"> Christian Angermayer (29) is founder and one of five operating partners of Angermayer, Brumm & Lange Unternehmensgruppe (ABL), one of Germany´s largest and fastest growing independent financial services groups. Via several subsidiaries, ABL is active in the fields of...
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Entries about "speaker08" at DLD Conference
Jörg Blumtritt
"> Jörg Blumtritt is Head of Community Marketing & Research at Burda Community Network. 1993-1998 Scientific Researcher Ethology (behavioral Sciences), social psychology; projects in nonverbal communication research, funded by European Commission, German Federal Government, Max-Planck-Ges. 1999-2003 SevenOne Media GmbH /...
Marcel Reichart
"> Dr. Marcel Reichart was born in1972 in Germany. He studied business, political science and history in Koblenz (WHU), Lyon, Washington D.C. and Rome. During his doctorate, he acted as advisor to former German Federal Minister of Economy Dr. Otto...
Stephanie Czerny
"> Stephanie 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...
Marc Mangold
"> Dr. Marc Mangold is Head of Corporate Development and Research at Hubert Burda Media R&D, Marketing & Communications, where he is closely involved in the company's strategic initiatives and corporate development. Since 2007 he is also head of Hubert...
Markus Miessen
Markus Miessen is a German, London-based architect, researcher, educator, and writer. Co-director of Miessen&Ploughfields and director of the Architectural Association Winter School Middle East, Miessen has advised the European Kunsthalle and the think tank Demos, and lectured widely including at...
Kara Swisher
"> Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts “D: All Things Digital” a major high-tech conference with Walt Mossberg for Dow Jones. She and Mossberg are also the co-editors of a new Dow Jones tech and media Web site, AllThingsD.com, where...
Chauncey Shey
"> Chauncey Shey has been the founder of SBCVC (SB China Venture Capital) and Managing Partner since the year 2000. SBCVC is a leading venture capital firm in China and manages multiple funds with broad LP base. SBCVC promotes Silicon...
Gregory W. Harper
"> Gregory W. Harper is President of Cerberus Corp., a firm dedicated to assisting businesses develop and implement new visual and aural communication technologies. Mr. Harper is also co founder of Gadgetoff a unique annual event which gathers leading technologist...
Lisa Randall
"> Lisa Randall studies particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University, where she is professor of theoretical physics. Her research concerns elementary particles and fundamental forces, and has involved the development and study of a wide variety of models, the...
Francesca von Habsburg
"> Francesca von Habsburg was born in Switzerland and began there her studies. In London she studied art at St. Martin’s School of Art and history of modern art at the ICA. After studying acting in New York and Los...
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...
Taryn Simon
"> Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her highly acclaimed and influential work, The Innocents, documents cases of wrongful conviction in the United States and investigates...
David de Rothschild
"> In 2005, David founded Adventure Ecology, an independently run organisation that uses adventure, education and the arts to address global sustainability issues. His commitment to the environment has sent him to some of the world’s most remote and fragile...
Christiane zu Salm
"> Christiane zu Salm is founder and CEO of About Change Ventures (ACV). ACV is an independent private equity fund which was founded in spring 2007. ACV offers growth capital for media content, internet, telecom and advertising companies. ACV focuses...
Ingo Griebl
"> Ingo Griebl (37) is Managing Director of Burda:ic, the PC online gaming subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media. As pan-European player, Burda:ic offers gaming products and builds up communities around hard core and mass market games. To date, over 1...
Jörg Rohleder
"> Born (1976) and raised in Stuttgart, Germany, Jörg Rohleder started writing at the early age of 17. During his years as a student of political science, history and literature in London and Tübingen he cultivated his skills as a...
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...
Greg Lynn
"> Greg Lynn is principal of Greg Lynn FORM, Lynn has taught throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to being a studio professor at UCLA he is the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University and o. Univ. Prof....
