DLD Munich 2022
as the organisers put it
All about DLD Munich 2022 on one page: speakers, DLD talks, articles and more. DLD is Europe’s leading innovation conference. Have a look!
who it's for
founders and chief executives, corporate innovation leaders, investors and venture capitalists, policy makers and regulators, climate and sustainability leads, researchers in quantum and AI, media executives and journalists, game and web3 developers
topics
quantum computing for climate; sustainable aviation fuels; protein folding and drug discovery; metaverse interoperability and virtual goods; blockchain gaming and NFTs; digital sovereignty and data localization; AI-driven drug development; cybersecurity in the quantum era; food tech and agricultural data; warehouse robotics and logistics
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Speed & Scale: Accelerating the Transformation of Our Economy | Markus Haas, Tanit Koch | 21m |
Argues that crises prove rapid change is possible — processes that normally take years can happen in days if prioritized; cites 99.5% of mobile sites already… | ||
| AI Is Built to Be Applied | Colin Murdoch, Steffi Czerny | 14m |
DeepMind claims AlphaFold predicts three‑dimensional protein structures, shrinking a years‑and‑millions problem to millions of proteins in minutes, with direct… | ||
| Limits and Beyond | Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 17m |
Argues civilization is at real risk of collapse because the 1972 limits to growth models largely track current tipping points, citing IPCC findings, Earth for… | ||
| Can the Sky Be Green? | Sandrine Dixon-Declève, Christina Foerster, Felicitas von Peter | 17m |
Global CO2 emissions have doubled since 1980 and the safe budget allows roughly one Frankfurt–Rome round trip per person per year to stay under 1.5°C… | ||
| Welcome | Steffi Czerny, Yossi Vardi | 15m |
Conference reopens after two years of screens with the theme Reality Rules, arguing that tech (crypto, virtual worlds, AI, quantum, web3, biosciences) collides… | ||
| A Welcome from Hubert Burda Media | Martin Weiss | 07m |
New Burda Media CEO introduces presence at DLD, notes 15 years of attendance and longterm industry partners like Lufthansa and O2 who back the event. Cites… | ||
| Qbits for Climate: How Quantum Computing Can Have a Gigaton Impact on Decarbonization | Deborah Berebichez, Philipp Ernst, Hildegard Müller, Jeremy O'Brien, Markus Pflitsch | 30m |
McKinsey screens 150 use cases down to about 20–30 climate-critical problems, estimating roughly 7 gigatons/year impact from ten high‑value applications (≈20%… | ||
| Earning Trust and Building Courage | Belén Garijo, Steffi Czerny | 19m |
Merck is a 350-year-old science and technology company operating in life science (biologics, vaccines, gene therapy manufacturing), pharma, and electronics… | ||
| Crossing the Border | Karim Kaddoura, Romain Moulin, Maurice Lévy | 21m |
A warehouse system controls up to 500 robots that climb racking and bring bins to humans, boosting picker throughput roughly fivefold by removing kilometers of… | ||
| Digital Bavaria | Judith Gerlach | 10m |
Calls for a new Bavarian digital policy that pairs values with tech: cites vaccine development at record speed, local research hubs like fraunhofer and max… | ||
| Gaming: The Blueprint for the Metaverse | Joost van Dreunen, Robby Yung | 16m |
Gaming already makes $200 billion industry claims and reaches 5 billion gamers, largely via mobile, and blockchain is presented as the layer that actually… | ||
| Innovation in Music Publishing | Troy Carter, Vérité | 17m |
Argues music is drastically underpriced — streaming yields a little less than four tenths of a cent per stream while pizza, virtual Roblox items and fine art… | ||
| Creating Human-Centric Cars with Tech Magic | Frank Weber, Steffi Czerny | 17m |
BMW shows a production i7 with a 100 kilowatt hour battery built from cells produced on green electricity, claiming about 600 kilometers typical range and… | ||
| Climate Change: Technology as a Catalyst for Climate Action | Sabine Klauke, David Kirkpatrick, Werner Vogels | 23m |
