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Lift12 talks
This page lists all the talks that will be given at Lift12. For the detailed program, refer to the conference schedule.
Technologies vs people
JP Rangaswami (Salesforce.com, UK)Did technology make our lives easier or worse? What are the things that got better, beyond the obvious and utopian views? Did technologies make our jobs easier or worse? Are we collaborating better?
Perspective on information overload
Anaïs Saint-Jude (Stanford University, USA)Is information overload really new? Anais Saint Jude will provide a bit of perspective by looking at another great period of innovation: the 17th century.
Killing your digital identity
Gordan Savičić (weise7, Switzerland)One of the co-inventors of the web 2.0 suicide machine, Gordan Savicic will tell us the story of his invention, and why he is on a mission to help users be smarter about their digital identities.
An update on Project Dreamschool
Marcel Kampman (happykamping, Project Dream School, Mastermundo Creative Gathering, Netherlands)Marcel Kampman presented his Project Dreamschool at Lift in 2011. Lots has happened since, and the project is getting more and more concrete. Marcel will give us a quick update, and show the first pictures of the school.
Powerpoint vs people
Pierre Croce (Dailymotion, France)Pierre Croce, a worldwide authority on creating winning Powerpoint™ presentations to empower the audience into making the best decisions of their smart lives™.
Destroying the bourgeois home: are digital devices challenging our victorian myths of domesticity?
Stefana Broadbent (UCL, UK)In the last 150 years, in the name of domestcity and familism, more and more activities have been moved out of European homes: production, payed labour, storage, food processing, ...
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Networking for the Unexpected: Building resilience and innovation with Village Telco
Steve Song (Village Telco, South Africa)What are the desirable qualities in a communication network?
Affordability, ubiquity, reliability, privacy, convenience. In the
developing world, mobile networks are delivering ...
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Reading the riots on Twitter
Farida Vis (University of Leicester, UK)Farida Vis has studied 2.6M tweets sent during the UK riots. She will give us a detailed and documented account of what happened. You will see that the early conclusions governing bodies jumped to are not very accurate...
Social media in humanitarian and political crisis
Kevin Anderson (Freelance, UK)Kevin Anderson and Lift founder Laurent Haug will discuss social media's use for humanitarian disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti. The discussion will then center on ...
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Startup entrepreneurs should move to Africa now
David Rowan (Wired UK, UK)David Rowan thinks Africa is the next place where great technological innovations will happen. He will explain how startup entrepreneurs should move there.
Democratizing Innovation - Grandma likes that.
Gesche Joost, Fabian HemmertIn their talk, Gesche Joost and Fabian Hemmert will talk about the democratization of technological innovation. They will show a series of projects conducted at the Design ...
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Visualizing urban flows with mobile data
Raoul Schrumpf, Benjamin WiederkehrIn this presentation about the "Ville Vivante" project with the City of Geneva, Lift and Interactive Things, Benjamin Widerkehr will describe how the huge quantity of data ...
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The future of mobile phone applications
Nick Heller (Google Europe, Switzerland)Nick Heller will address the future of mobile phone application, using technologies such artificial intelligence, sensors or voice recognition and how they relate to developed and ...
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Quel futur pour l'industrie du luxe?
Xavier Dietlin, Maximilian BusserDeux des entrepreneurs les plus innovants du moment partageront leur vision pour le futur de leur industrie. Un débat qui évoquera les grands défis que posent les technologies, et l'arrivée de nouveaux acteurs issus des pays émergents.
The Golden Rules of Luxury in the Digital World
Uché Okonkwo (Luxe Corp, France)¿How is luxury business touched by digital media, innovation and technology? In this talk we'll get an overview of the current situation and evolution of luxury and digital media ...
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Ashley Benigno (independent, UK)
The future of money
David Birch (Consult Hyperion, UK)We could have some fun guessing about the future of money, or we could look at a future for financial services. Using a scenario model developed for that purpose, David Birch explores what it means for money.
Peer-to-Peer Currencies: The Amazing (And True!) Story of Bitcoin
Adrianne Jeffries (The New York Observer and betabeat, USA)The story of Bitcoin: how the world's most famous peer to peer currency went through a gold rush, a bubble, and a crash in only a few months.
Reinventing finance, one startup at the time
Sean Park (Anthemis Group, Canada)Sean Park believes finance will change radically in the coming months. He will show us some of the startups he believes in, from people reinventing banks to new payment systems.
The Social Contract Put at Play
Kars Alfrink (Hubbub, Netherlands)Society is self-divided in a myriad ways, but the greatest divide stems from groups of people deriving their world views from exposure to different media that they interpret using ...
