Munich, Germany – For the ninth time, Hubert Burda Media brings together pioneers of the digital age in Munich. ”Patterns That Connect” is the theme of Burda’s international DLD innovation conference in Munich from January 20 to 22, 2013. At DLD, creative minds, digital entrepreneurs as well as leading scientists, data scientist and artists discuss the most pertinent issues of today and tomorrow, and explore new (business) opportunities. Key DLD13 topics are e-commerce, digital security/privacy, education/social issues, and the future of entertainment.

Key agenda items include the future of e-commerce and the hot topic of digital security/privacy. Other sessions will focus on the changes in the educational sector. How and, even more importantly, what will we learn in the future? What are the strategic and logistical challenges in online retail? How are new mobile devices changing the behavior of consumers and media users? Will a customization of content be required in the future? Which technological innovations will change our society in the years to come? DLD13 speakers and attendees will discuss these and other questions from a variety of perspectives.

Speakers at previous DLD events included digital entrepreneur Marc Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Sean Parker, Marissa Mayer; but also Lady Gaga, Nobel Laureates Martti Ahtisaari and Dan Kahneman, Scientists as Craig Venter as well as Deepak Chopra, Paulo Coelho and architects Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas. At the upcoming event in January 2013, Stephanie Czerny will once again bring together influential creative minds and pioneers from the global digital industry, the media, politics, business, finance, science, society, art and design in Munich. Confirmed speakers include:

E-Commerce

• Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder & CEO Square
• Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos
• David Marcus, CEO Paypal
• René Schuster, CEO Telefónica Deutschland
• Peter Thiel, Partner at Founders Fund

Security/Privacy

• Eugene Kaspersky, security expert
• Sunil Madhu, Founder & CEO Socure
• Sanghvi Ruchi, CTO Dropbox
• Carson Sweet, Co-Founder & CEO Cloud Passage

Entertainment

• DJ Patil, data scientist
• Scott Belsky, Founder Behance and author of “Making Ideas Happen”
• Ben Horowitz, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz/Investor of “RapGenius”
• Aaron Koblin, Creative Director Data Arts Team Google
• Ynon Kreitz, CEO Maker Studios

Education/Social Issues

• John Maeda, computer scientist
• Zach Sims, Co-Founder Code Academy

DLD13 is themed “Patterns that Connect”, and this alludes to a wide range of topics: from binary codes as the basis for processing digital information; patterns in human behavior; algorithms that, as programming instructions, stipulate actions; to data visualization that shows patterns in data flows. Patterns break up complexities, make big data tangible and applicable through the identification of patterns, and are the link to structured design. DLD regards itself as a “pattern recognizer” of structures that will become important in the future. However, it also breaks up patterns to piece them back together in a new context.

‘Data brings us closer to the complex patterns of everything we do; it changes our perspective on our life, societies and values. DLD identifies and brings together the most important drivers in these various fields to discuss future opportunities,’ says DLD founder and director Steffi Czerny.

This year, the chairmen of the event, publisher Dr. Hubert Burda and investor Dr. Yossi Vardi, will welcome around 800 international attendees to the agenda setting at Munich’s HVB-Forum. Top-notch events during the conference include the Chairmen & Speaker Dinner at the Jewish Community Center on January 20, the DLD StarNight on January 21, and the presentation of the “Aenne Burda Awards for Creative Leadership”. Past award recipients were Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post), Marissa Mayer(former Google), and Mitchell Baker (Mozilla Firefox). The traditional closing event of the DLD Conference is once again the DLD FOCUS Nightcap at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 23.

For the second time, DLD Campus together with the Internet Business Cluster (IBC) will host the meeting of a digital pioneer and students: Peter Thiel, one of the initial Facebook investors, is scheduled to give a public lecture at the University of Munich (LMU).

The sessions are aired on live-stream by DLD Media. DLD is a “by invitation only” event. There are still a limited number of tickets available, so if you are interested in attending DLD13, please apply here.

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When Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter left his daily duties at the micro-blogging giant in June, he did it with purpose. Stone restarted Obvious Corporation and on Tuesday went on to reveal the incubator’s first project: Lift.

Focusing on human potential over technological advancement, Lift is an “application for unlocking human potential through positive reinforcement,” Stone said in a blog post.

Lift is currently in a private alpha, and users can provide their email on the site. Those who do will receive an auto-reply email from CEO and co-founder Tony Stubblebine explaining that they are not quite ready to let people in yet.

“We’re both [he and developer Jon Crosby] interested in ways new technology can help unlock human potential, especially through the use of positive reinforcement,” said Stubblebine in a blog post. “We do have a prototype, but we’re a long way from opening the doors.”

The three investors and partners behind the project include Stone, former Twitter CEO Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, former vice president of product for Twitter, inc. At Obvious Corporation, these three will provide guidance on design, funding, strategy and recruiting for Lift. Both Stubblebine and Stone have glowing reviews of each other on their blogs and the excitement is really palpable for this new project.

“I’ve known them [Williams, Goldman and Stone] for six years, worked with two of them at Odeo, and think there’s something crazy special forming under the Obvious umbrella,” Stubblebine said in his blog post.

“We love this software for what it does, and because we’ve tried it and it works,” Stone said in his blog post. “Our plan is to build something extraordinary together.”

Obvious Corporation was first started in 2003 by Williams, Stone and and Goldman. After the trio left Google, the started Obvious Corporation in order to buy back many failed projects from investors, one of which being Twitter.

The San Francisco-based Obvious Corporation says on their website that they aim to create products to “help people work together to improve the world.”

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