Steffi Czerny co-founded DLD Conference in 2005 and was appointed Managing Director of DLD Media in 2010. Czerny’s background is in political sciences and journalism. Since the early days of the web in the 1990s, she has followed developments in the digital world.
As Managing Director of DLD, Czerny 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 Europe, DLD Campus, DLD Cities, DLD Circular, DLD Women, 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, Czerny 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 also 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 together the international digital elite at DLD.

Over 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 Weiwei, and many others, sometimes at a stage in their respective careers where their work had still been unknown to the general public.