Let's rock! That’s the word at this year’s DLD Conference from 22 to 24 January 2012 in Munich. The potential rock stars of the new digital generation don’t come with electric guitars or screaming groupies. Being a rock star at DLD means being a young, up-and-coming entrepreneur with a digital start-up which has great potential for the future.

 

Drew Houston is a typical DLD rock star. In 2007 he founded Dropbox, a file sharing and data safeguarding service based on Private Clouds, which has become enormously popular over the past few years.

 

David Karp is another of the digital generation’s rising stars. At DLD he will present his micro-blogging platform Tumblr, where users can publish texts, pictures, quotes, chat logs, links and video or audio files in a "tumblelog".

 

And rock star Brian Chesky is CEO of Airbnb, the biggest community market place in the world for renting and booking private accommodation. This young company boasts more than 100,000 adverts in over 16,000 towns and cities in 186 countries.

 

Other companies with great potential for the future are:

Rakuten, Japan’s biggest online shopping centre, soon to go international (CEO Hiroshi Mikitani,); international online community Badoo, with more than 114 million registered users (founder Andrey Andreev); German games software company Wooga which, according to its own publicity, is already the largest European provider in the "social games" sector, and the third largest in the world (CEO Jens Begemann). Mind Candy - one of the world’s leading developers of social multi-player games, and the fastest growing company in the sector. And there’s online social networking game Moshi Monsters, with currently more than 50 million registered users worldwide, and a growth rate of one user per second (CEO Michael Acton Smith).

 

For more information: http://www.dld-conference.com