I’am about to depart to be at the DLD - one of Europe’s most recognized Conferences on - as the name says - Digital, Life and Design. It will be held in Munich starting next weekend.
Here’s a short video of last years conference:
Besides that I am truly looking forward to hopefully get in touch with some Masterminds, like John Brockman (edge.org - via lutz dammbeck’s documentary the net), Adam Bly (Seed Media Group), Tyler Brulé (Founder & Publisher of Wallpaper and Monopol) or Craig Venter (Celera, the human genome project) that kept my brain busy for several years.The conference itself is a highly respected meeting of global Opinion Leaders from various walks of Entertainment, Media, Web, Science and Culture. It is “invitation only” and organized by Hubert Burda Media. I’ll be twittering and blogging live from the Conference. Still not sure wether there will be a report on FM4 and/or thegap.I’ll also be attending a germanwide bloggermeeting within the Conference where I hope to get to know some interesting people and especially people interested in 123people. Speaking of 123people, if there is anyone who is interesting in receiving one of those highly demanded 123people invites drop me a line and I will grant you access to test it.
Aside from Naomi Campbell, Christoph Schlingensief and the german T-mobile CEO René Obermann the following Speakers have been confirmed so far (Hope to have a cocktail with some of them at the bunte.de Night on Saturday):
Shai Agassi - Project Better Place (the former “wunderkind” at SAP)
Paola Antonelli - Museum of Modern Art
Pim Betist - Sell a Band
Adam Bly - SEED
John Brockman - Edge.org
Tyler Brulé - Monocle Magazin
Rivka Carmi - BGU
Paulo Coelho - Author (my good old pal from waldzell)
Matt Cohler - Facebook
Steffi Czerny - Hubert Burda Media
Chris Dercon - HdK
Dan Dubno - Blowing Things Up, Inc
Gerhard Florin - EA Games
Stefan Glänzer - Last FM
Olaf Göttgens - Mercedes
Konstantin Grcic - Grcic Design
Zaha Hadid - Architect (only female Architect who won the renowend Pritzkerprize)
Reid Hoffmann - Linkedin
Dr. Herbert Kohler - Mercedes
Morten Lund - Lund Kenner
John Maeda - MIT Media Lab
Marissa Mayer - Google
Sugata Mitra - Newcastle University
René Obermann - Deutsche Telekom
Hans Ulrich - Obrist Serpentine Gallery
Tero Ojanpera - Nokia
Carolyn Porco - CICLOPS
Lisa Randall - HarvardUniversity (amazing woman)
Viviane Reding - European Commission
Marcel Reichart - Hubert Burda Media
David Rosenblatt - Doubleclick
Ken Roth - Human Rights Watch
David Rothschild - Adventure Ecology (A famous name and the ambition to get the world a better one)
Antonio Rodriguez - HP Printing Division
Marc Samwer - European Founders Fund
Christoph Schlingensief - Artist
Joanna Shields - Bebo
ClayShirky - New York University
David Silverman - The Simpsons
Martin Sorrell - WPP
Roby Stancel - Nano Solar
Martha Stewart - Martha Stewart Living
Oliviero Toscani - Photographer
Martin Varsavsky - FON
Craig Venter - J. Craig Venter Institute
Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia
Alex Willcock - Imagini
Anne Wojcicki - 23 and Me
Richard Saul Wurman - Author
Gaby Zedlmayer - HP EMEA Corporate Marketing
Niklas Zennström - Joost (the founder of skype)