Claim: moving corporate compute to AWS can improve the carbon efficiency of workloads by 80% because average on-prem utilization sits around 15–50% while AWS… | ||
| The Geek Way: How to Run a Company in the 21st Century | Andrew McAfee | 19m |
Argues that industrial incumbents lose when confronted with people who go deep on problems and care nothing for the status quo, then shows concrete evidence: a… | ||
| Welcome Back | Steffi Czerny, Yossi Vardi | 08m |
An opening celebrates the return to in-person events after Zoom, arguing that live formats recreate an unmanufacturable social aura and detailing concrete… | ||
| The Digital Decade - All. Together. Now. | Angie Gifford, Hannah Helmke | 18m |
Digitization can halve CO2 emissions by 2030 if companies adopt the right tools, the EU sets concrete targets (90% use AI/cloud; double unicorns; 75% SMEs… | ||
| Web3: The Next Internet or Just Hype? | Ingo Rübe, Mark Cachia, Mike Butcher | 17m |
Claims that web3 moves identity and ownership from companies down to the protocol layer, illustrated by KILT Protocol identity, and that transactions run on… | ||
| Digital Bosphorus – the Turkish Innovation Ecosystem | Karsli, Sirinoglu, Sertaç Taşdelen, Sina Afra | 29m |
Turkey now has six unicorns in three years and a tight loop from exits to new startups: a former exit yields talent, dozens of gaming teams spin out and one… | ||
| Beautiful Numbers | Stefan Sagmeister | 18m |
Data from the UN and World Bank are used to make specific claims: democracy grows from one country in 1822 to 97 democracies worldwide, child mortality in one… | ||
| Global or Nothing? How Unicorns Can Develop in Small Countries | Simona Huebl, Philippe Sahli, Philipp Werr, Nikolaus Pelinka | 30m |
Yokoy secures $80 million Series B led by Sequoia to scale a spend-management platform aiming for 400% year‑over‑year growth by expanding early; COPA‑DATA… | ||
| How Emerging Tech Is Forging a Path to an Intelligent Future | Andrew McAfee, Ken Moore, Mark Rolston | 26m |
Full metaverse isn’t here yet and the earliest concrete piece people wear today is Ray‑Ban Facebook glasses that record short POV video, metaverse timelines… | ||
| The View from Mosul Eye: How to Teach Citizen Journalism | Agatha Gorski, Omar Mohammed, Andrian Kreye | 24m |
Reports from Mosul Eye claim a daily English feed that publishes daily in English to reach a global audience, documents airstrikes and abuses, and spurs local… | ||
| Is Democracy an Endangered Species? | Moises Naim, Matthew Bishop | 20m |
Claim: the share of people living in fully functioning democracies falls from two in five to one in five over a decade, driven by leaders who win elections… | ||
| The Metaverse and the Next Pattern of Computing | Mark Rolston | 06m |
Argues that the next pattern of computing is a computing layer on top of life that overlays digital data onto physical places, demonstrated with dev‑kit AR… | ||
| Fueling the Flames? Europe’s Energy Dependence on Russia | Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica, Sven Mikser, Oleksii “Alex” Riabchyn, Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook | 43m |
EU leaders debate a sixth sanctions package including an oil embargo while one member state blocks consensus, and Russia continues cutting supplies (recently… | ||
| Building the Europe ASEAN Bridge | Luca Bovone, Julien Mialaret, Neil Fong | 23m |
Argues that combining Europe and ASEAN creates a market with city metrics rivaling the US and China and that $1 of capital in Europe/SEA can outperform… | ||
| On The Path to Net Zero | Michael Diederich, Peter Körte, Cristiana Falcone | 22m |
Companies quantify a phone’s lifecycle as 50 kg per phone lifecycle (about 60% manufacturing, 30% use, 8% logistics, 1–2% recycling) and note 1.5 billion… | ||
| Accelerating Clean Tech | Philipp Furler, Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Jennifer Schenker, Heike Freund, Ann Mettler | 39m |
European clean tech needs capital and customers now: a €300 billion by 2030 RePowerEU push meets claims of a $65M fusion scale-up using laser-based fusion… | ||
