Lift10 speakers

Rahaf Harfoush works with organizations to build authentic relationships by aligning their social media initiatives with their vision. She was involved in the extraordinary effort that helped bring President Obama to the White House in 2008. Her talk will explain how to use social media for politics in the US, Iran and elsewhere.

Neil is the co-founder of Index Ventures, a venture capital investment firm famous for its investments in Skype, MySQL, and Betfair. He is on the board of organizations as diverse as Netvibes, Moo Print or Human Rights Watch. His talk will focus on the current trends in investment and entrepreneurship.

Russell has spent most of his working life in advertising and communications strategy. He’s also a columnist for Campaign and Wired UK. He works at Really Interesting Group and thinks about things that connect the web and the world.

Basile Zimmermann is interested in the circulation of technological objects from one culture to another: the design of social networking websites in China or music devices such as synthesizers, music software and turntables in contemporary Beijing. He will described how one can better and faster understand what is going on with technology when it comes to cultural differences.

Katrin Verclas is in charge of a global network of practitioners that use mobile phone applications for social impact (citizen participation, health and development or civil society organizations). She will explain what does and does not work in mobile participation.

As a researcher in media studies, Jean Burgess investigates everyday media creation and use in relation to technological change, with a particular focus on the YouTube community as well as various other sites of user-led content creation, both online and offline. She will share her findings on stage.

As a regular speaker in hacker and new media conferences, german futurist and film critic Christian Heller will talk about how to adapt to the privacy change caused by technologies and the transformation of personal and political identity patterns in the digital age.

Felipe works in the fields of technological appropriation and low tech experimentation. He has been lead articulator in MetaReciclagem.org (an emergent Brasilian movement working on low tech labs) and Bricolabs.net, an international network of experimental labs. He will atalk about hacking to climb the social ladder in Brazil.

A sociologist interested in (and avid user of) digital technologies, Antonio will revisit and criticize the myths around the notion of "digital generations". Based on various cases, he will discuss how computer users are not doomed to stay young forever.

Richard works with the largest companies in the world to install sustainable new media strategies. He will talk about how businesses can benefit from the conversational technologies.