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What's Hot According To DLD12 Delegates

The ultimate trend whirligig: In partnership with SurveyMonkey our DLD team developed a survey, just two weeks before the start of the DLD12 conference in Munich, asking delegates about what comes next.

Exclusively for Wired.co.uk David Rowan displays the results.

Just to give you a taste, questions tackled for instance Facebook's post-IPO prospects, thoughts about disruption and start-ups to watch.

Photo: Hubert Burda Media/DLD conference

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Maria Furtwängler (DLD Chairwoman), Stefan Heilmann (IEG) and the DLD founders hosted the DLD Farewell Lunch in honor of the Turkish Minister Egemen Bagis

MUNICH, GERMANY - JANUARY 24, 2012:

DLDwoman Chairwoman Maria Furtwaengler, IEG founder & partner Stefan Heilmann and DLD founders Steffi Czerny & Marcel Reichart hosted the Farewell Lunch of the Digital Life Design Conference (DLD) on January 24, 2012 in Munich in honor of the Turkish Minister for EU Affairs Egemen Bagis for a delegation of prominent Turkish and international decision makers.

Minister Bagis stated in his email to Stefan Heilmann, that „it was the first time I attended the DLD Conference in Munich but personally, I am glad I did. I really enjoyed the atmosphere and am looking forward to enhancing our dialogue during our meeting in Istanbul to exchange views and strengthen our cooperation on issues of common concern“.

  The Turkish delegation included Ali Kibar, Demet Sabanci Cetindogan, Arzuhan Yalcindag Dogan, Mehmet Ali Yalcindag, Council General Kadir Hidayet Eris, Yenal Gökyildirim, Cinar Oskay, Gökhan Özer, Ayse Arkis, Elbruz Yilmaz, Adnan Nas, Sina Afra, Nevzat Aydin, Cenk Bayrakdar, Alemsah Öztürk, Sidar Sahin, etc.

DLD (Digital - Life - Design) is a global conference network on innovation, digital, science and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-formers and investors for crossover conversation and inspiration.

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Right after the DLD 2012, "Digital Bosphorus" is became a trending topic for Turkish e-entrepreneurs. According to Nevzat Aydin's reply on my tweet: Sina Afra is the founder of the "Digital Bosphorus" phrase. Of course the content is the key for the success not the name, however this catchy phrase will lead a great start for constructing the Silicon Valley of the east in Istanbul.

My personal wish is that "Digital Bosphorus" would have a tremendous effect on global e- market and Turks would have an enormous role in leading the next episode of the digital revolution.

Digital Bosphorus Session in DLD 2012

Image Source: Webstagram

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An overview of all of the session from the DLD conference in Munich, January 22-24, 2012.

(via dld-conference.com)

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Knocking On Heaven's Door

For those interested in the larger questions of the Universe itself, Lisa Randall's Sunday wrap-up session in the Maxsaal this afternoon was the place to be.

Randall is a professor of particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University, where she is concerned with theoretical physics. Her research includes elementary particles and fundamental forces, work which she has described with great success in new book "Knocking on Heaven's Door".

During today's talk, Randall first described the work undertaken by her and her colleagues around the world, discovering what underlying principles help guiding our knowledge about the universe.

The work with CERN's Large Hadron Collider is the type of work that can allow us to see some of these principles, among other things thanks to the right use of scale. 

By understanding that certain things can only be understood fully and intuitively if we use the right scale or resolution, we have achieved remarkable scientific insight, Randall said, using the Eiffel Tower as an apt metaphor for the principle of physical exploration and theoretical advances - too close and we don't see the context, too far away and we miss the details.

Secondly, Randall is also concerned with another big question, which affects most of us almost every day; "Why do we care so much?"

There are distinct approaches to the questions about the universe, and people will turn to one or the other, Randall said. "Art, religion and science are all ways at getting at these big questions," she added.

To Randall, science will obviously lead the way, but that does not mean that there is no role for the other two, she said. There is a subtle beauty in how different approaches all serve to drive our urge for understanding forward.

Scientific thinking, however, is the engine that will bring us closer to the Universe.

