Lift07, Geneva, 7-8-9 February 2007

LIFT is a yearly gathering of talented observers, explorers, and builders who discuss the current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. LIFT is three days to face cutting edge business models, bold predictions, radical thinking, and get new ideas to inject into your own part of the planet.

LIFT is more than a conference! Beyond the opportunity to listen to some of today’s most influential minds, you can also talk during the open stage sessions or share and learn with others during a pre-conference workshop. And for the first time in 2007, LIFT+ was added to the concept. It is a living and creative platform intended to develop new ideas through active interaction between the participants.

What are we going to talk about?

This year we will talk about the web, mobile technologies, economy, design, technological overload, entrepreneurship, ubiquitous computing, social software, economy or religion. LIFT will also offer some workshops, open stage sessions, and LIFT+ and much much more.

The full program is available here

Speakers

Sugata Mitra presenting the Hole in the wall project.

LIFT07 welcomed more than 40 international speakers, ranging from Florence Devouard (Chair of Wikipedia) to Jacques Attali (Writer and futurist), Jaewoong Lee (founder of Daum Communications) to Pierre Chappaz (Netvibes, Kelkoo, Wikio), Robert Scoble, Adam Greenfield (author of Everyware), Sister Judith Zoebelein (Internet editor of the Vatican!), Sampo Karjalainen (Hobbo Hotel), Nathan Eagle (MIT), Jan Chipchase (Nokia), Paola Ghillani or Régine Debatty.

Complete list of speakers is available here.

Why should you join us?

• You missed LIFT06, and it was pretty cool thanks to 350 passionate people from around the globe
• You suspect that somebody, somewhere is exploring amazing things that you know nothing about. You are right, it's happening now, and LIFT is a good start.
• You attend conferences in your increasingly narrow field but crave for input from farther away. Let's talk about web 2.0, mobile phones, finance, robots, social software, or ethics.
• You are getting bored, you are losing your edge, you need a kick in the ass.
• You like mountains and snow.

Pictures


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