Media coverage: "Conference season starts"

We already registered around 30 journalists, and media coverage of Lift10 is starting. Here is a brief note published today by GenevaLunch, an online media started by Ellen Wallace after her time at Lift06 that has been striving for the past three years!

Geneva’s winter and spring schedule of conferences which are open to the public is getting underway, and it includes two favourites with the international population: the February Geneva Writers Workshop and Lift10, which moves from its previous February dates to May this year. [...]

Lift10, 5-7 May at the ICC (International Conference Centre) in Geneva will pull in 1,000 participants from 40 countries to reflect on “Connected People”, the myriad ways in which people connect, which remains at the heart of innovation. The conference has grown in just five years from a technology-oriented meeting to a conference with an international reputation for lively debates that look ahead and consider where society is going, always in relationship to innovation and technology. It is unusual in that it brings together people from business, government, NGOs, and academia.

Key speakers at Lift10 to date include:
* Rahaf Harfoush: works with organizations to build authentic relationships by aligning their social media initiatives with their vision. She was involved in the extraordinary effort that helped bring President Barack Obama to the White House in 2008;
* Amelia Andersdotter: elected to the European Parliament as a representative of the “Pirate Party” that rocked Swedish elections in 2009, and made it to centre stage using new tactics;
* Jamais Cascio: named one of the top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy “for being our moral guide to the future”.

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