DLD Munich 2026

2026-01-15 · Munich

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Speakers, judges and hosts

  • Adrian Solgaard — CEO & Founder, Solgaard (Speaker)
  • Agate Freimane — General Partner, Norrsken VC (Speaker)
  • Aleksandar Stojanovic — Director General, DARI Foundation (Speaker)
  • Alessandro Centrone — President, Steelcase EMEA (Speaker)
  • Alexander Gerfer — CTO, Würth Elektronik eiSos Group (Speaker)
  • Alexander Kluge — Managing Director, DCTP (Speaker)
  • Alexander Rose — Director of Long-term Futures, Automattic (Speaker)
  • Alex Turtschan — Director Innovation, Mediaplus (Speaker)
  • Alinda Vermeer — Executive Director, Limelight Foundation (Speaker)
  • Almar Latour — CEO, Dow Jones (Speaker)
  • Amy Wilkinson — Founder & CEO, Ingenuity (Speaker)
  • Anahita Thoms — Country Managing Partner, Baker McKenzie (Speaker)
  • Andreas Blattmann — Co-Founder, Black Forest Labs (Speaker)
  • Andreas Liebl — Managing Director, UnternehmerTUM / appliedAI (Speaker)
  • Andreas Maier — Head Department of Computer Science, Friedrich Alexander University (FAU) Pattern Recognition Lab/Bavarian AI Council (Speaker)
  • Andreas Urschitz — Chief Marketing Officer & Member of the Management Board, Infineon Technologies AG (Speaker)
  • Andrew Keen — Author & Broadcaster, Author & Broadcaster (Speaker)
  • Andrii Dykun — Founder, Dykun Company (Speaker)
  • Anna Bauer-Mehren — Head of Integrated Clinical Analytic, Roche/Bavarian AI Council (Speaker)
  • Anne Philippi — Founder & CEO, The New Health Club (Speaker)
  • Annet Aris — Supervisory board member, INSEAD (Speaker)
  • Annika von Mutius — Co-Founder & CEO, Empion (Speaker)
  • Ann-Kristin Achleitner — Distinguished Affiliated Professor, Technical University Munich (Speaker)
  • Ann Mettler — Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Columbia University (Speaker)
  • Antonio Krüger — CEO, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) (Speaker)
  • Ariel Ekblaw — CEO, Aurelia Institute (Speaker)
  • Armin Nassehi — Professor of Sociology, Vice President, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (Speaker)
  • Arsha Kaviani — Concert Pianist, Artist (Speaker)
  • Artavazd Yeritsyan — Founder, Podcastle (Speaker)
  • Audrey Tang — Cyber Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan (R.O.C.) (Speaker)
  • Balázs Nagy — CEO & Founder, TYTAN Technologies (Speaker)
  • Bastian Bergmann — Co-Founder & COO, Solsten (Speaker)
  • Bastian Gierull — CEO, Octopus Energy Germany (Speaker)
  • Beeban Kidron — Crossbench peer, House of Lords (Speaker)
  • Benedikt Franke — Vice-Chairman / CEO, Munich Security Conference (Speaker)
  • Ben Goldsmith — Senior Advisor, Conservative Environment Network (Speaker)
  • Benjamin Buthmann — CEO & Co-Founder, Trophic (Speaker)
  • Bernard Foing — President, Space Renaissance International (Speaker)
  • Bernd Wagner — Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Schwarz Digits (Speaker)
  • Bharat Krishnan Chandar — Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Speaker)
  • Bill Gross — Founder & Chairman, Idealab (Speaker)
  • Bjarke Ingels — Founder, BIG (Speaker)
  • Björn Ommer — Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Speaker)
  • Bradley Horowitz — General Partner, Wisdom Ventures (Speaker)
  • Brendan Michael Green (Maejor) — Singer, Songwriter, Producer, Artist (Speaker)
  • Bulent Altan — Founding Partner, Alpine Space Ventures (Speaker)
  • Carine Kanimba — Secretary General, World Liberty Congress (Speaker)
  • Carl Benedikt Frey — Professor of AI & Work, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Speaker)
  • Caroline Busta — Co-Founder, New Models (Speaker)
  • Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green — Director of Research, University of Oxford (Speaker)
