DLD Munich 25
2025-01-16..2025-01-18
Munich, Germany
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Conference Highlights | 03m | |
Claims that AI will shift most people from individual contributors to manager of AI roles and that AI-driven discoveries will create new products, jobs and… | ||
| AI Foundations: The Power of Infrastructure | Vladimir Volozh, Jennifer Schenker | 17m |
Nebius relaunches after divesting Yandex assets and secures $700M investment from Nvidia and Excel, spins up full‑stack AI infrastructure (proprietary racks… | ||
| Psychology of AI | Michal Kosinski | 17m |
Claims that LLMs trained only to predict the next word nonetheless acquire real world and psychological reasoning and can solve false belief tests that… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Robert Habeck, Andrew McAfee | 22m |
Germany’s economy shrinks two years running driven by half of gas from Russia, half of coal and one‑third of oil pre‑2022, and heavy export dependence (≈50% of… | ||
| on the AI Dilemma | Tristan Harris | 15m |
Argues that rapid AI rollout creates a Jenga tower of future where flashy capabilities (deepfakes, AI biology, voice cloning) sit atop removed foundations like… | ||
| The AI Dilemma — Steering towards a More Humane Future | Jacob Burda, Tristan Harris | 23m |
Argues that AI mirrors social media’s race to recklessness by prioritizing speed and market dominance over safety, using a Jenga analogy where advances like… | ||
| Keynote | Robert Habeck | 17m |
Argues liberal democracy faces a geopolitical and technological squeeze: Russia’s invasion is framed as an attack on democratic freedom, climate change is a… | ||
| Fusion Future: A New Era of Energy | Bob Mumgaard | 12m |
Commonwealth Fusion Systems lays out concrete milestones: build SPARC, a 70%‑scale prototype that’s predicted to produce 10x net gain prediction and run within… | ||
| Beyond LLMs - The Next Frontier of Machine Reasoning | Shravan Nageswaran | 16m |
Claims a new reasoning engine from Atman Labs combines a knowledge graph built from Wikipedia and CIA factbook data with a trained reinforcement learning agent… | ||
| Sentient AI – Can We Create Artificial Consciousness? | Anil Seth | 21m |
Argues that intelligence ≠ consciousness: current AIs (language models like Claude or Lambda) can confabulate but do not prove experience; brains are not mere… | ||
| How to Create a Future Positive AI World | Bill Gross | 19m |
Claims a workable system called ProRata that measures how much each source contributes to a generative-AI output and pays creators a 50-50 revenue share… | ||
| Die Maschine | Friedrich Liechtenstein | 08m |
A short live performance mixes original chant, looping music and audience call‑and‑response to test a single claim: the machine is culturally desirable —… | ||
| Highlights Day Three | 01m | |
A brief highlights reel that mostly strings together crowd reactions and stage moments from three days of DLD, with repeated applause and music and a short… | ||
| Highlights Day One | 01m | |
Compilation of short, upbeat excerpts from past DLD conferences that prioritizes atmosphere over detail, with cinematic cuts and a music-backed montage of… | ||
| Private Communication, Human Agency, and Trust | Kenneth Cukier, Meredith Whittaker | 19m |
Salt Typhoon steals minute location, account and call metadata from telecom back doors, affecting millions of US users and high‑value targets, which prompts… | ||
| Sovereignty and Competitiveness: Why EuroStack is Europe's Moment | Francesca Bria, Renate Nikolay, Niko Mohr, Marc Al-Hames, Hubert Burda Media, Sebastian Wossagk, David Hahn, Thorsten Heilig, Felix Hoffmann | 27m |
Argues for a pan‑European technology infrastructure called EuroStack backed by focused investment not diffuse grants, proposes seven pilot AI factories tied to… | ||
| Organoid Computing – Can Nature Save AI? | Fred Jordan, Andrian Kreye | 21m |
