Speaker Bio
Steffi Czerny co-founded DLD Conference in 2005 and was appointed Managing Director of DLD Media in 2010. Steffi’s background is in political sciences and journalism. Since the early days of WWW in the 1990s, she has followed developments in the digital world. As Managing Director of DLD, Steffi has established “one of Europe’s most important innovation conferences” according to The Economist, as well as numerous topic-focused spin-off formats such as DLD Women, DLD Europe, DLD Campus, DLD Cities, DLD Circular, and most recently, DLD Nature. Under her leadership, the DLD brand has furthermore expanded with conferences and networking events in other cities. In addition to Munich, also New York, Tel Aviv, Brussels, Singapore, San Francisco, and London have now become regular DLD destinations. An accomplished leader, Steffi has repeatedly been ranked amongst the 100 Most Influential Women in German Business by German business monthly manager magazine as well as by influential daily business paper Handelsblatt. She has furthermore been identified as number 30 of The 2015 Wired 100 and as one of the 50 Most Inspiring Women in European Tech by inspiring50.com for her success in bringing the international digital elite together at DLD.
Since 2005, the DLD Conference has connected international thought leaders and visionaries of the digital economy with business decision-makers, investors, scientists, journalists and artists from all over the world. It was named the most important innovation conference in Europe by the business magazine The Economist. DLD explores the key question of how digitalization is changing our lives, our society and our economy.
Throughout the past 20 years, DLD has welcomed numerous speakers like Lady Gaga, Sir Norman Foster, Jack Dorsey, Zaha Hadid, Ugur Sahin, Alex Israel, Arianna Huffington, Tony Fadell, Evan Spiegel, Marissa Mayer, Alanis Morrisette, Ai Wei Wei and many others, sometimes at a stage in their respective careers where their work had still been unknown to the general public.
Steffi Czerny is a global speaker, most recently she spoke at the Milken Institute in LA in May 2024.