An eclectic Group of Scientists write highly sophisticated and well researched Articles on Culture, Nature, Science, Politics and Society. Scienceblogs was also founded by Adam Bly and is part of the Seed Media Group, which is based in New York.

Scienceblogs was also pretty prominent at DLD (well, part of Burda – aloha – no wonder…). They offered “molecularly” cooked Food and indeed it was quite OK. Nothing compared to a Wiener Schnitzel, but still interesting.

The Site is still in BETA, but no need for any Invitation.

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)

When I was at the hairdresser to get my hair done I skipped through some magazine. Then I came across about a Guy named Christoph Westphal. A german-american Citizen who graduated from Columbia University and thereafter receiving an MD and PhD at Harvard Medical School saying that “one thing I regret is being in School too long” I somehow admire. Being 33 years old he started five Companies within 4 years. All of them are successful although all of them deal with the adventurous field of Biotechnology.

In the Interview he stated his approach to Business. He claimed that he skipps through the impactful journals once a day: Nature, Science, Cell. Name them…Then he e-mails the guys who did all the Research and after seveal E-mails more, some more months it comes down to 3-4 Talks in his favorite Boston Bar.

After his Time at Harvard he started working for McKinsey for 2 years and while saying this he almost falls asleep. One thing he learned their was how Business People thing, nothing more. Then he went one. Beginning with Momenta Pharmaceuticals he started off and went on…and kept on going.

Currently he serves the Chief of the Advisory Board of a large Boston Based Venture Capital company (which he knows best from his time at Polaris Ventures) and acts as a CEO and Founder of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals. Whose name derives from a protein group called Sirtuines, which showed in various studies, mainly by David Sinclair, to enhance Life Expectany in Yeast and Rodent. Westphal claims that when he first read about that Sirtuines are able to elongate Life substantially he thought that “Google might become really really small” what this is all about.

I am thrilled to know what we are going to hear about Mr. Westphal. Being 33 years of Age I am sure there is a lot more to come.  And I personally think that I should dedicate my life to eather cancer research, Gerontology research, Astrophysics or something similliarly crucial…?!

http://www.scivee.tv/