René Seifert - Entrepreneur & Global Citizen

Went to the Digital Lifestyle Day 06 today organized by Hubert Burda Media. Expectedly, there was a divesre, interesting and high-quality crowd there, an excellent platform to meet people and to network. The presentations on stage were ok, sometimes it’s a relieve to feel that, well, somehow you understand what they are talking and they are not telling you too much of a new thing. Three takeaways from today:

1. Thomas Middelhoff hasn’t los anything from his charisma and brilliance since leaving CEO-job at Bertelsmann. He was on a panel and without asserting himself, clearly dominated the scene with intelligent and tangible statements.

2. Anina, a model from Michigan who lives in Paris presented her very sophisticated and well done blog and explained in a very pragmatic way what the “Digital Lifestyle” meant for her.

3. The conclusion: Innovation has started to boost again, money is readily available to find the right ideas with the right people behind. Empowering people to become entrepreneuers to shape the future, was the encouragement. “If you want to know what the future will be like, the go and invent it”, quoted one panelist. And Lars Hinrichs from openBC formulated the approach to his entrepreneurial success: “Just do it.”

Tomorrow the second day, I am really keen on listening to Marissa Mayer from Google in the Innovation Panel.