Dr. Bernd W. Wirtz ist Professor für Informations- und Kommunikationsmanagement an der Deutschen Hoch- schule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer. Studium der Betriebswirtschaftslehre in Köln, London und Dortmund. Promotion im Bereich strategisches Management im Medienmarkt, anschließende Habilitation zum Thema Erfolgsfaktoren des...
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Daniel Mattes
In late 2004, Daniel teamed up with Roman Scharf to form JAJAH. At the company, Daniel is responsible for developing the proprietary core technology of JAJAH. Daniel Mattes started programming software at an early age on a computer given...
Rob Glaser
Since founding RealNetworks in 1995, Rob Glaser has played an integral role in transforming the Internet into a mass medium. Under Mr. Glaser's direction, RealNetworks introduced the groundbreaking RealAudio product, followed quickly by RealVideo, RealPlayer and RealSystem technologies, moving...
M/M
M/M (Paris) is a partnership between Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag. Michael studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and Mathias studied at the Royal College of Arts, London. Working within the framework and language of...
Pae White
Pae White (born 1963, Pasadena, California) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her M.F.A. from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. White’s work often crosses the border between Arts and Design. For the DLD Arts Projects...
Alexander Schill
Alexander Schill (37), joined Springer & Jacoby Hamburg in 1994 after studying 4 years at the Highschool of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1998 he became one of the youngest creative directors ever within S&J. In 2003 he was...
Tamer Kulmac
Tamer Kulmac is the co-founder of Vaybee!, the leading Turkish Internet Media Company in Europe. A native of Turkey, Tamer studied business administration at Cologne University with internships abroad in the US and Istanbul, Turkey during his study. He...
Erik Wachtmeister
Erik Wachtmeister is the founder of aSmallWorld. Erik holds a BA from Georgetown and an MBA from INSEAD. He has an investment-banking career behind him at Lehman Brothers and Rothschild in London and New York. He created his own...
Martin Kunz
Martin Kunz is head of the science & technology department of FOCUS News Magazine. He has a diploma in Physics from the Munich University of Applied Sciences and studied at the Georg von Holtzbrinck School of Journalism, Düsseldorf. He...
Ronny Pecik
Ronny Pecik is, through Victory AG, the largest shareholder of Swiss publicly listed OC Oerlikon AG (former Unaxis AG). Victory controls 50% of the 9.3 bn market cap swiss industrial conglomerate. Since Victory's investment into Oerlikon the share price...
Marc Mangold
Dr. Marc Mangold is Head of Corporate Development at Hubert Burda Media Marketing & Communications where he is closely involved in the company's strategic initiatives and corporate development. Since the beginning of 2007 he is also deputy head of...
Rupert Schäfer
Rupert Schäfer has been the producer of the DLD conferences for Hubert Burda Media. Besides DLD he works as project manager for Hubert Burda Media R&D Marketing and Communications focused on new media and internet strategy. Rupert studied international...
Steffi Czerny
Steffi Czerny has been working for Hubert Burda Media for more than 10 years. She is a curious person and loves to actively connect ideas, people and businesses, most importantly in the fields of media, internet and arts. She...
Uli Baur
Uli Baur is Editor-in-Chief of German news magazine FOCUS and was part of the editorial staff from the very beginning. From 1993 on, he served as deputy of Editor-in-Chief Helmut Markwort. He is also co-publisher of the business magazine...
Anil de Mello
Anil de Mello is CEO & producer of MobuzzTV, a video blog that posts a new 2-3 minute video once a day and is recorded in Madrid, Spain. He is an entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in...
Tariq Krim
Tariq Krim is the founder and CEO of Netvibes, a leading start-up company helping users to create a personalized page with the content they like and to manage their digital life. Netvibes, founded in 2005, based in Paris and...
James Murdoch
James Murdoch was appointed as a Director of British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) on 13 February 2003 and as Chief Executive Officer with effect from 4 November 2003. Until Mr Murdoch's appointment as Chief Executive Officer, he was Chairman and...
Matthew Anderson
Matthew Anderson is the Group Director, Communications of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc. Previously he was Chief Executive (Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and Middle East) of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, part of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide, the world’s eighth...
