0 comments
February 01, 2009
DLDscape: [situ art] by J. Scriba
The DLDscape, created during the three days of DLD 2009 by visual media artist Jürgen Scriba, is possibly the highest-resolution group picture to date (12 Gigapixels) and currently Scriba's most complex work of [situ art]. The term refers to art // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· February 01, 2009 · 08:42 PM· 0 comments
January 28, 2009
Mark Zuckerberg: 2 million German Facebook Users
As surprise speaker at DLD09, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed by Fortune's David Kirkpatrick who is currently writing a book about "The Facebook Effect". According to Zuckerberg, the number of German users is growing fast. Right now, Facebook has // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 28, 2009 · 11:18 AM· 1 comment
DLD Community's Leading Entrepreneurs 2008
Europe's leading innovation exchange DLD (Digital Life Design) started this year's conference with a review and an outlook. In a survey preceding the event, the DLD expert community confirmed the trends it had indentified in January 2008. Says DLD co-founder // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 28, 2009 · 11:02 AM· 0 comments
DLD Resumee by Thomas
First, you can get an overview of all articles published on this live blog here. After three days of intense blogging, live blogging(!), there should be a little resumée. Must be a personal one, naturally, although I aim to grasp // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 28, 2009 · 01:10 AM· 1 comment
January 27, 2009
Bye, Bye DLD09 from OliverG
It was both strenuous and great to be part of the Liveblogging Team with Nicole Simon, Thomas 'Stylewalker' Praus and by new digital brother Andrea Vascellari, the only Italian Fin I know ;). Great people, great panels, great food and // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 03:00 PM· 0 comments
DLD Thoughts
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 03:00 PM· 0 comments
Update on the photo session
On Sunday attendees where introduced to the idea that artist Jürgen Scriba will use a kind of hidden camera to take a lot of pictures during the event in order to make one great collage. "There are all kind of // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 02:21 PM· 1 comment
Marc Zuckerberg as surprise speaker - live comments
David Kirkpatrick interviews Marc Zuckerberg - company growth, philosphy, privacy. Here is the twitterfeed for "Zuckerberg+DLD" for a lot of interesting and controversial comments. I tried to pick some out. "Zuckerberg: over 2 million Facebook users in Germany. +75% in // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 02:02 PM· 0 comments
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook @ DLD09: More than 2 Million users in Germany
(all quotes only roughly verbal, video will follow as soon as it is available) Facebook is trying to make its way into Germany, fighting the almost-monopoly of StudiVZ as a student network. So it is no surprise that Mark Zuckerberg // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 01:40 PM· 0 comments
Reflection on a Crisis
Thomas is providing a more summarized view of this panel over here. This is a very complex panel and as Nassim says during it, fragile system do break as in the live blogging is not as easy as some of // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 01:09 PM· 3 comments
Reflections on a Crisis: the Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Taleb (Author), Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University) and John Brockman (edge.org) try to reflect crisis, decision making, psychology in a conversation. With "The black swan" Nassim Taleb wrote a book that surprisingly describes the current financial crisis with the phenomenon // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 12:51 PM· 0 comments
Telling stories
Julia Allison (Nonsociety) Fernando Sulichin (Central Films) Ora-Ïto (Artist) Loic LeMeur (Seesmic) Moderation: Constantin Bjerke (TheCrane.tv) For this panels you should not miss the live tweets! Notes from the moderator: Who has been affected in their live with a // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 12:09 PM· 22 comments
Education: Olek, Reshef
