DLD Munich 2024 | DLD Conference | 10 January 2024 | House of Communication Munich, Friedenstraße 24, 81671 München, Germany

2024 Speakers

Ann-Kristin Achleitner
Distinguished Affiliated Professor, TUM

Christian Adler
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Twinu

Sina Afra
Founder & CEO, Tiko

Wale Ajisebutu
CEO, 21st Century Technologies

Bunmi Akinyemiju
CEO, Venture Garden Group

Marc Al-Hames
Member of the Board, Hubert Burda Media

Bulent Altan
Founding Partner, Alpine Space Ventures

Greg Ameyugo
Head of AI and Interactive Systems Division, CEA (Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission, France)

Jonas Andrulis
Founder and CEO, Aleph Alpha

Ana Paula Assis
General Manager, IBM Europe

Alloysius Attah
CEO & Co-Founder, Farmerline Group

Azeem Azhar
Writer & Entrepreneur, Exponential View

Alissa Baier-Lentz
Co-Founder & COO, Kintra Fibers

Matthias Ballweg
Co-Founder, CIRCULAR REPUBLIC / UnternehmerTUM

Heike Bangert
Senior Editor, FOCUS-MONEY

1da Banton
Artist

Yariv Bash
Co-Founder & CEO, Flytrex Aviation

Marcus Behrendt
Managing Partner, BMW i Ventures

Nils Bernhardt
Co-Founder, The Exploration Company GmbH

Yuriy Blokhin
Founder, Homecoming

Markus Blume
Bavarian State Minister of Science and the Arts

Irma Boom
Graphic Designer & Bookmaker

Alexandra Borchardt
Journalist, Advisor & Researcher

Reyhan Cepik
Co-Founder & CEO, Bliss

Srikant Chakravarti
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Curio AI

Suranga Chandratillake
General Partner, Balderton Capital

Michael Chui
Partner, McKinsey Global Institute

Vlad Ciurca
Co-Founder & Executive Producer, Techsylvania

Stella Clarke
Engineer, BMW

Tim Coles
CEO, rePLANET

Thomas Crampton
Entrepreneur, Advisor & Journalist

Kenneth Cukier
Deputy Executive Editor, The Economist

Susan Danziger
The Spark of Hudson, HudsonUP, Wally Farms

Anne-Laure de Chammard
Siemens Energy

Michael Diederich
FC Bayern München AG

DJ Dixon
Artist & DJ

Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Club of Rome

Thomas Dohmke
GitHub

Gabi Dreo Rodosek
Universität der Bundeswehr München

Stefan Drüssler
UnternehmerTUM

Ewa Duerr
Google

Esther Dyson
Wellville

Nela Duke Ekpenyong
LEGA.C Capital

Stefan Ender
DeepDrive

Ricarda Engelmeier
MMK

Jochen Engert
FlixMobility

Juan Enriquez
Excel Venture Management

Ludwig Ensthaler
468 Capital

Nick Farina
EeroQ

Florian Festl
FOCUS Online

Benedikt Franke
Munich Security Conference

Heike Freund
Marvel Fusion

Ina Fried
Axios

Maxime Friess
Emerald Stay

Markus Gabriel
University of Bonn

Sophie Galvagnon
Selar

Philipp Gerbert
TUM Venture Labs

Daniela Gerd tom Markotten
Deutsche Bahn AG

Alexander Gerfer
Würth Elektronik eiSos Group

Nicole Gerhardt
o2 Telefónica

Judith Gerlach
Bavarian State Ministry for Health Care and Prevention

Bastian Gierull
Octopus Energy Germany

Jan Goetz
IQM Quantum Computers

Maja Göpel
Political Economist, Transformation Scholar & Consultant

Bill Gross
Idealab

Anne-Marie Großmann
GMH Group

Benjamin Habbel
Limestone Capital

Cathy Hackl
Journey

Torsten Haferlach
MLL

Florian Haller
Serviceplan Group

Christian Hartel
Wacker Chemie AG

Christian Haub
Tengelmann Group

Martin Havers
Agile Solutions GmbH

Jacob Helberg
Palantir Technologies

Anna Sophie Herken
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Jörg Hermsdorf
Entrepreneur, Investor & Independent Researcher

Marjorie Hernandez
LUKSO

Thomas Hesse
Dreamstage

Christiaan Hetzner
Fortune

Solveigh Hieronimus
McKinsey & Company

Linda Hinz
News to be Good

Dirk Hoke
Volocopter

Marion Höllinger
UniCredit

Markus Höllmüller
EFAHRER.com

Klaus Hommels
Lakestar

Anthonia Adenaya Huard
Business Sweden

Kai Isand
Latitude59

Lev Israel
Sefaria

Josef Joffe
Stanford University

Martin Junghans
IBM Innovation Studio

Philipp Justus
Google

Maik Kähler
Plan.Net Studios

Inuwa Kashifu Abdullahi
National Information Technology Development Agency

Andrew Keen
Author & Broadcaster

David Kenny
Nielsen

Neeru Khosla
CK-12 Foundation

David Kirkpatrick
Techonomy

Alexander Kluge
DCTP

Tanit Koch
The New European

Daniel Koller
Seven.One AdFactory / flutwein®

Rem Koolhaas
OMA

Cassie Kozyrkov
Data Scientific

Sebastian Kuss
EMH Partners

Rafael Laguna de la Vera
SPRIND - Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation

Almar Latour
Dow Jones

Inya Lawal
Ascend Studios Foundation

Antoine Leboyer
TUM Venture Labs

Yoav Levy
Upstream Security

Katrin Ley
Fashion for Good

Ramona Liberoff
PACE (Platform for Accelerating Circular Economy)

Eva Lihotzky
Serviceplan Group

Solimán Lopez
SLStudio

Gary Marcus
AI Expert, Scientist, Entrepreneur, Author

Ricardo Marvão
Beta-i

Hilary Mason
Hidden Door

Holly Herndon & Matt Dryhurst
Artist

Nina Matzat
Plan.Net Studios

Eva Maydell
Member of the European Parliament

Fabian Mehring
Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs

Peter Meier
PaperChill

Antonella Mei-Pochtler
TUM Venture Labs

Daniel Metzler
Isar Aerospace

Christian Mohr
UnternehmerTUM

Niko Mohr
McKinsey&Company

Niclas Molinder
Session

Howard Morgan
B Capital Group / First Round Capital

Emad Mostaque
Stability AI

Sarah Müller
zolar

Mario Nava
European Commission, DG REFORM

Claudia Nemat
Deutsche Telekom AG

Lexi Novitske
Norrsken22

Ole Obermann
TikTok and Bytedance

Hans Ulrich Obrist
Serpentine Galleries

Irina Obushtarova
The Recursive

Maximilian Oehl
Brand New Bundestag

Björn Ommer
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Tunde Onakoya
Chess in Slums

Victoria Ossadnik
E.ON

Markus Pflitsch
Terra Quantum

Anne Philippi
The New Health Club

Stefano Pirandola
nodeQ

Eleanor Pringle
Fortune

Martin Puchner
Harvard University

Zvi Ram
Tel Aviv University

Svilen Rangelov
Dronamics

Mallik Rao
o2 Telefónica

Raycho Raychev
EnduroSat

Franziska Reich
FOCUS

Leon Reiner
Impact Hub Berlin

Victor Riparbelli
Synthesia

Phil Robinson
Bloomberg Media

Sophia Rödiger
1KOMMA5

Leor Roseman
University of Exeter

Jeanne Rubner
Technical University Munich (TUM)

Jennifer Rupp
TU Munich

Thomas Saueressig
SAP SE

Martin Schäfer
Fundación Jocotoco

Christof Schenck
Frankfurt Zoological Society of 1858 e.V

Jennifer Schenker
The Innovator

René Scheu
Institute for Swiss Economic Policy (IWP)

Alex Schill
Serviceplan

Antonia Schmalz
SPRIND

Helmut Schönenberger
UnternehmerTUM

Moritz Schularick
Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Dagmar Schuller
audEERING

Rolf Schumann
Schwarz Digits

Francesco Sciortino
Proxima Fusion

Robyn Scott
Apolitical

Ehud Shapiro
Weizmann Institute of Science

Ikhlaq Sidhu
IE University

Shamina Singh
Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Yat Siu
Animoca Brands

Markus Söder, MdL
Bavarian Minister-President

Katja Speck
DigitalMarketExpert / VisualVest / ID4me AISBL

Marc Spiegler
Cultural Strategist

Sarah Spiekermann
Institute for Information Systems & Society at WU Vienna

Kinga Stanislawska
European Women in VC

Georg Steiger
BillEase

Michael Sterner
OTH Regensburg

Armin Steuernagel
Purpose Foundation, Purpose Evergreen Capital

Sasha Stiles
Poet, Language Artist & AI Researcher

Sebastian Stricker
ShareTheMeal / share

Martin Stuchtey
The Landbanking Group

Hemant Taneja
General Catalyst

Christian Teichmann
Burda Principal Investments

Sarah Theinert
UVC Partners

John Thornhill
Financial Times

Emma Tucker
The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires

Gauri van Gulik
Multitudes Foundation

Franciscus van Meel
BMW M GmbH

Dirk van Quaquebeke
BEENEXT

Yossi Vardi
DLD Chairman

Nikolay Vasev
Epix AI

Roberto Viola
European Commission, DG CONNECT

Werner Vogels
Amazon

Auguste von Bayern
BIOTOPIA

Eckart von Hirschhausen
Stiftung Gesunde Erde – Gesunde Menschen

Felicitas von Peter
Active Philanthropy

Stefan Wagner
SAP Lab Munich

Bettina Warburg
Investor, Researcher, Web3 Expert

Patrick Warnking
Google

Björn Welter
Offgrid Mindful Cabins

Albert Wenger
Union Square Ventures

Herbert Wigwe
Access Holdings | Wigwe University

Greg Williams
WIRED

Lisa Witter
Apolitical Foundation

Miriam Wohlfarth
Banxware

Esther Wojcicki
Global Moonshots

Nele Würzbach
WELT

Li Xin
Caixin Media / Caixin Global

Rachel Yehuda
Mount Sinai

Paul Yu-Chun Chang
appliedAI

Xiaoyan Zhang
PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University

Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
La Famiglia VC