These visionary minds redesign the future

Forget the roadmap. The future doesn’t follow a straight line: it’s a thrilling, messy, and untamed frontier. With this reality in mind, leading visionaries from the digital, business and creative worlds will gather for DLD Munich 26 at the House of Communication in Munich from 15 to 17 January 2026 under the motto ‘It’s gonna be wild’.

True to DLD's mission of building bridges, their collective goal is to share the latest advancements in AI, quantum computing, biotech, new energy systems, and their intersections with mobility, creativity, art, and design. DLD will also explore how digital innovation is transforming our inner lives: from mindfulness to new forms of community and spirituality in the digital age.

Over 2.5 days, the DLD stage will be home to over 200 of the world's most visionary founders, scientists, and artists. Among them are Karim Beguir (InstaDeep), Paolo Benanti (Franciscan), Andreas Blattmann (Black Forest Labs), Liam Booth-Smith (Anthropic), Tara Chklovski (Technovation), Sougwen Chung (Artist), Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green (University of Oxford), Dorit Dor (Qbeat Ventures), Clemens Fuest (ifo Institute), Maria Furtwängler (MaLisa Stiftung), Maja Göpel (Economist), Jasmin Güngör (Onsight Ventures), Amit Jain (Luma AI), Raffi Krikorian (Mozilla), H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Ann Mettler (Columbia University), Thomas Preuß (DTCP), Kate Raworth (Doughnut Economics Action Lab), Carol Reiley (DeepMusic), Maria Ressa (Nobel Peace Price Laureate), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), Rolf Schumann (Schwarz Digits), Sven Smit (McKinsey Global Institute), Richard Socher (You), Sarah Spiekermann (Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna)), Audrey Tang (University of Oxford), Andreas Urschitz (Infineon), Margarethe Vestager (Former EU Commissioner), Werner Vogels (Amazon), Margit Wennmachers (a16z) and Meredith Whittaker (Signal Foundation).

"‘It's gonna be wild’ – and we mean that seriously. DLD 2026 will focus on the questions that truly define our time: How do we secure Europe's digital sovereignty? How do we combine technological progress with human values and spirituality? The real revolution is not taking place in algorithms, but in our society – in education, access and the courage to understand AI as a democratic tool for everyone. We bring together the brightest minds to talk not only about technology, but about how we can use it to create a fairer, more human future."

Steffi Czerny, Co-founder and Managing Director of DLD

Further information on DLD Munich 26

• You can find the current overview of all speakers here: https://www.dld-conference.com/speakers/dld26
• If you are interested in one of the limited press tickets, please contact dldpress@burda.com
• The livestream will be available at the start of the conference here: https://www.dld-conference.com/conference/dld26

Partners of DLD Munich 26 are: BMW Group, Infineon Technologies, SAP, HypoVereinsbank, E.ON, Schwarz Digits, Würth Elektronik, BAIOSPHERE, McKinsey & Company, Telefónica Deutschland, VisualVest, Burda Principal Investments, Octopus Energy, Acton Capital Partners, SPRIND, Edelman, You.com, GitHub, Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, UnternehmerTUM, Serviceplan, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Focus online, CHIP, Caixin Media, Solgaard, Ströer, Techcast