Lift France 10 Speakers in 140 chars

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WEB SQUARED, MAKING SENSE OF THE WORLD THROUGH SHARED DATA

Session 1: The New Science of Data

>Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Indian Prime Minister - What can Indian innovation tell and teach the world?
>Yan Moullier Boutang, - How can we create and share knowledge out of the masses of data we collect on the world?
>Fabien Girardin, urban data researcher - From mobile data to visualizations of urban activity
>Jan Blom, Nokia research center - How can mobile phone users be more than sensors for data analysts?

Session 2: Open Public Data, a New Resource for Innovation and Participation

>Jarmo Eskelinen - Open public data: the finnish example, apps for democracy
>Michael Cross, The Guardian - How can open public data become reality? The "Free our data" initiative
>Hugues Aubin - Open public data and public transports in Rennes

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"FAB LABS", REINVENTING INDUSTRY

Session 3: Future things, future design process and challenges

>Matt Cottam, CEO Tellart - New material for physical computing and independent manufacture
>JL Fréchin & U Petrevski - Hacking industrial machinery to design desirable objects
>Amit Zoran, MIT - Personal fabrication: what does it mean? What are the opportunities?

Session 4: What If Anyone Could Make Almost Anything ?

>Adrian Bowyer, University of Bath - The RepRap: Towards open-source personal manufacturing?
>Ton Zijlstra, FabLab Foundation Netherlands - What does it take to BE a fab lab?
>Haakon Karlse, Fablab Norway - The global Fab Labs network

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"PEOPLE HACK", DISTRIBUTING CONTROL AND KNOWLEDGE

Session 5: Designing for implications

>Anab Jain, founder Superflux - Designing for 'implications': prototyping near future worlds with emerging technologies

Session 6: Enlarge your brains!

>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University - From cognitive enhancement to collective intelligence
>Francois Taddei, researcher INSERM - Can we become smarter, individually and as a community?

Session 7: Embracing Complexity

>Stefana Broadbent, Digital anthropologist UCL - Dealing with information complexity and the limits of our attention span
>Manuel Lima, visualcomplexity.com - Designing visualizations to embrace and represent complexity
>Ivo Gormley, filmmaker and anthropologist - Us Now: the relationship between social innovation and digital technologies

Session 8: Privacy Revisited, Protect and Project

>Daniel Kaplan, CEO Fing - Privacy Revisited, Protect and Project
>Adriana Lukas - The Mine! project: personal data, identity and autonomy
>Alma Whitten, Google's privacy engineering lead - When personal data add value for each of us

Conference wrap-up

>J. Lévy, Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Wrapping up Lift France 10 from a social scientist's viewpoint


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