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Lift France 09 Conference Program
In French please
Version française sur Fing.org.
• The whole conference will take place at the Palais du Pharo (map).
• 90% of the talks will be given in English with a few given in French. Live translation from one language to the other will be provided.
• You can download the program in one handy and printable pdf file.
Thursday, June 18th
The first day of the conference is dedicated to workshops.
13:00
Doors opening. Please head to the "old" entrance, the workshops happen in the historical building.
14:00
Workshops
Join one of the workshops organized by the community for you!
Join one of the workshops organized by the community for you!
18:00
End of workshops
19:00
Friday, June 19th
09:30
Welcome to Lift!
Lift founder Laurent Haug and Lift France chair Daniel Kaplan will explain the theme and organization of the conference..
Lift founder Laurent Haug and Lift France chair Daniel Kaplan will explain the theme and organization of the conference..
09:45
Initial and necessary challenge: "Technology & Society: Know your History!"
Is technology liberating us or enslaving us? Hardly a new question, says Dominique Pestre... He will thus challenge us to raise our level of thinking and, in searching for an answer, to embrace dissensus and complexity: How can we welcome techno-skeptics in order to produce more sustainable technologies? Can we really believe that green techs will allow us to avoid drastic (and collective) choices on how we live? How can the interaction between markets, democracy, usage, science, code, become more productive?
Keynote: Dominique Pestre, historian of Science, EHESS, Paris
Is technology liberating us or enslaving us? Hardly a new question, says Dominique Pestre... He will thus challenge us to raise our level of thinking and, in searching for an answer, to embrace dissensus and complexity: How can we welcome techno-skeptics in order to produce more sustainable technologies? Can we really believe that green techs will allow us to avoid drastic (and collective) choices on how we live? How can the interaction between markets, democracy, usage, science, code, become more productive?
Keynote: Dominique Pestre, historian of Science, EHESS, Paris
10:15
Changing Things (1) – The Internet of Things is not what you think it is!
If the "Internet of things" was just about adding chips, antennas and interactivity to the things we own, it would be no big deal. Discover a wholly different perspective: Open, unfinished objects which can be transformed and reprogrammed by their users; Objects that document their own components, history, lifecycle; Sensitive and noisy objects that capture, process, mix and publish information. Discover an Internet of Things which intends to transform the industrial world as deeply as the current Internet transformed the world of communication and media.
Keynote: Bruce Sterling, writer, author of Shaping Things
They do it for real: Usman Haque (haque :: design + research / Pachube) and Timo Arnall (Elastic Space)
Open stage talk
Nicolas Frespech - “Art & RFID?”
If the "Internet of things" was just about adding chips, antennas and interactivity to the things we own, it would be no big deal. Discover a wholly different perspective: Open, unfinished objects which can be transformed and reprogrammed by their users; Objects that document their own components, history, lifecycle; Sensitive and noisy objects that capture, process, mix and publish information. Discover an Internet of Things which intends to transform the industrial world as deeply as the current Internet transformed the world of communication and media.
Keynote: Bruce Sterling, writer, author of Shaping Things
They do it for real: Usman Haque (haque :: design + research / Pachube) and Timo Arnall (Elastic Space)
Open stage talk
Nicolas Frespech - “Art & RFID?”
11:15
Break, interaction with the speakers, networking.Live radio show: Place de la toile, France Culture
12:00
Changing Things (2) – Fab Labs, towards decentralized design and production of material products
Existing or unheard-of things, designed, modified, exchanged and manufactured by individuals or entrepreneurs anywhere in the world; Local workshops equipped with 3D printers and digital machine-tools, able to produce (almost) anything out of its 3D model; P2P object-sharing networks… Are "Fab Labs" heralding a new age of industrial production?
Keynote: Mike Kuniavsky, designer, ThingM
They do it for real: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Tinker.it) and Michael Shiloh (OpenMoko / MakingThings)
Existing or unheard-of things, designed, modified, exchanged and manufactured by individuals or entrepreneurs anywhere in the world; Local workshops equipped with 3D printers and digital machine-tools, able to produce (almost) anything out of its 3D model; P2P object-sharing networks… Are "Fab Labs" heralding a new age of industrial production?
Keynote: Mike Kuniavsky, designer, ThingM
They do it for real: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Tinker.it) and Michael Shiloh (OpenMoko / MakingThings)
13:00
Lunch.
14:45
Changing Innovation (1)- The end of IT
Today, corporate information systems are innovation's worst enemies. They set organizations and processes in stone. They restrict the enterprise's horizons and its networks. They distort its view of the world. But ferments of change emerge. Meet those who breathe new air into current organizations, those who design tomorrow's Innovation Systems.
Keynote: Marc Giget (Cnam)
They do it for real: Euan Semple (Social computing for the business world) and Martin Duval (Bluenove)
Today, corporate information systems are innovation's worst enemies. They set organizations and processes in stone. They restrict the enterprise's horizons and its networks. They distort its view of the world. But ferments of change emerge. Meet those who breathe new air into current organizations, those who design tomorrow's Innovation Systems.
Keynote: Marc Giget (Cnam)
They do it for real: Euan Semple (Social computing for the business world) and Martin Duval (Bluenove)
15:45
Break, interaction with the speakers, networking
16:30
Changing Innovation (2) – Innovating with the non-innovators
Innovating used to be a job in itself. It has become a decentralized procès which includes, in no particular order, researchers, entrepreneurs, designers, artists, activists, and users who reinvent the products they were supposed to consume. Why is that important? What does it really change? And where will it stop? WILL it stop somewhere?
