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DLD08 coverage
DLD08 is over but lots of inspirations are reminaing - both in Munich and in the suitcases of participants. Here is an overview of the international coverage....
DLD08 press releases
Interested in press releases and media data about DLD08? Please visit www.burda.de/dld for the DLD press center. For further information please mail to dldpress@burda.com...
DLD08 survey results
Prior to DLD08 we sent out a survey to all members of the DLD communitiy, including all invited conference participants. The results of the survey have been summarized and are now available for download: DLD Survey Results (PDF)....
DLD08 arts and music
The DLD program featured not only discussions during panel sessions but also exciting art, architecture, design and music. If you want to find out more about the DLD artists and their works, you can read about here: DLD08 arts &...
Howie B.
One of the most respected electronic composers of the '90s, Howie B is a sonic polymath whose production work with U2, Bjork, Tricky, Brian Eno, Sinead O'Connor, Sly and Robbie and Everything but the Girl has made him an ace...
DLD08 Arts
DLD considers cultural production and creativity necessary for inspiration and disruption and fosters interdisciplinary exchanges and new forms of dialogue. How can creative production contribute to a “LIVE” social networking platform in a way, that contradicts “art on display“ at...
Watch DLD videos!
Missed a DLD08 session? Want to recap the conference or just see what DLD is all about? Aside from the official DLD video portal you can also find additional DLD video coverage at the DLD channel on YouTube and watch...
DLD08 Summary
Tuesday in the early afternoon DLD08 ended with a session on ideas and visions from the African continent. The DLD team says thank you to all speakers, moderators, partners and participants for a very special event that wouldn't have been...
DLD08 is over
Marcel Reichart and Steffi Czerny, hosts of DLD08, close the event. Three very exciting days of international exchange about digital lifestyle have passed. Steffi Czerny and Marcel Reichart thank everybody for attending and helping to make this a memorable event....
Africa Revisited
The loop is completed: In the last session of DLD08, Africa is again in focus. In the first DLD panel on Sunday, Martin Sorrell called Africa “the continent of opportunity” for further development in digital technologies. We know that for...
Generation Web
David de Rothschild, founder of "Adventure Ecology", an independently run organisation that uses adventure, education and the arts to address global sustainability issues, interviews Tom Varsavsky, a 14 year old boy, about his online habits....
DNA TO GO
The decoding of the human DNA opened a new field for human genome research. By now, the reproduction of stem cells and the control of genetic diseases seem realistic.The company “23 and me” wanta to realize genetic testing for everyone...
Christian Angermayer
"> Christian Angermayer (29) is founder and one of five operating partners of Angermayer, Brumm & Lange Unternehmensgruppe (ABL), one of Germany´s largest and fastest growing independent financial services groups. Via several subsidiaries, ABL is active in the fields of...
Digital gets Physical
This is not about sex. Digital drafts of contemporary art or architecture more and more find their way out of digital space and into the physical world. On the one side, digital things serve here as model for further developments,...
Archives and Memory
Data handling and archival storage more and more help to work artistically in retrospect. What role do archives and memory play in contemporary art, especially in a time which is increasingly influenced by information technologies and data storage? Hans-Ulrich Obrist,...
Green Transportation
How can people keep their mobile lifestyle without polluting the environment? How can trade and transport be made as environment-friendly as possible and which new technologies are there? Speaker Shai Agassi is the founder and CEO of “Better PLC”, a...
Exploding Media
The current explosion of media is about more than users generating content: The roles of users, producers and publishers melt into each other and become interchangeable. Digital tools allow everybody to create his own media sphere. How do these trends...
Reality Formula
There are new discoveries every day about our universe and its origins. They come from very different approaches - sometimes, science even links with art to gain some of the most surprising insights....
TV Reloaded
Watching TV via IP on a personal computer is only the first step towards the television of the future. Mobile TV is the next. How people will watch clips, shows and serials everywhere you want is an important topic concerning...
DLD08 - DAY 3
There are still some seats empty in the auditorium. No wonder. The famed DLD party at Bayerischer Hof lasted until 5 a.m. this morning... Host Marcel Reichart cheers up the audience and quotes some newspapers that reported in big letters...