  • Carol Reiley — Founder, DeepMusic.ai (Speaker)
  • Carolyn van der Bogert — Research Scientist, University of Münster (Speaker)
  • Christabel Reed — CEO, Earthed (Speaker)
  • Christian Angermayer — Founder and CEO, Apeiron Investment Group (Speaker)
  • Christian Spier — Co-Founder & CEO, Differential Bio (Speaker)
  • Christian Teichmann — Executive Board Member, Burda Principal Investments (Speaker)
  • Clark Parsons — Managing Director, Innovate Europe Foundation (Speaker)
  • Clemens Baumgärtner — CSU, CSU (Speaker)
  • Clemens Fuest — President, Ifo Institute (Speaker)
  • Colette Lumiere — Multi Media Artist, laboratoirelumiere (Speaker)
  • Cyriac Roeding — CEO, Earli (Speaker)
  • Daniel Rückert — Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Technical University of Munich (Speaker)
  • Dasha Burns — Playbook Chief Correspondent and White House Bureau Chief, POLITICO (Speaker)
  • Daze Aghaji — Environmental Artist Consultant, Gate Theatre (Speaker)
  • Diane Brady — Executive Editorial Director, Fortune (Speaker)
  • Dominik Feiden — Venture Consultant, UnternehmerTUM (Speaker)
  • Donncha Ó Cearbhaill — Head of Security Lab, Amnesty International | Hunting spyware and unlawful surveillance (Speaker)
  • Dorit Dor — Founder, Qbeat Ventures (Speaker)
  • Edward Harcourt — Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI (Interim), University of Oxford (Speaker)
  • Emir Timur Tokdemir (Mechatok) — Producer, DJ, Performer, Artist (Speaker)
  • Esben Gadsbøll — Co-Founder, Defense Innovation Highway (Speaker)
  • Eva Lihotzky — Founder | Host, raidant | The In-Between Tech & Trust Podcast (Speaker)
  • Evgenia Plotnikova — General Partner, Dawn Capital (Speaker)
  • Fabian Mehring — State Minister, Bavarian State Minister of Digital Affairs (Speaker)
  • Fabian Theis — Director Computational Health Center & Scientific Director of HelmholtzAI, Helmholtz Munich/Bavarian AI Council (Speaker)
  • Fiona Bae — Author, Korean Culture Consultant, fionabae (Speaker)
  • FKA twigs — Grammy-Winning Musician, Grammy-Winning Musician (Speaker)
  • Florencia Schiavon — CEO, Sifted (Speaker)
  • Florian Haller — CEO, Serviceplan Group (Speaker)
  • Francesco Sciortino — Co-Founder & CEO, Proxima Fusion (Speaker)
  • Frank Jackel — Co-Founder & Managing Director, Metalshub (Speaker)
  • Franziska Gregor — Managing Director, Serviceplan Culture (Speaker)
  • Gabi Dreo Rodosek — Chair for Communication Systems and Network Security, University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Speaker)
  • Gené Teare — Journalist and Research Lead, Crunchbase (Speaker)
  • Gil Horsky — Managing Partner, FLORA Ventures (Speaker)
  • Gordon Repinski — Executive Editor, Politico (Speaker)
  • Gordon Saft — Publisher, Rest of World (Speaker)
  • Greg Williams — Deputy Global Editorial Director, WIRED (Speaker)
  • Guido Houben — Managing Director of Transmutex Germany, Transmutex (Speaker)
  • Hans Ulrich Obrist — Artistic Director, Serpentine (Speaker)
  • Harry Yeff — New Media Artist, Director, Reeps100 Studio (Speaker)
  • Heike Freund — Chief Operating Officer, Marvel Fusion (Speaker)
  • Heike Riel — IBM Fellow and Head of Quantum & AI Technologies, IBM Research (Speaker)
  • Helmut Schönenberger — CEO, UnternehmerTUM (Speaker)
  • Hendrik Brandis — Co-founder and Partner, Earlybird (Speaker)
  • Henry Blodget — Founder, Investor, Advisor, Writer, Speaker, Regenerator (Speaker)
  • Henry Markram — Co-founder & Board Chairperson, Frontiers (Speaker)
  • Herman Narula — Co-Founder & CEO, Improbable (Speaker)
  • Ina Fried — Chief Technology Correspondent, Axios (Speaker)
  • Inga vom Holtz — Director Investments, UnternehmerTUM (Speaker)
  • Iskandar Widjaja — Violinist, Iskandar Widjaja (Speaker)