This session will be covered by me and Oliver who covers José Ferreira and Calvin Chin, I'll cover Shai Reshef and Alexander Olek. Introduction The panelist introduce theirselves shortly: Shai Reshef represents the University of the people which is a // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 11:45 AM· 0 comments
Education: Jose Ferreira, Calvin Chin
(all quotes only roughly verbal) The panel: Jose Ferreira (Knewton) Calvin Chin (Qifang) Shai Reshef (University of People) Alexander Olek (Phorms Schools) Moderation: Simon Levene (Accel) I will concentrate on Jose Ferreira and Calvin Chin while my co-blogger Thomas will // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 11:45 AM· 0 comments
Video summaries from Monday
Monday, Day 2, morning panels, summary 1 Monday, Day 2, morning panels, summary 2 Monday, Day 2, afternoon panels summary // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 11:17 AM· 0 comments
Cloud Computing
(liveblogging in progress , quotes only roughly verbal) Panelists are: Marissa Mayer (Google) Werner Vogels (Amazon) Russ Daniels (HP) Moderation: Spencer Reiss (Wired) Marissa: Cloud Comouting is a buzzword, but it is the buzzword that hits. It's abut providing really // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 10:30 AM· 0 comments
Cloud Computing
Marissa Mayer (Google) Werner Vogels (Amazon) Russ Daniels (HP) Moderation: Spencer Reiss (Wired) To offer you a better live coverage during this session I'll focus on Russ Daniels (HP) and Spencer Reiss (Wired). Oliver Gassner will cover Marissa Mayer (Google) // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 10:29 AM· 0 comments
Hispanic Markets
Mariano Amartino (Uberin), Joaquin Cuenca (Panoramio), Eduardo Arcos (Hipertextual), RJ Friedlander (Planeta), Enrique Dans (enriquedans.com), Moderation: Martin Varsavsky (FON) Panoramio is introduced as the company who got bought buy Google and now integrates pictures into Google Earth. Planeta is one // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 10:28 AM· 1 comment
Women Power
Monika Wulf-Mathies (Deutsche Post) Silvana Koch-Mehrin (EU Parliament) Deborah Berebichez (NYU) Aude Zieseniss de Thuin (Women's Forum) Marissa Mayer (Google) Moderation: Maria Furtwängler-Burda Notes Maria Furtwängler introduces the panel on Women Power: When we have the biggest chance to // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 09:26 AM· 0 comments
Video Value
To offer you a better live coverage during this session I'll focus on Adam Valkin, Jason Glickman and Arne Rees. Thomas Praus will cover Jeremy Allaire and Axel Schmiegelow. Adam Valkin (Endemol) Jeremy Allaire (Brightcove) Jason Glickman (Tremormedia) Axel Schmiegelow // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 09:25 AM· 1 comment
Video value: Schmiegelow, Allaire
Double coverage on this issue, Andrea will cover Adam Valkin, Jason Glickman and Arne Rees, I'll cover Jeremy Allaire and Axel Schmiegelow. (CPM is mentioned often: the cost per thousand impressions. Google adwords has an explanation for CPM. Further down // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 27, 2009 · 09:24 AM· 1 comment
January 26, 2009
Panel: A Black Mountain College for the 21st Century
This session will see different presentations from the participants which Thomas Praus and I will be covering in two entries, read Thomas' entry here. You can read more about the Black Mountain College on Wikipedia. and on the site. The // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 07:22 PM· 0 comments
A Black Mountain College for the 21st Century
The original Black Mountain college was founded in 1933 as an interdisciplinary university for arts. Hans Ulrich Obrist explains in the opening statement that this session is about exploring how a contemporary approach to this idea could look like. I // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 06:26 PM· 2 comments
Software
Max Levchin (Slide.com) Joel Spolsky (Fog Creek Software) Daniel Ek (Spotify) Suhas Gopinath (Globals Inc) Hendrik Speck (University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern) Moderation: Marissa Mayer (Google) To offer you a better live coverage during this session I'll focus on Max // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 06:10 PM· 0 comments
Video Summaries of Monday Morning
Here you go: // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 06:01 PM· 0 comments
China, Designing its Way out of the Crisis
