What the world needs now, DLD 2021 returns, and why Yossi Vardi doesn't completely agree with Peter Diamandis

The Irish Tech News Podcast

We catch up with Yossi Vardi to discuss the latest version of DLD now taking place online today and tomorrow, for free, with some great speakers - see below for details.

With 40 years experience of co-founding, leading and participating in building over 60 high-tech companies, he is one of Israel's early entrepreneurs.
Yossi co-pioneered instant messaging as the founding investor and the former Chairman of Mirabilis Ltd., the creator of the highly popular instant messaging program ICQ now owned by AOL.

Today's program ->

16:00 CET

Welcome

Steffi Czerny, Co-Founder & Managing Director of DLD

Yossi Vardi, Co-Chairman, DLD

16:05 CET

What's Next, Jimmy?

Jimmy Wales, Founder and Chair Emeritus, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation

16:20 CET

Follow Your Ears

Dennis Crowley, CEO, Foursquare

Yossi Vardi, Co-Chairman, DLD

16:40 CET

The (R)evolution of Movement

Marc Berg, CEO, FREE NOW

Florian Reuter, CEO, Volocopter

Tabitha Goldstaub, Co-Founder, CognitionX

17:05 CET

Shifting Paradigms for a Sustainable Mobility

Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW Group

Steffi Czerny, Co-Founder & Managing Director of DLD

17:30 CET

Urbanism Reloaded - Empowering the Countryside

Rem Koolhas, Founding Partner, OMA

See rest of the program on the website here.

More about Yossi from his wikipedia entry

Joseph "Yossi" Vardi (Hebrew: יוסי ורדי‎, born September 2, 1942) is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor. He is one of Israel's first high-tech entrepreneurs. For over 47 years he has founded and helped to build over 85 high-tech companies in a variety of fields, among them software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics and water technology.