  • Jacqueline Lammert — Clinician Scientist, Technical University of Munich (Speaker)
  • Jakob von Lindern — Ressortleiter Digital, DIE ZEIT (Speaker)
  • Jannis Brühl — Head of Technology and Finance Reporting, Süddeutsche Zeitung (Speaker)
  • Jasmin Güngör — General Partner, Onsight Ventures (Speaker)
  • Jennifer Schenker — Founder, The Innovator (Speaker)
  • Jennifer Wilton — Jounalist, Jounalist (Speaker)
  • Jeremias Schröder — Head of the worldwide Benedictine Order, Benedictine confederation (Speaker)
  • Joanna Shields — Founder & CEO, Precognition (Speaker)
  • Johanna Pirker — Professor, School of Computation, Technical University Munich (Speaker)
  • John Thornhill — Innovation editor of the Financial Times and founder of Sifted, Financial Times (Speaker)
  • Jon Alexander — Visiting Fellow, Harvard University (Speaker)
  • Jonas Andrulis — Founder, Aleph Alpha (Speaker)
  • Joram Voelklein — Founding Partner, Alpine Space Ventures (Speaker)
  • Judith Gerlach — Bavarian State Minister, Bavarian State Ministry for Health Care and Prevention (Speaker)
  • Julian Windeck — Founder, Attention Engineering (Speaker)
  • Julia Zhou — President, Sigma Squared (Speaker)
  • Julie Böhning — Co-Founder and CEO, PAVE Space (Speaker)
  • Justin Garcia — Executive Director, Kinsey Institute (Speaker)
  • Kamila Markram — Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Frontiers (Speaker)
  • Karim Beguir — Co-Founder & CEO, InstaDeep (Speaker)
  • Karin Immenroth — Global Chief Data Officer, Managing Director, Mediaplus Group (Speaker)
  • Kate Raworth — Co-Founder, Doughnut Economics Action Lab (Speaker)
  • Katja Speck — Founder | Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer | Board Member, DigitalMarketExpert | VisualVest | ID4me AISBL (Speaker)
  • Kay Firth-Butterfield — CEO, Good Tech Advisory (Speaker)
  • Keegan McBride — Senior Policy Advisor in Emerging Technology and Geopolitics, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (Speaker)
  • Kendrick Wong — CEO & Co-Founder, Kasagi Labo (Speaker)
  • Kenneth Cukier — Deputy Executive Editor, The Economist (Speaker)
  • Keri Grieman — Early Career Research Fellow, University of Oxford (Speaker)
  • Kevin Berghoff — CEO & Co-Founder, QuantumDiamonds (Speaker)
  • Kristina Kallas — Minister of Education and Research, Government of Estonia (Speaker)
  • Larissa Holzki — Editorial Head of TECH, Handelsblatt (Speaker)
  • Lars Hinrichs — Founder & CEO, UBS Digital Art Museum (Speaker)
  • Laurent Richard — Investigative Journalist I Founder, Forbidden Stories (Speaker)
  • Leonard Rinser — Founder & Director, Venture Institute (Speaker)
  • Liam Booth-Smith — Policy, Communications and Strategy, Anthropic (Speaker)
  • Lina Wenner — Partner, firstminute capital (Speaker)
  • Llion Jones — Founder / AI Research Scientist, Sakana AI (Speaker)
  • Lorenzo Masia — Executive Director Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Speaker)
  • Luca Maltagliati — Senior Editor, Nature Portfolio (Speaker)
  • Lutz Leichsenring — Co-Founder, Vibelab (Speaker)
  • Lyla June — Board Member, Cultural Survival (Speaker)
  • Maja Göpel — Political Economist, Transformation Scholar & Consultant, Political Economist, Transformation Scholar & Consultant (Speaker)
  • Mallik Rao — Chief Technology & Enterprise Officer, o2 Telefónica (Speaker)
  • Marc Al-Hames — Chairman of the Board, Hubert Burda Media (Speaker)
  • Marcel Reichart — Executive & Advisor, Executive & Advisor (Speaker)
  • Marco Iannaccone — Member of the Executive Board, Head of Client Solutions Germany, HypoVereinsbank/UniCredit (Speaker)
  • Marc Spiegler — Cultural Strategist, Cultural Strategist (Speaker)
  • Marcus Hennig — Head of Business and Projects, planqc (Speaker)