FinalSpark claims living clusters of human neurons act as processors, using about 30-watt light bulb energy versus the “small town” draw of large AI; each… | ||
| Food for Thought | Luisa Neubauer | 22m |
Millions marched 2019–22 but momentum fades into a new polycrisis era where climate escalation worsens food, security and democracy. Claim: unchecked climate… | ||
| Highlights Day Two | 01m | |
Rapid-fire highlights stitch together short segments featuring a mix of artists, activists, technologists and politicians, with onstage moments calling out… | ||
| Biology's ChatGPT Moment | Thomas Clozel, Christina Nesheva, Azeem Azhar, Edward Shenderovich | 25m |
Claims a $30 trillion bioeconomy by 2050 and public commitments like L’Oréal reformulating by 2030, backed by ~ $50 billion/year in biomanufacturing… | ||
| The Psychedelic Renaissance and How It Will Transform Health Care | Jurvetson, Anne Philippi | 27m |
Claims that ibogaine for opioid addiction saves lives and that MDMA could win FDA approval soon are backed here by a family tragedy turned foundation and by… | ||
| An Ocean Away, A World Apart: Tech Ecosystems in the US and EU | Andrew McAfee | 12m |
Europe spends about 88 vs 100 in U.S. government R&D funding (per capita higher), yet venture capital is only about 20% of U.S. levels, total unicorn value… | ||
| Le Freak! 6 Decades of Hit-Making | Nile Rodgers, Ralph Simon | 30m |
Explains the songwriting rule called Deep Hidden Meaning and traces a literal origin story: a Studio 54 rejection sparks the lyric for “Le Freak.” Describes… | ||
| Challenge Impossible: Lessons Learned From 15 Years of Moonshot Taking | Astro Teller, Greg Williams | 18m |
Defines a moonshot as a three-part moonshot test: a huge problem, a science‑fiction solution, and breakthrough tech, and runs projects by cheap early… | ||
| Creating Spaces for Human Passion in a Tech-Driven World | Haseeb Iqbal | 18m |
Sets up residencies at Tate Modern called Beats and Boards and at 180 Studios using the OJ sound system, runs listening sessions that start at about 40… | ||
| Shaping Tomorrow: Tech Trends Driving Positive Change in 2025 and Beyond | Werner Vogels | 26m |
Three concrete predictions: hiring shifts as younger workers value purpose over pay with surveys showing willingness to accept 20–40% salary cuts for… | ||
| Answers. Agents. AGI. | Jochen Wegner, Richard Socher | 20m |
A roadmap from You.com: a concrete bet (robotic maid, fully AI translation of a prize book, a Millennium Prize math solution) frames expectations about AGI… | ||
| Building a New Foundation Model | Björn Ommer | 21m |
Proposes building a foundation model for Bavaria—a multimodal, generalist AI that is open, legally compliant and meant to be a springboard for academia… | ||
| Glocalisation - Who's listening? | Will Page | 25m |
Argues glocalisation is real using an exclusive Spotify, YouTube and Illuminate dataset: German artists make up over a third of their market, German acts bulge… | ||
| AI for Progress | Carl Benedikt Frey | 11m |
Claim: AI will only revive growth if it creates new industries rather than just automating old ones. Evidence offered includes the Rolls Royce under $3 thought… | ||
| A New Frontier in Cancer Treatment | Cyriac Roeding | 24m |
Claims a platform that engineers cancer cells with a synthetic promoter delivered by a non‑viral nanoplasmid so malignant cells "turn on" and produce either a… | ||
| Energy & Progress | Albert Wenger | 15m |
Argues that economic development requires far more energy, claiming no wealthy low-energy country exists and labeling current policy a “low energy trap.”… | ||
| Building a Unicorn – a personal Journey | Sacha Dragic, Marc Samwer | 24m |
Superbet grows from a Romanian retail chain into a global sports‑betting group by building in‑house tech, obsessing over customer service and testing before… | ||
| The AI Threat to Content Creators and the Web and What We Can Do About It | Matthew Prince, Jochen Wegner | 20m |
