At the swiss start-ups pitch presentation, Pierre Bureau form Arimaz shows Mydeskfriend, a small robot that can connect to the Internet, it can read messages and RSS feeds, and be a character in games.

“Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.”, Gregg Easterbrook

Somebody suggested we add a "lift by the numbers" section on the site's about page, and I decided to act on this recommendation as it gives an perspective what has happened in the past three and a half years.

4'000 attendees from 60 countries.

8 events held on 3 continents in 3.5 years

2 million visits and 13.5M page views on liftconference.com per year (full stats)

450+ articles and interviews in national (TSR, Bilan, RSR, Swissinfo) and international (BBC, CBC, BusinessWeek, FastCompany, Wired, AFP, Europe1) media

200+ talks available free in video

5000+ members in the Lift community

180+ speakers from more than 40 countries

Lift @ home events happening in Toronto, Tokyo, Barcelona, London, San Francisco, Brussels, Barcelona, Zurich, New York, etc.

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At the swiss start-ups pitch presentation, Ralph Rimet from Secu4 showed his product, a protection system for valuables, based on a small bluetooth card, connected with a cell phone.

Takeshi Natsuno "Upcoming trends in mobile services" (Lift Asia 08 EN)

Takeshi Natsuno, the father of the first, functioning, successful, large-scale wireless internet system, Japan's i-Mode described his perspective and trends on mobile services for the near future.

At the swiss start-ups pitch presentation, Gilles Florey from Key Lemon presented his product: an easy-to-use face- and speech-recognition software that can be used through a normal webcam

We added a new feature which allows you to see the archived pages of all past events.
Lift06, Lift07, Lift Asia 07, Lift08, Lift Asia 08, and Lift09 (the list is getting quite extensive!), all the pages are now migrated and accessible via a drop down menu. You can navigate each event's pages by using the links that will appear on the right.

You can now see Lift06's program and participants, the Lift07 experience (formerly known as Lift+), or the first ever Lift Asia homepage.

You can always easily guess each edition's web location, it is either /liftxx, /lift-asia-xx or /lift-france-xx where xx is the last 2 digits of the edition's year. Yes, easy.

Here is a recap video of Lift Asia 08 behind the scenes. See the ambiance Lift portrays at its second conference in Korea. View a summary of the event, the Lift Asia 08 speakers, the beautiful conference space, the experience projects curated by Art Center Nabi and last but not least the amazing location of the conference next to the beach :)
A big thank you to our friends at Jeju MBC / Frame for the video and Fabian Kalker for the great music.

Here is a recap video of Lift Asia 08 behind the scenes by Frame Inc. See the ambiance Lift portrays at Lift Asia 08 Conference. View a sumary of the event, from the speakers to the conference space, and the experience projects all made possible by the Jeju Government, Daum, WattWatt, Alpict and Art Center NABI.

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We strive to translate insights on innovation into actionable knowledge based on field and desk research studies, strategic review, event creation, and prototyping. We are based in Switzerland and operate internationally. Our clients include the French Ministry of Industry, UBS, McKinsey and Swisscom.

After a quick introduction of the event, Lift founder Laurent Haug, joined on stage by Daum's founder Jaewoong Lee gives an overview of the Lift Asia 08 conference. He briefly addresses the topic choice and describe the profile of the speakers.