Submissions are closing at midnight on Tuesday 30 October

At Lift Conference, a big part of the program is lead by the community. You make the propositions, we review them and select those to include in the program based on quality and interactivity.

Every year, Lift opens more than 20 workshop slots enabling participants to interact over a project idea, solve a problem or even build a product.

For your chance to lead a workshop at Lift13, submit your idea today!

Please meet Abhijit Bhaduri, our latest addition to the list of fantastic Lift13 speakers!

Who are you and what do you do?

I am the Chief Learning Officer of Wipro Ltd. I help the organization remain agile and a incubator for leaders and leadership. I enjoy experimenting with ideas that are at the intersection of technology, media and psychology.

Tell us a bit about one of your latest projects your were working on.

Every culture across the world has deep roots in the art of storytelling. Stories can be the most powerful way to spread ideas and influence large groups. For large global organizations, teaching large groups how to look for stories and then help them learn to present the most complex data and numbers into stories can make them influencers. We have used theater, traditional storytelling methods, and film making to teach people how to connect to their stakeholders.

What recent change, technological or social, were you surprised by? Why?

I have been amazed at the power of technology changing education in very fundamental ways. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) run by the best of Professors making their teaching available to hundreds of thousands of people for free will be a game changer. The www of the web now stands for whenever, wherever, whoever – at least as far as learning is concerned. What a fantastic way to blend technology, media and educational psychology.

What do you do to deconnect ?

I am passionate about writing. I write fiction and most recently have written my first book about how to hire for cultural fit in an organization. I read, blog and write about films, music, travel and people. That deconnects and destresses me..

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At Lift13 Abhijit will talk in the session "The Agile Enterprise: Learn how businesses stay lean and nimble in the face of accelerating innovation cycles." Join participants from over 30 countries to get your innovation boost and get your Lift13 ticket!

Who are you ?

I'm a full time Electrical Engineer at CERN. I spend my days designing and installing power supplies and infrastructure (from 230V to 18,000V) to support our physics programme, which includes everything from plugs in an office to transformers which power particle detectors. Before coming to CERN I was an electrical design engineer at Arup, where I used to work on more conventional projects such as offices, schools and sports centres.

In my spare time I'm a freelance geek, doing whatever I think is interesting at the time and always using technology. So far this year I've launched a high altitude balloon, built my own robotic drawing machine and prototyped a cosmic ray detector that plugs into an Android phone. I'm a big Arduino fan and recently I've started to use Android for my projects as these days mobile handsets are the best value computing and communication platforms available.

Why do you come to Lift?

When I was at Arup I remember being jealous of a colleague after he came into the office to tell us about a cool conference he had attended in Geneva. When I moved here looking up and registering for Lift was one of the first things on my to-do list. My highlight from last year was meeting Mark Stuppes, who created a fusion reactor in his garage.

Your recommendations to get the most out of the Lift experience?

Get stuck in, don't be shy to go up to interesting speakers, workshop leaders and people doing exciting things in the exhibition space. From my experience everyone is very friendly and it's a great place to meet new people. It's also worth chatting to the volunteers who help run the event (you can spot them in their uniform of Lift T-Shirts!), as they'll be able to help you get the most out of the conference - and they all have interests in exciting things like design, technology and social media. Finally, I would recommend going to the Fondue. In 2012 I sat opposite Steve Song of Village Telco and we had a fascinating discussion about the future of telecoms, embedded device architecture, distributed wi-fi networks in the developing world and lots more besides.

We can’t wait to welcome Daniel Freitag at Lift13 to hear his thoughts in the session “The Agile Enterprise: Rethinking what it means to manage”. The book “FREITAG – out of the bag” published a few months ago investigates the story of this unique Swiss company, that went from a start-up launched in a kitchen to a commercial success selling 300’000 of its design products around the world every year.

If you are as impatient as we are to meet Daniel at Lift13, have a look at the book in the meantime :)

And if you did not so far: Grab your Lift13 ticket before it’s too late, early bird sales end this Sunday!