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January 19, 2007
Daniel Mattes
In late 2004, Daniel teamed up with Roman Scharf to form JAJAH. At the company, Daniel is responsible for developing the proprietary core technology of JAJAH. Daniel Mattes started programming software at an early age on a computer given to // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 19, 2007 · 10:26 PM· 0 comments
Rob Glaser
Since founding RealNetworks in 1995, Rob Glaser has played an integral role in transforming the Internet into a mass medium. Under Mr. Glaser's direction, RealNetworks introduced the groundbreaking RealAudio product, followed quickly by RealVideo, RealPlayer and RealSystem technologies, moving television // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 19, 2007 · 12:58 AM· 0 comments
January 17, 2007
M/M
M/M (Paris) is a partnership between Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag. Michael studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and Mathias studied at the Royal College of Arts, London. Working within the framework and language of design, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 17, 2007 · 06:56 PM· 0 comments
Pae White
Pae White (born 1963, Pasadena, California) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her M.F.A. from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. White's work often crosses the border between Arts and Design. For the DLD Arts Projects the // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 17, 2007 · 05:17 PM· 1 comment
January 16, 2007
Alexander Schill
Alexander Schill (37), joined Springer & Jacoby Hamburg in 1994 after studying 4 years at the Highschool of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1998 he became one of the youngest creative directors ever within S&J. In 2003 he was asked // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 16, 2007 · 11:32 PM· 0 comments
Tamer Kulmac
Tamer Kulmac is the co-founder of Vaybee!, the leading Turkish Internet Media Company in Europe. A native of Turkey, Tamer studied business administration at Cologne University with internships abroad in the US and Istanbul, Turkey during his study. He was // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 16, 2007 · 11:07 PM· 0 comments
Erik Wachtmeister
Erik Wachtmeister is the founder of aSmallWorld. Erik holds a BA from Georgetown and an MBA from INSEAD. He has an investment-banking career behind him at Lehman Brothers and Rothschild in London and New York. He created his own business // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 16, 2007 · 10:33 AM· 0 comments
January 15, 2007
Ronny Pecik
Ronny Pecik is, through Victory AG, the largest shareholder of Swiss publicly listed OC Oerlikon AG (former Unaxis AG). Victory controls 50% of the 9.3 bn market cap swiss industrial conglomerate. Since Victory's investment into Oerlikon the share price rose // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 15, 2007 · 02:25 PM· 0 comments
January 11, 2007
Uli Baur
Uli Baur is Editor-in-Chief of German news magazine FOCUS and was part of the editorial staff from the very beginning. From 1993 on, he served as deputy of Editor-in-Chief Helmut Markwort. He is also co-publisher of the business magazine FOCUS-MONEY, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 11, 2007 · 02:19 PM· 0 comments
Anil de Mello
Anil de Mello is CEO & producer of MobuzzTV, a video blog that posts a new 2-3 minute video once a day and is recorded in Madrid, Spain. He is an entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in media // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 11, 2007 · 12:58 PM· 0 comments
Tariq Krim
Tariq Krim is the founder and CEO of Netvibes, a leading start-up company helping users to create a personalized page with the content they like and to manage their digital life. Netvibes, founded in 2005, based in Paris and specialized // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 11, 2007 · 12:48 PM· 0 comments
James Murdoch
James Murdoch was appointed as a Director of British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) on 13 February 2003 and as Chief Executive Officer with effect from 4 November 2003. Until Mr Murdoch's appointment as Chief Executive Officer, he was Chairman and Chief // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 11, 2007 · 12:42 PM· 0 comments
January 10, 2007
Matthew Anderson
Matthew Anderson is the Group Director, Communications of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc. Previously he was Chief Executive (Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and Middle East) of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, part of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide, the world's eighth largest // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 10, 2007 · 01:59 PM· 0 comments
Dave Morgan
Dave Morgan founded TACODA in July 2001, served as its CEO until the middle of 2006, and currently serves as its Chairman. TACODA is the pioneer of behavioral-targeted online advertising and operates an advertising network across more than 4000 premium // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 10, 2007 · 11:23 AM· 0 comments
Michelle Nicol
Michelle Nicol is an art historian and managing partner of advertising agency glamour engineering. She has worked as critic and curator of contemporary art for international institutions including the Berlin Biennale and the Museum Ludwig Cologne. Appointed curator of the // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 10, 2007 · 11:17 AM· 1 comment
January 09, 2007
Christian Krug
Christian Krug was born in 1965 in Hamburg. After studying politics and German philology he worked at the arts department of the German daily newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost. In 1989 he started working for the German weekly news and features magazine // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 09, 2007 · 05:18 PM· 0 comments