| Update on China | Li Xin, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Ning Zhu | 19m |
China of 1.4 billion people now has an economy larger than Japan, Germany, the UK and India combined and GDP per capita above $12,000, and the talk lays out… | ||
| Show: The Voice from Kazakhstan | Dimash Kudaibergen | 21m |
Performs at DLD Munich 2022 with a live set that mixes pop and Kazakh tradition, claiming an eight-octave range and a global following of millions. Starts with… | ||
| Talk: The Voice from Kazakhstan | Dimash Kudaibergen, Ralph Simon | 15m |
A rousing live performance showcases a claimed eight octaves vocal range, followed by a backstage exchange that explains sudden China fame from a Hunan TV… | ||
| Working Against Predictability | Christoph Niemann, Iyad Rahwan | 16m |
Projects described include Moral Machine, a crowdsourced trolley-style web experiment that collects tens of millions of moral choices about self‑driving car… | ||
| The Virtual Is Real: Ending Online Violence | Natalia Kanem, Katja Wildermuth, Tanit Koch, Nicole Diekmann | 31m |
UNFPA announces a bodyrights campaign and shows a b in a circle symbol to push platforms to remove intimate or hateful content immediately, arguing copyright… | ||
| Cybersecurity in the Age of Quantum | Dorit Dor, Jan Goetz, Gabi Dreo Rodosek | 21m |
Claims that quantum will break today's public‑key crypto sit alongside the concrete response: a post‑quantum standard from NIST and immediate industry… | ||
| Shaping Transformation Through Responsible Leadership | Steffi Czerny, Sarah Spiekermann, Ilka Horstmeier | 22m |
A six‑year effort yields an IEEE value model that ISO agrees to embrace, developed with ~30 experts and ~100 endorsers and pitched to 420,000 engineers; it… | ||
| Insurance Companies: Last Defense vs.Climate Change? | Vishaal Bhuyan, Shiber, Stephen Weinstein, Ellen Jorgensen | 25m |
Climate-related insured losses total hundreds of billions annually and reinsurers report growing tail risk and correlation that makes extreme events costlier… | ||
| Microdosing the Economy | Andreas Liebl, Daniela Gerd tom Markotten, Alexandra Mousavizadeh | 22m |
An AI system recommends the sequence of trains in real-time sequencing and predicts the next 5–10 minutes, leaving humans to confirm decisions, with >90%… | ||
| The Role of Media in Volatile Times | Rebecca Blumenstein, Yossi Vardi | 19m |
A newsroom builds a COVID data tracker that becomes one of its most trafficked projects, running five simultaneous live briefings and compiling state-by-state… | ||
| Disrupting Mobility and Building the Autonomy Economy | Qasar Younis, Greg Williams | 16m |
Claim: getting self driving cars on roads is now an engineering problem, not a lab mystery, because sensors, maps and tooling scale down costs. Applied… | ||
| Machine Hallucinations | Refik Anadol | 14m |
A studio builds immersive data artworks that train 100+ AI models on public archives and use real inputs—113 million images for a New York installation, NASA… | ||
| Global AI Index | Alexandra Mousavizadeh | 15m |
A global ranking built from about 150 indicators across code repositories, Kaggle, hackathons, funding and policy produces scores for 62 nations and currently… | ||
| Art, Markets & Disruption: A Seismographic Journey to NFTs | Rafael Rozendaal, Emily Segal, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Refik Anadol | 20m |
A publisher uses Mirror to crowdfund a novel, raising a fantastic advance funded in 13 hours by 104 people and issuing a token called Novel, positioning Burn… | ||
| Changing Education | Taavet Hinrikus, Karin Künnapas, Gabi Zedlmayer | 22m |
Argues that traditional degrees often fail to deliver job-ready skills and shows two concrete responses: University of the People — tuition free, 120,000… | ||
| Post-Scale Era Media | Brian Morrissey | 13m |
Argues that publishers lose to platforms because advertising became a “math problem”: clicks, impressions and detached audience data hand power to… | ||
| Controlled Environment Agriculture-Tech to Feed the World | Marc Oshima, Lauren Kiel, Alexander Gerfer, Ryan Archer | 25m |
