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DLD (Digital – Life – Design) is a conference and community which features digital innovation, science and culture and brings together 800 entrepreneurs, opinion-formers, investors and creative leaders from around the world. Throughout the year, the DLD community meets in global hubs like London, New York, Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, Moscow.  

The next DLD Conference (DLD11) is held January 23-25, 2011 in Munich. Chairmen of DLD are Hubert Burda, owner of Hubert Burda Media (international media group and largest publishing company in Germany), and Yossi Vardi, serial digital investor. In 2005, DLD has been founded and hosted by Steffi Czerny and Marcel Reichart of Hubert Burda Media.

 

Speakers and guests at DLD have been James Murdoch, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, YouTube founder Chad Hurley, Hulo CEO Jason Kilar, Demand Media co-founder Shawn Colo, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crawley, GE CEO International Nani Beccalli-Falco, Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann, Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer, Deutsche Post / DHL CEO Frank Appel, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell and BBDO CEO Andrew Robertson, biologists Craig Venter and Richard Dawkins, Black-Swan author Nassim Taleb, architects Lord Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, philantropist Abigail Disney, film director Luc Besson, Heroes creator Tim Kring, Simpsons director David Silverman, Nobel Laureates Martti Ahtisaari, Muhammad Yunus and Daniel Kahneman, explorers Bertrand Piccard and David Rothschild, Apax CEO Martin Halusa, Jim Breyer of Accel, Yuri Millner of DST,  media entrepreneurs Martha Stewart and Arianna Huffington as well as senior writers Walt Mossberg, Matthew Bishop (Economist).

 

The conference is covered and attended by numerous media including The New York Times, IHT, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Economist, The Guardian, Fortune Magazin, Handelsblatt, Financial Times, FOCUS, Spiegel, CNBC, 3SAT, Thomson Reuters, Getty, Deutsche Welle, AllThingsD, HuffingtonPost, TechCrunch, PaidContent, Venturebeat as well as distributed via its own video network, YouTube, Bigthink and Sevenload.

 

Over the last years, DLD has evolved top-level partnerships with many global companies and their global innovation and marketing organizations including Lufthansa, Mercedes-Benz, General Electric, CNBC Europe, Dt. Post/ DHL, Merck/MSD, Dt. Telekom, Kodak, Ernst & Young, Sixt, Thomson Reuters, Hewlett-Packard, Unicredit, Booz&Co, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, SKY and collaborates with various digital market investors.

 

For more information and updates please visit the DLD website orfollow us on twitter and facebook.