Educate & Experiment
This panel is set in two parts: at first, information scientist Sugata Mitra will present new ways of education on the basis of his experiment “A hole in the wall”. In 1999, Mitra, chief scientist at NIIT Limited, got the...
What's music worth?
After years of dramatically declining revenue, music companies try to win ground with new applications and platforms. Following television casting shows like “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (a German version of the “Idols” series), new stars rise through social music networks,...
Be Visual
The internet offers many opportunities to present nearly everything visually, with the help of icons, pictures, graphics or drawings. Because of that, the amount of text declines more and more. Is there a tendency towards more creativity or visual thinking?...
Visions on Energy
Energy is everywhere: without energy, there would be no digital life, and life would be hardly possible at all. The panel "Visions on energy" focuses on all the sources of energy used by mankind, their respective efficiency and their significance...
Ad Exchange
Everybody talks about it, but nobody knows how to define it exactly: web 2.0. Common sense is that in the current new era of the internet, so called user-generated content and personalized sites become ever more important. In the "everybody...
Future City
What does the city of the future look like? Which impact will the climate change have on city planning? How do urbanisation and Megacities change our way of life? Leading architects discuss their ideas....
20 Seconds of Joy
Digital worlds create opportunities for escapism. However, in the "first life" as well, people are longing for "kicks" to escape. Extreme sports, where men and nature become one, are an example for that trend....
New Playgrounds
Playing is an essential part of human life. Today, computer games imitate reality better and better, gamers delve into parallel worlds. They create an Alter Ego and connect with the global gamer community. So what's to be expected in the...
Inconvenient Stories
What does the inconvenient truth look like? How can it be brought to light? Which methods and approaches are necessary to inform people about things that some groups are just too likely to cover up?...
Jörg Blumtritt
"> Jörg Blumtritt is Head of Community Marketing & Research at Burda Community Network. 1993-1998 Scientific Researcher Ethology (behavioral Sciences), social psychology; projects in nonverbal communication research, funded by European Commission, German Federal Government, Max-Planck-Ges. 1999-2003 SevenOne Media GmbH /...
Humans Disrupting Algorithms
The marketing of search engines is a booming sector, and the online giant Google particularly thanks its growth to algorithms for page ranks. But some search engines (for example Maholo.com, Wikia.com) are going in new directions. The user is empowered....
Design: from thought to action
What kind of influence do computers and new technologies have on the architecture of information, on design and on architecture today and tomorrow? How do new design technologies change functionality and aesthetics in the 21st century?...
Markets Of Mobility
Mobile telecommunications are one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy. More and more bits and bytes floating round the world enable mobile surfing and mobile television. With the growth of the sector, the number of the competitors is...
Life: A Gene-Centric View
Author of this entry: Franziska Schwarz Decoding the human DNA took disease research a large step ahead. But is it legitimate to interfere with the process of evolution? J. Craig Venter is regarded as one of the leading scientists of...
Surfing Risks
Read live from the second panel this morning. Martin Varsavsky will moderate the discussion “Surfing Risks”, which will center around the following questions: International investors are nowadays normal in the economy landscape. Which influences do they exert? And do those...
Getting Social
Social Communities enjoy a constantly growing popularity. People begin to link with each other regardless of their origins and ancestry. Some shared interests are often sufficient to build the base of strong networks. How will these communities change in the...
giants awake
Roughly a third of the world's population lives in China and India. The former "sleeping giants" offer huge economic potentials. Both countries are facing fast-paced centuries - not without risks. Freedom of information is not guaranteed everywhere. Which role does...
DLD08 - DAY 2
The second day of DLD 2008 has started! At 9 a.m., every seat in the auditorium is already taken. Participants are looking ahead to another day of exciting speakers, surprising encounters and ground-breaking ideas in the realm of the internt,...
Creating Universes
Fiction is a big part of our everyday life. Are there schemes good stories should follow? How do you create fictional stories, and what has changed in comparison with the past? How relevant is the process of creating fictional stories...