Controlled-environment setups prove concrete: enclosed greenhouses and vertical farms grow tomatoes year-round in Abu Dhabi despite a five-month open-field… | ||
| Revolutionizing Giving: Launching bcause | Lukas Bosch, Felix Oldenburg | 18m |
A fintech platform called project bcause launches a fully functioning beta: a digital foundation that users can set up in under five minutes, deposit funds… | ||
| From WhatsApp to HalloApp: A Journey | Neeraj Arora, Jannis Brühl | 18m |
Built as a reaction to ad-driven networks, HalloApp is a private social feed that connects only via your address book, shows posts to friends rather than… | ||
| Why Food Tech Matters: Finding Value in Data | Alon Chen, Christian Teichmann | 14m |
Global food systems waste ~30% of production and concentrate 60–70% of commodities in six “bread baskets,” while 1.3 billion tons go unused yearly; companies… | ||
| In the Tired Watering | Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Jota Mombaça | 21m |
Performance stages a climate claim: water “speaks” and rising seas are imminent, using a written sonic composition, communal rhythmic chants and an unraveling… | ||
| Why We Need a Food Revolution | Katelijne Bekers, Mazen Rizk, Raffael Wohlgensinger, Christophe Maire | 24m |
Food systems produce roughly 26% of man-made emissions and startups demonstrate concrete fixes: Microharvest feeds agricultural runoff to bacteria that are… | ||
| The Untold Story of Space | Kara Swisher, Will Marshall | 22m |
Planet operates roughly 200 satellites that image the entire Earth landmass once per day plus ~20 higher-resolution craft that can zoom to 50 centimeter… | ||
| Building Crypto Solutions | Bo Bai, Christian Teichmann, Simon Leicht | 23m |
An exchange mandates carbon disclosure and issues NFT-backed carbon credits on Ethereum that combine an immutable NFT with a live digital twin (an NFDT) to… | ||
| Aenne Burda Award Ceremony | Martin Weiss, Andrea Pfeifer, Jennifer Schenker, Lisa Furtwängler | 18m |
Announcement claims diagnostics can detect Alzheimer’s biomarkers 10 to 20 years before symptoms, AC Immune reports a first image of a human brain carrying the… | ||
| Next Level Quantum | Jack D. Hidary, Jim Breyer | 16m |
Claims that store now decrypt later attacks are already underway and that migration to post-quantum cryptography is urgent, with experts projecting risk within… | ||
| No One is an Island | Hannes Koch | 15m |
A live prototype asks forty volunteers to become a human algorithm using simple embodied rules: one step per beat, keep at least half an arm’s length, look at… | ||
| Things That A Human Brain Has A Hard Time Thinking About | Moran Cerf | 24m |
Project applies neuroscience to nuclear decision protocols, training minds to notice rare threats by planting dummy suitcases in TSA x‑ray flows and running a… | ||
| Gaming Agency | Alexander Kluge, Gabriel Massan, Hans-Ulrich Obrist | 39m |
Claims: artists build playable worlds with XR and game engines, not just videogame skins. Projects shown include an XR series imagining morphic angels in 500… | ||
| Psychedelic Coming to the Workplace | Demian Bellumio, Keith Ferrazzi, Anne Philippi | 18m |
Companies describe deploying FDA‑approved ketamine via telehealth with 40,000 at-home treatments delivered and a tracked cohort of 640 treatment‑resistant… | ||
| The Urgent Invisible | Elizabeth Caley, Ari Gesher, Kevin Slavin | 25m |
Airborne pathogens and fossil-fuel leaks become measurable with concrete systems and hard numbers: an airplane-mounted spectrometer suite maps methane plumes… | ||
| Welcome Back | Steffi Czerny | 04m |
Asserts that face to face connections and clear communication matter more than content alone, with practical takeaways on get to know the people and concrete… | ||
| What Needs to Change in Education: An Entrepreneur's View | Stefan Vilsmeier | 14m |
Company buys Level X acquisition and embeds gaming tech into surgical and radiology training, claiming faster adoption by “rewiring” users. Practical builds… | ||
| Changing Education Patterns | Bettina Stark-Watzinger | 12m |
