speaker profile

Dr Georgina Voss will be speaking during the OPEN session at Lift France 11. Georgina will be speaking about the Homesense research project, which she manages. Homesense explores how the open collaborative methods of online communities can be applied to physical infrastructures in the home.

Georgina is a social researcher in science, technology and innovation studies. Georgina's research focuses on the dynamics of innovation in the creative industries, 'outlaw' and user innovation, technology and business ethics, science and technology policy, and gender and sexuality. Her PhD in 'Technology and Innovation Management' from Sussex University examined how stigma affected the resource access of firms in the North American pornography industry, and subsequent impacts on patterns of innovation.

Following her doctoral work, Georgina worked as a NESTA Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Innovation Management, University of Brighton, and as a Research Manager at Tinker London. She currently manages the 'Homesense' research project, and is a Tutorial Fellow in Ethics at Sussex University. Georgina is also an Honorary Research Associate at Science and Technology Studies Department, University College London, where she explores user-led behaviors and attitudes around low-carbon technologies as part of the UCL Grand Challenge on Carbon Governance.

Georgina Voss

Research and Tutorial Fellow
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Adam Greenfield will be speaking during the URBAN session at Lift France 11.

Adam is the author of Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing (2006), Urban Computing and Its Discontents (2007) and the forthcoming The City Is Here For You To Use. He is managing director of Urbanscale, a New York City-based design practice. Previously Nokia's head of design direction for service and user interface, he's also been a bike messenger, a busboy, a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic, owner of an indie coffeehouse, and a Psychological Operations sergeant in the US Army's Special Operations Command.

Adam Greenfield

Managing Director
Urbanscale
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We've asked Adam a few questions in advance of his talk at Lift France 11:

Lift: What digital issue/challenge do you believe will become central in the coming 2-3 years?

Adam: The same issue so many of us in the various technical communities have been mulling for the past 10-15: the generation, ownership, stewardship and exploitation of personal data.

Nicolas Kayser-Bril from owni.fr will be hosting a masterclass on friday 8th July at Lift France 11, on the subject of Data revisited: Open data, Data visualization, Data leaks, Datawars, Data fatigue...

Nicolas is a datajournalist at Owni.fr since February 2010. He creates and manages data-related projects with the developers, designers and journalists of our mighty flying saucer!

Some projects he has worked on:
- Crowdsourcing the map of high schools with CCTV, read more here
- Localization of polling stations in France, read more here
- Image forensics for the masses, read more here

Nicolas Kayser-Bril

Datajournalist
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We've asked Nicolas a few questions in advance of his talk at Lift France 11:

Lift: What digital issue/challenge do you believe will become central in the coming 2-3 years?

Nicolas: As resources for journalism dwindle and the amount of data increases exponentially, making sense out of overabundant information will become ever more of a necessity.

Lift: What disruption would you hope to see happen in your area of work? Who will, or should, make it happen?

Rémi Sussan will be hosting a masterclass at Lift France 11 on the state of emerging technologies.

Rémi is a journalist working for InternetActu (www.internetactu.net), Fing's online publication. He is mainly interested in NBIC (Nano-Bio-information Technology-Cognition). He is the author of "Les utopies posthumaines" (Omniscience, 2005), "Optimiser son cerveau" (Fyp, 2009) and "Demain, les mondes virtuels" (Fyp, 2009).

Rémi Sussan

Journalist
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We've asked Rémi a few questions in advance of his masterclass at Lift France 11:

Lift: What digital issue/challenge do you believe will become central in the coming 2-3 years?

Rémi: Back to the body and the living world. Current trends, (for instance personal genomics, lifelogging, new body interfaces like kinect and wiimote, toy BCI like Emotiv Epoc or Neurosky helmet) let me think that the recording of physiological parameters and body postures will be the next great trend.
I should add that I think that in fact the next big great issue will be more about ecology and synthetic biology, but this is not for the next 2-3 years, more likely the next 15 ones...

Lift: What disruption would you hope to see happen in your area of work? Who will, or should, make it happen?

Roger Malina will be speaking during the closing session of Lift France 11, and will give us an overview of his key takeaways from the conference.

Roger is an astronomer, with a specialty in space telescopes and observational cosmology. He is currently director of the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, and Acting Director for the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence. For 25 years he has been the Editor of the Art-Science publication Leonardo at MIT Press and an Executive Editor of the Leonardo Book Series at MIT Press. He is the President of the Association Leonardo in Paris, and a member of the board of Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology in San Francisco.

