DLD Tel Aviv Festival

The DLD Tel Aviv Festival was held for the first time at the beautiful Jaffa Port last week. The event was chaired by Israeli high-tech entrepreneur Yossi Vardi and publisher Hubert Burda.

Around 800 participants and 50 speakers followed the invitation to Tel Aviv, including Yandex founder Arkady Volozh, Grammy winners Steve Greenberg and Miri Ben-Ari, Publicis chairman Jean-Yves Naouri, the technology entrepreneur Rafi Gidron, neuroscientist Amiram Grinvald and the civil rights activist Stav Shaffir, as well as the DLD chairman Hubert Burda and Burda's CEO, Paul-Bernhard Kallen. Within the festival's cosmos additional events were hosted by companies such as Google, Amazon or Facebook. Yossi Vardi said: 'For me, DLD Tel Aviv Festival was a place where you could meet friends in a thrilling atmosphere with many elements of information but also fun.'

Israel is one of the world's leading 'digital nations'. The Tel Aviv region focuses on developments for the international high-tech and internet markets, it is therefore also an extremely interesting business location for German companies. DLD founders Steffi Czerny and Marcel Reichart comment: "Israel has all the organisational characteristics of a knowledge society. The "digital innovation hub's" major influence reaches as far as Silicon Valley, which the country enjoys close links to a great number of talented newcomers and the founding of companies."

 

Several Interviews were conducted at DLD Tel Aviv:

Stav Shaffir: A Revolution Is Not A Matter Of One Summer Or Spring

Jeff Pulver Caught Offline! 

Assaf Biderman - Imagine The City As The Internet

Boys From Zell - In Conversation With Three Students From The Zell Program

Hila Oren - "Entrepreneurs Are Not Afraid of Failure!"

Richard Schneider - "The audience has to be able to identify itself with the presenter." 

Eyal Gever - “My artistic experience is an exploration of the relationship between technology and art” 

Idit Harel Caperton - Our Most Important Commodity is Education 

Gregory Blatt - All That Is Impossible Remains To Be Achieved 

Michael Conrad - The Culture of Communication leads to Cult Brands 

Tal Shoham - Events Should Happen Simultaneously Online and Offline 

Davor Magdic - I Want to Capture how a Person Feels the Music of Another Person 

Dov Ganchrow - There is No Gap Between Art and Life 

Michal Levy - It's All About to Show What I See When I Listen 

 

Ever since its foundation, DLD has enjoyed close links with Israel. These were established in 2000, when the Ben Gurion University's Hubert Burda Center for Innovative Communications organised the antecessor conference 'Cool People in the Hot Desert', building a bridge between leading online-based start-up companies in Israel and Germany. This event sparked the idea of creating an international platform for digital topics, realised in 2005 with the first DLD conference. At the same time, the DLD has evolved into a place to meet for a new, globally-oriented generation. Each year, the event is also attended by more than 100 guests from Israel.


The DLD Tel Aviv was realised in cooperation with Oscar 4B, and is supported by the following partners: The Marker, the Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute, the Manufacturers Association of Israel, Jaffa Port, IBM, GameIS, the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Cloud, Google, igda Israel, leumi, BSPOTBROADCASTING, orange, amazon web services, sixt and GARAGEGEEKS.

 

Explore the vibe by watching the short impressions video and pictures below. Moreover have a look at German blog by the IBC students Christian Weiß and Robert Kowalski as well as the Global Must Reads 'Start-Up Nation Israel' by the Atlantic Community.

 











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