DLD Circular 23
2023-09-06
Munich, Germany
as the organisers put it
This event explored the vision of a circular economy and how technological advances can foster innovative business concepts…
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Highlights | Ilka Horstmeier, Martin Puchner, Hermann Hauser, Ramona Liberoff | 02m |
Conference highlights state a claim that a circular economy is practical not just ideal and that collaborative honest conversation across sectors produces… | ||
| Welcome to Munich | Katrin Habenschaden | 08m |
Munich commits to becoming climate-neutral by 2035 and treats the city of 1.6 million as both major emitter and testbed, citing cities produce >80% of… | ||
| Age of the City | Ian Goldin | 18m |
Cities generate roughly two thirds of global GDP and concentrate innovation, so reshaping them is the lever for climate, inequality and pandemic risk: Munich… | ||
| State of Circularity | Martijn Lopes Cardozo | 12m |
Global material use hits 100 billion tons a year while measured circularity sits at 7.2%, and humanity is breaching five of seven planetary boundaries… | ||
| Will the fifth Industrial Revolution Be Circular? | Ramona Liberoff | 11m |
Argues that circularity must reimagine production systems as a fifth Industrial Revolution, not just better recycling, and shows concrete work: a Catalan… | ||
| Critical Raw Materials as Key Factor for Technological Sovereignty | 28m | |
Conference claims EU lists 34 critical raw materials, and forecasts that over 15 years about 60% of copper, 70% of cobalt, 80% of nickel and 92% of lithium… | ||
| Changing the Fashion Industry | Patrick Lundström, Gudrun Messias, Jennifer Schenker, Katrin Ley, David Puyuelo | 26m |
Panel claims fast fashion doubles output since 2000 and US consumers discard 81.5 pounds of clothes yearly; brands report made to be remade lines that use one… | ||
| Social Entrepreneurship Built on Circularity | Bart Nijsink | 10m |
Shelter Suit makes a waterproof jacket with an attachable sleeping bag built from reclaimed seatbelts, tents, workwear and old sleeping bags and claims to… | ||
| Regenerative Agriculture: There`s Hope | Benedikt Bösel, Doris Dörrie, Fabio Volkmann, David Kirkpatrick, Jan-Gisbert Schultze | 29m |
A 3,000-hectare farm east of Berlin is a 3,000-hectare living laboratory testing composting, agroforestry, no-till, complex cover crops and cattle-integrated… | ||
| Eat Chocolate to Save a Rainforest | Frauke Fischer | 09m |
Project builds biodiversity-rich cocoa agroforestry on formerly cleared land, establishing shade trees, fruits, medicinal plants and replanting rare giant… | ||
| AI and Bioacoustics: Tracking Biodiversity Progress with BirdNET | Stefan Kahl, v.Bayern | 11m |
BirdNET is an AI system that recognizes 6,000+ bird species by sound and automates terabytes of passive acoustic recordings so manual listening isn’t required… | ||
| The Biodiversity Risk Filter - A Tool to Save Lives | Christoph Heinrich | 17m |
WWF launches a Biodiversity Risk Filter: a free open source, web tool built with BCG, IUCN, NASA, World Bank and TRAFFIC that turns a company’s commodity… | ||
| Designing Circularity | Joe Iles, Jessie Storey, Daniela Bohlinger, Amit Katwala | 27m |
A platform convenes manufacturers, mills and recyclers to write the genes redesign guidelines and scales them: the cohort grows from ~50 to over 100… | ||
| Renewable Energies as a Key Enabler of a Circular Economy | Francesco Sciortino, Christian Hartel, Sebastian-Justus Schmidt, Matthias Ballweg | 24m |
Panel claims a first‑of‑a‑kind fusion power plant is feasible in the second half of the 2030s, Proxima Fusion spun out of Max Planck and targets… | ||
| Earth, Wind & Fire: Let's Talk Circularity | Aron Gelbard, Döhmen, Christian Teichmann, Axel Roenneke | 22m |
Last three months are the hottest in 120,000 years and wildfires cause roughly 20% of global carbon emissions, so the session focuses on concrete tech: AI plus… | ||
| Cleaning Up the Environment for a Circular Economy | Joel Tasche | 09m |
Claims that 11 million tons of plastic enter oceans yearly and up to 9% of global CO2 comes from open-burning waste; argues 91% not recyclable because of… | ||
| Where Is Wall-E? How Robotics and AI Can Change the Face of Recycling | G. Ameyugo | 15m |
An experiment shows ChatGPT mislabels a realistic robot doll as a baby, highlighting limits of common sense but usefulness of language interfaces; recycling… | ||
| Rewiring Industry for a New Era | I. Horstmeier, S. Hieronimus, M. Maas-Brunner | 25m |
BMW is turning the Vision Circular concept into a production-ready model in about two years and targets roughly a 50% battery-electric fleet share, with… | ||
| Literature for a Changing Planet | Martin Puchner, Andrew Keen | 18m |
Claims that the apocalyptic disaster narrative dates back to the Epic of Gilgamesh and ties to the origin of extractive urban agriculture 4,000 years ago… | ||
| A New Challenge: Circular Biomanufacturing | Jano Costard | 09m |
Claims that biotechnology can make circular manufacturing scaleable and low cost by using microbes to feed waste streams to produce polymers and bulk… | ||
| Opening | Meike Zwingenberger, Steffi Czerny | 24m |
Opening frames DLD Circular as a program launched in 2021 and traces a festival history back to the DLD band in 2006. It argues circularity can become a… | ||
| Shifting towards Circularity with New Materials | Efrat Friedland, Christian Fischer, Vishaal Shah, Hannes Schoenegger, Marcus Behrendt | 29m |
Bags made from banana textile (developed after three years) and hemp, paper and packaging made from agricultural waste that supplies 60+ countries since 2015… | ||
| Integrating Circularity with Regenerative Business and Its Human Dimenson | Laura Santucci, Jaqueline Illy, Walter Link | 24m |
Claims that regenerative value creation ties nature and people to profit with measurable wins and tools. Examples: coffee upcycling to cosmetics turns coffee… | ||
| The Impact of LLMs on the Circular Economy and Beyond | Hermann Hauser | 10m |
Claims that LLMs scale faster and broader than any prior tech: zero to 100 million users in two months, trained on “all” written math, physics, chemistry… | ||
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