Feng Jun (Aigo) Moderation: Thomas Crampton (Journalist) Company in China, making products in China for the Chinese market started 16 years ago on a shoestring first success was a USB flash memory device demonstrating the aigo pen, speaking eleven languages: // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 05:59 PM· 0 comments
City Design
Michael Schindhelm has the interesting, very demanding but exciting job to help shaping the culture of the boom city of Dubai. The challenge is to find a cultural nucleus in a very new city, a "sudden city" and shape ways // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 05:45 PM· 0 comments
On Creative Commons - Joi Ito
Speaker: Joi Ito CEO of Creative Commons. Today we'll talk about the sharing economy. Joi: "I'm a technology person and I think in terms of stacks" In the past it was difficult to connect computers together, and even with the // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 05:30 PM· 0 comments
Simplicity
On the Panel for "Simplicity" Gorden Wagener (Mercedes-Benz) Carlo Ratti (MIT) Christopher Schläffer (Deutsche Telekom) Gerhard Roth (University of Bremen) Jeff Hayzlett (Kodak) Moderation: Adam Bly (Seed) Why are we talking about simplicity? we are talking about simplicity because // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 04:00 PM· 2 comments
Panel: The Future of Organic Design
Ross Lovegrove Arturo Vittori & Andreas Vogler (Architecture and Vision) Moderation: Paola Antonelli (MoMA) Live notes from the panel: Nature has been the biggest teacher for design Organic design evolved, today it is brand new and the same old at // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 03:37 PM· 0 comments
The Future of Organic Design
Ross Lovegrove, Arturo Vittori, Andreas Vogler, (Architecture and Vision), and moderator Paola Antonelli (MoMA) discuss totally different approaches to industry design: organic design. After introducing the subject roughly, Paolo Antonelli presents Ross Lovegrove who has some very quotable sentcemces: "I // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 03:21 PM· 0 comments
Fashion and business
First, Xavier Court introduces the audience to vente-privee.com. The idea of the platform is to sell overstock brand products (in average 5-10% of every brand's production per year is overstock) to an invitation-only community to keep the luxury image of // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 02:22 PM· 0 comments
New Realities
Martin Halusa (Apax Partners) Viviane Reding (European Commission) Theodor Weimer (HVB) Paul-Bernhard Kallen (Hubert Burda Media) David Drummond (Google) Lars-Hendrik Röller (ESMT) Moderation: Carlos Bhola(Celsius Capital) To offer you a better live coverage during this session I'll focus on Paul-Bernhard // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 02:09 PM· 0 comments
About Robots
In addition to Oliver's post, I would like to add some notes, pictures and videos to the "About Robots" session. "What's better than playing with toys all day?!" asks Amir Shapiro and laughs. It must be fascinating to work with // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 01:39 PM· 0 comments
Robots: Autonomus Vehicles and Creativity
Presenters: Roy Roth & Yaal Tevet (Roth-Tevet Experience Design Studio) Sergej Lupashin & Raffaello D'Andrea Amir Shapiro (BGU Department of Mechanical Engineering) Moderation: Dan Dubno We see swimming robots, flying autonomous robots, autonomous robots playing soccer. The ETH robot group // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 12:19 PM· 1 comment
New Media Models
Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine) Carolyn McCall (Guardian) Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) Tyler Brulé (Monocle) Moderation: Jochen Wegner (FOCUS) If you would start over again, what would you do? Michael Arrington (TechCrunch): II would never go back to print media. Most people // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 12:10 PM· 0 comments
Knowledge in the Age of Abundance
David Weinberger (Harvard University) We'll talk about knowledge because it plays and important role in our society especially when it scarce. What knowledge is? In our society knowledge is simple. There's a single order and things follow that order. Knowledge // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 12:08 PM· 0 comments
Videosummary of DLD09 Day One