Paul-Bernhard Kallen
Since 1999 Dr Paul-Bernhard Kallen is Member of the Board (Technology, Treasury) at Hubert Burda Media. Amongst others he has been in charge for Burda Digital where a variety of Internet companies have been built and acquired. Dr Kallen...
Dave Morgan
Dave Morgan founded TACODA in July 2001, served as its CEO until the middle of 2006, and currently serves as its Chairman. TACODA is the pioneer of behavioral-targeted online advertising and operates an advertising network across more than 4000...
Michelle Nicol
Michelle Nicol is an art historian and managing partner of advertising agency glamour engineering. She has worked as critic and curator of contemporary art for international institutions including the Berlin Biennale and the Museum Ludwig Cologne. Appointed curator of...
Christian Krug
Christian Krug was born in 1965 in Hamburg. After studying politics and German philology he worked at the arts department of the German daily newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost. In 1989 he started working for the German weekly news and features...
Adam Bly
Before launching Seed Magazine, he was the youngest guest researcher at the National Research Council of Canada, where he worked on cell adhesion and cancer. He is the recipient of the Golden Jubilee Medal from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth...
Helmut Fiebig
Helmut Fiebig (born 1956) studied german literature, political science and social science in Göttingen. After working as a teacher for two years he volunteered at the Cinema Verlag, Hamburg. 1996 he became editor-in-chief at CINEMA, Germanys leading film magazine....
Hartmut Esslinger
Hartmut Esslinger is the founder of frog design, one of the world’s leading strategic-creative consulting firms, and according to BusinessWeek the first superstar of high-tech design. In 1969, Esslinger founded frog design in his native Germany and sparked a...
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is an original and provocative thinker. Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. In addition, she is active in the commercial space/airline start-up space, with investments in Constellation...
Brian Cox
Brian Cox is a Royal Society University Research Fellow working on the giant 27km Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. He's not always been a physicist, however. At 18 years of age he joined the rock...
Miles Beckett
Miles Beckett is a 28 year-old surgeon-turned-producer. He attended the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and the University of California, Berkeley where he received a bachelors degree in neuroscience. After leaving a surgical residency in integrated...
Evert Hoogendoorn
Evert Hoogendoorn is head of the Bachelor of Art and Technology, Design for Virtual Theatre & Games (DVTG) at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands. This program focuses on game design from an artistic and innovative...
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (born 1939) 1972 Professor for Biology, University of Essen; 1975 President, University of Kassel; 1981 Director at the UN Centre for Science and Technology for Development, New York; 1984 Director, Institute for European Environmental Policy,...
Steven Levy
Steven Levy is senior editor and chief technology correspondent for Newsweek, where he writes the "Technologist" column. He is author of six books, including the classic computer history "Hackers"; "The Unicorn's Secret"; "Insanely Great" (the story of the Macintosh...
Andy Wood
The leadership of Andy Wood as CEO has enabled Image Metrics to scale great and new heights over the last 2 years. Andy Wood is successful in the interactive, entertainment, music and technology industries. He founded USD sales and...
Gabriele Zedlmayer
Gabriele Zedlmayer is Vice President for Corporate Marketing and Global Citizenship, Europe Middle East and Africa at Hewlett-Packard. She was appointed Vice President of Corporate Marketing for Europe, Middle East and Africa in September 2005 and is responsible for...
Luc Besson
Luc Besson, born in 1959 in Paris, is a French film director, writer and producer who for years belongs to the most successful and versatile directors in Europe. After a few works as assistant director and the short movie...
John Naisbitt
Since Megatrends, his first published book in 1982, the future has been in the center of John Naisbitt's field of activity as an author and speaker. The culmination of nearly a decade of research, Megatrends is one of publishing's...
Bruno Giussani
Bruno Giussani is a Swiss writer. He authors the monthly EuroScan column for the Innovation&Design section of BusinessWeek.com and contributes, among others, to the Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, the newsweekly L'Hebdo in Switzerland and the...
Guntram Gräf
Guntram Gräf is co-founder and CEO of ANSHE CHUNG Studios Ltd., a company specializing in developing immersive 3D environments for applications ranging from education to business conferencing and product prototyping. He is the husband of Anshe Chung (Ailin Gräf),...