Cloudflare claims the network handles roughly 20% of the web and runs a distributed AI inference network while offering free tools that let creators block or… | ||
| Future Positive – or Not? Tech for Sustainable Mobility | Herbert Diess, Maja Göpel, Andreas Urschitz, Markus Lienkamp | 44m |
Panel argues battery EVs are the only scalable solution, citing 5% EV share in Germany and 380,000 new EVs in 2024 versus 50% in China and 100% in Norway… | ||
| Agentic AI – What's Next? | Andreas Liebl, Sebastian Küpers, Eli Varn | 33m |
Burda deploys an enterprise platform called AIssist platform used by 1,800 employees to chain Whisper transcription, DeepL translation and image models into… | ||
| Redefining Intelligence: How Reasoning Is Re-Shaping AI in 2025 | Colin Jarvis | 19m |
Claims that 2025 is the year of the agent and demonstrates OpenAI’s o1 family models that think before they speak, using test‑time computation instead of… | ||
| Towards a Resilient Europe: Innovations in Defence and Security | Klaus Hommels | 19m |
Europe lacks strategic autonomy and shows concrete shortfalls: 4–5 days of ammunition, 18,000 → 3,000 tanks and 3,600 → ~1,000 combat aircraft since 1992, and… | ||
| The Future of AI and Digitally Enabled Health & Medicine: What's Next | Daniel Kraft | 22m |
AI agents already pass medical exams more reliably than many clinicians and chart notes autonomously, generative models produce art and video and power AI… | ||
| AI: Common Misperceptions and Uncommon Perceptions | Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi | 16m |
Claims AI is still underappreciated short term because current large language models train the next generation — “LLM squared”, transformers (2017) are the… | ||
| Artificially Intelligent | Martin Puchner | 16m |
Argues that AI’s roots run through papyrus-enabled cognitive offloading in ancient Egypt and the Indian invention of zero and early algebra, traces the word… | ||
| Harnessing AI: Business Impact Beyond 2025 | Sachin Dev Duggal, Eva Lihotzky, Ian Edwards | 20m |
Claims that AI is removing human variability and causing loss of tasks not jobs with concrete results: a knowledge graph detects healthcare billing rings and… | ||
| Human-centered AI | Ina Fried, James A. Landay | 17m |
Argues that traditional user-centered design is insufficient and proposes community-centered design to catch stakeholders beyond direct users; warns large… | ||
| Younger Tomorrow! The Age of Longevity | Chris Mirabile, Marco Iannaccone, Nina Ruge | 21m |
Claims a 37% slowed biological age based on an average of more than six epigenetic clocks, a metabolomic clock (≈650 biomarkers) and physiological tests, and… | ||
| How to Save Democracy from Tech | Gary Marcus, Matthew Bishop, Marietje Schaake | 23m |
Tech oligarchs sit beside incoming power and already steer policy, with satellites and undersea cables privatized and campaign money shaping contracts and… | ||
| The Age of AI Agents | Andreas Hufenstuhl, Nancy Xu, Azeem Azhar, Llion Jones | 20m |
Claims that Moonhub’s AI recruiter can screen and engage ~10,000 candidates at once, and that Sakana’s AI scientist pipeline goes from idea → code → run → fix… | ||
| Understanding the Blockchain Revolution and the Value Proposition of Tokens | Yat Siu | 16m |
Claims concrete numbers and mechanics: a 3.8 trillion market with $100–200 billion traded daily, 220 million monthly on‑chain users and 500 million token… | ||
| Quantum Marketing: Marketing Reimagined | Raja Rajamannar, Diane Brady | 30m |
Claims that legacy marketing theory is obsolete, backed by concrete figures: consumers see 3,000–10,000 ads a day and have an attention span < goldfish… | ||
| Walking in my Shoes - Defining a New Era in Footwear | Cornelius Schmitt, Steffi Czerny, Gina Lisa Pfabe | 25m |
Company prints fully wearable sneakers from a single filament using 3D printers, claiming single-material recyclable shoes with no glue or stitches that can be… | ||
