Talks | Lift France 11

The future of smart cities

A leading researcher on globalization, global cities and new technologies Saskia Sassen will discuss the current hype around smart cities. She will remind us that “It is the ...
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On public objects: connected things and civic responsibilities in the networked city

This talk will explore some of the issues that emerge around networked information-collecting objects in our public spaces, and to frame a taxonomy of such objects from the ...
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Building the cities of the future: People empowered (by technology)

Cities were once constructed by the efforts of individuals, until the grand plans of master architects, and then city planning departments took over, making sense of the "chaos." ...
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Openness and collective intelligence, its prospects and its challenges

Unlimited cities

The presentation will describe "Unlimited Cities", a participatory platform used by architect to enable citizens to change their neighborhood. A rapid prototyping tool, this ...
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How car-pooling can help forecast car traffic.

Carpooling consists in sharing a car on a similar trip. Drivers publish their available seats with a price, and passengers buy seats for home-to-work carpooling (on a day-to-day ...
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Putting patients at the center of healthcare; disruption in medicine, research, business, and drug safety

The current disruption in healthcare corresponds to the fact that patients can access tools to gather information, aggregate data, act, and see results reflected in real-time. The ...
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Debating Biotechnology – Speculative Design as Public Engagement

This speech will describe the "Material Beliefs" project, a design research project with a focus on a speculative approach to biotechnology as a form of engagement with the ...
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Open Prosthetics, where it comes from, what it changes, what it means for all of us

Open Prosthetics is a movement and a community that looks (i) to find economically feasible ways of producing medical devices for underserved medical populations and (ii) to give ...
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The state of emerging technologies

What are the "futurists" technologies that may radically change our relationship to the World in the 21st Century? A new paradigm is coming which essentially on the ...
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The futures of innovation and innovation policies

Innovation is changing in many ways. New meanings, new actors, new models, new motivations and new targets are emerging. In the academic discourse attempts to conceptualise these ...
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Data-driven journalism, one year on

Data met journalism in mid-2010, when developers and journalists got together to explore new ways to analyze and visualize information. One year on, what has datajournalism ...
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From Team Academy to the future: Building organizations for humans

1- Who am I? Ville Keranen, Geek, Learning Designer, Team Entrepreneur at Lifestyle company Monkey Business (spin off from Team Academy), Team Academy Alumni, Team Mastery ...
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Trusted networks and the rise of the micro-entrepreneur

We're in a world where exponential change is the new normal. Old economic structures are being challenged by newer ones and networked technologies are changing the way we can ...
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Contemplative Computing

Information technologies today interrupt and distract us, dividing our attention across a range of activities and devices. This feels like an inevitable state of affairs, but I ...
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Introduction

Daniel Kaplan and Nicolas Nova give the opening talk of the Lift France 11 conference.

Feeding Milano: a human platform to regain the meaning of slowness

Food, in Latin cultures, means conviviality, pleasure, taking care of the others and being loved. “Slow food” actually is not so much about cooking and eating slower, than ...
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Ecotech myths and lessons from the past

The present-day approach towards a sustainable society is doomed to fail. The focus on sophisticated technology - electric and hybrid cars, energy-efficient devices, solar panels ...
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Ushahidi:Powered by Open Source

OPEN: What happens when barriers to use of technology are lowered? What can we learn from the Ushahidi open source community and the technology landscape in Africa about the opportunity and the limits of open innovation?

Homesense project: agile and open innovation against all odds

Alexandra will give an update on the methodology and results employed in the Homesense experiment: a project that rethinks how we design smart homes and investigate how we ...
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Open innovation initiatives

Gabriel will share the experiences of two different initiatives based on open innovation. One from a group of friends that got tired of not having the international concerts they ...
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Wrap-up

Wrap-up