Morten Lund
"> Archangel investor, serial entrepreuneur, startup ideologist and visionary. Morten Lund has founded and/or co-invested in more than 40 high-tech start ups including Skype, the Internet phone startup bought by eBay for $2.6 billion. At 35 years of age, his...
Yat Siu
"> Yat began his technology career in 1990 at Atari Germany. He then moved on to Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor. In 1996, Yat moved to Hong Kong and established Hong Kong Cybercity, and in 1997,...
Vishal Gondal
"> In 1999, Vishal Gondal founded Indiagames, then a five member team. Today he leads a global operation with over 300 employees and offices in Mumbai, Beijing, London and Los Angeles, making Indiagames, India’s benchmark online and mobile games company...
Hans-Peter Siebenhaar
Born in 1962, Dr. Hans-Peter Siebenhaar has studied political sciences, dramatics and communication sciences, sociology and new history in Erlangen (Germany), Kalamazoo (USA) and Madrid (Spain). During his studies, he worked as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk and volunteered at...
René Obermann
René Obermann, born in March 1963 in Düsseldorf, Germany, has been Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Telekom since November 2006. From the end of 2002 to December 2006, he was CEO of T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG and the...
Richard Dawkins
"> Richard Dawkins FRS is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is the author of nine books: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986),...
J. Craig Venter
"> Founder, Chairman, and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), J. Craig Venter, PhD is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his contributions to genomic research. JCVI is a not-for-profit, research and...
Marc Samwer
"> Marc Samwer is the co-founder and Managing Director of the European Founders Fund, a leading venture capital & private equity firm Marc runs with his two brothers Oliver and Alexander. The Samwer brothers have started and built three of...
Reid Hoffmann
"> Reid was LinkedIn's founding CEO for the first four years before moving to his role as Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. While CEO, Reid built the company to over 9 million members and profitability; Linkedin now has...
Kevin Slavin
"> Kevin Slavin is the Managing Director and co-founder of area/code. Founded in 2005, area/code creates cross-media games and entertainment for clients including MTV, Nokia, CBS, Disney Imagineering, Discovery Networks, A&E Networks, and ad agencies like Cramer-Krasselt. Area/code builds on...
Ohad Eder Pressman
"> Ohad Eder Pressman is founder of 3D3R Software Studio, a provider of high-end services in the fields of software development, rapid prototyping and product design, and an incubator of new software technologies. Working with companies like Nokia, Yahoo and...
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,...
Bradley Horowitz
"> Bradley Horowitz, Vice President of Yahoo!'s Advanced Development Division, leads Yahoo!'s efforts in building innovative new ventures. Bradley leads programs such as Hack Yahoo!, Y! Agile, Brickhouse and Advanced Products. He has also championed acquisitions for Yahoo!, including Flickr...
H.E. Paul Kagame
H.E. Paul Kagame was born in October 1957 in Rwanda. He fled persecution and killing in Rwanda and became a refugee in Uganda in 1960. He attended a staff and command course at Fort Lavenworth, Kansas USA in 1990. In...
Esther Dyson
"> Esther Dyson (born 1951 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a journalist and commentator on emerging digital technology, a founding member of the digerati, an entrepreneur, and a philanthropist. Esther Dyson is the daughter of physicist Freeman Dyson and mathematician Verana...
Linda Avey
"> Linda has over 20 years of sales and business development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. Prior to starting 23andMe, she developed translational research collaborations with academic and pharmaceutical partners for...
Anne Wojcicki
"> Anne brings to 23andMe a 10-year background in healthcare investing, focused primarily on biotechnology companies. Anne left the investing world with the hope that she could have a positive impact on research and medicine through 23andMe. From her vantage...
Thomas Bayrle
"> The Frankfurt artist and prominent representative of German art, Thomas Bayrle, taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 1975 to 2002. He has received a number of awards and prizes, including the Prix...