DLD Aenne Burda Award 2008
The countdown is running... In a few minutes, the winner of the Aenne Burda Award 2008 will be announced. Last years winner Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr will hand over the award to another succesful woman in worldwide media....
Smart boys about new markets
Read live from the first panel, with very distinguished guests: Hubert Burda , Joseph Vardi, Martin Sorrell, Richard Wurman and Joe Schoendorf. Moderator: David Kirkpatrick....
DLD08 has started
DLD08 is as crowded as ever and we have many international guests who have traveled across the world to see Munich and join the DLD conference experience. All sessions will be available online at our DLD video portal. Sessions will...
DLD Opening and welcome
A sunny day in Munich marks the start of DLD08. People are streaming into the venue, the DLD logo is everywhere: the black goodie bags are the fashion of the day. Welcome to the conference! This is what happens inside......
DLD Liveblog
This is the kick-off! Burda Journalists and students from Deutsche Journalistenschule (DJS - the most prestigious German institution for journalism education) will blog LIVE from the conference over the next three days, in cooperation with Solon Management Consulting. All panels...
Lichtblick Hasenbergl
DLD supports Lichtblick Hasenbergl. Find out more about this social project....
Marcel Reichart
"> Dr. Marcel Reichart was born in1972 in Germany. He studied business, political science and history in Koblenz (WHU), Lyon, Washington D.C. and Rome. During his doctorate, he acted as advisor to former German Federal Minister of Economy Dr. Otto...
Stephanie Czerny
"> Stephanie Czerny has been working for Hubert Burda Media for more than 10 years. She is a curious person and loves to actively connect ideas, people and businesses, most importantly in the fields of media, internet and arts. She...
Marc Mangold
"> Dr. Marc Mangold is Head of Corporate Development and Research at Hubert Burda Media R&D, Marketing & Communications, where he is closely involved in the company's strategic initiatives and corporate development. Since 2007 he is also head of Hubert...
Your DLD contribution
Once again, the DLD Conference asks you to support "Lichtblick Hasenbergl" - an outstanding social service project in Munich offering challenged children a better start in life. In order to facilitate the daily work of the project (food shopping, doctor...
Changes and additions to the DLD08 program
DLD08 is just around the corner and we are in the final stages preparing the event. If you have not done so in the recent days, you might want to have a look at the new program as some sessions...
Tobias Rehberger
Frankfurt and Berlin based conceptual artist Tobias Rehberger (*1966) studied at Staatliche Hchschule für bildende Kunst Städelschule Frankfurt A. M., where he currently serves as a professor. His artistic work ranges from space installations and wall paintings to furniture designs...
Olaf Nicolai
Olaf Nicolai (*1962, Halle/Saale) studied at the School of Applied Arts Schneeberg (Germany) and German Literature and Philology at the Universities in Leipzig (Germany), Budapest (Hungary) and Vienna (Austria). In 1992, he completed his PhD on "The Vienna Group" (“Die...
Markus Miessen
Markus Miessen is a German, London-based architect, researcher, educator, and writer. Co-director of Miessen&Ploughfields and director of the Architectural Association Winter School Middle East, Miessen has advised the European Kunsthalle and the think tank Demos, and lectured widely including at...
Register for DLD guided tours
If you have registered for DLD you can now choose between three guided tours available to all DLD participants on Sunday morning, January 20th. Please use this tour registration form to sign up for these events....
DLD08 general notes
The registration for DLD is now closed. We had an amazing response and tried until the very last moment to gather a wide variety of participants. The DLD team is very much looking forward to welcoming you to Munich and...
Kara Swisher
"> Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts “D: All Things Digital” a major high-tech conference with Walt Mossberg for Dow Jones. She and Mossberg are also the co-editors of a new Dow Jones tech and media Web site, AllThingsD.com, where...
Chauncey Shey
"> Chauncey Shey has been the founder of SBCVC (SB China Venture Capital) and Managing Partner since the year 2000. SBCVC is a leading venture capital firm in China and manages multiple funds with broad LP base. SBCVC promotes Silicon...