| The North Pole – History of an Obsession | Erling Kagge | 18m |
Geography and myth collide: the compass needle points south at the top of the globe, 400 years of attempts precede modern reach, and one expedition skis… | ||
| The Decade Ahead: Two Scientists’ Visions for the Future of Technology | Sandra Matz, Moran Cerf | 20m |
Columbia researchers describe concrete interventions: passive smartphone tracking to flag behavioral changes, a claim of 13 mental‑health professionals per… | ||
| The Future is Enhanced - How Sports, Longevity and Health Are Changing Now | Christian Angermayer, Anne Philippi | 27m |
Claims a new sports event, Enhanced Games, will endorse FDA‑approved medical performance enhancers under three rules: pharmacy‑grade drugs only, a named… | ||
| What´s your Legacy? How to Be a Good Ancestor | Roman Krznaric, Ruby Reed | 34m |
Argues modern decision-making suffers a “tyranny of the now” and offers concrete fixes: cathedral thinking (19th‑century London sewers built twice‑oversize by… | ||
| Materials Reimagined: Plastic, Steel and Cocoa | Michael Kingsbury, Sara Marquart, Christoph Zinsser, Christian Teichmann | 21m |
Seaweed-derived PHA pellets claim to replace fossil plastics while being biodegradable and carbon-negative, processed on existing injection-molding and… | ||
| Charting the Future: A New Vision for Media & Marketing | Edelman, Fischer | 17m |
Business becomes the most trusted institution during COVID and now pivots away from equity toward opportunity not outcome; the firm gives its entire workforce… | ||
| New Energy in Europe – We Make It Work | Fabienne Serfaty, Victoria Ossadnik | 27m |
XLinks is building a 4,000 km HVDC subsea interconnector carrying 70% solar / 30% wind from Morocco to the UK, claiming ~15% transmission loss, serving about 7… | ||
| AI Powering Science Breakthroughs | Yossi Matias | 16m |
Describes concrete products and numbers: an AI system for diabetic retinopathy already performs 600,000 screenings in India and Thailand with plans for 6… | ||
| Post-Human Economies: Redefining Value with Agentic AI | Herman Narula | 11m |
Company builds an Ethereum‑compatible blockchain that handles half a million transactions a second and goes to testnet in two months to let AI agents with… | ||
| Deep Tech in Europe | Philipp Herkelmann, Mike Butcher, Heike Freund | 22m |
Panel gives three concrete claims: 70% expect fusion on the grid by 2035, fusion firms see under 2% of private capital in EU while venture numbers show $52B vs… | ||
| Next Generation AI Computing | Gitta Kutyniok | 11m |
Claims that energy for AI communication could rival or even exceed world energy production lead to a push for hardware change, with CPUs/GPUs flagged as… | ||
| Tech History - An Outlook to the Future | Mona Ismail, Mitchell Baker, Esther Dyson, Fred Vogelstein | 27m |
Argues history warns against assuming every new tech is the biggest change and urges practical fixes: build open-source LLMs into an application layer (ARA)… | ||
| On the Brink of Utopia – Or Doom? | Rafael Laguna de la Vera | 13m |
A government agency recreates an ARPA-style model that scouts fusion and quantum projects, runs 9 challenges (including compound computing) and finances teams… | ||
| Magical Technology | Bryan Guido Hassin, Rodolfo Rosini, Azeem Azhar | 23m |
A new carbon nanomaterial called Galvorn claims to be 10–20× stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, as conductive as copper and carbon‑negative, with… | ||
| How Psychedelics Transformed Our Relationship | Gigi Danziger, Albert Wenger, Anne Philippi | 20m |
Couple reports that therapy‑guided psychedelic work uses 5–9 hour guided sessions with a therapist in the room and a Netherlands-style structured… | ||
| Future Hospitality – A New Way of Living | Iliana Oris Valiente, Ruslan Husry, Mae Cheng | 20m |
Claims that an AI digital twin trained on every talk transcript and five years of project case studies can act as a concierge and deliver humanlike… | ||
