Henriette is an online community specialist. She talks about how we should all enjoy the chaos.

“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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I was looking for a trend on Google search earlier today, and quickly checked the impact of the Geneva conference on searches in Switzerland. Unsurprisingly there is a growing spike in searches, corresponding to the boost of traffic we have on our servers during the conference.

2009 (Lift09, Feb. 25-27)

2008 (Lift08, Feb. 6-8)

2007 (Lift07, Feb. 7-9)

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.

Tiburon-TV runs an interview of the folks of Tagcrumbs, a startup that was created after the founders met at Lift08. It is another of this cases where the value the conference creates comes to light, it's pretty exciting for us :)

Finally a startup whose founders met at the Lift conference (Lift08): Social placemarking company Tagcrumbs.com - founded by Benedikt Foit, Cornelius Rabsch and Sascha Konietzke. The three young Germans are studying and working in Paris, Ireland and Germany. As „business guy“ Ben puts it „Tagcrumbs allows you to discover those little things that might give you interesting information about the places you visit and share them with your friends, family and the world. You can build a mini community of people you know and recommend places you care about.“

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While browsing DailyMotion I found this video of Art and you made at Lift08, showing all the activities organized that year in the the Lift experience. Check it out it's really cool, and will give you something to watch while we prepare the first announcements about the Lift09 experience!