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The early reactions
March 1, 2009 - 19:29 — Laurent Haug
How did you like the conference? I spent the whole afternoon eating aspirins (a bad flu who is taking over me) reading blogs and tweets about Lift09. The majority of feedback seems to be positive:
"Lift09 is just top! Great people, working wifi, cool art installations and a gigantic fondue this evening!" -- Dania Gerhardt
"excellent organization, wifi works great, power plugs, very pro" -- Alexi Perrier
"lift09 is a fantastic event this year, day 2 rocked BIG time all the way with a climax" -- Yuri Van Geest
"I’m lucky enough to be in Geneva today at the simply wonderful Lift09, where I’ve met lots of great people [...] and been stimulated, entertained and surprised." -- Bill Thompson
"I just had a wonderful experience at LIFT in Geneva. There was an refreshingly new audience from many different areas (design, finance, urban planning, business) which alongside the great topics of the talks made up for a very cool event." -- Andre Ribeirinho
"with these kind of conferences, it's all a bit random. Many talks just don't resonate, inspire, make it past translation issues [...] and so on. Equally, many talks are fantastic. Conferences like this should take chances, and Lift is smart and confident enough to take chances now." -- Dan Hill
"This is the best conference, bar none, that I’ve been to in a long time." -- Cyrus Farivar
"la qualité des conférences #LIFT09 est vraiment la plus élevée qu'il m'ai été donné de voir. Les conférences de cet aprem sont extra" -- Sandrine Szaboz
"I had an AMAZING time here at #lift09" -- Mark A.M. Kramer
To be exhaustive I searched for a negative reaction. Of course I don't agree with it ;) but it comes as a reminder that despite all possible efforts nobody can make 800 persons happy!
"The disappointment comes mainly from the impression of declining density, compared to the three LIFT conferences I attended before. More repetitions of topics previously covered, again a seemingly lower number of presentations, and an overall level that does not seem to rise. Maybe the future just went away, on holiday. Or maybe it's just me." -- Hannes Gassert
I am looking forward to the post conference survey to have a more complete view of how the Lifters enjoyed Lift09.
Comments
LIFT is a brilliant, active conference - the harder you work yourself to start conversations, the more rewarding it is. Each LIFT has been different - but its always 80% amazing, 20% not quite there. I am sure that Laurent and the team have a huge task shaping the two days, to ensure that its not too "produced" but also not just a chaotic mashup of random thoughts. For me, there was plenty to take away and start great conversations. This year there was more time between sessions, and that was great. Weaknesses? Some of the workshops seemed to be less focussed than I had expected or tried to cram too much in. May be its an idea to ask those organizing a workshop what they will deliver to the main conference the next day (a project proposal, a result, a guideline to something). Workshops shouldn't be a briefing...more of an inspired conversation. I hope those that POKENed do fill in their details on the site. I have about 10 blank contacts which are useless.
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