| Game-changing Engineering | Christian Teichmann, Francesco Sciortino | 16m |
Small 60-person team uses AI-driven simulation and automation to generate 600,000 design variants and iterate hardware in months, not years, producing a… | ||
| Driving Innovation | Verena Pausder, Ann-Kristin Achleitner | 17m |
Europe hosts working deep‑tech firms like Proxima Fusion, Marvel Fusion, ESA Aerospace and Plancq and institutions that spun out close to 200 companies from… | ||
| A New Chapter in Human-Machine Interaction | Stephan Durach, Pattie Maes, Nina Matzat | 19m |
BMW unveils a software‑defined Neue Klasse that uses a pillar‑to‑pillar panoramic vision head‑up surface to keep information available without distracting the… | ||
| INTELLIGENS. NATURAL. ARTIFICIAL. COLLECTIVE. | Carlo Ratti, Hans Ulrich Obrist | 21m |
Venice Biennale 2025 uses the motto INTELLIGENS to test natural, artificial and collective intelligence as practical tools: a living‑lab approach in fragile… | ||
| Making Europe Exponential | Tom Hurd, Tommy Stadlen, Andreas Klinger, Azeem Azhar | 27m |
Data shows top 300,000 AI innovators mapped globally and generative-AI talent concentrated with 65% at Google/DeepMind, while Europe holds roughly one quarter… | ||
| The Exhibition as a Living Organism | Philippe Parreno, Andrea Lissoni, Lydia Antoniou, Hans Ulrich Obrist | 28m |
A survey of an ongoing installation that treats the show as a self-updating system: a purchased plot in Almería is live-streamed to Munich, sensors trigger… | ||
| From the Front Lines: Defending Europe | Giedrimas Jeglinskas, de Santis, Kadi Silde, Azeem Azhar | 29m |
Ukraine’s front-line lessons: FPV kamikaze drones <$1,000 regularly disable tanks, monthly drone attrition runs into the tens of thousands, and over 4,000… | ||
| Digital Agenda 2030 | Danyal Bayaz, Markus Haas, Gordon Repinski, Dorothee Bär, Marie Niehaus-Langer | 32m |
World Bank projects 70% of global GDP growth via digital platforms by 2030 while Germany sits below 20% and Europe below 30%, with cloud adoption under 10%… | ||
| AI in Action: Meet the startups, investors and thought leaders shaping Africa’s future | Euler Bropleh, Daniel Emaasit, Yasmin Kumi, Franziska Reh | 24m |
Africa has 1.4 billion people, set to double by 2050, and needs roughly 800 million new jobs; panelists report startups that pivoted to AI agents (Logistics)… | ||
| A One Million Student University? | Shai Reshef, Romo Edelman | 18m |
Launched in 2009 and accredited in 2014, the tuition‑free non‑profit online university now enrolls 153,000 students (including ~19,000 refugees and 60,000 in… | ||
| All Aboard: Climate Investment for the Many | Chris Anderson | 18m |
Argues that 30% of the 40 Gt CO2 reduction needed by 2040 must come from startups, which he quantifies as 120 breakthrough climate companies each cutting ~100… | ||
| Regaining Innovation Power in Tech | Lisa Witter, Andreas Blattmann, André Loesekrug-Pietri | 22m |
Claims Europe has lost 30% prosperity versus the U.S. over two decades and needs moonshots; a concrete example: Black Forest Labs builds a small, Europe‑based… | ||
| The AI Frontier: Redefining Industrial Automation | Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Seitz, Nathan Gruber, Deborah Berebichez | 22m |
Claims that AI is shifting from isolated pilots to end-to-end optimization across supply chains, production and market feedback; a vendor toolchain digitizes… | ||
| Bridging the Gap from Innovation to Business | Dieter Kranzlmüller, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Alexander Glätzle | 19m |
Planqc is building a 1,000-qubit quantum computer for the Leibniz Supercomputing Center under a €20 million grant, and teams already demonstrate a working link… | ||
| Restart Positive – Three Reasons to Be Optimistic about 2025 | Florian Haller | 12m |