Helmut Fiebig
Helmut Fiebig (born 1956) studied german literature, political science and social science in Göttingen. After working as a teacher for two years he volunteered at the Cinema Verlag, Hamburg. 1996 he became editor-in-chief at CINEMA, Germanys leading film magazine. The // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 09, 2007 · 05:11 PM· 0 comments
Hartmut Esslinger
Hartmut Esslinger is the founder of frog design, one of the world's leading strategic-creative consulting firms, and according to BusinessWeek the first superstar of high-tech design. In 1969, Esslinger founded frog design in his native Germany and sparked a design // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 09, 2007 · 02:42 PM· 1 comment
Brian Cox
Brian Cox is a Royal Society University Research Fellow working on the giant 27km Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. He's not always been a physicist, however. At 18 years of age he joined the rock band // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 09, 2007 · 11:09 AM· 0 comments
Miles Beckett
Miles Beckett is a 28 year-old surgeon-turned-producer. He attended the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and the University of California, Berkeley where he received a bachelors degree in neuroscience. After leaving a surgical residency in integrated plastic // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 09, 2007 · 11:01 AM· 0 comments
January 08, 2007
Evert Hoogendoorn
Evert Hoogendoorn is head of the Bachelor of Art and Technology, Design for Virtual Theatre & Games (DVTG) at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands. This program focuses on game design from an artistic and innovative angle. // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 08, 2007 · 09:29 PM· 0 comments
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (born 1939) 1972 Professor for Biology, University of Essen; 1975 President, University of Kassel; 1981 Director at the UN Centre for Science and Technology for Development, New York; 1984 Director, Institute for European Environmental Policy, Bonn-London-Paris; // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 08, 2007 · 10:30 AM· 0 comments
Steven Levy
Steven Levy is senior editor and chief technology correspondent for Newsweek, where he writes the "Technologist" column. He is author of six books, including the classic computer history "Hackers"; "The Unicorn's Secret"; "Insanely Great" (the story of the Macintosh computer); // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 08, 2007 · 09:40 AM· 0 comments
January 07, 2007
Andy Wood
The leadership of Andy Wood as CEO has enabled Image Metrics to scale great and new heights over the last 2 years. Andy Wood is successful in the interactive, entertainment, music and technology industries. He founded USD sales and marketing // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 07, 2007 · 06:37 PM· 4 comments
January 03, 2007
Luc Besson
Luc Besson, born in 1959 in Paris, is a French film director, writer and producer who for years belongs to the most successful and versatile directors in Europe. After a few works as assistant director and the short movie "L'Avant // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 03, 2007 · 05:07 PM· 4 comments
Bruno Giussani
Bruno Giussani is a Swiss writer. He authors the monthly EuroScan column for the Innovation&Design section of BusinessWeek.com and contributes, among others, to the Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, the newsweekly L'Hebdo in Switzerland and the business // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 03, 2007 · 04:41 PM· 0 comments
Guntram Gräf
Guntram Gräf is co-founder and CEO of ANSHE CHUNG Studios Ltd., a company specializing in developing immersive 3D environments for applications ranging from education to business conferencing and product prototyping. He is the husband of Anshe Chung (Ailin Gräf), who // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 03, 2007 · 03:31 PM· 0 comments
Tim Brown
Tim Brown is president and CEO of IDEO, a world leader in design and innovation. He speaks regularly on the value of design thinking and innovation to business and design audiences around the world. His leadership in design is widely // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 03, 2007 · 01:59 PM· 0 comments
January 02, 2007
David Sifry
Dave Sifry is a entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the I.T industry. Most recently, he founded Technorati, the largest blog search engine in the world, and was CEO from 2002-2007. He is Chairman of Technorati's Board of Directors. // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· January 02, 2007 · 10:51 AM· 0 comments
December 21, 2006
Georges Kern
Georges A. Kern is Chief Executive Officer of International Watch Co. At the beginning of 2002 and ten years after he put on his first IWC, he was appointed as the new CEO. Born in 1965 to the renowned Düsseldorf // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 21, 2006 · 05:38 PM· 0 comments
December 20, 2006
Eyal Hertzog
Eyal Hertzog his a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Metacafe, a place where artists create, consumers interact and technology enables communication. Prior to co-founding Metacafe, where he drives product innovation and content strategy, Mr. Hertzog co-founded Contact Networks in 1998, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 20, 2006 · 04:59 PM· 0 comments
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese conceptual artist, curator and architect. For 25 years Ai Weiwei was consistently one of the most innovative figures in China's art world. He helped direct the course of Chinese art, not only through his own // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 20, 2006 · 02:53 PM· 9 comments
Rainer Hillebrand
