I’m in Munich for two reasons: I’ve been asked to moderate an amazing panel here at the DLD 2012 conference. But I asked to be flown in for the entire three day conference rather than just on my speaking day.
DLD (Digital — Life — Design) is a global conference network focusing on innovation, digital, science and culture which aims to “connect business, creative and social leaders, opinion-formers and investors for crossover conversation and inspiration.”
Having been lucky enough to be asked to attend TED Women in DC in 2010, there was no way I was missing the chance to hear some of the world’s most innovative thinkers share their thoughts about the future — essentially a world connected by digital. The blurb for DLD12 posits that “the speakers comprise leading minds of the digital and global economy as well as intellectuals, artists, designers and international journalists from opinion forming media.”
Those speakers include Yoko Ono, Jack Dorsey, Jimmy Wales, Sheryl Sandberg (girlcrush on a women of staggering brilliance), Olafur Eliasson, John Taylor of Duran Duran (yay), Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Acton Smith, Edwin Chan; David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy & Hillary Clinton’s senior innovation and new media advisors; senior execs from Google, NASDAQ, Twitter, Tumblr and more more more. (And Rebecca Ferguson is singing later.)
That’s certainly true of the two men on the How Soon is Now? panel that I am moderating here at DLD on Tuesday morning. I’ll be talking to Bernd Beetz, the CEO of Coty Inc, one of the most innovative, open thinking companies in the beauty sector, and fashion iconoclast Renzo Rosso of Only the Brave holdings, and who is known mostly to the public as the founder of Diesel.
Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit fostered by Mr Beetz, and focused on creating a strong, innovative pipeline, Coty is a global leader in the fragrance, skin care and color cosmetics categories; the beauty company now possesses a portfolio of over 40+ brands, which are delivered to consumers in 90 markets worldwide.
Today, Diesel is part of the Only the Brave holding, which incorporates streetwear brand 55DSL, fashion houses like Maison Martin Margiela and Viktor & Rolf, as well as Staff International, an Italy-based company renowned for its tailoring expertise and strong distribution network„ which manufactures and distributes the brands owned by the holding, but also licensed brands like DSquared, Vivienne Westwood, Marc Jacobs Menswear and Just Cavalli. The holding’s 2010 revenues amounted to 1,7 billion US$.
The entire conference is being livestreamed, so if you’d like to watch any of the conference, or see my panel flesh out how fashion and beauty companies are moving forward in the digital era, and address how the digitally native generation will consume, then click here to go the Livestream site.
www.dld-conference.com
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That sounds really inspiring I would love to attend that too
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I’d be curious to talk to that Coty gentlemen. They were one of the few (Revlon, L’oreal and True Religion) fashion/ beauty companies to support the recent SOPA bill. (Lots of negative press even from overseas so I’m sure y’all heard about it?) The intent of the legislation was 100% admirable and definitely a goal worth reaching for, but the means were oh so wrong…would have done more harm to the links between tech, digital, innovation and design than it would have done to help. The bill’s authors never consulted the “nerds” (as one congressman put it during a hearing) on the technological ramifications.
In case I miss the livestream of your ‘How Soon is Now?’ panel, do you know if there’ll be a video of it up anywhere afterwards?
Wow, what an experience! Some incredibly interesting attendees and speakers. Is there a video to watch now?
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