Delia Cohen
"> Executive Director of Pangea Day, Delia was previously Director of Communications for the Clinton Global Initiative and also ran an 11-office department in the White House charged with handling public communications for President Clinton. Other recent projects include establishing...
Patrick Walker
"> Patrick joined Google in January 2006 to lead the development of content strategy and partnerships for Google Video in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has over 15 years of experience in the media industry, including his tenure...
Niklas Zennström
"> As an Internet entrepreneur, Niklas is one of Atomico's co-founders and partners. Previously, he also co-founded Joost, Skype and Kazaa, among others. He is also co-chairman of Joost and chairman of Skype. Through Atomico, Niklas serves as a Board...
Dina Kaplan
"> Dina Kaplan is the co-founder and COO of blip.tv. Dina oversees business operations for the company, including media partnerships, advertising and sponsorship deals, distribution deals, PR, marketing and investor relations. Blip.tv is an online television network featuring and promoting...
Sugata Mitra
"> Prof. Sugata Mitra works in the areas of Cognitive Science, Information Science and Educational Technology. He has been working in these areas, as well as Physics and Energy for more than 30 years. His contributions include a number of...
Antonio Rodriguez
"> Antonio Rodriguez is director of Research and Development for HP’s embedded web-to-print team within the company’s Imaging and Printing Group and is responsible for helping develop solutions that make printing from the web as easy as printing from the...
Yogev Triki
"> Yogev Triki is the mobile business operations manager of AtlasCT (Atlas Cartographic Technologies) Ltd., a leading provider of worldwide mapping and location-based solutions. He earned a B.A. in Computer Sciences and Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, which he...
Alex Willcock
"> Alex Willcock has a career spanning 15 years creatively developing some of the world's best brands. He sold his award winning design agency to embark on an idea to develop a universal language of communication and understanding. This led...
Samir Arora
"> Samir Arora co-founded distributed media company Glam Media to create a better way for brand advertisers to connect with the coveted female demographic on the Web. Today, Glam Media is the fastest-growing property on the Web, bringing together the...
Omar Hamoui
"> Omar is an entrepreneur with deep roots in the mobile industry. After earning a degree in Computer Science at UCLA, Omar founded and ran several companies in mobile software and services. At the time, he was frustrated by the...
Mattias Miksche
"> Mattias Miksche is the CEO and co-founder of Stardoll, an international fashion & entertainment community for teen and tween girls that attracts over 7 million unique users every month. Prior to Stardoll, he founded online DVD rental company Boxman...
Stanley Yang
"> Stanley Yang is Chief Executive Officer of NeuroSky, Inc., a bio-sensor company in Silicon Valley, California. NeuroSky has developed a revolutionary non-invasive neural communication sensor that converts brainwaves and other bio-signals into electronic signals for communication and control of...
Gerhard Florin
"> As Executive Vice President for EA Publishing in the Americas and Europe, Dr. Gerhard Florin oversees Publishing in all western world markets, with responsibility for sales, marketing and distribution of EA’s portfolio of products and services. Prior to that,...
Krister Linder
"> Artist/producer Krister Linder is one of the main players of the Swedish underground music scene. Linder has released numerous albums under different pseudonyms, ranging from instrumental ambient to nose-bleed techno. In Sweden, he’s known for his characteristic voice, strong...
Frank Briegmann
"> Frank Briegmann, President & CEO Universal Music Germany, began his career in the music industry at BMG in 1995 after studying business. After early work for BMG in the field of strategy, he switched in 1997 to the post...
Herbert Kohler
"> Dr. Herbert Kohler holds the positions of vice president, group research & advanced engineering vehicle and powertrain, Mercedes-Benz Car, and chief environmental officer for Daimler AG. In these roles, he is responsible for Daimler’s propulsion, body, materials and production...
Roby Stancel
"> As Director of Products at Nanosolar, Roby Stancel is responsible for product requirements and design, in order to make Nanosolar’s products and systems as revolutionary as the solar cells that go into them. Roby has helped create a wide...