Argues Germany is poised for a political and economic restart with corporate tax reform to unlock long‑term investment and a renewed attitude toward tech… | ||
| Equality through AI? – A Window of Opportunity | Sandrine Dixson-Declève, André Hoffmann | 25m |
Argues that companies must stop treating profit as the sole purpose and instead change how money is made, not just how it’s spent, proposing concrete impact… | ||
| Highlights | 01m | |
As part of DLD’s 20th anniversary, we proudly introduce the new format DLD20s, celebrating the rising stars of innovation and creativity – young talents in… | ||
| Welcome Back | Maria Furtwängler, von Hirschhausen | 18m |
Conference opens with concrete claims and concrete actions: we are losing 100 species a day, 70% decline in vertebrates and an Oxford-linked estimate that… | ||
| Take the Exponential View | Azeem Azhar | 12m |
Claims that energy shifts from a scarce commodity to energy as a technology, arguing renewables and grid tech are becoming exponentially cheaper and… | ||
| Leadership in Times of AI | Carl Benedikt Frey, Thomas Saueressig, Lisa Witter | 26m |
Panel gives concrete measures: 15% of government workers say they feel AI-ready, enterprises touch automation across sectors (SAP claims it reaches ~87% of… | ||
| Leading Transformation: Navigating the Path to Sustainable Business | Günther Thallinger, Vijay Vaitheeswaran | 24m |
Argues that many firms are practicing green hushing—leaving alliances and silence rather than reporting—while true transformation requires integrating… | ||
| Conservation & Tech | Martin Wikelski, Fischer, Alex Dehgan | 28m |
Global conservation uses concrete tools and numbers: a Sentinel camera upgrade plugs into motion camera traps, runs local EDI analysis to ID individuals, spot… | ||
| AI & Creativity – Powering Human Innovation Through Design | Kajanaku, Tim Brown, Chloë Ryan | 23m |
Robotic arms that paint full-scale canvases reproduce artists’ brushstrokes and are already used as a production tool to widen access to the $70B fine‑art… | ||
| AI, Health & Confidentiality | Greg Lavender, Jennifer Schenker, Bjoern M. Eskofier | 24m |
Panelists describe Intel’s hardware-backed confidential computing and an open-source federated learning stack used to train models without moving raw records… | ||
| Rewiring for Impact - Inside the Tech Transformation Engine Room | Rodney Zemmel, Ina Fried | 19m |
Claim: 2024 is where the tech delivers but humans lag; surveys show 91% of companies run AI initiatives yet only about a third show P&L gains (25% hit cost… | ||
| Game ON - Artists and Video Games | Leo Castaneda, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley | 26m |
Panel argues video games are a dominant 21st-century medium and notes 3 billion players globally; one project, Camoflux: Levels & Bosses, is a stealth… | ||
| How to Reclaim Humanity from Tech | Ece Temelkuran, Kenneth Cukier, Joanna Shields | 27m |
Panel argues the root problem is incentives not code: the surveillance ad model funds platforms, risks turning AI into an influence engine sold to the highest… | ||
| The End of “The End of History”? | Yossi Vardi, Benedikt Franke, Tanit Koch, Moritz Schularick | 30m |
Panel reopens Fukuyama’s claim that liberal democracy may be fragile and names concrete threats: social media algorithms amplify polarizing content and act as… | ||
| Entrepreneurship | Franziska Brantner, Stefan Vilsmeier | 22m |
Germany plans a lighthouse competition in 12 regions that uses minimal state money and private capital to copy Munich’s UnternehmerTUM ecosystem; a pending… | ||
| Shaping Europe’s Future: Unlocking Talent, Driving Innovation, Leading Transformation | Sebastian Dettmers, Philipp Freise | 21m |
Claims Germany faces stagnant productivity since 2019 and will net lose 5 million workers in the next decade, so growth depends on automation and private… | ||
| Quantum meets AI: Unlocking Tomorrow’s Potentials | Nick Farina, O`Brien, Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Andrew McLaughlin | 24m |