  • Margit Wennmachers — Partner Emeritus, Andreessen Horowitz (Speaker)
  • Margot Edelman — Lead, Global Tech Practice, Edelman (Speaker)
  • Margrethe Vestager — Former European Commissioner for Competition, Former European Commission (Speaker)
  • Maria Furtwängler — Co-Founder, MaLisa Foundation (Speaker)
  • Maria Ressa — Co-Founder & CEO / Nobel Peace Laureate, Rappler (Speaker)
  • Marie Ammann — Senior Innovation & Startup Manager, BayWa (Speaker)
  • Marie Ekeland — Founder & CEO, 2050 (Speaker)
  • Marie-Hélène Ametsreiter — General Partner, Speedinvest (Speaker)
  • Marietje Schaake — International Policy Director, Stanford University (Speaker)
  • Mario Nava — Director-General, European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (Speaker)
  • Markus Blume, MdL — Bavarian State Minister of Science and the Arts, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts (Speaker)
  • Marta Mucznik — Senior EU Analyst, International Crisis Group (Speaker)
  • Martin Keller — President, Helmholtz Association (Speaker)
  • Martin Stuchtey — Founder, The Landbanking Group (Speaker)
  • Martin van den Brink — Advisor of the Supervisory Board, ASML (Speaker)
  • Matthias Voelkel — CEO, Boerse Stuttgart Group (Speaker)
  • Max Flötotto — Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company (Speaker)
  • Max Laemmle — Founder & CEO, MaxAllocation (Speaker)
  • Max Tschochohei — Head of AI Engineering, Google (Speaker)
  • Maya Götz — Senior Manager, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Speaker)
  • Melanie Kehr — Executive Board Member, KfW Group (Speaker)
  • Meredith Whittaker — President, Signal Foundation (Speaker)
  • Michael Förtsch — Founder & CEO, Q.ANT (Speaker)
  • Michael Prinz zu Salm-Salm — CEO, Salm-Salm & Partner (Speaker)
  • Mikayel Vardanyan — Co-Founder, COO, Picsart (Speaker)
  • Mike Butcher — Founder & Editor, Pathfounders (Speaker)
  • Mirko Holzer — Deputy Director AI & Robotics, SPRIND (Speaker)
  • Moritz Baier-Lentz — Partner, Head of Gaming & Interactive Media, Lightspeed (Speaker)
  • Mumi Haiati — CEO & Founder, Reference Studios (Speaker)
  • Mustafa Y. Ali — Executive Director, Arigatou International (Speaker)
  • Nadine Philipp — Vice President Sustainability in the Supply Chain, BMW Group (Speaker)
  • Nayeema Raza — Creator & Host, Smart Girl Dumb Questions (Speaker)
  • Nicholas Thompson — CEO, The Atlantic (Speaker)
  • Nicole Büttner — Founder & CEO, Merantix Momentum (Speaker)
  • Nic Palmarini — Director, UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) (Speaker)
  • Nina Zimmermann — CEO, kununu (Speaker)
  • Oliver Heilmer — Head of Design BMW Compact Class, BMW Group (Speaker)
  • Oluwajoba Oloba — Co-Founder, The Nest Innovation Hub (Speaker)
  • Oz Woloshyn — CEO & Co-Founder, Kaleidoscope (Speaker)
  • Paolo Ardoino — CEO & CTO, Tether (Speaker)
  • Paolo Benanti — Associated Professor, Luiss Guido Carli University (Speaker)
  • Patrick Cramer — President, Max Planck Society (Speaker)
  • Paul Achleitner — Venture Investor, Advisor and Mentor, Venture Investor, Advisor and Mentor (Speaker)
  • Paul Stamets — Founder, Author, Fungi Perfecti (Speaker)
  • Pegor Papazian — Chief Development Officer, TUMO Center for Creative Technologies (Speaker)
  • Peter Koerte — Member of the Managing Board, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Strategy Officer, Siemens (Speaker)
  • Peter Sarlin — CEO & Co- Founder, Silo AI (Speaker)
  • Petra Schwille — Director, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Speaker)
  • Pierre Manceron — Co-founder and CSO, Raidium (Speaker)
  • Raffi Krikorian — Chief Technology Officer, Mozilla (Speaker)
  • Ralf Huss — CEO & Managing Director, BioM Biotech Cluster Development (Speaker)
