On July 3rd, the convention for successful business on the web will take place in Hamburg, SIDE Hotel. DLD is partner of W&V (werben & verkaufen), initiator of the congress. The title of the event is “Be challenged: Digital Media”. Top-class managers will speak about the chances and challenges of digital marketing and online-business. Amongst others Scott Schiller, Senior Vice President of Glam Media, Dr. Erich Joachimsthaler, founder and CEO of Vivaldi Partners, Sven Markschläger, Head of Digital Marketing of Mast-Jägermeister, and Dr. Dimitrios Argirakos, Chief of Future and Innovation Department of the WAZ-Group, will give key notes, discuss and comment the newest developments of Digital Media. The DLD team will be represented by Dr. Marc Mangold and Rupert Schäfer. Everybody can register for the congress, the participation fee is 890 euros. Friends and participants of DLD get a special discount – if you are interested please send an email to dld-info@burda.com. For further information about the program and its participants read here.

We would like to thank all charity donators very kindly for their charitable contribution to the social service project "Lichtblick Hasenbergl" in Munich.

The collective support of the DLD community enables "Lichtblick Hasenbergl" to purchase a Mercedes-Benz minivan, making life easier for more than 75 challenged children!

DLD08 is over but lots of inspirations are reminaing - both in Munich and in the suitcases of participants. Here is an overview of the international coverage.

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Prior to DLD08 we sent out a survey to all members of the DLD communitiy, including all invited conference participants. The results of the survey have been summarized and are now available for download: DLD Survey Results (PDF).

The DLD program featured not only discussions during panel sessions but also exciting art, architecture, design and music.

If you want to find out more about the DLD artists and their works, you can read about here: DLD08 arts & DLD08 Impressions: Design, Architecture, Arts.

If you are interested in the music featued at DLD, we have more info for you as well: DLD Music.

Missed a DLD08 session? Want to recap the conference or just see what DLD is all about? Aside from the official DLD video portal you can also find additional DLD video coverage at the DLD channel on YouTube and watch some fun DLD videos over at xolo.tv.