Yossi Vardi, Hubert Burda, Paddle symphony and the rest of the Sunday session. // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 11:50 AM· 0 comments
Eastern Europe
The panelists of this session: Vuslat Dogan (Dogan Holding) Zoltan Kovacs (Isobar) Andrew Paulson (SUP) Lukasz Gadowski (Team Europe Ventures) Moderation: Andrej Nabergoj (Noovo) Some data on Eastern Europe by Andrej Nabergoj 23 countries of 276 million population 40 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 10:47 AM· 0 comments
100 Million users: The Paul Potts Phenomenon
[all quotes just roughly verbal] Chad Hurely (Youtube) Samir Arora (Glam) Mitchell Baker (Mozilla Foundation) Toby (Coppel?). (Yahoo) Moderation: Yossi Vardi What makes a compelling product compelling? Why do other products go nowhere? We are now checking which of the // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 10:16 AM· 1 comment
Internet Politics
What comes next? After Obama, it's time to reflect on the campaign and the development of internet driven politics. The panel is moderated by Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine, Book: "What would Google do") and brings together Micah Sifrey, Randi Zuckerberg (Facebook), // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 09:22 AM· 0 comments
Real Time Social Networking Breakfast
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 26, 2009 · 08:58 AM· 0 comments
January 25, 2009
Aenne Burda Award bestowed on Esther Dyson
Internet entrepreneur, web pioneer and dear DLD friend Esther Dyson has been honored with the "Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership" by publisher Dr. Hubert Burda at the first day of DLD09 in Munich. The award is presented to women // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 10:32 PM· 3 comments
Philanthrocapitalism
- 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 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 06:12 PM· 0 comments
Competitive Compassion
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 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 05:57 PM· 0 comments
Follow DLD on the live blog
At DLD09 four embedded bloggers cover the sessions live as the discussion progresses. To tune in and read along, bookmark this link: DLD09 Live // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 04:33 PM· 0 comments
Predictably Irrational
From Dan Ariely's speaker bio about this topic Dan Ariely studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would perform if they were completely rational. His interests include daily behaviors such as buying // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 04:28 PM· 0 comments
More impressions - DLD09 day 1
A lot of smiling faces, all very enthusiastic about the next two and a half days. See all public content tagged with dld09 Know any of these people? Help to tag them on flickr on these fotos as well as // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 04:16 PM· 0 comments
From ideas to reality with Phillippe Pouletty
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 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 03:46 PM· 0 comments
Gobal CEOs about "Global Challenges"
[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 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 03:09 PM· 0 comments
Everybody gets in tune with Itay Talgam
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 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 03:06 PM· 0 comments
Hubert Burda and Joseph Vardi say: Welcome
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 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 02:30 PM· 0 comments
Aenne Burda Award 2009 for Esther Dyson
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 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 02:30 PM· 0 comments
How to follow the conversations for DLD09
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 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 02:12 PM· 0 comments
Have a look at the bag!
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: // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 02:02 PM· 0 comments
The conference is about to begin
Atmosphere: Excited, workful. Everybody is buzzing around, making final preparations for the conference. Soundchecks, crew instructions, organizing the workload. // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 12:46 PM· 0 comments
Good morning!
