Lift France 10 speakers

What can the future do for you?

Lift works to identify and anticipate current and emerging usages
of digital technologies through research, events, publications and services.

Main stage

Alma Whitten
Google's privacy engineering lead
Dr. Alma Whitten joined Google in 2003 and is currently Head of Googles Applied Security engineering team, and their engineering lead on privacy.
Anab Jain
Near future designer
Anab is a TED Fellow and the Founder of Superflux, a studio researching and designing new interactions at the intersection of people and... » read more
Stefana Broadbent
UCL, Researcher
Stefana Broadbent is a visiting researcher at the Department of Anthropology at UCL. She is an expert on the evolution of digital activities at home. At Lift12 she will talk about technologies at home: making our lives easier or harder?
Daniel Kaplan
FING Founder
Daniel Kaplan is the founder and CEO of the Next-Generation Internet Foundation (Fing), a collective and open nexus of ideas and projects on tomorrow's Internet's uses, applications and services.
Fabien Girardin
Urban data researcher
Fabien is fascinated by the hybridization of digital technologies and the urban fabrics. He will show different projects he works on about the aggregation of data to improve the understanding of different aspects of human mobility and urban attractiveness.
Laurent Haug
Founder of Lift
Laurent is an entrepreneur, event designer and researcher passionate about understanding how technological innovation is reshaping society and culture. He work is about identifying and understanding upcoming shifts, spread the word via conferences and social media, and ultimately help turn changes into opportunities.
Jean-louis Frechin
Nodesign.net
Jean-Louis Frechin is a DPLG architect and a graduate of the ENSCI Les Ateliers.
In 2001, he set up » read more
Matt Cottam
Tellart
Matt believes in learning by doing, in using sketching as a tool for exploration, and in throwing himself in the deep-end when it comes... » read more
Philippe Lemoine
CEO, LaSer and chairman, Fing
One of France's "CEOs that think", Philippe Lemoine headsLaSer, the leading European company for intermediation and customer relationship. He is also the founder of the "Modernity Action Forum".
Hugues AUBIN
Ville de Rennes / Rennes Métropole
Fascinated by the use of information technologies since 1993 I started in telematics for local participation in the rapidly growing web, first in associations and private, and finally in the local government.
Adrian Bowyer
University of Bath
Adrian Bowyer is a British engineer and mathematician, currently an academic at the University of... » read more
Jan Blom
Software Scientist
Jan Blom works at the Nokia Research Center, inside the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory. He used to run a nomadic research team in India, consisting of ethnographers, designers and technologists.
Jarmo Eskelinen
Forum Virium Helsinki
Jarmo Eskelinen is the CEO of Forum Virium Helsinki, a non-profit innovation company in the... » read more
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
Anders Sandberg is a researcher, science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author. He holds a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience... » read more
Yann Moulier-Boutang
University of Technology of Compiègne (France) (COSTECH EA 2223, and Quarterly Multitudes
Yann Moulier-Boutang is a philosopher and economist. He teaches intellectual property rights and political economy at the University of... » read more
Haakon Karlsen Jr.
MIT-FabLab Norway / Fab Foundation
director of MIT FabLab in Norway
Adriana Lukas
The Mine! Project and VRM Hub
VRM expert and director of VRM Hub
Manuel Lima
Visual Complexity Decoder
Manuel Lima is an interaction designer and researcher, founder of VisualComplexity.com.
Jacques Lévy
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Geographer and an urbanist, full professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
Michael Cross
The Guardian
Founder and Director of Free Our Data, a campaign for free public access to data about the UK and its citizen.
Amit Zoran
MIT Media Lab
PhD student in the MIT Media Lab, working on hybrid object design, merging traditional crafted element with digital technologies.
Sam Pitroda
Indian Government
Adviser to the Indian Prime Minister
Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations
Uros Petrevski
Nodesign.net
La plus belle innovation d'Uros Petrevski, dit-il est sa décision d'apprendre le design à Paris. Il intègre l'ENSCI Les Ateliers et y... » read more
François Taddéi
INSERM
After having studied mostly math, physics and engineering in the French “grandes écoles” Ecole Polytechnique (1986-1989) and ENGREF... » read more
Ton Zijlstra
FabLab Foundation Netherlands
Self-employed, driven by increasing people's ability to do things themselves in the context of their communities. By enhancing skills (dealing with complex environments, organizing in communities), using tools (social media, network visualization, complexity pattern analysis), or creating circumstances for emergence (FabLabs, Maker Households, network literacy, connectivism, learning in communities of practice, open government data)
Christophe Castaner

He is the mayor of the city of Forcalquier, and Vice President of the Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d'Azur region, in charge of employment, economical development, innovation, research, and university education.
Ivo Gormley
Think Public
filmmaker and anthropologist, working in Think Public

He released » read more