Hojun Song thinks kids will soon ask their parents to offer them satellites, and that an open source initiative could make it more affordable and realistic than you think. He is an artist and dreamer, and he might very well achieve his goal as early as next year, sending a satellite collecting data from the cosmos and transforming it into information artists could use back on earth. He will be speaking at Lift Asia in the "Networked objects, from wifi rabbits to ubiquitous cities" session alongside Rafi Haladjian, Adrian David Cheok and Julian Bleecker.

Interview of Ida Daussy, a french woman TV star in Korea. A few words about her history in Korea, her career and her opinion about the country.

Interview of Rafi Haladjian, the father of the RfiD Rabbit "Nabaztag" French version.

Olivier Mouroux, co-fondateur de Asiance.com, une agence "facilitatrice" pour vous établir en Corée et en Asie. C'est également une agence de pub digitale bien établie ici. Présence à Lift et comment s'installer ici en Corée sont les principaux thèmes de cette interview.

Interview d'un participant suisse, Grégoire Furrer qui nous explique ce qu'il vient chercher dans cette édition Asiatique de Lift "Serious fun" Un thème tout trouvé pour le directeur du Festival du Rire de Montreux.

As Web entrepreneur (from Infonet Digital Company), Richard explains why he attended this Lift Asia 2009 conference. He also gives us some tips for successful business in Korea.

Why you should come to the Lift Asia Conference? Few words and answers of Jean-Henry, reasons to come to Lift Asia Conference...

Yun Jongsoo is the representative of Creative Commons in Korea. He explains why he came to Lift Asia 2009.

The grades are in! Owl Re just sent us the results of the Lift Asia 09 survey, and it seems attendees gave us good grades again despite the tough context that greatly complicated organization (remember we had a major economical crises just 3 months ago ? ;)

“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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