Lift Asia 09 speaker profile: Rafi Haladjian

Lift Asia 09 is in two months, and we are posting profiles of the confirmed speakers. Don't forget to also have a look at the program!

Trained originally as a semiologist, Rafi's a remarkable entrepreneur who used to be a pioneer of the French Minitel in 1984, the founder of the very first Internet Company in France in 1994 and the founder of Ozone (Pervasive Networks in Paris France). He is now the founder and chairman of Violet, a company that develop products and services which aims at import the characteristics of on-line interactions to everyday objects: flexibility, customization, interconnection of things, renewed functionalities and content, permanent enrichment by the community, magic…

Their most acclaimed product as the Nabaztag, a multipurpose, Internet-connected mini-robot in the form of a rabbit which talks, hears, smells objects, blinks and moves. Violet now develops a more diverse set of products ranging from Mir:ror (a wifi reader that detects the objects you show it and allows users to gives them powers) to RFID stamps that can be stuck on everyday objects and make them communicant and connected.

After his insightful talk at Lift 08, we wanted to have him back to the Lift conference, this time in Korea to show how his vision has evolved over time. He will address to what extent starting their products are not just toys and that have important implications for the future of everyday objects and the internet of things.

View Rafi's profile on liftconference.com