Lift with Fing, Marseille, 18-20 June 2009

Lift is a series of events built around a community of doers and thinkers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social consequences of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meeting the people who drive them. » learn more

A hands-on future

Throughout the world, entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, designers, activists, many are inventing radically new ways to innovate, design, produce, trade, exchange and manage.

On June 18,19 and 20, they will be at Lift France to talk about a Hands-On Future, a future where we are all actors of change. "Hands-on" is about creating objects that are not just "smart" and connected, but also customizable, hackable, transformable, fully recyclable. It is about decentralized manufacturing and home fabrication. Building a hands-on future also means reconnecting global environmental challenges with growth as well as with human desire, pleasure, beauty and fun. Innovation is everywhere, emerging from users as well as entrepreneurs, researchers or activists... more on the program

The conference language will be English with live French translation.

Speakers

John Thackara
Founder of Doors of Perception

 Edith Ackermann
Professor of Developmental
Psychology at MIT
 Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet
French Digital Economy Minister

 Euan Semple
Working in a wired world
Dennis Pamlin
WWF
 Alexandra Deschamps
Founder of Tinker.it
 Bruce Sterling
Science fiction writer
 Gunter Pauli
Zero Emissions Research Initiative

Other speakers include Usman Haque, Philippe Lemoine, Jean-Michel Cornu, Catherine Fieschi, Dominique Pestre, François Jégou, Marcos Garcia, Michael Shiloh, Rob van Kranenburg and Martin Duval. See the speakers roster.

At Lift you also have an opportunity to speak by proposing a workshop or an open stage talk! Learn more about the open program.

Register

Participation in Lift France requires registration.

Venue

Lift France will take place at the Palais du Pharo. This palace was a gift to Napoleon. Perched on top of a hill at the entrance of the Vieux Port, Marseille's legendary harbour, the Pharo and its gardens provide splendid panoramic views. » Visit the Pharo's website.