Let's meet in a Geneva bar for post conference chatter, drinks and dancing :)
Location: Pâki bar
Rue Alfred Vincent 5-7
1201 Geneva

We will be there around 22h (10pm for our american friends).

#lift11deepspace

With space tourism right around the corners, space is becoming an increasingly tangible possibility for more people on the planet. What are the current challenges and research going on in that field? This session will be about designing for spatial habitat, studying the sun, listening to space and the conquest of space.

To view the conference live head to livestream.com/liftconference.

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#lift11futures

This session will explain show technologies that will invade our daily lives in the near future. See tomorrow's techs, their usages and applications.

To view the conference live head to livestream.com/liftconference.

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#lift11stories

Stories from people with amazing lives and projects. Meet the guy who puts his life online to escape the FBI, an entrepreneur who studies the impact of algorithms on our lives, and the initiator of project dream school who wants to design a new and better place to teach and learn.

To view the conference live head to livestream.com/liftconference.

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Attend or moderate a workshop during these sessions dedicated to networking and experience sharing. See the full list of workshops here.

#lift11newmoney

With their activities on social networks, users are creating a social capital that they increasingly want to turn into tangible returns. How can this be done, and what is at stakes? Social networks also reshape profoundly the world of media, how can editors and journalists survive in the digital world, what are the new monetization models? The open and transparent movement is also impacting other domains, and we will discuss the open bank, an open source project that wants to bring more transparency to the secret world of finance.

To view the conference live head to livestream.com/liftconference.

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#lift11games

Video games have long escaped the realm of nerdy teenagers to become one of the most important cultural product of our time - ahead of cinema and music. Now we hear our life will be "gamified", with many of the mechanisms invented in games showing up to our "real life". Is this really happening? What are the real possibilities and pitfalls of such a proposition? We will also talk about how games can be used to engage people into an activity like reading, and discuss the latest phenomena of the entertainment industry: transmedia.

To view the conference live head to livestream.com/liftconference.

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Parallel activities

Workshops (14:00 - 15:30)

• Discover your digital identity, Matthias Lüfkens
• iGraffiti: mobile public debate in the urban space, Jean-Henry Morin
• Creating the digital nomad travel pack, Cyrus Farivar
• Explosion of professional usage of social networking sites? Myth or reality? Valerie Bauwens & Laure Kloetzer

Masterclass (14:00-15:15)

• Fiat Details, the first ever crowdsourced car, Gabriel Borges

#lift11reorg

Work is being reinvented by new technologies, from email to skype to blackberry. We will explore several topics in this session: the new workplace, the new business models and the social organization.

To view the conference live head to livestream.com/liftconference.

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Lift11 is starting at 2pm this Wednesday. You will be able to follow the conference through three main channels:

Live video stream
Organized with the help of LiveStream. Find the stream here and send us your questions and comments, we will add them to the questions we relay on stage.

Twitter
Two ways to follow the conference: follow the official Lift account for updates from the team, and the #lift11 hashtag for all that is said during the conference.

Blog
We're pretty old school, so we also have a blog. Follow it (RSS here) to get the latest news from the conference. We have scheduled a post that will go live at the beginning of each event so that should keep you informed through the conference on who is speaking now.

Last but not least, you can join the Lift page on Facebook to get updates directly in your stream.

See the Lift10 social networks activity on a map created by Fabien Girardin:

We have been capturing the activity generated around various social networks (Flickr, Foursquare) in Geneva from data available via these services API. Through data analysis and visualization techniques, we produced an interactive map of the city, revealing photogenic areas (e.g. the waterfront) with public places (e.g. Bains des Pâquis, Parc des Bastion) and events (e.g. Geneva Motor Show, Geneva Festival) people like to share online. The result shows these dynamic information layers with their spatial and temporal trends as invitations to explore or rediscover Geneva.

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