Lift11 schedule

Lunch

First time participants welcome
Are you attending Lift for the first time? Join us for a short presentation of the event, and you will know how to maximize your presence with us during these three days.

Lift11 opening session

Speakers:
• Don Tapscott, Macrowikinomics.
• Jean-Claude Biver, The importance of innovation and thinking different.
• David Galbraith, Four trends for the digital world.
• Ben Hammersley, Internet, geopolitics and national security.
• Open Stage: Matthias Lüfkens, Twiplomacy

Break

Session: Re-organization: new workplaces, new business models, social organizations
Work is being reinvented by new technologies. We will explore several topics in this session: the new workplace with the example of Transplant, a Norwegian company operating from a remote fjord, new business models with Alexander Osterwalder and neo-nomads with Yasmine Abbas.

Speakers:
• Alexander Osterwalder, The new business models.
• Dorian Selz, Virtual Organizations
• Alexandre Bau and Birgitta Ralston, The story of a unique workplace: transplant.
• Yasmine Abbas, Neo-nomadism.
• Open Stage: Jennifer Gay, Google Translate, Skype conferencing, and the future of my career!

Transfer to the fondue
A tram will take participants from Nations to the fondue venue. It leaves promptly at 19:15!

Fondue!
No need to introduce this part of the program, the legendary Lift Fondue. A tram will take you from the conference center to the fondue at the Théâtre Pitoëff (map)

Doors opening

Session: Online communities
Online communities are becoming central to today's organizations. How do you engage people into them? Is there life beyond Facebook? What can really be achieved inside communities?

Speakers:
• Tiffany St James, How to encourage involvement in online communities.
• Chris Heathcote, The invisible communities.
• Azeem Azhar, Online communities and reputation management.
• Open Stage: Memi Beltrame, Artypedia - The free view on Art that anyone can edit

Break

Session: New innovation models
Crowd-sourcing is a buzz word that has been overused, but little has been said and researched about what it can really do for a project. What happens when you involve your clients and partners into the creation of new products and services? What is possible to outsource, what is not? Does involving your community into every process scale?

Speakers:
• Steve Portigal, Discover and act on new insights about how people innovate.
• Nick Coates, Co-creation: present and future.
• Thomas Sutton, Relinquishing Control: creating space for open innovation.

Lunch

Session: Games, beyond Gamification and transmedia

^{Session organized with the support of Pro Helvetia / Game Culture Program.}

Video games have long escaped the realm of nerdy teenagers to become one of the most important cultural product of our time - ahead of cinema and music. Now we hear our lives will be "gamified", with many of the mechanisms invented in games showing up in our "real life". Is this really happening? What are the real possibilities and pitfalls of such a proposition? We will also talk about how games can be used to engage people into an activity like reading, and discuss the latest phenomena of the entertainment industry: transmedia.

Speakers:
• Steffen Walz, The lowdown on "gamification".
• Etienne Mineur, The paper book as a new computer platform (in French).
• David Calvo, Beyond transmedia.
• Open Stage: Florence Chee, Localizations of global games: cross-cultural lessons

Break

Session: Social capital, open banks, monetization of media (#lift11newmoney)
With their activities on social networks, users are creating a social capital that they increasingly want to turn into tangible returns. How can this be done, and what is at stakes? Social networks also reshape profoundly the world of media, how can editors and journalists survive in the digital world, what are the new monetization models? The open and transparent movement is also impacting other domains, and we will discuss the open bank, an open source project that wants to bring more transparency to the secret world of finance.

• Brian Solis, Social currencies.
• Simon Redfern, The Open Bank Project.
• Philippe Gendret, Monetization of media.
• Open Stage: Yuri Suzuki, Music for dyslexic

Break

Alp ICT Venture Night
Partner event organized by Alp ICT and Etat de Genève with CTI and Creapole in partnership with ICT Journal, moderated by Cedric Giorgi of TechCrunch.fr

Speakers:
• Robert Scoble, An overview of the moment's best ideas and startups from the Silicon Valley.
• Eight Western Switzerland startups will present their products and services