Tom is founder of Future Platforms, a small team of designers and developers who build delightful software products for mobile phones. He's been doing this since 2000; before that he spent 5 years working in the web industry. A mobile web expert, Tom has recently been invited to work on a project for the W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices Group. You can find more info about Tom on his blog.

Why LIFT
We asked Tom what LIFT is for him and why he decided to come back: "For me, LIFT is a great way to get some perspective. I meet a crowd of folks, chiefly from across Europe, who are completely outside my day-to-day experience and who invariably see things completely differently from myself. The mix of arts, academia and business is particularly helpful in this way, and the event is small enough to feel intimate and friendly, and big enough to provide some variety."

What Tom expects
Being an old-time LIFTer, Tom expects the unexpected when coming back to Geneva for LIFT09.