Lift09 speakers

Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist who is the "person most often called 'the father of the Internet'. His contributions have been... » view full profile

Soh-Yeong Roh founded Art Center Nabi (Seoul) in 2000, transforming a contemporary art centre into a new media art centre, where art, technology,... » view full profile

Ramesh Srinivasan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies and Design|Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. His... » view full profile

Patrick J. Gyger (born 1971 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Swiss historian, curator and writer. In the 1990s he specialised in medieval studies. He has been... » view full profile

Oriol Pascual is a business developer for Enviu and PhD candidate at the Design for Sustainability program at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands).... » view full profile

Nicolas is research and consultant at the Near Future Laboratory.As a curator at Lift, he is taking care of the program of the conferences, finding speakers... » view full profile

Natalie Jeremijenko is a new media artist who works at the intersection of contemporary art, science, and engineering. Her work takes the form of... » view full profile

Dr. Melanie Rieback is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, in the group of Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum. Melanie's... » view full profile

Matt Webb is a principal of the design shop Schulze & Webb, which has a special focus on the social life of stuff. Projects include material prototypes... » view full profile

I am an entrepreneur and researcher who is passionate about understanding how technological innovation is reshaping society and culture. My job is to... » view full profile

Juliana Rotich is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Ushahidi Inc, a non-profit tech company, born in Africa, which specializes in developing free and... » view full profile

Joerg is a trend & transformation consultant based in Hamburg, Germany. He advises client on emerging opportunities and how to implement these insights... » view full profile

I'm Head of Communication at CERN, home of the world's most ambitious scientific project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC circulated its first... » view full profile

James Auger is a partner in the critical design practice Auger-Loizeau whose projects explore the role of technology as a mediator and modifier of the human... » view full profile

Frank is a researcher and independent consultant specialized on new media. He currently works with the RATP, the Parisian Transport Operator, on the future... » view full profile

Fabio Sergio is a design and user experience strategist.
He's happiest in areas at the intersection of design, technology and (social) connectivity,... » view full profile

David Rose is a product designer, technology visionary, and social entrepreneur.

Currently David is Chief Executive at Vitality, a company that is... » view full profile

Clive van Heerden is creative director of Philips 'Design Probes' program. Philips Design Probes is a dedicated ‘far-future' research initiative to... » view full profile

Dan Hill has been working at the forefront of innovative information and communication technologies (ICT) since the early ‘90s and has been responsible... » view full profile

An architect, engineer and agit-prop, Carlo Ratti practices in Torino, Italy, and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he... » view full profile

Baba WAME is professor in cyberjournalism and ICT at the Advanced School of Mass Communication (ASMAC) from the Yaoundé 2 University (Cameroon). Baba has a... » view full profile

Former chair of Wikimedia Foundation, the non profit organization behind Wikipedia. Now on its advisory board.
Board member of Wikimedia France.» view full profile

Anne Galloway recently completed a PhD in sociology and anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, which involved an » view full profile

Anab is a TED Fellow and the Founder of Superflux, a studio researching and designing new interactions at the intersection of people and technology. Through... » view full profile