Tim Brown
Tim Brown is president and CEO of IDEO, a world leader in design and innovation. He speaks regularly on the value of design thinking and innovation to business and design audiences around the world. His leadership in design is...
David Sifry
David L. Sifry is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of software development and industry experience. Before founding Technorati, which is now widely considered the leading portal to the world of citizen-generated media, Dave was co-founder and CTO...
Paul "Pablos" Holman
Pablos is a futurist, IT security expert, and a notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies. At Komposite, he consults on bizarre invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies. Previously, Pablos created...
Georges Kern
Georges A. Kern is Chief Executive Officer of International Watch Co. At the beginning of 2002 and ten years after he put on his first IWC, he was appointed as the new CEO. Born in 1965 to the renowned...
Eyal Hertzog
Eyal Hertzog his a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Metacafe, a place where artists create, consumers interact and technology enables communication. Prior to co-founding Metacafe, where he drives product innovation and content strategy, Mr. Hertzog co-founded Contact Networks in...
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese conceptual artist, curator and architect. For 25 years Ai Weiwei was consistently one of the most innovative figures in China’s art world. He helped direct the course of Chinese art, not only through his...
Rainer Hillebrand
Dr. Rainer Hillebrand, born on 1 April 1956, studied Economics and Organisational Sciences at the University of the Bundeswehr (Federal Armed Forces) in Hamburg from 1977 to 1981. From 1981 to 1985 he was engaged in various functions as...
Gabe McIntyre
Gabriel McIntyre has become an European authority on the subject of video blogging, traveling all over the world to talk to companies, media agencies and at conferences about the subject. In his video blog XOLO.TV, both Gabe McIntyre and...
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson was born in Copenhagen in 1967. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and moved to Germany in 1993. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin which today functions as a laboratory...
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of eleven books including her latest, “On Becoming Fearless… in Love, Work, and Life”. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when...
Matt Cohler
Matt Cohler is VP Strategy & Business Operations at Facebook, a social utility that helps people better understand the world around them. At Facebook Matt manages business operations and is responsible for the launch of new strategic initiatives across...
Hjalmar Winbladh
Hjalmar Winbladh is President and CEO at Rebtel Networks AB. He co-founded Rebtel to use his mobile Internet expertise to start a revolution in international mobile calling. Prior to Rebtel, Hjalmar was a strategy consultant and entrepreneur-in-residence at Investor...
Thomas Huber
Thomas Huber is a professional mountaineer and mountain guide from Bavaria. Together with his younger brother Alexander he is one of the Huber-Brothers, a world-leading climbing partnership. They have completed the hardest free-climbing routes in the world. At the...
Lauren Wiener
Lauren Wiener, VP of Meredith Interactive, oversees the company’s digital and emerging media business. Meredith Interactive serves nearly nine million women at every life stage and passion point. Wiener joined Meredith in 2003. She was responsible for advertising revenue...
Randall Rothenberg
Randall (Randy) Rothenberg is the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the trade association for interactive marketing in the United States. The IAB represents over 300 leading interactive companies; members are responsible for selling over 86% of...
Peer Steinbrück
Peer Steinbrück is the Federal Minister of Finance in Angela Merkel's cabinet. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and has served as prime minister (Ministerpräsident) of North Rhine-Westphalia from November 2002 to June 2005....
Marko Ahtisaari
Marko Ahtisaari is responsible for the brand and design of Blyk. Prior to joining Blyk Marko was Director of Design Strategy at Nokia. While at Nokia Marko held management positions in venturing, design and corporate strategy, always with a...
Cevat Yerli
Cevat Yerli is co-founder and president of Crytek. He was born in 1978. His first games and development experiences go back to the 80s with the Commodore 64 and the Schneider CPC 6128 where he worked on simulation games....
Jeff Pulver
Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and Founder of pulver.com, and one of the true pioneers of the VoIP industry. Leveraging well over a decade of hands-on experience in Internet/IP communications and innovation, Mr. Pulver is a globally renowned thought...
