lift-asia-07

Jake Song - a superstar yet down to earth and open Korean programmer - shared his long experience of building online worlds, first in 2D (Lineage, Ultima Online) then in 3D (Lineage 2, World of Warcraft). His talk resembled a how-to build the perfect virtual world, and my favorite slide was the one that said "try to build a weird enough world so users feel like they are somewhere else, but simple enough that people can still use common sense".

“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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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.

Lift lab is a research agency that helps companies and institutions understand, foresee and prepare for upcoming changes triggered by technological and social evolutions.

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.

Owl Research & Evaluation supports organisations in analysing, assessing and evaluating activities in the communications, training/events and development fields.

art center nabi aims to act as an intermediary that transforms the cultural desires into vital activities. Our goal is formed around the idea of humanizing technology that technology is fully integrated with human’s cultural life to open a new space for creative practices. This can be achieved only after the fruitful collaboration and understanding among science technology, humanities and arts. Thus, art center nabi maintains the following three ideas; being a 'critique' of contemporary culture independent from technological benefits; possessing 'creativity' which opens people’s mind to regard a new perspective and enables a new form of expression; creating 'community' where these ideas are shared and the new world is dreamed of.

art center nabi is at the center of this new culture, where artistic sensibility is combined with the technological possibility to bring out the power of change and creativity.

amiando is Europe's largest event organization platform. We help people to organize and manage their events online. Thousands of private and public events are organized on amiando every month, including events like leweb3, DLD as well as several celebrity and charity parties.

In June 2007, amiando launched the first European online tool for a secure, uncomplicated and individual do-it-yourself ticket shop. The innovative amiando do-it-yourself ticket shop system enables anyone to instantly offer an online ticket presale without any effort and without piles of paper.

Since inception, the company won numerous awards, including "Top 50 startup in Germany" by German national business magazine 'Wirtschaftswoche', "TOP 100 Finalist" by internet magazine Red Herring and the "Innovators' Pitch" of the federation of information economy, telecommunication and new media (BITKOM).

amiando was founded by six university graduates and is based in Munich, Germany. In December 2006, the platform was launched on the German market. amiando startet European expansion with local branches in Switzerland and France in September 2007.

The company is backed amongst others by Wellington Partners, Lukasz Gadowski (spreadshirt), Stefan Glaenzer (last.fm) and Rodrigo Schulz (vpod.tv).

Adam opening opened the conference with a great talk about how cities are now becoming read/write environments rather than de-socialized zones with everybody isolated in a tech bubble (iPod, mobile phone).

An energetic, visual journey in tomorrow's urban environments.

Yoo Suk Yeon is showing what she is doing as both an architect and a researcher, trying to build physical spaces for a population that is getting more and more connected and virtual everyday. She had the most beautiful and intriguing slides we have seen in a while!

Yoo Suk talks in both Korean and English.