DLD Summer 2021
as the organisers put it
This page has videos of all DLD Summer talks (July 1, 2021), plus images of the conference and the DLD “Wanderlust” hike next day.
who it's for
policy makers, startup founders, venture investors, machine learning engineers, data scientists, sustainability officers, research scientists, product managers
topics
EU climate policy Fit for 55; circular economy targets; green financing and green bonds; corporate fraud investigation lessons; transformer-based real-time coaching; European health data space and GDPR reform; data-efficient AI and symbolic fusion; adversarial attacks on robotics systems; quantum and neuromorphic computing for discovery; NFTs on Ethereum and sidechains; 5G for future mobility; government digital transformation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Fighting Climate Change-A Global Challenge | Virginijus Sinkevičius, Fabian von Heimburg | 27m |
EU policy commits to 55% by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050, pairs a Fit for 55 package with a circular economy action plan that aims to double circular… | ||
| Emerging Europe | Hendrik Brandis | 16m |
Claim: platform technologies now arrive every two years not every decade, enabled by cloud computing and cheap data and by coding bootcamps and no‑code tools… | ||
| Courage & Decency: The Story Behind a Story | Gabriela Sperl, Pav Gill | 23m |
Former Wirecard senior legal counsel recounts joining, spotting red flags within weeks — suspicious hires, bank transfers to personal accounts, and fake… | ||
| Building Business While Minding the Environment | Andrew McAfee, Christina Foerster, Michael Diederich, Christiana Falcone | 23m |
Claim: digital dematerialization shrinks material demand—13 of 15 devices from a 1990s ad now live in a smartphone. Tools: sensors on everything and IoT to cut… | ||
| Doing Better with Data and AI | Jennifer Belissent, Zayd Enam, Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi | 22m |
Cresta builds an expertise engine that ingests call/chat/email transcripts, uses large transformer models fine‑tuned on a few top‑performer examples, and… | ||
| A European Framework for AI | Axel Voss | 20m |
Europe is falling behind global tech leaders and must pursue digital sovereignty by investing in infrastructure (broadband, 5G/6G), cybersecurity, standards… | ||
| The Great AI Game | Carl Benedikt Frey, Azeem Azhar | 25m |
Argues that raw data alone doesn’t win AI — algorithms must learn context and be more data‑efficient, not just scale. Notes GPT‑3’s 175 billion parameters and… | ||
| Our Brave New World | Rod Beckstrom | 12m |
Claims that COVID produces a global wave of collective trauma and that unhealed trauma fuels riots, wars and cyber conflict; cites airline passenger incidents… | ||
| Surveillance Capitalism: Do We Need A New Social Contract | Iyad Rahwan, Andrian Kreye | 23m |
Moral Machine research reports 8 million respondents answering roughly 80 million dilemmas, finds broad global agreement plus measurable cultural splits… | ||
| Robots, Manners and Stress | Ross Anderson, Ilia Shumailov | 20m |
Claim: machine-learning components in robots get stressed and provoke human backlash, so alarms beat full robustness. Demonstrations include adversarial images… | ||
| Technology’s Next Frontiers | Laura Matz, Stefan Vilsmeier, David Kirkpatrick | 24m |
Merck describes three divisions—healthcare, life sciences, electronics—and reports a Palantir joint venture called Centropy with Palantir to build shared data… | ||
| NFTs: Ethereum’s Killer App | Joe Lubin, Dan Heyman | 24m |
Ethereum remains the development hub while a new Palm sidechain runs low-fee, lower-energy NFT drops connected by a bridge to Ethereum; Palm Studio is… | ||
| Quantum Promises | Helmut Leopold, Herbert Mangesius, Heike Riel, Niko Mohr | 31m |
Global funding surges (single deals near $650M) with North America hosting ~50% of startups and ~80% of startup funding, China leading in patents and public… | ||
| Science Works – The Power of Basic Research In and Post-Corona | Robbert Dijkgraaf, Ann-Kristin Achleitner | 17m |
Claims that basic research pays off with concrete examples: mRNA technology developed for 30 years enables vaccines delivered within months, and first trial… | ||
| Space Clouds | Werner Vogels, Jennifer Schenker | 13m |
Cloud infrastructure handles the whole space pipeline from design to analytics: design runs up to nine times faster for some aerospace projects, ground… | ||
| 5G Powering the Future of Mobility | Markus Haas, Hildegard Müller, Fabian Billing | 21m |
Argues that 5G already runs working demos: proofs of concept with Daimler Factory 56 and Bremen and autonomous shuttle tests at Munich airport, and invites… | ||
| Big Love for a Vision | Bernd Körber, Oliver Heilmer, Steffi Czerny | 27m |
World premiere of the MINI Vision Urbanaut: a built concept with an electric drivetrain, cabins made from recycled and natural materials, and an interior that… | ||
| Munich: Europe's Paradise for Tech-Startups | Maximilian Hasler, Helmut Schönenberger, Jochen Engert | 25m |
Munich’s UnternehmerTUM innovation campus assembles startups, researchers, corporate innovation managers and investors in one space and drives measurable… | ||
| New European Bauhaus on Tour | von der Leyen, Bart Becks, Martin Weiss, Helmut Schönenberger, Lorenzo Maternini | 28m |
A DLD and UnternehmerTUM roadshow launches as a 27-country roadshow to gather concrete New European Bauhaus projects linking local hubs to EU networks… | ||
| Accelerate Government’s Digital Transformation | Diego Piacentini, Paul-Bernhard Kallen | 26m |
Beta IO app plus national platforms for SPID digital identity and unified payments are launched, scaled and tied to policy nudges: 13 million downloads, 21.2… | ||
| Shaking Up Europe | Andrew McAfee | 17m |
Europe loses market-cap share among the world’s 50 biggest firms from about 30% in 2000 to under 10% in 2020 while US share rises to roughly 75%, and unicorn… | ||
| Space: The New Frontier | Alexander Gerfer, Daniel Metzler, Jennifer Schenker, Joachim von Schlenk, Christian Mohr | 21m |
A European supply chain pitch: a launch company builds small orbital rockets for up to 1,000 kg payloads, raises over $100M from mostly European investors and… | ||
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