Scientific thinking is creativity and discovery, role of scale, uncertainty and risk, but also truth and beauty, Randall said, before finishing up.

"We've come a long way, but there is still a lot to do and a lot to learn."

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Had fun hanging out with Katherine the other night, but her stay in Germany was much too short!

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Here are my keynotes from the final day of #DLD12:

- "Small businesses are the people that are transforming the world around them" S. Sandberg

- "The problems we are facing cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them." Huffington

- "Social media = shift in power from historically powerful to historically powerless" Sandberg

- "An economic impact on the internet: social media and facebook are responsible for 200.000 jobs (US)"

- "We get a much fuller picture of people's lives through small snippets and real time sharing." 

- "From wisdom of crowds to wisdom of friends...Trust economy shifts power to relevant taste makers" Sandberg

-  "Everyone is a broadcaster now. There's a shift of power from institutions to individuals." Sandberg

- Sheryl Sandberg's Big 3 Trends:

Trend #1: from anonymity to authentic identity

 Trend #2: shift from wisdom of crowds to wisdom of friends 

 Trend #3: Transition of us being receivers to broadcasters. 

- "We need to learn to disconnect to connect deep within ourselves again." Huffington

- "Trust is the new black" Huffington

- "Hold on EU, Turkey is coming to rescue you" Egemen Bagis

- "Challenge of our industry is to solve bad integration of content on internet and television and improve user interface." Fries

- "We're at a point where we need to stop talking about old & new media. Media is just media"

- "TV is no longer a device, it's content. You take and consume that content everywhere" Jon Miller

- "Sharing economy is not a sacrifice, it's actually a better way to live, saving resources." Brian Chesky

- "Consumers want a divergence of devices but a convergence of services (in the cloud)." Nikesh Arora

- "10 million voters contacted congress. That's not an abuse of power, that's democracy" Jimmy Wales

- “Man becomes fluid, thinks beyond boundaries, operates between disciplines...”

- "The Megaupload case shows that the law can go after these people. We don't need new draconian laws" Jimmy Wales

- "Wikipedia does more for education than several governments in the world." Pavel Durov

- "For emerging markets like Turkey, ecommerce and social gaming are consider entertainment, a new world" Sidar Sahin

"Turkey is a gateway where both Westerns and Middle Easterns feel relaxed doing business" Cenk Bayrakdar

- "Innovation comes from young people. Employ under 30 year olds to get innovation in your company." John Donahoe

- "We'll not carry a wallet anymore two years from now. It moves to the cloud." John Donahoe

- "Innovation is technology enabled and consumers drive it, not the retailers. Consumers are in charge." John Donahoe

- "We are going to go back from an information era into people era. That's what facebook doing." Arora

- "Turkey is a country of digital darwinism; extremely high level of competition" Sina Afra

- "in the future mobile commerce will be more than 50% of our transactions" Hiroshi Mikitani

My favorite sessions :

Sheryl Sandberg - COO , Facebook

Arianna Huffington

Egemen Bagis - Turkey in the 21st century

In Conversion : Jimmy Wales, Pavel Durov

Nikesh Arora

Digital Bosphorus : Alemsah Ozturk, Cenk Bayrakdar, Sina Afra, Nevzat Aydin, Sidar Sahin

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Female Start-Up Competition

HypoVereinsbank's Anne Gferer alongside S&L Medien Gruppe's Maria-Theresia von Seidlein and DLD's Steffi Czerny called upon the female participants of the #DLD12 to help nurture start-ups and to apply, on the initiative of the HVB Women's Council, for the HypoVereinsbank's mentoring programme.

The idea is that experienced businesswomen support selected female start-up entrepreneurs on the road to founding their own company.

Eligible candidates are invited to apply for one of six mentoring places by submitting their idea and business plan or concept. The winners will be selected by a distinguished jury. The deciding factors will be the quality of the business plan or concept and the start-up idea itself. Amongst the mentors is DLD CO-Founder Steffi Czerny.

Take part in the new mentoring programme for start-up entrepreneurs, initiated by women for women. Get the support of experienced experts and businesswomen on your way to starting up your own company.

Apply here now! The closing date for applications is the 8th of March, 2012. Read more about the competition in our DLD news article.