Kazys Varnelis
"> Kazys Varnelis is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He researches and teaches courses on the impact of digital technology and communications networks on architecture and cities. A member...
Elizabeth Diller
"> Elizabeth Diller is a principal and co-founder of the inter-disciplinary studio, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. DS+R’s work encompasses architecture, urban design, temporary and permanent site-specific installations, multi-media theater, electronic media, and print. DS+R is currently working on various projects...
Karina Hollekim
"> Professional Free-skier and B.A.S.E. jumper, Karina Hollekim was born in 1976 and is still the only woman who ever completed a ski B.A.S.E. She is Norway’s only professional B.A.S.E. jumper and an exponent of B.A.S.E. jump aerials, including the...
Jason McCabe Calacanis
"> Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine. Prior to Mahalo.com's launch in May, 2007, he was an "Entrepreneur in Action" at Sequoia Capital, a position he held since December 2006. Jason co-founded...
Olaf Göttgens
"> Dr. Olaf Göttgens has been the Vice President in charge of Brand Communications for Mercedes-Benz Cars at Daimler AG since January 2006. In this capacity he is responsible for the brand management as well as for all marketing areas...
Richard Saul Wurman
"> Spurred by the dance between his curiosity & ignorance, Richard Saul Wurman has sought ways to make the complex clear. Although his 81 books appear to be on different subjects, i.e. travel, information theory, information architecture, health care, cartography,...
Neri Oxman
"> Neri Oxman is an architect and researcher whose work attempts to establish both new forms of experimental design and novel processes of material practice through the interface of design, computer science, structural engineering and biology. She is founder of...
Julian Bleecker
"> Julian Bleecker is co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory, a consultancy focusing on emerging and conceptual design-technology for new interactive experiences. He has spoken and exhibited at venues such as SIGGRAPH, Lift, Xerox PARC, Intel, and SK Telecom'’s Art...
Kati London
"> Kati London researches, designs, and develops technology for interactive crowdsource and disruptive experiences. Her work includes hardware for networking plants and people (Botanicalls), game structures that connect residents of Gaza City and Tel Aviv or Baghdad and New York...
Peter Hirshberg
"> Peter Hirshberg is an entrepreneur and marketing innovator who has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 20 years. He is a Trustee of The Computer History Museum and a Henry...
Clay Shirky
"> Clay Shirky studies the way communications tools alter or amplify social life; his current work is on large-scale collaborative networks. Mr. Shirky is on the faculty at NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program and has worked as an advisor or...
Marissa Mayer
"> As Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, Marissa Mayer leads the product management efforts on Google's search products – web search, images, news, Google Earth, Google Desktop, Google Labs and more. She joined Google in 1999 as...
Shai Agassi
"> Shai Agassi is the founder and CEO of Better PLC, a new infrastructure creator and operator for the management of country-wide electric vehicle fleets. Better PLC works with governments, carmakers, and financial institutes creating a large scale framework for...
Adam Bly
"> Adam Bly drives Seed Media Group’s overall business and content strategy. At 16, he became the youngest researcher at the National Research Council (NRC) Canada. While at NRC, Adam identified a cultural shift in the making and set out...
Matthew Ritchie
"> In 2001, Time magazine listed Ritchie as one of the 100 innovators for the next Millennium, for his exploration of “the unthinkable or the not-yet-thought.” His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide, including the Whitney Biennial, the...
Hèctor Parra
"> Born in 1976, Hèctor Parra studied at the Conservatorium of Barcelona, where he was awarded Prizes with Distinction in Composition and Piano. He holds a Master of Composition from the Paris-VIII University, Annual Cursus on Composition from IRCAM, and...
Naomi Campbell
"> In 2007, Naomi Campbell celebrated 21 years since she began modelling. Within this time, she has further defined herself as a business woman, launching the first ever celebrity perfume nine years ago, as well as supporting a variety of...