Keynote: Catherine Fieschi, Counterpoint/British Council
They do it for real: Marcos Garcia (Madrid's Medialab-Prado) and Douglas Repetto, artist and founder of Dorkbot
Open stage talk
Tristan Nitot - “Making sure the Web stays 'Generative' and Future Open”
Innovating used to be a job in itself. It has become a decentralized procès which includes, in no particular order, researchers, entrepreneurs, designers, artists, activists, and users who reinvent the products they were supposed to consume. Why is that important? What does it really change? And where will it stop? WILL it stop somewhere?
Keynote: Catherine Fieschi, Counterpoint/British Council
They do it for real: Marcos Garcia (Madrid's Medialab-Prado) and Douglas Repetto, artist and founder of Dorkbot
Open stage talk
Tristan Nitot - “Making sure the Web stays 'Generative' and Future Open”
17:45
Takeaways: Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet's thoughts from Lift
"NKM" is France's minister in charge of Forward Planning and the Development of the Digital Economy
"NKM" is France's minister in charge of Forward Planning and the Development of the Digital Economy
18:30
Cocktail and digital arts
Saturday, June 20th
09:00
Changing the Planet (1)- Sustainable development, the Way of Desire
This session is brought to you by IEC WattWatt.
What if global warming and the exhaustion of natural resources were in fact, initially, design problems? How do we move from bad, unsustainable design to a design – of goods, services, systems – that is sensitive and sustainable, durable and beautiful, sensible and profitable? Could we build sustainable growth on desire as well as reason, on creativity as well as regulation? Short answer: Yes!
UPDATE: Keynote: Dennis Pamlin, WWF, author of "Sustainability @ the Speed of Light"
They do it for real: John Thackara (Doors of Perception) and Elizabeth Goodman (designer, confectious.net)
Open stage talk
François Brument - “In-Flexions, Non-Standard Design”
This session is brought to you by IEC WattWatt.What if global warming and the exhaustion of natural resources were in fact, initially, design problems? How do we move from bad, unsustainable design to a design – of goods, services, systems – that is sensitive and sustainable, durable and beautiful, sensible and profitable? Could we build sustainable growth on desire as well as reason, on creativity as well as regulation? Short answer: Yes!
UPDATE: Keynote: Dennis Pamlin, WWF, author of "Sustainability @ the Speed of Light"
They do it for real: John Thackara (Doors of Perception) and Elizabeth Goodman (designer, confectious.net)
Open stage talk
François Brument - “In-Flexions, Non-Standard Design”
10:15
Break and discussions
11:15
Changing the Planet (2) – Co-producing and sharing environmental consciousness
Planetary climate change is too large a challenge for each individual. It can quickly become abstract, technical, remote. How can we reconnect individual aspirations, personal and daily choices, to global challenges? How can we all become part of environmental measurement, evaluate and compare the impact of our own activities, become parts of our collective environmental consciousness?
UPDATE: Keynote: Gunter Pauli, ZERI (Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives)
They do it for real: Frank Kresin (Waag Society) and François Jegou (SDS-Solutioning / Sustainable Everyday)
Planetary climate change is too large a challenge for each individual. It can quickly become abstract, technical, remote. How can we reconnect individual aspirations, personal and daily choices, to global challenges? How can we all become part of environmental measurement, evaluate and compare the impact of our own activities, become parts of our collective environmental consciousness?
UPDATE: Keynote: Gunter Pauli, ZERI (Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives)
They do it for real: Frank Kresin (Waag Society) and François Jegou (SDS-Solutioning / Sustainable Everyday)
12:30
Lunch.
During lunch, share your own Lift takeaways and share them online. Your remarks might be selected for the final session!
During lunch, share your own Lift takeaways and share them online. Your remarks might be selected for the final session!
14:30
Conditional Future
"The best way to predict the future, is to invent it", said Alan Kay (and Buckminster Fuller). That is only true if as many of us as possible are given the opportunity to discuss, build, experiment and reflect upon their present and their future. Three speakers describe the conditions required to make that possible.
Rob van Kranenburg (Fontys Ambient Intelligence, Council)
Jean-Michel Cornu (Fing)
Open stage talk
Pierre Mounier - “UNESCO to supervise Google Index?”
"The best way to predict the future, is to invent it", said Alan Kay (and Buckminster Fuller). That is only true if as many of us as possible are given the opportunity to discuss, build, experiment and reflect upon their present and their future. Three speakers describe the conditions required to make that possible.
Rob van Kranenburg (Fontys Ambient Intelligence, Council)
Jean-Michel Cornu (Fing)
Open stage talk
Pierre Mounier - “UNESCO to supervise Google Index?”
15:30
Break, blogging and discussions
The very last moment to share your own conclusions with us, and hope they get selected for the following session.
The very last moment to share your own conclusions with us, and hope they get selected for the following session.
16:30
LIFT takeaways
What will you bring back with you when you leave Lift? What can you do with it? How should the conversation continue?
Your takeaways : 15 outstanding propositions offered by the participants themselves
Edith Ackermann (MIT) and Philippe Lemoine (Chairman, LaSer and Fing) have really been listening – and offer 4 conclusions each, in the form of possible, transformative actions
What will you bring back with you when you leave Lift? What can you do with it? How should the conversation continue?
Your takeaways : 15 outstanding propositions offered by the participants themselves
Edith Ackermann (MIT) and Philippe Lemoine (Chairman, LaSer and Fing) have really been listening – and offer 4 conclusions each, in the form of possible, transformative actions
17:15
Closing of conference and announcements