Gregory W. Harper
"> Gregory W. Harper is President of Cerberus Corp., a firm dedicated to assisting businesses develop and implement new visual and aural communication technologies. Mr. Harper is also co founder of Gadgetoff a unique annual event which gathers leading technologist...
Lisa Randall
"> Lisa Randall studies particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University, where she is professor of theoretical physics. Her research concerns elementary particles and fundamental forces, and has involved the development and study of a wide variety of models, the...
Francesca von Habsburg
"> Francesca von Habsburg was born in Switzerland and began there her studies. In London she studied art at St. Martin’s School of Art and history of modern art at the ICA. After studying acting in New York and Los...
Paul-Bernhard Kallen
"> Since 1999 Dr. Paul-Bernhard Kallen is Member of the Board (Technology, Treasury) at Hubert Burda Media. Amongst others he has been in charge for Burda Digital where a variety of Internet companies have been built and acquired. Dr. Kallen...
Taryn Simon
"> Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her highly acclaimed and influential work, The Innocents, documents cases of wrongful conviction in the United States and investigates...
David de Rothschild
"> In 2005, David founded Adventure Ecology, an independently run organisation that uses adventure, education and the arts to address global sustainability issues. His commitment to the environment has sent him to some of the world’s most remote and fragile...
Christiane zu Salm
"> Christiane zu Salm is founder and CEO of About Change Ventures (ACV). ACV is an independent private equity fund which was founded in spring 2007. ACV offers growth capital for media content, internet, telecom and advertising companies. ACV focuses...
Ingo Griebl
"> Ingo Griebl (37) is Managing Director of Burda:ic, the PC online gaming subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media. As pan-European player, Burda:ic offers gaming products and builds up communities around hard core and mass market games. To date, over 1...
Jörg Rohleder
"> Born (1976) and raised in Stuttgart, Germany, Jörg Rohleder started writing at the early age of 17. During his years as a student of political science, history and literature in London and Tübingen he cultivated his skills as a...
Martin Kunz
"> Martin Kunz is head of the Science & Technology department of FOCUS News Magazine. He has a diploma in Physics from the Munich University of Applied Sciences and studied at the Georg von Holtzbrinck School of Journalism, Düsseldorf. He...
Greg Lynn
"> Greg Lynn is principal of Greg Lynn FORM, Lynn has taught throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to being a studio professor at UCLA he is the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University and o. Univ. Prof....
Morten Lund
"> Archangel investor, serial entrepreuneur, startup ideologist and visionary. Morten Lund has founded and/or co-invested in more than 40 high-tech start ups including Skype, the Internet phone startup bought by eBay for $2.6 billion. At 35 years of age, his...
Yat Siu
"> Yat began his technology career in 1990 at Atari Germany. He then moved on to Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor. In 1996, Yat moved to Hong Kong and established Hong Kong Cybercity, and in 1997,...
Vishal Gondal
"> In 1999, Vishal Gondal founded Indiagames, then a five member team. Today he leads a global operation with over 300 employees and offices in Mumbai, Beijing, London and Los Angeles, making Indiagames, India’s benchmark online and mobile games company...
Hans-Peter Siebenhaar
Born in 1962, Dr. Hans-Peter Siebenhaar has studied political sciences, dramatics and communication sciences, sociology and new history in Erlangen (Germany), Kalamazoo (USA) and Madrid (Spain). During his studies, he worked as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk and volunteered at...
René Obermann
René Obermann, born in March 1963 in Düsseldorf, Germany, has been Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Telekom since November 2006. From the end of 2002 to December 2006, he was CEO of T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG and the...
Richard Dawkins
"> Richard Dawkins FRS is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is the author of nine books: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986),...
J. Craig Venter
"> Founder, Chairman, and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), J. Craig Venter, PhD is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his contributions to genomic research. JCVI is a not-for-profit, research and...
Marc Samwer
"> Marc Samwer is the co-founder and Managing Director of the European Founders Fund, a leading venture capital & private equity firm Marc runs with his two brothers Oliver and Alexander. The Samwer brothers have started and built three of...
Reid Hoffmann
"> Reid was LinkedIn's founding CEO for the first four years before moving to his role as Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. While CEO, Reid built the company to over 9 million members and profitability; Linkedin now has...