Akram Zaatari
"> Born in Saida, Lebanon in 1966, Akram Zaatari is an artist who lives and works in Beirut. Author of more than 40 videos, Zaatari has been exploring issues pertinent to postwar Lebanon. Collector of testimonies on Lebanon’s social constrains,...
Cao Fei
"> Born in 1978 in Guangzhou, Cao Fei now lives and works in Beijing. Cao Fei graduated from the Affiliated Middle School of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, also obtaining her BFA degree here. She has been working with multimedia...
Suranga Chandratillake
"> Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx, is a technology innovator with over seven years of frontline experience. Prior to founding blinkx, Suranga was the U.S. CTO for Autonomy Corporation, a Cambridge-based technology company. He has also worked for...
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...
Chuck Hoberman
"> Known internationally for his Transformable Structures, Chuck Hoberman is an inventor whose work demonstrates how objects are foldable, retractable, or shape-shifting. Such capabilities lead to functional benefits: portability, instantaneous opening, and intelligent responsiveness within the built environment. Examples of...
Pablos Holman
"> Pablos is a futurist, inventor, and notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies. At Komposite, Pablos is implementing science fiction with invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies. Pablos has created thigh...
Linda Stone
"> Widely recognized as a visionary thinker and thought leader, Linda Stone is a writer, speaker and consultant focused on trends and their strategic and consumer implications. Previously, she spent close to twenty years as an executive in high technology....
Brent Hoberman
"> Brent Hoberman co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998 with Martha Lane Fox. As CEO, Brent increased profits substantially, with gross bookings of over $2bn. The company floated in March 2000 when the dot-com bubble was at its peak - the...
Addy Feuerstein
"> An interactive media designer, consultant and teacher, Addy Feuerstein has designed and implemented user interface for games, websites, and desktop applications for various companies and institutions, including MeeVee, WebCollage, I.P. Planet and Cyota. Addy has also worked at Zapa...
Randall Rothenberg
"> Randall Rothenberg is the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), 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...
David Rosenblatt
"> David Rosenblatt serves as CEO of DoubleClick, responsible for developing the long-term strategic vision and overseeing day-to-day operations. David joined DoubleClick in 1997 as part of the initial management team. During his tenure he has held several executive positions,...
Christoph Schuh
"> Christoph Schuh (*1964) graduated with a Diplom-Kaufmann degree in Management Studies from Cologne before starting his career in 1991 as a Management Assistant at the VOX TV station. He quickly worked his way up to head of the...
Magid Abraham
"> Dr. Magid Abraham is President, CEO and Co-Founder of comScore, Inc. Prior to comScore, Dr. Abraham was Founder and CEO of Paragren Technologies, Inc., which specialized in delivering large scale Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) systems for strategic and target...
Kenneth Roth
"> Kenneth Roth has been the executive director of Human Rights Watch since 1993. Human Rights Watch investigates, reports on and seeks to curb human rights abuses in some 70 countries. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Roth served as deputy...
Judith Park
"> Judith Park is a German comic-artist, author and illustrator of Korean origin. She made her debut with the short story, “a rotten day,” with which she won the “Manga-Magie” contest against 359 competitors in Cologne. Since then, Park published...
Klaus-Peter Schulenberg
"> Klaus-Peter Schulenberg is the Executive Board Chairman and is also responsible for corporate strategy, new media and marketing at CTS EVENTIM AG. He started in the entertainment business while still a student in Bremen and founded his first company,...
Pim Betist
"> Pim Betist worked for Heineken and Shell before creating sellaband.com with co-founder ex-Sony executive Johan Vosmeijer in August 2006. SellaBand has been called the latest online European revolution in the way music is consumed. Individuals may buy a part...
Stefan Glänzer
"> Former executive chairman and investor of Last.fm, Stefan Glänzer is also actively involved as founder and CEO of myblog.de, the largest blogging community in Germany. Stefan is a serial entrepreneur: in 1998 he founded ricardo.de, Germany's largest online-auction company,...
