Changing Innovation - The end of IT. In addition to 21 years culminating in a senior position in the BBC Euan has had five years of unparalleled experience learning how to make the most of this wired-up world of work and how businesses can prepare themselves for the challenges and the opportunities it represents.

Interviews series with Viktoria Trosien @ Lift France 2009

Interviews series with Gunter Pauli @ Lift France

Interviews series with Daniel Kaplan @ Lift France 2009

Interviews series with Nicolas Anderlé @ Lift France 2009

Dennis Pamlin, who is Global Policy Advisor for the WWF, introduces the ecological challenges we face and contrast them with most of the technological progresses. His talk delineates a set of filters to understand how to judge innovation on conjunction with the long-term consequences they might have on the planet.

"NKM" is France's minister in charge of Forward Planning and the Development of the Digital Economy.

Beside team communications, this blog features posts written by community members. If you have a Lift account you can also share your thoughts and ideas by clicking here. Here is a post by music producer and veteran Lifter Fabian Kalter about the recent Hadopi law voted in France.

Hello dear french,
I saw my french familiy today, they told me some law is being passed right now making it possible to
"take the internet away" from illegal downloaders. for what greater good again? Oh yes, copyright.
Damn, thats harsh. and idiotic. And it will probably happen in Germany, too.

Yet again some old men in legislature having their old man friends in media whine over their soupe au poisson that sales keep dropping, evil donwloaders destroy art and their income.
Yet again some old men having no idea whatsoever about the present (and future) state of things.

So, I wont get into details here, its another discussion, but Id like to inspire you thinking about what you can do for the future ( of art, media, monetization of copyrights etc.) not only what the future can do for you.

-make it clear that there is no alternative to embracing new technologies. ever.
-make it clear that old men who have no idea about things need to listen or they fall. always.
-annoy the hell out of every single part of the chain of monetization that annoys both the consumers and the artists, dont stop until it breaks.

simple action plans, make up more and make them work!

1.
-find out when the law actually is applicable.
-get a socialist party member of your parliament to open up a bank account (preferably at the bank that handles the money from the "le chtis" production firm - for media attention.
-get all the french internet users to listen, should be an easy task at this moment.
-get them to download bitttorents the hell out of piratebay for the week before the law is applicable
-make everybody wire 10cents for each illegal download to the aforementioned bank-account, preferrably one payment for each download
-make the sum public
-have it all withdrawn the day the law is applicable.

2.
-find out french artists single ( or album) (needs to be a physical release) that has chart potential
(means that it will be ordered by big cd retails)
-contact him (or dont)
-get him in the boat (or dont)
-get plenty of people to buy the release in big cd retails - have to be enough to make the thing enter the charts
(easy thing in a summer week slow in releases )
-dont unseal the purchased disks
-return in LESS than a WEEKS time
-buy another copy
-repeat.

3.
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4.
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have fun!

3 great innovators have agreed to speak at Lift France, and many more will be announced in the coming days:

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is CEO of technology and design consultancy Tinker.it!. She designs technology-enabled and socially-aware creative solutions to problems. She ran the "Web of Things" workshop at Lift Geneva '09.


Euan Semple is one of the most respected specialists of social software. After years introducing all kinds of exotic tools inside the BBC, he became a consultant, helping businesses enable conversations inside their organizations as well as outside.

Usman Haque designs interactive architecture systems and researches how people relate to each other and their spaces. He has created responsive projection environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and choreographed performances. Recently, he launched Pachube, a web service that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world, facilitating interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual.

Bruno Bonnell is a legendary french entrepreneur, founder of Infogrames and former CEO of Atari . Today Bruno has launched a new venture in the robotic market: Robopolis. In his speech at Lift Asia 08 "From Robota to Homo Robotus" (with remarkable energy and great performance the morning after a legendary Karaoke Night ;) Bruno revises Asimov's laws of robotic and highlights the differences between the Asian and Western approach to robotics.