Kevin Slavin
"> Kevin Slavin is the Managing Director and co-founder of area/code. Founded in 2005, area/code creates cross-media games and entertainment for clients including MTV, Nokia, CBS, Disney Imagineering, Discovery Networks, A&E Networks, and ad agencies like Cramer-Krasselt. Area/code builds on...
Ohad Eder Pressman
"> Ohad Eder Pressman is founder of 3D3R Software Studio, a provider of high-end services in the fields of software development, rapid prototyping and product design, and an incubator of new software technologies. Working with companies like Nokia, Yahoo and...
Jochen Wegner
"> Jochen Wegner is editor-in-chief of FOCUS Online, one of the most widely read German-language news sites with 3 million readers. Before that Wegner was deputy science editor of Focus News Magazine. He regularly published cover stories about online media,...
Bradley Horowitz
"> Bradley Horowitz, Vice President of Yahoo!'s Advanced Development Division, leads Yahoo!'s efforts in building innovative new ventures. Bradley leads programs such as Hack Yahoo!, Y! Agile, Brickhouse and Advanced Products. He has also championed acquisitions for Yahoo!, including Flickr...
H.E. Paul Kagame
H.E. Paul Kagame was born in October 1957 in Rwanda. He fled persecution and killing in Rwanda and became a refugee in Uganda in 1960. He attended a staff and command course at Fort Lavenworth, Kansas USA in 1990. In...
Esther Dyson
"> Esther Dyson (born 1951 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a journalist and commentator on emerging digital technology, a founding member of the digerati, an entrepreneur, and a philanthropist. Esther Dyson is the daughter of physicist Freeman Dyson and mathematician Verana...
Linda Avey
"> Linda has over 20 years of sales and business development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. Prior to starting 23andMe, she developed translational research collaborations with academic and pharmaceutical partners for...
Anne Wojcicki
"> Anne brings to 23andMe a 10-year background in healthcare investing, focused primarily on biotechnology companies. Anne left the investing world with the hope that she could have a positive impact on research and medicine through 23andMe. From her vantage...
Thomas Bayrle
"> The Frankfurt artist and prominent representative of German art, Thomas Bayrle, taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 1975 to 2002. He has received a number of awards and prizes, including the Prix...
Delia Cohen
"> Executive Director of Pangea Day, Delia was previously Director of Communications for the Clinton Global Initiative and also ran an 11-office department in the White House charged with handling public communications for President Clinton. Other recent projects include establishing...
Patrick Walker
"> Patrick joined Google in January 2006 to lead the development of content strategy and partnerships for Google Video in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has over 15 years of experience in the media industry, including his tenure...
Niklas Zennström
"> As an Internet entrepreneur, Niklas is one of Atomico's co-founders and partners. Previously, he also co-founded Joost, Skype and Kazaa, among others. He is also co-chairman of Joost and chairman of Skype. Through Atomico, Niklas serves as a Board...
Dina Kaplan
"> Dina Kaplan is the co-founder and COO of blip.tv. Dina oversees business operations for the company, including media partnerships, advertising and sponsorship deals, distribution deals, PR, marketing and investor relations. Blip.tv is an online television network featuring and promoting...
Sugata Mitra
"> Prof. Sugata Mitra works in the areas of Cognitive Science, Information Science and Educational Technology. He has been working in these areas, as well as Physics and Energy for more than 30 years. His contributions include a number of...
Antonio Rodriguez
"> Antonio Rodriguez is director of Research and Development for HP’s embedded web-to-print team within the company’s Imaging and Printing Group and is responsible for helping develop solutions that make printing from the web as easy as printing from the...
Yogev Triki
"> Yogev Triki is the mobile business operations manager of AtlasCT (Atlas Cartographic Technologies) Ltd., a leading provider of worldwide mapping and location-based solutions. He earned a B.A. in Computer Sciences and Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, which he...
Alex Willcock
"> Alex Willcock has a career spanning 15 years creatively developing some of the world's best brands. He sold his award winning design agency to embark on an idea to develop a universal language of communication and understanding. This led...