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 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 25, 2009 · 09:16 AM· 6 comments
January 24, 2009
DLD Arts Interventions
When exploring the yet to come, architects, designers and artists can contribute to a social networking conference in a way that fosters interdisciplinary exchange and engenders new forms of dialogue. Since the beginning it has been DLD's interest to invite // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 24, 2009 · 06:51 PM· 0 comments
DLD Research Luncheon
What do opinion leaders and experts think about trends and developments in the digital and media world? What are the latest trends in IPTV? We would like to invite all registrated DLD Guests to join the DLD Research Luncheon on // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 24, 2009 · 12:24 AM· 0 comments
January 22, 2009
DLD09 Charity: Books for bridges
Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, David Grossman and Amos Oz are among the figureheads who stand as symbols for the centuries long tradition of German Jewish literature, arts and science. To honour their memory, this years' DLD charity project // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 22, 2009 · 04:03 PM· 0 comments
January 21, 2009
IBM to buy Outblaze
Back in February 2005, DLD friend Yat Siu was one of the speakers at the first DLD conference in Munich's Nymphenburg Castle and presented his e-mail and messaging company Outblaze. This week IBM has announced its intention to acquire strategic // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 21, 2009 · 10:48 AM· 0 comments
January 20, 2009
DLD Internet Politics Study released
Coinciding with today's inauguration of Barack Obama we are pleased to present you with the DLD Internet Politics Study. Obama has already achieved something extraordinary with his election campaign: Like no other President before him, he has managed to mobilize // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 20, 2009 · 11:35 AM· 3 comments
January 15, 2009
Thanks to all DLD Partners
We would like to thank all of our partners for their support, creative input and friendship! Numerous partners have supported DLD for years and have become part of the DLD community along with their innovative areas and ideas. The main // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 07:12 PM· 0 comments
BlueEFFICIENCY Technologies for efficient and sustainable mobility: Today we already offer no fewer than 58 models which can help you to reduce the burden on the environment significantly. We group together all of the innovations which make this possible under // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 06:16 PM· 1 comment
Deutsche Post
We want to be the best logistics company worldwide. That's why we drive innovation. At the DHL Innovation Center, near our headquarters in Bonn, Germany, we bring together the innovative forces within our company and beyond - cooperating with renowned // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 06:15 PM· 0 comments
Ernst & Young
Assurance / Tax / Transactions/ Advisory Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 135,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:29 PM· 0 comments
MSD
MSD (in the US: Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ) is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first. Established in 1891, MSD discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. The // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:29 PM· 0 comments
hp
As a global leader in information technology, HP applies new thinking and ideas to deliver simpler, more valuable experiences with technology. Our goal is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work. HP integrates sophisticated technology into products // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:28 PM· 0 comments
Booz & Company
Booz & Company is a leading global management consulting firm, helping the world's top businesses, governments, and organizations. Our founder, Edwin Booz, defined the profession when he established the first management consulting firm in 1914. Today, with more than 3,300 // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:28 PM· 0 comments
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:28 PM· 0 comments
HypoVereinsbank
HypoVereinsbank is part of one of Europe's largest banking groups, the UniCredit Group. It is one of the largest financial institutions in Germany and is responsible for the German business of the UniCredit Group. HypoVereinsbank is comprehensively represented across Germany // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:27 PM· 0 comments
burda digital Systems
Burda digital systems offers unparalleled expertise in creation, implementation and operation of digital businesses. Our core services include a unique set of business applications and seamless integration of digital media into the business systems of our clients. We offer new // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:25 PM· 0 comments
GE
GE is a diversified global infrastructure, finance and media company that is built to meet essential world needs. From energy, water, transportation and health to access to money and information, GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and employs // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:25 PM· 0 comments
Deutsche Telekom
Shaping the Future Nothing has changed everyday life over the past few years quite as much as digitalization and networking via the Internet have. Over four billion people now use a mobile phone. Some 210 billion e-mails are sent on // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:25 PM· 0 comments
Sevenload
NEXT GENERATION SOCIAL MEDIA sevenload is a leading online social media platform for videos, photos and interactive formats. With its vast content library, sevenload is Europe's largest professional network for internet television, Web TV and User Generated Content. sevenload combines // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:25 PM· 0 comments
