Press releases

Ismaning, 23rd January 2009 – For the first time DLD (Digital, Life, Design) together with PLAZAMEDIA will host a creative lunch to examine the subject "The Future of Media and Content Distribution – Where’s the Beef?". With this innovative think tank, DLD and its partner PLAZAMEDIA will bring their visionary approach into the digital present, as international entrepreneurs, designers and investors discuss trends and future developments in fast and effective content marketing. The key here is the interdisciplinary view, which allows people to seize opportunities in good time and use them for profitable business models.

PLAZAMEDIA Managing Director Zeljko Karajica and Rupert Schäfer, Producer DLD Conference Hubert Burda Media, will lead this panel of experts when they meet on 26 January from 1.00 p.m. The location for the innovative format is also unusual, with CEO of fashion house Strenesse, Gerd Strehle, making available the Strenesse flagship store in Munich’s Fünf Höfe shopping arcade.

On its fifth occasion, Europe’s leading innovation forum DLD, to be held in Munich from 25 – 27 January 2009, will take a look into the digital future (www.dld-conference.com). Some 800 participants are expected at the HVB Forum, including international entrepreneurs, high-calibre authors, designers, Nobel Laureates and other selected guests from the worlds of business, media and culture. The conference, which has the theme "New Realities", has again attracted top-class panellists, including Deutsche Telekom chief René Obermann, best-selling author Nassim Taleb, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics Daniel Kahnemann and YouTube developer Chad Hurley.

PLAZAMEDIA GmbH, an EM.Sport Media AG company, is one of the leading full-service providers for TV and new media and is also Germany’s largest producer of sports TV. Based in Ismaning near Munich, the company employs a full-time staff of 260 as well as 700 freelancers to produce content for television broadcasters and rights holders in the fields of domestic and international football, ice hockey, basketball, boxing, Formula 1, sailing and European and World Championships in a variety of sports. PLAZAMEDIA offers comprehensive services for OB production, broadcasting, new media, studio productions and post-production. The firm’s clients include Premiere, DSF, ARD, ZDF, RTL, SAT.1, ProSieben, RTL II, Disney Television International and Eurosport, as well as many other national and international companies. PLAZAMEDIA is managed by Florian Nowosad (CEO) and Zeljko Karajica.