Nikolaj Nyholm
Nikolaj Nyholm is O'Reilly Media's Conference Program Chair for Europe and CEO of the people photo-identification service Polar Rose. He's trying to connect European emerging tech and open source milieus, hoping to contribute to the creation of a vibrant...
Steve Mariotti
Considered one of today’s leading experts in education for at-risk youth, Steve Mariotti changed career paths back in 1982 when he decided to move from the corporate sector and become a special education teacher in the New York City...
Carlos Bhola
Carlos M. Bhola is Managing Partner of Celsius Capital and 2b Holdings, investment and advisory services concerns focused on companies in the technology, media and telecommunications industries. Current and previous portfolio companies include Vonage, CallTower, EachNet/eBay China, SmartPay, Aircom...
Bart Becks
Bart Becks is Senior Vice President New Media at SBS Broadcasting Group Europe, in charge of managing the digital media initiatives over the web, interactive television, mobile devices and other emerging platforms. SBS Broadcasting is a leading European media...
Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author. He sold his first science fiction story in 1976. His solonovels include Schismatrix (1985), Islands In The Net (1988), Heavy Weather (1994), and Holy Fire (1996). In 1986 he edited Mirrorshades:...
Niklas Zennström
Niklas Zennström, born 1966, is a Swedish entrepreneur. He is the founder of the KaZaA peer-to-peer file sharing network and Skype peer-to-peer internet telephony network. He holds dual degrees in Business Administration and Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in...
Christiane zu Salm
Christiane zu Salm is an investor in media, internet and emerging technology companies. She advocates the development of new and innovative business models in these fields. As an entrepreneur she focuses on exploring new avenues in business and society....
Martin Varsavsky
Martin Varsavsky was born in 1961 in Argentina. At the age of 16, he moved with his family to the United States as a refugee. He earned a bachelors degree in international relations from NYU and a Masters degree...
Alexander Straub
Alexander Straub is a German entrepreneur and investor based in London, focusing on significant technology or business model innovations. Several sectors are of particular interest - mobile, software, internet, biotech, organic food, healthy living and alternative energy - though...
Linda Stone
Linda Stone co-founded and directed the Virtual Worlds (now Social Computing Group) in Microsoft Research in 1994. This research group focused on improving online human social interactions and continues to do this work today. Stone initiated and directed a...
Oliver Samwer
Oliver Samwer is founder of Jamba! GmbH. Born in 1972 Oliver Samwer completed Business Administration Studies at the WHU School of Business, graduating with the title Diplom-Kaufmann. In 1996 he was a second-year MBA programme exchange student at the...
Rolf Sachs
Rolf Sachs is a Swiss-passport-carrying European born in Lausanne. He studied mathematics at the London School of Economics and has a Bs in Business administration from the Menlo School of Business Administration. Rolf Sachs is best known as an...
David de Rothschild
David de Rothschild is the 28-year-old founder and creator of Sculpt the Future - an independently run initiative that aims to raise environmental awareness and action through education. No stranger to using alternative mediums to gain awareness for environmental...
Arend Oetker
Dr. Arend Oetker is Chairman of the Board of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Essen, which is the joint initiative of the Geman industry to promote science. He is also Chairman of the German Council on Foreign Relations...
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. A graduate of MIT, Negroponte was a...
Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmark (born in 1952) is an Internet entrepreneur best known for founding San Francisco-based website craigslist and shaking up the classified advertising business. Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University. As a senior Web-oriented...
Walt Mossberg
Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He is also the co-creator and co-producer of the technology industry's most prestigious annual...
Miltos Manetas
Miltos Manetas (born 1964) is an artist and the creator of the Neen art movement. He was born in Greece and currently shares his time between Paris and Los Angeles. He received art training in Brera-Milan, Italy. Manetas' work...
Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer is Vice President, Search Products & User Experience at Google and leads the product management efforts on Google's search products. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google's search interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100...
Rob Kalin
Robert Kalin is a carpenter by trade, making his residence in Brooklyn. He founded Etsy in 2005 as an online marketplace for everyone to buy and sell handmade goods, all over the world.. He recently spent a couple months...
Norman Foster
Norman Foster is one of the most important architects practising in the world today. His practice, Foster + Partners, is based in London but has project offices worldwide. Since its foundation in 1967, the practice has pioneered a sustainable...
Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake is the Co-Founder of Flickr.com which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Caterina's deep understanding of online community, blogs and the collaborative web has helped launch Flickr into the photo-sharing juggernaut of the Web 2.0. Prior to...
Frances Corner
In October 2005 Frances Corner was appointed Head of College at London College of Fashion. Prior to this Frances was the Head of the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design at London Metropolitan University and has...
Beth Comstock
Beth Comstock was named President, NBC Universal Digital Media and Market Development in December 2005. Comstock drives NBC Universal's emerging digital business, including the iVillage Properties which was acquired by NBC Universal in May 2006. Comstock is also charged...
Chris Bangle
Christopher (Chris) Bangle (born 1956 in Ohio) is an automobile designer and Chief of Design for BMW Group. Bangle began his career at Opel. He later moved to Fiat where he became chief designer. When he joined BMW in...
Thierry Antinori
Thierry Antinori, born on July 26, 1961, was appointed a member of the airline board of Lufthansa German Airlines on January 1, 2000. As Executive Vice President Marketing & Sales he is responsible for Lufthansa's global sales and marketing...
Andreas Angelidakis
Andreas Angelidakis is an architect working at the intersection of digital culture and architectural production. Operating for almost 9 years, Angelidakis has realized projects in Sweden, Switzerland, USA and Italy as well as various online communities such as Active...
Christoph Braun
Dr. Christoph Braun is Managing Director of Burda Digital Ventures, the Corporate Venture Capital arm of Hubert Burda Media and developer of Internet and mobile-based business models. He also serves as Director Treasury for the group. In addition, Christoph...
Daniel Dubno
Daniel Dubno is a pioneer in the use of powerful graphic technologies, satellite imagery, and visualization tools for news coverage. Until recently he was producer and technologist for CBS News in New York, where he coordinated Special Events Unit...
Rudolf Gröger
Rudolf Gröger, CEO, O2 Germany Rudolf Gröger was born in 1954. In 1996 he started his career as a Spokesman of the German Management Board at Siemens AG (Information & Communication Products and SNI AG). In 1999 he joined...
Lars Hinrichs
Lars Hinrichs is co-founder and Managing Director of Xing, formally known as OpenBC. Lars started his career as an entrepreneur in 1998 at the age of 22 after working as a consultant at different new media firms. In 1998...
Timm Kehler
Dr. Timm Kehler is Vice President Marketing Predevelopment and Innovation at the BMW Group. He studied Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design and received his Ph. D. in Engineering. Timm joined the BMW Group in 1997 as a project manager...
David Kirkpatrick
David Kirkpatrick is senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune magazine. Consistently rated one of the most influential tech journalists in the U.S., he has written cover stories on Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Sun, as well major features...
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Curator The Swiss curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist is well known for the exhibitions he has organized internationally. After studying economics and politics he turned to contemporary art and has since gained wide acclaim for his extraordinary exhibitions, which...
Ernst Poeppel
Prof. Poeppel has served as chairman in the Helmholtz Center in Jülich being responsible for environmental research and life sciences. He has done research in the brain sciences and psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at...
Marcel Reichart
Dr Marcel Silvester Reichart is Managing Director R&D, Marketing and Communications at Hubert Burda Media and Co-Host DLD, assignments he shares with Stephanie Czerny. For the last five years, Marcel has been working for Hubert Burda Media, initially as...
Joseph Vardi
Dr. Joseph (Yossi) Vardi is a chairman of DLD. He is one of Israel’s high-tech veterans, with 35 years experience of founding and participating in building over 30 high-tech companies, in the fields of Internet, software, telecommunications, electro-optics, energy,...
Jochen Wegner
Jochen Wegner is editor-in-chief of Focus Online, one of the most widely read German-language news sites with 3 million readers. Before that Wegner was deputy science editor of Focus News Magazine. He regularly published cover stories about online media,...
Stefan Winners
Since June 2005, Stefan Winners is CEO of TOMORROW FOCUS AG. From 2000 - 2005 he was managing director of CyPress, one of Germanys leading Game Magazine Publishers, as well as member of the board of Vogel Media Group....
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