Roger is particularly interested in promoting the cultural appropriation on contemporary sciences and technology and new ways of creating conditions for art-science collaboration.

Roger Malina

Astronomer
Cofounder of Leonardo
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We've asked Roger a few questions in advance of his talk at Lift France 11:

Lift: What digital issue/challenge do you believe will become central in the coming 2-3 years?

Roger: I work as an astronomer. The major development under way is the era of "big data". There is a transformation of astronomy underway with the availability of very large catalogues and data sets. This is altering the nature of computing, archiving, visualisation, access, citizen science.

Anna Meroni prendra la parole à Lift France 11 le 8 Juillet à la session SLOW. Anna est une figure du mouvement «Slow Food». A Lift, elle se penchera sur la façon dont la conception et la technologie peuvent aider à rendre la vie plus calme et plus durable, plutôt que mouvementée et basée sur une obsolescence de plus en plus rapide.

Architecte et designer, Anna est docteur en design industriel et coordonnateur de l'unité de recherche DIS (Design et Innovation pour la durabilité) - Design stratégique, à l'institut Polytechnique de Milan Elle est également professeur invité de conception de service et stratégie dans d'autres écoles et universités (Chine, Chili, Brésil, Colombie, Etats-Unis ...).

Ses thèmes de recherche sont la conception de services et de la conception stratégique de la durabilité, avec un accent particulier sur l'innovation sociale et le développement local En particulier, elle a développé le concept de communauté centrée sur la conception et mûri une expérience considérable dans le domaine spécifique du système alimentaire, en plus d'autres sujets d'investigation, tels que les services de dé-médiation entre producteur et utilisateur ainsi que des services intégrant une approche innovante du logement .

Anne Meroni

Architect and designer
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Nous avons posé quelques question à Anna quelques question en avance sur son intervention à Lift France 11:

Lift: A votre avis, quel sera la principale question/défi pour les 2-3 prochaines années ?

Juliana Rotich will be speaking at Lift France 11 on the 8th of July in the OPEN session. Juliana is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Ushahidi, the crowdsourcing platform that leverages mobile phones and the internet to change the way information flows. Ushahidi is a web based reporting system that utilizes crowdsourced data to formulate visual map information of a crisis on a real-time basis. In the Kenyan scenario it was used to map out incidents of violence. Ushahidi then grew to be an open source platform that has been used in various situations such as the Haiti and Chile earthquakes, the Palestine conflict crisis, heavy snow crisis in Washington.

Juliana has worked in the telecommunications industry for over ten years. She is originally from Kenya, with a Computer Science degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She is a Technologist, budding African Futurist and TED Senior Fellow. You can read more about her here.

Juliana Rotich

Author, blogger
GlobalVoices/Ushahidi
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We've asked Juliana a few questions in advance of her talk at Lift France 11:

Lift: What digital issue/challenge do you believe will become central in the coming 2-3 years?

Juliana Rotich parlera à Lift France 11 le 8 juillet dans la session OPEN. Juliana est Co-Fondatrice and Directeur Executif de Ushahidi, la plate-forme crowdsourcing qui met en oeuvre les téléphones mobile et l'internet pour modifier la manière dont l'information circule. Ushahidi est un système de reporting basé sur le Web qui utilise des données "crowsourcées"pour élaborer en temps réel une carte visuelle d'une crise. Dans le scénario du Kenya il a été utilisé pour cartographier les incidents de violence. Ushahidi, s'est ensuite développé pour devenir une plate-forme open source qui a été utilisée dans diverses situations telles que les tremblements de terre en Haïti et au Chili, la crise Palestinienne, l'épisode neigeux à Washington..

Juliana a travaillé dans l'industrie des télécommunications pendant plus de dix ans. Elle est originaire du Kenya, avec un diplôme en informatique de l'Université du Missouri, Kansas City. C'est une technologue, une futurologue africaine et consultante permanente à TED. Vous pourrez en savoir plus sur elle ici.

Juliana Rotich

Author, blogger
GlobalVoices/Ushahidi
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Nous avons posé à Juliana quelques questions avant son intervention à Lift France 11:

Lift: A votre avis, quel sera la principale question/défi pour les 2-3 prochaines années ?