David Faiman
"> David Faiman is Professor of Physics and Chairman of the Department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics at Ben-Gurion University’s Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Sede Boqer where he is also director of Israel’s National Solar Energy Center....
Bjarke Ingels
"> In 2005, Bjarke Ingels opened his own office, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), after having co-founded PLOT Architects in 2001 and collaborated with Rem Koolhaas at OMA. Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke Ingels has created...
Charles Renfro
"> Charles Renfro joined Diller + Scofidio in 1997 and was promoted to partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS + R) in 2004. As a collaborator with Diller + Scofidio, he served as Project Leader on Brasserie, Eyebeam, the...
Patrik Schumacher
"> Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects. Patrik Schumacher has been teaching at various architectural schools in Britain, Continental Europe and the USA since 1992. He has co-taught a series of post-graduate option studios with Zaha Hadid at...
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...
Tyler Brûlé
"> Born in Canada and based in the UK for the past 18 years, Tyler Brûlé began his career as a reporter for the BBC before turning to print journalism. In 1996, he launched Wallpaper* magazine, which became an instant...
Martha Stewart
"> From the award-winning magazine, Martha Stewart Living, to the bestselling product lines that bear her name, Martha Stewart has become America’s most trusted guide to stylish living. Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, in a family with six children, Martha’s...
Neta Oren & Yam Aylon
Neta and Yam are students in the Democratic School in Hadera, Israel. They started Juggling and Circus studies about five years ago, with the first two years in the circus tent of Benyamina. Both have performed around Israel, performing in...
Paola Antonelli
"> Paola Antonelli joined The Museum of Modern Art in 1994 and is a Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design. Her first exhibition for MoMA, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design (1995), was followed by Thresholds: Contemporary Design...
Konstantin Grcic
"> Konstantin Grcic is a German industrial designer who studied design at the Royal College of Art in London from 1988-1990. Since setting up his own design practice KONSTANTIN GRCIC INDUSTRIAL DESIGN (KGID) in Munich in 1991, he has developed...
Yves Behar
"> Yves Behar is the founder of the San Francisco design studio fuseproject. Yves’ focus is humanistic design, tapping into the “giving” element of the creative profession, with the goal of creating projects deeply in-tune with the needs of a...
John Maeda
"> John Maeda is a world-renowned graphic designer, visual artist, and computer scientist at the MIT Media Lab; he is a founding voice for “simplicity” in the digital age. Named by Esquire magazine as one of the 21 most important...
Martin Varsavsky
"> Telecommunications entrepreneur, Martin Varsavsky founded his first company, Viatel, in 1990. Viatel provided long distance services to customers based outside the US, in particular, Argentina. However, with increased competition within the callback industry, Varsavsky chose to open a new...
Ashish Patel
"> Based in London, Ashish Patel is the Managing Director for Europe, Israel and the Middle East at Intel Capital. Mr. Patel has been investing in young business for the better part of a decade and has been with...
Philipp Freise
"> Philipp Freise, a Principal with global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), has been involved with the investments in ATU, AVR, Demag, Duales System Deutschland (DSD), MTU Aero Engines, ProSiebenSat.1, SBS Broadcasting and Zumtobel since 2001. Philipp Freise currently...
Simon Levene
"> Simon Levene joined Accel having spent over a dozen years in the Internet, media and communications industries. His areas of expertise include consumer, Internet (media and infrastructure), software and services. Prior to Accel, Simon served as Managing Director of...
Andreas Weigend
"> Andreas Weigend was the chief scientist of Amazon.com where he helped create a customer-centric, measurement-focused culture. He now works both with innovative startups and visionary multinationals in the area of people and data. He also works on innovation for...
Farokh Balsara
"> Farokh Balsara acts as both head of Media & Entertainment of Ernst & Young in India and is Partner with the Risk & Business Solutions Practice. Through his 21-year career, Farokh has served several clients in the media, entertainment...