XING is Europe's No.1 business network that successfully combines know-how with know-who. With over 8 million members from over 200 countries, XING amounts to one of the most active business networks on the net. Use XING to: Find deals, new // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:02 PM· 0 comments
dpa
The dpa group offers high-quality content, solutions and services in all media and all formats: from comprehensive newswire services in German, English, Spanish, Arabic, and (as of this year) Turkish to state-of-theart audio, video, photo and online services as well // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:01 PM· 0 comments
CNBC
CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, is the leading global broadcaster of live business and financial news and information, reporting directly from the major financial markets around the globe, with three regional networks in Asia, EMEA and the US. In EMEA, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 12:01 PM· 0 comments
Glam Media
Where is your audience now? The decline of portals and destination sites means consumers are going directly to niche content sites. To leverage this "deportalization" of the Web, Glam Media created a revolutionary new media model--Vertical Content Networks--that brings brand // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 11:56 AM· 0 comments
Bene
BENE. OFFICE FURNISHING EXPERT - A variety of services united under one roof - 80 sales operations in 32 countries Bene, a European group of companies, provides trendsetting office furnishing con-cepts, products and services. With a workforce of around 1,500, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 11:32 AM· 0 comments
Lufthansa
Go where the customers are - that is what Lufthansa aims to do by establishing a corporate presence on the online European business network XING and the social networking site Twitter. Lufthansa is branching out to new online communication channels // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2009 · 11:32 AM· 0 comments
January 14, 2009
Digital Life Design: New Realities
We are thrilled to welcome all our dear friends, speakers and guests at this year's DLD from 25-27 January in Munich. The conference theme is "New Realities", and it is calling on its participants to formulate perspectives for their markets // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 14, 2009 · 11:02 AM· 0 comments
January 13, 2009
DLD 2009 program released
The DLD team is proud to finally release the DLD09 conference program featuring this year's theme "New realities". You find the entire program online here. In addition, detailed information about our speakers and moderators is published here. Are you interested // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 13, 2009 · 11:16 AM· 1 comment
January 09, 2009
'Good Design' in 2009
International Herald Tribune recently published an interesting article about "creative solutions in tough times". As the recession deepens, social and service design are becoming even more relevant. So what makes for "good design" in 2009? Themes like empowerment, sustainability, innovation // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 09, 2009 · 07:05 PM· 0 comments
January 08, 2009
Joi Ito about Venture Capital
In an recent interview with Handelsblatt's Thomas Knüwer, influential digerati and Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito spoke about the future of venture capital and how the business situation will change investment decisions. Joi Ito´s opinion is that investors are even // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 08, 2009 · 04:09 PM· 0 comments
December 22, 2008
Particle physics, the aria
The Boston Globe recently published an interesting Q&A with Harvard theoretical physicist and DLD speaker Lisa Randall who is collaborating with composer Hèctor Parra and artist Matthew Ritchie on a chamber opera project entitled "Hypermusic Prologue: A projective opera in // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 22, 2008 · 04:32 PM· 0 comments
December 19, 2008
Socialmedian purchased by XING
Today XING founder and DLD-friend Lars Hinrichs announced the purchase of NY-based socialmedian Inc., a leading innovator in the online news industry. Socialmedian gathers information from about 19,000 sources, including social media services such as Digg, Delicious, Twitter, Flickr or // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 19, 2008 · 03:47 PM· 0 comments
December 15, 2008
The new high-tech smithy
German newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" recently wrote an extensive piece about Israeli innovation and start-up culture. Israel has become the "miracle country" for technology founders and developed to the second-largest high-tech smithy in the world after Silicon Valley. Ideas and // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 15, 2008 · 06:12 PM· 0 comments
Technology enables Success
Without any doubt, technology is an important component for the economical success of a business. The technology to utilize depends on many factors like implementation speed, costs, process optimization, customer access etc. What technological solution can support the success of // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 15, 2008 · 02:13 PM· 0 comments
November 11, 2008
DLD09 Hotel Recommendations
If you need a hotel accommodation in Munich for your time at DLD we can recommend a few hotels in different price categories. Kindly be advised to reserve as soon as possible, since we can not guarantee room availability. Please // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 11, 2008 · 05:00 PM· 0 comments
September 24, 2008
DLD at Soho House, NYC // Video
Soho House, Manhattan: Located in the heart of New York's Über-trendy Meatpacking District, the stylish private member's club was a great scene for our DLD cocktail reception earlier this month. The hotel is adapted from a former warehouse and shot // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· September 24, 2008 · 11:52 AM· 0 comments