Argues Germany faces a skills shift backed by numbers: 80% of executives say data literacy will matter as much as basic computer skills while only 7% rate… | ||
| Disrupting Education | Felix Ohswald, Jeanne Rubner, Michael John Gorman, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Fabiana Bertram | 31m |
Panel argues schools must teach measurable competences not just facts, and lays out concrete moves: certify classroom apps to solve data protection hurdles… | ||
| Eradicating Greenwashing | David Kirkpatrick, Kristian Rönn | 19m |
Company-built carbon accounting engine from 2014 that measures full operational and value-chain emissions and then tracks action plans and follow-ups, finding… | ||
| Friends of Water | Lakshmi Pratury | 09m |
Community Pure Water deploys village RO stations run by trained local entrepreneurs and already reaches 650,000 people served, selling very cheap clean water… | ||
| Future Cities: The Intersection of the Natural & the Artificial | Carlo Ratti, Andrian Kreye | 18m |
Presents a specific MIT preprint that monitors an anonymized MIT email network and shows measurable shrinkage of cross‑community connections: weak ties… | ||
| Biodiversity: A Call to Action | Heribert Hofer | 14m |
Biodiversity loss proceeds at roughly 100 times the rate of past mass extinctions, driven by overexploitation, invasive species, pathogens and habitat… | ||
| Technology: A Changemaker in Environmental Protection | Topher White | 17m |
Deploys old smartphones with solar panels and powerful microphones up in canopy trees, streams audio to the cloud, and runs AI audio models that flag… | ||
| Building Software out of Europe | Hanno Renner, Alexander Rinke, John Thornhill | 20m |
Two European SaaS businesses report concrete wins and constraints: one reaches a >$11B valuation by selling process mining that finds unseen inefficiencies and… | ||
| German Angst? How to Build a Strong Tech Economy | zu Fürstenberg, Christian Miele, Ina Fried | 27m |
Europe’s startup economy already shows measurable wins: 400,000 direct, 1.3 million indirect startup jobs and a claim that six of ten VC vintages outperformed… | ||
| One Ukraine: A Call to Action | Markus Fuhrmann, Viktoriya Tigipko | 18m |
An entrepreneur-led coalition reports almost 8,000 evacuated and €4M+ in emergency aid, runs a volunteer-driven cash program that claims 1K project raised… | ||
| Our Autonomous Future | Ron Agam, Noam Perski | 18m |
Companies SAP Signavio and Palantir describe how combining epidemiological models, hospital resource models and supply-consumption models powered an NHS… | ||
| The Promise of Crypto? | Andrew Keen | 19m |
Claims that blockchain creates a public ledger and trustless, peer-to-peer money are tested against concrete failures: many retail investors lose large sums… | ||
| Disrupting Strategies: Innovative Approaches to Investing | Eva-Valérie Gfrerer, Andreas Liebl, Joshua Browder, Michele Romanow | 24m |
Clearco pitches a revenue‑share: 5–10% of revenue until capital plus 6% instead of equity, has deployed nearly $4 billion into over 9,000 founders across 10… | ||
| The Future of Well-Being | Nina Gualinga, Sumayya Vally, de Kroon, Moran Cerf, Mikolaj Sekutowicz | 28m |
Global wellness is a $4.5 trillion market but data link city design to health outcomes: 14× higher severe COVID risk with vitamin D deficiency driven by urban… | ||
| Building Tech for Female Health | Audrey Tsang, Kimon Angelides | 22m |
Clue reports 12 million monthly users and a dataset of 240 million periods tracked totalling 10 billion data points, and uses that scale to build a digital… | ||
| Africa Is Building Tech for the Real Economy | Fatoumata Ba, Ben-Jilani, Stephan-Eloïse Gras | 24m |
Africa raises $5 billion in 2021 for tech startups while over 90% of startups find no financing; mobile-first solutions target a cash-dominant economy (about… | ||
| News in Drug Development & AI | Yaakov Nahmias, Stefan Oschmann | 17m |
Tissue Dynamics combines organ-on-chip 3D human microtissues with internal sensors and robotics to run 20,000 microtissues in parallel, claim automated lead… | ||
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