  • Ralph Simon — Founder, Chief Executive, Mobilium Global (Speaker)
  • Raphaël Millière — Associate Professor, University of Oxford (Speaker)
  • René Obermann — Managing Director & Chairman of Europe, Warburg Pincus International LLC (Speaker)
  • Richard Socher — Founder & CEO | Managing Director, You.com | AIX Ventures (Speaker)
  • Roberto Viola — Director-General, European Commission, DG CONNECT (Speaker)
  • Roman Krznaric — Author, Social Philosopher, Research Fellow, Long Now Foundation (Speaker)
  • Roman Werner — Managing Director, Venture Lab Food-Agro-Biotech, Technical University Munich (Speaker)
  • Rosa Vásquez Espinoza — Founder & Executive Director, Amazon Research Internacional (Speaker)
  • Ryan Alicea — Co Founder & CEO, Powered Orthotics (Speaker)
  • Sabine Klauke — EVP Head of Digital Design Manufacturing and Services, Airbus (Speaker)
  • Sakurako Naka — International Exhibitions and Global Communications, teamLab (Speaker)
  • Sarah Spiekermann — Chairwoman Institute for Information Systems & Society, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Speaker)
  • Saskia Steinacker — Chief Digital Officer, Springer Nature (Speaker)
  • Saturnin Pugnet — Managing Partner, Auspicious Fund (Speaker)
  • Sebastian Küpers — Managing Partner, Plan.Net Studios (Speaker)
  • Sebastian Wossagk — Managing Partner, Acton Capital Partners (Speaker)
  • Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani — Chairperson, Qatar Museums (Speaker)
  • Sibylle Anderl — Co-Head WISSEN, DIE ZEIT (Speaker)
  • Simon Denny — Artist, Artist (Speaker)
  • Simon Jacob — Professorship for Translational Neurotechnology, Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Speaker)
  • Sinksar von Quillfeldt-Ghebremedhin — Associate Manager, Netlight (Speaker)
  • Solveigh Hieronimus — Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company (Speaker)
  • Sougwen Chung — Artist, Researcher & Founder, Scilicet (Speaker)
  • Steffi Czerny — Co-Founder & Co-CEO, DLD Conferences (Speaker)
  • Sten-Kristian Saluveer — Director, Tallinn Digital Summit (Speaker)
  • Stientje van Veldhoven — Vice President and Regional Director for Europe, World Resources Institute (Speaker)
  • Stuart Russell — Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley (Speaker)
  • Sven Smit — Senior Partner, Chairman, McKinsey & Company (Speaker)
  • Tanit Koch — Columnist, Journalist, Moderator, FOCUS Magazin (Speaker)
  • Tara Chklovski — CEO, Technovation (Speaker)
  • Thomas Crowther — Assistant Professor for Global Ecosystem Ecology, Crowther Lab, ETH Zurich (Speaker)
  • Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — CEO & Co-founder, TwentyThree (Speaker)
  • Thomas Preuss — Managing Partner, DTCP (Speaker)
  • Thomas Saueressig — Member of the Executive Board, SAP SE (Speaker)
  • Tobias Seemann — Chief Digital Officer, Adidas (Speaker)
  • Tony Pink — Director and Owner, Pink Granite Consulting (Speaker)
  • Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi — CIO Global Equities, UBS Global Wealth Management (Speaker)
  • Vijay Vaitheeswaran — Global Energy & Climate Innovation Editor, The Economist (Speaker)
  • Werner Vogels — Chief Technology Officer, Amazon (Speaker)
  • Wieland Holfelder — Vice President Engineering, Google Germany (Speaker)
  • William Tunstall-Pedoe — CEO and Founder, UnlikelyAI (Speaker)
  • Xenia zu Hohenlohe — Special TFFF Advisor, The World Bank (Speaker)
  • Yat Siu — Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Animoca Brands (Speaker)
  • Yervand Sarkisyan — Founding Partner, Deep TechX (Speaker)
  • Yossi Vardi — DLD Chairman, DLD Chairman (Speaker)
  • Zarah Bruhn — Innovation Manager Social Innovation/Founder, SPRIND (Speaker)

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