Latest news about the Lift conference

Dennis Pamlin, Lift France 09 speaker (video) and former Policy Advisor at the WWF , launched "the first crowd sourcing app for transformative solutions".

The app will be official next week. If people used this app more we would not have problems with volcanos (as we could have virtual meetings instead...;))

The 21st Century Office application allows people to:
• measure their CO2, time and money savings from new technology solutions for smarter office work
• share, geotag, use and rate ideas how to achieve a 21st Century Office
• see where in the world ideas were first generated and then follow to see where the idea has been used
• twitter and e-mail ideas and test results to challenge others to participate and work smarter
• build up a database that can be used to create tailor-made roadmaps for a transition to a 21st Century office
• see a short movie that explains the difference between a 20th century and a 21st century infrastructure
• and a few more functions…

Link

If you read Monocle, you will find in this month's edition a profile of Hojun Song, the front man of the Open Source Satellite Initiative who gave one of the most appreciated talk at Lift Asia 09 (video coming this month).

Hojun Song's is difficult categorise. ln which box would "launching a satellite" belong? Based in Seoul, where he gained an engineering degree, Song is planning to launch and operate a small satellite. If he succeeds, he will be the first individual do it.

Link (full article is for Monocle subscribers only)

The grades are in! Owl Re just sent us the results of the Lift Asia 09 survey, and it seems attendees gave us good grades again despite the tough context that greatly complicated organization (remember we had a major economical crises just 3 months ago ? ;)

We are currently translating the Korean feedback to English to see the comments that have been made. We will work on improving the next event based on these inputs. Thanks to all those who took time to send their impressions on the conference, and to Glenn O'Neil and Owl Re who have been working alonside Lift since 2006.

“Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.”, Gregg Easterbrook

Somebody suggested we add a "lift by the numbers" section on the site's about page, and I decided to act on this recommendation as it gives an perspective what has happened in the past three and a half years.

4'000 attendees from 60 countries.

8 events held on 3 continents in 3.5 years

2 million visits and 13.5M page views on liftconference.com per year (full stats)

450+ articles and interviews in national (TSR, Bilan, RSR, Swissinfo) and international (BBC, CBC, BusinessWeek, FastCompany, Wired, AFP, Europe1) media

200+ talks available free in video

5000+ members in the Lift community

180+ speakers from more than 40 countries

Lift @ home events happening in Toronto, Tokyo, Barcelona, London, San Francisco, Brussels, Barcelona, Zurich, New York, etc.

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It is important to stay in Jeju after Lift Asia so you can enjoy the island, and join the speakers' surf session! It's a little known fact, but Jeju has good waves, and a couple of shops where one can rent a board and do a few tricks in the water. I promised myself I will try next year!

^{Hojun and Jason taking it easy on Jungmun Beach}

^{Kohei and his board.}

^{The waves, the waves!}

More pictures here.

At Lift Asia 09 the conference's "official" photographer was Jung Jin-ho, a Tech Evangelist at Yahoo! Korea who is also a talented amateur photographer! See his pictures on Flickr.

We have a panel of legendary Korean entrepreneurs on stage this morning, and you can
ask them your questions online!

As requested on Twitter here are links to the Lift Asia 09 music composed by Fabian Kalker, a Berlin based Producer / Sound-designer.

Serious fun! - Anthem
Serious fun! - Theme Song

feel free to download them (right click to download), with compliments from Lift Team!

Fabian Kalker is currently living and working in Berlin, he is a freelance composer for A/V media,
writes music for movie-commercials, online content and theatremusic. He produces pop and electro music with his project One Shot Orchesta, the latest record for the swiss undergound hiphop Artist Kutti MC entered the Top 50 Swiss Album Charts. He freelances for the renowned company Native Instruments.
For more information, please visit www.fabiankalker.com

Design hero Laurent Bolli just put the finishing touch to the Lift Asia 09 program, available in both Korean and English. Paper version will be provided to attendees but you can also download the file and print it to read it on your way to the conference!

Available in English and Korean.

Dong Hyung Lee, cofounder of Cyworld and Runpipe, will join Jin Ho Hur, Jaewoong Lee and Soon Hyun Kwan on the 20 years of Korean internet panel discussion.

This session, an informal discussion on the untold story of the birth and development of the Korean internet, is shaping up pretty nicely, with several of the most influential internet entrepreneurs of the country participating. And we could surprise you with another late addition ;)