Samir Arora
"> Samir Arora co-founded distributed media company Glam Media to create a better way for brand advertisers to connect with the coveted female demographic on the Web. Today, Glam Media is the fastest-growing property on the Web, bringing together the...
Omar Hamoui
"> Omar is an entrepreneur with deep roots in the mobile industry. After earning a degree in Computer Science at UCLA, Omar founded and ran several companies in mobile software and services. At the time, he was frustrated by the...
Mattias Miksche
"> Mattias Miksche is the CEO and co-founder of Stardoll, an international fashion & entertainment community for teen and tween girls that attracts over 7 million unique users every month. Prior to Stardoll, he founded online DVD rental company Boxman...
Stanley Yang
"> Stanley Yang is Chief Executive Officer of NeuroSky, Inc., a bio-sensor company in Silicon Valley, California. NeuroSky has developed a revolutionary non-invasive neural communication sensor that converts brainwaves and other bio-signals into electronic signals for communication and control of...
Gerhard Florin
"> As Executive Vice President for EA Publishing in the Americas and Europe, Dr. Gerhard Florin oversees Publishing in all western world markets, with responsibility for sales, marketing and distribution of EA’s portfolio of products and services. Prior to that,...
Krister Linder
"> Artist/producer Krister Linder is one of the main players of the Swedish underground music scene. Linder has released numerous albums under different pseudonyms, ranging from instrumental ambient to nose-bleed techno. In Sweden, he’s known for his characteristic voice, strong...
Frank Briegmann
"> Frank Briegmann, President & CEO Universal Music Germany, began his career in the music industry at BMG in 1995 after studying business. After early work for BMG in the field of strategy, he switched in 1997 to the post...
Herbert Kohler
"> Dr. Herbert Kohler holds the positions of vice president, group research & advanced engineering vehicle and powertrain, Mercedes-Benz Car, and chief environmental officer for Daimler AG. In these roles, he is responsible for Daimler’s propulsion, body, materials and production...
Roby Stancel
"> As Director of Products at Nanosolar, Roby Stancel is responsible for product requirements and design, in order to make Nanosolar’s products and systems as revolutionary as the solar cells that go into them. Roby has helped create a wide...
Kazys Varnelis
"> Kazys Varnelis is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He researches and teaches courses on the impact of digital technology and communications networks on architecture and cities. A member...
Elizabeth Diller
"> Elizabeth Diller is a principal and co-founder of the inter-disciplinary studio, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. DS+R’s work encompasses architecture, urban design, temporary and permanent site-specific installations, multi-media theater, electronic media, and print. DS+R is currently working on various projects...
Karina Hollekim
"> Professional Free-skier and B.A.S.E. jumper, Karina Hollekim was born in 1976 and is still the only woman who ever completed a ski B.A.S.E. She is Norway’s only professional B.A.S.E. jumper and an exponent of B.A.S.E. jump aerials, including the...
Jason McCabe Calacanis
"> Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine. Prior to Mahalo.com's launch in May, 2007, he was an "Entrepreneur in Action" at Sequoia Capital, a position he held since December 2006. Jason co-founded...
Olaf Göttgens
"> Dr. Olaf Göttgens has been the Vice President in charge of Brand Communications for Mercedes-Benz Cars at Daimler AG since January 2006. In this capacity he is responsible for the brand management as well as for all marketing areas...
Richard Saul Wurman
"> Spurred by the dance between his curiosity & ignorance, Richard Saul Wurman has sought ways to make the complex clear. Although his 81 books appear to be on different subjects, i.e. travel, information theory, information architecture, health care, cartography,...
Neri Oxman
"> Neri Oxman is an architect and researcher whose work attempts to establish both new forms of experimental design and novel processes of material practice through the interface of design, computer science, structural engineering and biology. She is founder of...
Julian Bleecker
"> Julian Bleecker is co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory, a consultancy focusing on emerging and conceptual design-technology for new interactive experiences. He has spoken and exhibited at venues such as SIGGRAPH, Lift, Xerox PARC, Intel, and SK Telecom'’s Art...