Marcus Englert
Dr. Marcus Englert studied physics at the University of Munich before earning his doctorate at CERN, the European nuclear research institute in Geneva. From 1994 to 1998, he was a consultant with Boston Consulting Group in Munich and in 1996,...
Tero Ojanperä
Starting January 1, 2008, Tero Ojanperä holds the position of Executive Vice President, Entertainment and Communities for Nokia. He is also a member of the Nokia Group Executive Board, a position held since 2005. A sought-after industry commentator, author and...
Viviane Reding
As Commissioner for Information, Society and Media for the European Commission, Viviane Reding is responsible for all communications infrastructure within the European Union, including telecommunication networks, broadband internet access and satellite communications, new communications technologies, and digital material. Reding joined...
John Brockman
"> John Brockman is a cultural impresario whose career has encompassed the avant-garde art world, science, books, software, and the Internet. In the 1960s, he coined the word "Intermedia" and pioneered "Intermedia kinetic environments" in art, theatre, and commerce, while...
Joanna Shields
"> As Bebo President, Joanna Shields is responsible for all commercial aspects of the business, as well as developing the Bebo experience globally and providing the community with engaging content across all platforms. Prior to Bebo, Shields was Managing Director...
Matt Cohler
"> Matt Cohler is Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Facebook, where he leads the development of new strategic initiatives for the company. As the seventh employee at Facebook, Matt has worked with the team during many critical growth...
Andrej Nabergoj
"> In the last decade, Andrej co-founded and led six software and internet companies in eight European markets and in Japan, including Parsek Systems, where he developed the company from start-up to 100+ employees and Httpool, a leading Eastern European...
Itay Talgam
Itay Talgam has conducted some of the world’s best ensembles, studying with and assisting some of the world’s greatest conductors, including Leonard Bernstein and Claudio Abbado. A native of Israel, he studied music in Jerusalem (and Philosophy in the Hebrew...
Carolyn Porco
"> Dr. Carolyn Porco is the leader of the Cassini Imaging Science team and the Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She holds adjunct professorships at the University...
David Silverman
"> David Silverman is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series The Simpsons. David is largely credited with creating most of the "rules" for drawing The Simpsons. Having started with The Simpsons (in 1987)...
Paulo Coelho
"> Originally from Brazil, Paulo began his career by first joining forces with rock star Raul Seixas, composing 120 songs that revolutionized Brazilian rock music. In 1986, Paulo walked the Road to Santiago, and reconverted to Christianity, finding, again, the...
Jimmy Wales
"> Although best known for founding Wikipedia.org, Jimmy Wales has also set up the Wikimedia Foundation in 2003 and co-founded Wikia, Inc., in 2004. As part of his work at Wikia, Inc., Wales is developing a human-powered search engine, Search...
David Kirkpatrick
"> David Kirkpatrick, senior editor for Internet and technology at FORTUNE, writes about the converging tech industries as well as the impact of the Internet on business and society. His Fast Forward column appears weekly on fortune.com and through free...
Joe Schoendorf
"> Active in high technology industries for nearly forty years, Joe Schoendorf is currently a member and strategic partner of the World Economic Forum and has served as a consultant to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in...
Joseph (Yossi) Vardi
"> Dr. Joseph (Yossi) Vardi is a co-chair of DLD. With 39 years experience of co-founding, leading and participating in building over 60 high-tech companies, he is one of Israel’s early entrepreneurs. Yossi co-pioneered instant messaging as the founding investor...
Sir Martin Sorrell
"> Sir Martin Sorrell is chief executive and architect of WPP, one of the world’s largest communications services groups. WPP companies provide clients with advertising; media investment management; information; insight & consultancy; public relations & public affairs; branding & identity,...
Jeff Jarvis
"> Jeff Jarvis blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com and writes the new media column in the Guardian. He is currently director of interactive journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting...
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