Willow chip performs a benchmark computation in under five minutes that classical supercomputers would need ~10 septillion years for, and it demonstrates… | ||
| A Push for Europe | Eva Maydell, Cyriac Roeding, Fabian Theis, Stefan Drüssler | 28m |
Europe needs targeted moves not slogans: a five point plan pushes €500 billion sovereign wealth fund (a smaller "Pioneer fund" is already being discussed with… | ||
| Never stop Dreaming! | Yinka Ilori, Hans-Ulrich Obrist | 20m |
Collects chairs for 10 years and upcycles them into narrative sculptures tied to family memories, then expands into public interventions: a Lego-inspired play… | ||
| Healthy Longevity – the Next Big Thing: For Business, Society, Health Systems… and Everybody | Nina Ruge | 09m |
Defines longevity as cell biology and biotech not cosmetics, listing the 12 Hallmarks of Aging and compressing them into three cell competencies — renewal (20… | ||
| Building the Future of Human-centered Technology | John Werner | 12m |
Launches a platform called Planet Action Plus that curates scalable sustainability ideas via a four-part pipeline: sensing and curation, short-form technical… | ||
| Medtech Champions Made in Germany | Klaus Kleinfeld, Sebastian Kuss, Torsten Haferlach, Stefan Vilsmeier | 25m |
German medtech firms describe concrete moves: a Munich lab goes paperless, grows from 29 to 370 staff and deploys AI since 2017 to read blood and bone marrow… | ||
| AI Here & Now | Thorsten Heilig, David Hahn, Felix Hoffmann, Sebastian Wossagk | 23m |
Panelists describe concrete deployments: a decision‑intelligence platform that turns slow, nine‑week replanning into monthly cycles for multinationals; retail… | ||
| Cryptographic Resilience in the Quantum Era | Jaya Baloo, Michele Mosca | 20m |
Quantum advances threaten to break today’s public‑key cryptography within 5–10 years unless systems adopt post‑quantum defenses now. NIST’s post‑quantum… | ||
| Education for a New Era | Maggie Grout, Ronit Levavi Morad, Esther Wojcicki, Katja Speck | 27m |
Panel lays out concrete claims and tools: T.R.I.C.K. as a classroom framework (trust, respect, independence, collaboration, kindness), Google Research running… | ||
| WE act creatively. WE lead with purpose. WE Are Family - Youth to the Front! | Chmba Ellen Chilemba, Nancy Hunt, Nile Rodgers, Ralph Simon | 26m |
A foundation runs the Youth to the Front Fund, giving seed grants, mentorship and visibility to grassroots projects in the Global South; one early $5,000 grant… | ||
| New Energy Systems | Vera Pinto Pereira, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Mumgaardm, Azeem Azhar | 33m |
Claim that solar drives 80% of global capacity growth by 2030 and that distributed solar will supply at least 50% of new capacity, supported by a company… | ||
| Power Players of the Plate | Alexander Liedke, Julia Adou, von Hirschhausen | 22m |
Retailers commit to concrete moves: ALDI stops selling fresh meat from lower animal‑welfare categories in Germany (now only higher‑welfare and organic… | ||
| Future in Motion: Robotics, Self-Driving Cars, and Humanoids Shaping Tomorrow | Qasar Younis, Limor Schweitzer, Greg Williams, Angela Schoellig | 21m |
Robotics now pairs camera-based perception with large language models so robots understand the world from vision and use reinforcement learning in simulation… | ||
| Bridging the Divide – How to Link Nature and Financial Systems | Dominik Asam, Sylvie Goulard, Martin Stuchtey | 26m |
Argues for a regulated infrastructure that actually counts nature risks: a proposed green ledger and “green tokens” attach audited CO2 and environmental KPIs… | ||
| How to Start a Movement | Henry Timms, Maja Göpel | 18m |
Argues that movement-building now requires intensity over favorability and that feelings routinely beat facts, warns algorithms create attention addiction that… | ||
| United Nature | Andrew Zuckerman, von Bayern | 33m |