Dr. Rainer Hillebrand, born on 1 April 1956, studied Economics and Organisational Sciences at the University of the Bundeswehr (Federal Armed Forces) in Hamburg from 1977 to 1981. From 1981 to 1985 he was engaged in various functions as an // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 20, 2006 · 02:25 PM· 0 comments
Gabe McIntyre
Gabriel McIntyre has become an European authority on the subject of video blogging, traveling all over the world to talk to companies, media agencies and at conferences about the subject. In his video blog XOLO.TV, both Gabe McIntyre and Gabe // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 20, 2006 · 01:35 PM· 0 comments
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson was born in Copenhagen in 1967. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and moved to Germany in 1993. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin which today functions as a laboratory for // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 20, 2006 · 11:37 AM· 0 comments
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of eleven books including her latest, "On Becoming Fearless... in Love, Work, and Life". Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 20, 2006 · 11:07 AM· 5 comments
December 18, 2006
Hjalmar Winbladh
Hjalmar Winbladh is President and CEO at Rebtel Networks AB. He co-founded Rebtel to use his mobile Internet expertise to start a revolution in international mobile calling. Prior to Rebtel, Hjalmar was a strategy consultant and entrepreneur-in-residence at Investor AB, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 18, 2006 · 05:20 PM· 0 comments
Thomas Huber
Thomas Huber is a professional mountaineer and mountain guide from Bavaria. Together with his younger brother Alexander he is one of the Huber-Brothers, a world-leading climbing partnership. They have completed the hardest free-climbing routes in the world. At the age // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 18, 2006 · 11:46 AM· 1 comment
December 13, 2006
Lauren Wiener
Lauren Wiener, VP of Meredith Interactive, oversees the company's digital and emerging media business. Meredith Interactive serves nearly nine million women at every life stage and passion point. Wiener joined Meredith in 2003. She was responsible for advertising revenue and // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 13, 2006 · 11:22 PM· 0 comments
December 12, 2006
Peer Steinbrück
Peer Steinbrück is the Federal Minister of Finance in Angela Merkel's cabinet. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and has served as prime minister (Ministerpräsident) of North Rhine-Westphalia from November 2002 to June 2005. // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 12, 2006 · 04:49 PM· 0 comments
December 06, 2006
Marko Ahtisaari
Marko Ahtisaari is responsible for the brand and design of Blyk. Prior to joining Blyk Marko was Director of Design Strategy at Nokia. While at Nokia Marko held management positions in venturing, design and corporate strategy, always with a focus // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 06, 2006 · 03:13 PM· 0 comments
Cevat Yerli
Cevat Yerli is co-founder and president of Crytek. He was born in 1978. His first games and development experiences go back to the 80s with the Commodore 64 and the Schneider CPC 6128 where he worked on simulation games. Since // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 06, 2006 · 03:10 PM· 1 comment
Nikolaj Nyholm
Nikolaj Nyholm is O'Reilly Media's Conference Program Chair for Europe and CEO of the people photo-identification service Polar Rose. He's trying to connect European emerging tech and open source milieus, hoping to contribute to the creation of a vibrant cross-border // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 06, 2006 · 03:01 PM· 0 comments
Steve Mariotti
Considered one of today's leading experts in education for at-risk youth, Steve Mariotti changed career paths back in 1982 when he decided to move from the corporate sector and become a special education teacher in the New York City school // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 06, 2006 · 02:53 PM· 0 comments
Bart Becks
Bart Becks is Senior Vice President New Media at SBS Broadcasting Group Europe, in charge of managing the digital media initiatives over the web, interactive television, mobile devices and other emerging platforms. SBS Broadcasting is a leading European media group, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 06, 2006 · 02:30 PM· 0 comments
Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author. He sold his first science fiction story in 1976. His solonovels include Schismatrix (1985), Islands In The Net (1988), Heavy Weather (1994), and Holy Fire (1996). In 1986 he edited Mirrorshades: The // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 06, 2006 · 01:54 PM· 0 comments
November 27, 2006
Alexander Straub
Alexander Straub is a German entrepreneur and investor based in London, focusing on significant technology or business model innovations. Several sectors are of particular interest - mobile, software, internet, biotech, organic food, healthy living and alternative energy - though also // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 12:06 PM· 0 comments
Oliver Samwer
Oliver Samwer is founder of Jamba! GmbH. Born in 1972 Oliver Samwer completed Business Administration Studies at the WHU School of Business, graduating with the title Diplom-Kaufmann. In 1996 he was a second-year MBA programme exchange student at the Kellogg // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:59 AM· 0 comments
Rolf Sachs
Rolf Sachs is a Swiss-passport-carrying European born in Lausanne. He studied mathematics at the London School of Economics and has a Bs in Business administration from the Menlo School of Business Administration. Rolf Sachs is best known as an internationally // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:59 AM· 1 comment
Arend Oetker
