Lift Asia 09 speakers

Adrian David Cheok is working on some of the most intriguing projects about mixed reality and networked objects, some of them focusing on human-animal interaction.

Benjamin Joffe has been living in China for the past decade and is an acute observer of social media in South Asia, working with western companies trying to enter this huge market.

Bernie Cho is working to radically reinvent the way music circulates between artists and listeners, using social media to break the walled gardens of traditional culture industry.

Chul Shin is producing the remake of the legendary Taekwon V robot movies, giving new life to a symbol of Korean culture with the latest 3D technologies.

Dong Hyung Lee founded the world's first social network, a website that goes by the name of Cyworld.

Introducing the session about new urbanism, Dooeun Choi form art center Nabi will give an overview of the artistic practices in Korea regarding networked buildings and cities.

Hojun Song thinks that soon kids will be asking their parents to give them satellites, and that an open source initiative could make this more affordable and realistic than we think. He will talk at Lift12 in the Extreme Hackers session.

Hyungjin Kim is a game developer who has been working on online games for 13years. He was in charge of game design for Lineage and also Lineage2 of NCsoft. Now he is working as a creative director at NCsoft.

Ida is a TV star in Korea, and wrote a book about understanding the cultural differences between western and Korean culture.

In Hwan Kim is the director of the Jeju Knowledge Industry Promotion Agency, a friend of Lift, and one of the people behind the fact the conference happens on the island.

Jaewoong Lee founded Daum, one of the two major internet companies in Korea.

Jean-Henry Morin believes that Digital Rights Management could be applied in a smart way for personal data management, and that balance between users and copyright holders' rights could be achieved.

Jin Ho Hur is one of the pioneers who built the Korean Internet.

Julian Bleecker is imagining the near future for Nokia Design, creating "design fictions" and prototypes of networked artifacts such as objects that blog about their interactions with the environment.

Tae Hwan Kim is the governor of Jeju, and will welcome all Lift Asia 09 participants to his wonderful island.

Kohei Nishiyama is founder of CUUSOO.com, an online user community that collects wishes from people and matches to manufactures that could make wishes come true.

Minsuk Cho is one of the brightest and most celebrated young Korean architect. He will show us his latest projects designed for a fast changing world.

Patrice Nordey is searching for the next big thing in Asia, monitoring one of the world's most dynamic continent for western companies.

Patrick Keller designs buildings that display environmental information to make us more aware of our surroundings.

Rafi Haladjian invented the Nabaztag, the connected rabbit that invaded thousands of houses in the past years. He is now taking on a much bigger challenge: connecting all of our daily objects.

What would have happened if the 1973 oil crisis had not happened? Sascha Pohflepp imagined what our world would have become.

Soon Hyun is working on developping true Internet Game Web sites upholstered by passion, fun, and integrity.

Suman Park launched me2Day, the first microblogging platform in South Korea, which activates “smalltalk” not only on the web but also via mobile, bringing it to another level. He is going to give an overview of the interesting stories that are behind the scenes of this service.

Sey Min of RandomWalk is dreaming of a building that changes shape in real time depending on its inhabitants' behavior.

Jason Wishnow revolutionized the way ideas are viewed on the web, overseeing the publication of hundreds of TED talks now reaching more than 300'000 people a day.

Woohyun Hwang works on Smart Grid technologies at Korea Electric Power Corporation and focus on how this new technology may promote more sustainable production of energy.