Photographer documents animals using hundreds of composite images to build life-scale pieces (a 17 ft giraffe, a life-size elephant) and spends 40–50 hours… | ||
| Nature Intelligence | David Diallo | 08m |
Nature holds 8 million species and 3.5 billion years of adaptive know‑how yet global finance leaves a $200 billion annual funding gap for biodiversity; an… | ||
| Everything AI: It's a Multi-Model, Agentic World | Rodríguez, Ina Fried | 21m |
Claims GitHub will help create 1 billion developers by 2050, shifting programming to natural language and agentic workflows. Demonstrations include a working… | ||
| Competitiveness, Innovation and European Values – Trade-offs or Synergies for a New Era? | Mario Nava, Claudia Nemat, Solveigh Hieronimus | 23m |
Commission promises a Competitiveness Compass to close Europe’s innovation gap by leveraging the single market, pushing a Capital Markets Union and a Union of… | ||
| Welcome | Steffi Czerny, Yossi Vardi | 04m |
25th DLD frames itself as future positive and promises concrete takeaways: panels with three CTOs from GitHub Intel and Amazon on implementing AI, sessions… | ||
| Sustainable Tech: Combining Passion and Profit | von Hirschhausen, Elke Reichart | 22m |
Infineon frames decarbonization and digitalization as core strategy, claiming 66% reduction in emissions since 2019 while doubling revenue and targeting carbon… | ||
| Shaping the Future of Mobility: The Role of Hydrogen and Beyond | Michael Rath, David Kirkpatrick, Jennifer Dungs | 26m |
Panel argues that mobility will be mainly electric but needs a second leg: hydrogen fuel cell vehicles claim 3–4 minutes refuel and use different raw materials… | ||
| Welcome back | Steffi Czerny, Yossi Vardi | 08m |
Host recounts 20 years of running DLD with no real conflicts, jokes about the team dynamics, and explains a tongue‑in‑cheek 100% satisfaction guarantee policy… | ||
| The Future of Automated Decision-Making | Andreas Kyrtatos, Inga Grieger | 14m |
Company deploys automated decision systems for industrial logistics: a vehicle-marshalling stack running in three BMW factories that autonomously moves 1,000… | ||
| From Soil to Sea: Groundbreaking Solutions for Food, Climate, and Biodiversity | Lavine Irvine, Philipp Gerbert, Farhah Assaad, Christian Brix Tillegreen | 26m |
A Swiss farmer’s restoration method produces a reported 20-fold acceleration from pioneer to climax forest species by pruning, mulching and introducing 100… | ||
| Update from Digital Bavaria | Fabian Mehring | 13m |
Outlines five concrete theses: build a modern, digital-first administration with a clear national mission; pivot economic policy toward tech-led new markets… | ||
| Powering the Future: From Green Dreams to Tech-driven Reality | Bastian Gierull | 14m |
Argues the energy transition is already winning with concrete numbers: 1.8 million barrels of oil off streets today rising to 2.5m by 2030 and potentially 20m… | ||
| Longevity: Preventive health care and health promotion – the new key to modern healthcare? | Judith Gerlach | 06m |
Argues that living to 100 is becoming normal and that systems must shift from reactive repair care to proactive prevention, with Bavaria reorganizing policy… | ||
| Why Every Company Needs a Space Strategy | Eric Even, Raphael Röttgen, von der Recke, Jakob Stöber | 20m |
Europe stresses independent access to space, pointing to Ariane 6 and several micro‑launcher teams aiming for first orbital launches this year; satellites… | ||
| Welcome | Blume, Steffi Czerny, Yossi Vardi | 20m |
Opening launches Bavaria’s biosphere AI network and a dedicated biosphere track, announcing a 5.5 billion high‑tech agenda that funds an AI university and an… | ||
| Welcome Back | Steffi Czerny, Yossi Vardi | 12m |
A nostalgic welcome traces DLD from a small friends’ gathering to a 20‑year event while naming concrete achievements: running flight operations with 12,000… | ||
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