Dr. Oetker was born on March 30, 1939. He is married and has five children. After studying Business Administration and Political Sciences at the Universities of Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne from 1962 - 1966 and Marketing at the Harvard Business // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:57 AM· 0 comments
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. A graduate of MIT, Negroponte was a pioneer // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:55 AM· 4 comments
Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmark (born in 1952) is an Internet entrepreneur best known for founding San Francisco-based website craigslist and shaking up the classified advertising business. Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University. As a senior Web-oriented software // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:54 AM· 3 comments
Walt Mossberg
Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He is also the co-creator and co-producer of the technology industry's most prestigious annual conference, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:54 AM· 1 comment
Miltos Manetas
Miltos Manetas, a Greek-born painter and internet artist, currently lives and works in North London. Manetas' work consists of depictions of computer-related items such as oil paintings of computer hardware and videos that utilize clips from videogames. Media Theorist Lev // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:53 AM· 0 comments
Rob Kalin
Robert Kalin is a carpenter by trade, making his residence in Brooklyn. He founded Etsy in 2005 as an online marketplace for everyone to buy and sell handmade goods, all over the world.. He recently spent a couple months living // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:52 AM· 2 comments
Norman Foster
Norman Foster is one of the most important architects practising in the world today. His practice, Foster + Partners, is based in London but has project offices worldwide. Since its foundation in 1967, the practice has pioneered a sustainable approach // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:51 AM· 3 comments
Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake is the Co-Founder of Flickr.com which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Caterina's deep understanding of online community, blogs and the collaborative web has helped launch Flickr into the photo-sharing juggernaut of the Web 2.0. Prior to Interval, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:49 AM· 1 comment
Frances Corner
In October 2005 Frances Corner was appointed Head of College at London College of Fashion. Prior to this Frances was the Head of the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design at London Metropolitan University and has worked // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:49 AM· 0 comments
Beth Comstock
Beth Comstock was named President, NBC Universal Digital Media and Market Development in December 2005. Comstock drives NBC Universal's emerging digital business, including the iVillage Properties which was acquired by NBC Universal in May 2006. Comstock is also charged with // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:48 AM· 0 comments
Chris Bangle
Christopher (Chris) Bangle (born 1956 in Ohio) is an automobile designer and Chief of Design for BMW Group. Bangle began his career at Opel. He later moved to Fiat where he became chief designer. When he joined BMW in 1992, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:45 AM· 6 comments
Thierry Antinori
Thierry Antinori, born on July 26, 1961, was appointed a member of the airline board of Lufthansa German Airlines on January 1, 2000. As Executive Vice President Marketing & Sales he is responsible for Lufthansa's global sales and marketing organisation, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:42 AM· 0 comments
Andreas Angelidakis
Andreas Angelidakis is an architect working at the intersection of digital culture and architectural production. Operating for almost 9 years, Angelidakis has realized projects in Sweden, Switzerland, USA and Italy as well as various online communities such as Active Worlds, // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 27, 2006 · 11:41 AM· 0 comments
December 06, 2005
Christoph Braun
Dr. Christoph Braun is Managing Director of Burda Digital Ventures, the Corporate Venture Capital arm of Hubert Burda Media and developer of Internet and mobile-based business models. He also serves as Director Treasury for the group. In addition, Christoph is // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· December 06, 2005 · 08:30 PM· 0 comments
November 01, 2005
Rudolf Gröger
Rudolf Gröger, CEO, O2 Germany Rudolf Gröger was born in 1954. In 1996 he started his career as a Spokesman of the German Management Board at Siemens AG (Information & Communication Products and SNI AG). In 1999 he joined the // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· November 01, 2005 · 06:11 PM· 0 comments
October 27, 2005
Timm Kehler
Dr. Timm Kehler is Vice President Marketing Predevelopment and Innovation at the BMW Group. He studied Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design and received his Ph. D. in Engineering. Timm joined the BMW Group in 1997 as a project manager in // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· October 27, 2005 · 08:49 AM· 0 comments
Ernst Poeppel
Prof. Poeppel has served as chairman in the Helmholtz Center in Jülich being responsible for environmental research and life sciences. He has done research in the brain sciences and psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at two // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· October 27, 2005 · 08:42 AM· 0 comments
Stefan Winners
Stefan Winners is CEO of TOMORROW FOCUS AG since 2005, one of Germanys fast growing internet media companies focusing on advertising and platforms. Stefan is also member of several supervisory boards, i. e. Chairman of the Board of Administration of // more
DLD - Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich· October 27, 2005 · 01:10 AM· 0 comments