Lift11 speakers

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.

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.

Chris is a designer interested in mobiles, GPS, urban screens and interactive environments; and how this changes the way people interact with each other. At Lift11, he'll talk about the use of social software as "touchpoints", i.e platforms that enable people to meet-up.

Laurent is an entrepreneur, event designer and researcher passionate about understanding how technological innovation is reshaping society and culture. He work is about identifying and understanding upcoming shifts, spread the word via conferences and social media, and ultimately help turn changes into opportunities.

Alex is entrepreneur and author of Business Model Generation, a bestselling management book which he co-wrote with Yves Pigneur and 470 people. He will talk about innovative business models for start-ups and leading companies.

Thomas is an industrial designer and founder of Frog design's Milan office in 2005. Previously, Thomas managed the European industrial design team at Flextronics, where he also helped establish the medical sector practice.

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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.

Kevin is the founder of area/code, creating cross-media games and entertainment for world-renowned clients. Area/Code builds on the landscape of pervasive technologies and overlapping media to create new kinds of entertainment.

Steffen is the appointed founder–director of the Games & Experimental Entertainment Laboratory at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a cultural anthropologist-turned-game and interaction designer as well as producer.

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.

Lucie is a solar researcher based at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL's Department of Space and Climate Physics. Her research area is the study of activity in the atmosphere of our nearest star, the Sun.

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.

Ben Hammersley 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. Ben is also a freelance reporter for the BBC, and a consultant to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Sabine Heuert works with robots, and has been meeting with the pioneers of that field through the podcast she has launched at the EPFL. She will give us an overview of robotics, what to expect from a field that will profoundly disrupt our daily life in the coming years.

Simon Redfern is a programmer, entrepreneur and composer. Amongst many initiatives, he created the media and social platforms musicpictures.com and eviscape.com. The latest project by his Berlin-based technical consultancy TESOBE is an initiative called the "Open Bank Project", which aims to increase financial transparency.

Azeem Azhar is an Internet entrepreneur and investor with a background in journalism. He was involved in the launch of The Guardian, The Economist and BBC web services during the 1990s. More recently, he was has been an investor in Powerset, New Energy Finance, Daylife, Seedcamp and Dopplr.