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Games: Systemic Media for a Systemic Age
Tom Armitage (Hide & Seek, UK)The 21st century is one in which society increasingly moves away from an infrastructure of direct action, to one of layered systems. Those systems are built out of many materials: ...
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Ruling the World: When Life Gets Gamed
Sebastian Deterding (Hamburg University, Germany)"Reality is broken – let's make it a game!" Thus sounds the battle cry of marketers and designers pushing the notion of "gamification". Health, education, civic participation, ...
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Open Stage: Level vs. Level Are in the future all games gamified?
Niklaus MoorIn this short presentation about gamification, Niklaus Moor will focus on the psychological mechanisms of video games and the role of motivation in game design. He will describe ...
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Open Stage: On the Mythologies of Play
Jose Luis de Vicente (Maison d’Ailleurs, Spain)On March 11, the Maison d'Ailleurs museum of Science Fiction, Utopias and Extraordinary Journeys will premiere an ambitious international exhibition: Playtime: Videogame ...
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Welcome
Daniel Loeffler (Service de la promotion économique, Switzerland)The Economic Development Office of Geneva officially welcomes the StartUps and the audience to Venture Night
Keynote
Christian Wanner (LeShop.ch, Switzerland)Christian Wanner kicked off LeShop.ch in 1997 with Alain Nicod. He led the Marketing and Sales team prior to assuming overall responsibility for the Swiss operations. He created ...
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Venture presentations
Didier Mesnier (Alp ICT, Switzerland)Eight Western Switzerland companies will be chosen to present on the big stage.
The roster of startups:
ZMS - InZair SA
Ecowizz - Geroco SA
Poken
pebbleage ...
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We fell in love in a coded space
James Bridle (Booktwo, UK)James Bridle will talk about literature and storytelling when everything has become digital, the construction of knowledge and collaborating with robots. Ham, spam, word salad, and what is important in a tent.
Dancing with Handcuffs: The Geography of Trust in Social Networks
Tricia Wang (University of California, San Diego, USA)How did a student end up making international headlines for throwing shoes at the architect of China's internet censorship infrastructure and then become the hero for information ...
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Open Stage: Don't make me steal
Pierre Spring (Nelmio, Switzerland)Last year at Lift11, Pierre organized a workshop called "don't make me steal" about piracy and content sharing practices ...
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Open Data: How We Got Here and Where We're Going
Rufus Pollock (Open Knowledge Foundation, UK)Over the past few years, there has an explosive growth in open data
with significant uptake in government, research and elsewhere. Open
data has the potential to transform ...
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The use of artificial emotion and empathy in digital products.
Ben Bashford (UK)In this talk, Ben Bashford will explore the use of artificial emotion and empathy in digital products and services. He will show how the design of these new things maybe shouldn't ...
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Open Stage: Louder than words: Interfaces for alternative Communication
Tom Bieling (Design Research Lab (Berlin University of the Arts), Germany)In this open stage presentation, Tom Bieling will describe how he designs new communication interfaces based on observing a very specific type of users: people with visual ...
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We come from the internet. Let's build realspace events!
Julien Dorra (juliendorra, France)Cyberspace is now the main space where we exchange ideas, work and organize. We live in it every day, every hours of our lives. It is real. It is effective.
But what about ...
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Open Stage: Real Time Platforms for Gaming & Rehabilitation
Tej Tadi (Mindmaze, Switzerland)Novel interfaces combining virtual reality and brain imaging techniques into portable, interactive systems can redefine the current solutions for patients post a stroke and brain ...
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Mass customisation and 3D printing
Lisa Harouni (Digital Forming, UK)After an introduction about 3D printing technologies, Lisa Harouni will show their benefits and implications for both businesses and individual: rapid prototyping, mass ...
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etoy.CORPORATION - twisting capitalism & technology since 1994
Michel Zai (etoy.CORPORATION, Switzerland)etoy.CORPORATION SA is a corporate sculpture and a shareholder company registered in the city of Zug/Switzerland, using corporate structures
to maximize cultural values. Since ...
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The Open Source Satellite Initiative
Hojun Song (Open Source Satellite Initiative, South Korea)Space programs so far have been the domain of governments
and the military-industrial complex - rarely ever have individuals
ventured into outer space. But after years of ...
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Open Source Nuclear Fusion
Mark Suppes (USA)Mark Suppes built a nuclear fusion reactor with no formal science background. Prior to the fusion project, Mark became comfortable tackling the improbable with eight years of web ...
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The ideas of Lift12
Laurent Haug (Lift Conference, Switzerland)Lift founder Laurent Haug highlights the big ideas heard during Lift12.