Kati London
"> Kati London researches, designs, and develops technology for interactive crowdsource and disruptive experiences. Her work includes hardware for networking plants and people (Botanicalls), game structures that connect residents of Gaza City and Tel Aviv or Baghdad and New York...
Peter Hirshberg
"> Peter Hirshberg is an entrepreneur and marketing innovator who has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 20 years. He is a Trustee of The Computer History Museum and a Henry...
Clay Shirky
"> Clay Shirky studies the way communications tools alter or amplify social life; his current work is on large-scale collaborative networks. Mr. Shirky is on the faculty at NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program and has worked as an advisor or...
Marissa Mayer
"> As Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, Marissa Mayer leads the product management efforts on Google's search products – web search, images, news, Google Earth, Google Desktop, Google Labs and more. She joined Google in 1999 as...
Shai Agassi
"> Shai Agassi is the founder and CEO of Better PLC, a new infrastructure creator and operator for the management of country-wide electric vehicle fleets. Better PLC works with governments, carmakers, and financial institutes creating a large scale framework for...
Adam Bly
"> Adam Bly drives Seed Media Group’s overall business and content strategy. At 16, he became the youngest researcher at the National Research Council (NRC) Canada. While at NRC, Adam identified a cultural shift in the making and set out...
Matthew Ritchie
"> In 2001, Time magazine listed Ritchie as one of the 100 innovators for the next Millennium, for his exploration of “the unthinkable or the not-yet-thought.” His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide, including the Whitney Biennial, the...
Hèctor Parra
"> Born in 1976, Hèctor Parra studied at the Conservatorium of Barcelona, where he was awarded Prizes with Distinction in Composition and Piano. He holds a Master of Composition from the Paris-VIII University, Annual Cursus on Composition from IRCAM, and...
Naomi Campbell
"> In 2007, Naomi Campbell celebrated 21 years since she began modelling. Within this time, she has further defined herself as a business woman, launching the first ever celebrity perfume nine years ago, as well as supporting a variety of...
Akram Zaatari
"> Born in Saida, Lebanon in 1966, Akram Zaatari is an artist who lives and works in Beirut. Author of more than 40 videos, Zaatari has been exploring issues pertinent to postwar Lebanon. Collector of testimonies on Lebanon’s social constrains,...
Cao Fei
"> Born in 1978 in Guangzhou, Cao Fei now lives and works in Beijing. Cao Fei graduated from the Affiliated Middle School of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, also obtaining her BFA degree here. She has been working with multimedia...
Suranga Chandratillake
"> Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx, is a technology innovator with over seven years of frontline experience. Prior to founding blinkx, Suranga was the U.S. CTO for Autonomy Corporation, a Cambridge-based technology company. He has also worked for...
Daniel Dubno
"> Daniel Dubno is a pioneer in the use of powerful graphic technologies, satellite imagery, and visualization tools for news coverage. Until recently he was producer and technologist for CBS News in New York, where he coordinated Special Events Unit...
Chuck Hoberman
"> Known internationally for his Transformable Structures, Chuck Hoberman is an inventor whose work demonstrates how objects are foldable, retractable, or shape-shifting. Such capabilities lead to functional benefits: portability, instantaneous opening, and intelligent responsiveness within the built environment. Examples of...
Pablos Holman
"> Pablos is a futurist, inventor, and notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies. At Komposite, Pablos is implementing science fiction with invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies. Pablos has created thigh...
Linda Stone
"> Widely recognized as a visionary thinker and thought leader, Linda Stone is a writer, speaker and consultant focused on trends and their strategic and consumer implications. Previously, she spent close to twenty years as an executive in high technology....
Brent Hoberman
"> Brent Hoberman co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998 with Martha Lane Fox. As CEO, Brent increased profits substantially, with gross bookings of over $2bn. The company floated in March 2000 when the dot-com bubble was at its peak - the...
Addy Feuerstein
"> An interactive media designer, consultant and teacher, Addy Feuerstein has designed and implemented user interface for games, websites, and desktop applications for various companies and institutions, including MeeVee, WebCollage, I.P. Planet and Cyota. Addy has also worked at Zapa...