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Lift11: what can the future do for you?
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Lift11 is a three-day conference about current and emerging usage of digital technologies such as online communities, social media and casual games. Participants come to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by digital technologies, and meet the people who drive these innovations.
2-4 February 2011, International Conference Center
Geneva, Switzerland
Geneva, Switzerland
Conference program
Lift is unique:
• Carefully prepared talks with some of the world's best speakers
• A unique interaction system, react on each slide from your mobile phone
• A networking game by Frog Design to facilite contacts between participants
• The legendary Lift fondue
Who comes to Lift
We gather entrepreneurs, managers, designers, students, geeks, researchers, thinkers and doers from around the world. The conference is open to all, and the diversity and quality of attendees is one of our key differentiating factors.
New in 2011
• An improved feedback system to better interact with speakers.
• A new and better conference room
• Better workshops with true interactivity
• Unbundled and viral tickets, earn cash by recommending the conference to your friends.
The conference program allows you to discover new and emerging technologies, see real life examples of implementations in different contexts, and expand your horizons by exploring ideas from other fields and backgrounds.
Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011
13:00 First time participants welcome
14:00 Opening session
16:30 Session: new workplaces, new models, open organizations
19:30 Lift Fondue
Thursday Feb. 3, 2011
09:00 Session: Online communities
11:00 Session: Crowd-sourcing, bottom-up innovation and co-creation
14:00 Session: Games: looking at Gamification and transmedia
15:45 Session: New money
17:30 Alp ICT Venture Night
Friday Feb. 4, 2011
09:00 Workshops
11:30 Session: Stories
14:00 Session: Near futures
15:45 Session: Deep space
17:30 Closing of the conference
22:00 Closing party
See the full program.
Speakers
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is one of the tech world's most influential voice through his long standing blog scobleizer.com. Based in the Silicon Valley, he spends his time meeting with the people who innovate and create tomorrow's internet services.
David Galbraith
Dave Galbraith worked as an architect for Norman Foster before jumping into the Internet industry. He co-founded several projects like origins.net, Moreover technologies and Curations. As an entrepreneur in residence at MRL Ventures, he helped found Yelp.
Don Tapscott
Don is an internationally sought writer (we know him for the best-seller “Wikinomics”), consultant and speaker on business strategy and organizational transformation. Don is Chairman of Moxie Insight. He was founder and chairman of the international think tank New Paradigm before it’s acquisition in 2007.
Jean-Claude Biver
Jean-Claude Biver is CEO and board member of Hublot, a Swiss luxury watchmaker. Prior to this, he had successfully rejuvenated the Blancpain and Omega brands, both currently owned by Swatch Group.
Claude Nicollier
Claude was the first astronaut from Switzerland and has flown on several Space Shuttle missions. He is now a professor of Spatial Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Brian Solis
Brian is a new media specialist, founder of digital & social media agency: FutureWorks, and chief web analyst at PeopleBrowsr. Brian is also an acclaimed writter, blogger and photographer.
Birgitta Ralston
Birgitta is the Creative Director of Ralston & Bau and Head of the Research program in Transplant. She has a broad design and concept development background from interior to profiling projects as well as design strategy.
Kevin Slavin
Kevin is the founder of area/code, creating cross-media games for world-renowned clients. Area/Code builds on the landscape of pervasive technologies and overlapping media to create new kinds of entertainment.
David Calvo
David is a game designer and sci-fi writer who works at Ankama, a French video-game studio best known for its multi-player game, Dofus. He also writes short stories, pen and paper RPGs, LARPs, and comic books.
Steffen Walz
Dr. Steffen P. Walz is a cultural anthropologist-turned-game and interaction designer, now the appointed founder–director of the future Games & Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEElab) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Steve Portigal
Steve is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a boutique firm that brings together user research, design and business strategy to help organizations discover and act on new insights about their customers.
Hasan Elahi
Since being detained by the FBI in 2002 as a suspected terrorist, Elahi, an artist and professor, has made his life an open book. He documents every aspect of his life on his website: trackingtransience.net
Jennifer Magnolfi
In 2009 Jennifer Magnolfi joined the Herman Miller Ideation Studio at the front end of Research & Development, where her work focuses on continuing to explore programmability as a driver for future business development and innovation.
Nick Coates
Nick oversees Promise's research activities and has a particular interest in the creative industries, education and the arts, language and semiotics and cross-cultural research.
Ben Hammersley
Ben is a British internet technologist, journalist, and broadcaster. He is Editor at Large of Conde Nast's Wired UK magazine, Head of Digital at SIX Creative and Principal of Dangerous Precedent.
Tiffany St James
Tiffany is a digital strategist and trainer enabling organisations to understand and use social media. She is the former Head of Public Participation for the UK Government.
