speakers

The Lift12 program is almost final now, and I am happy to announce three exciting speakers:

Maximilian Busser
Owner & CCO at MB&F
Maximilian is an innovator in an otherwise conservative world. He has a passion for working with the most talented independent horological professionals to create a totally different dimension.

Sean Park @anthemis
Founding investor at Anthemis
Sean has been involved as founding investor in a number of disruptive and highly successful new ventures such as Betfair, Weatherbill, Seedcamp and BankSimple and has extensive experience investing in and advising start-up and high growth companies in addition to over 16 years of experience working at a senior level in capital markets and investment banking. Building businesses has been a key theme throughout his career. He is the co-founder of Anthemis Group and the author of The Park Paradigm.

Xavier Dietlin @xdietlin
Founder at Dietlin
A former professional soccer player, Xavier is now an artist and innovator, crafting the world's most innovative displays for the luxury industry.

Xavier is doing the kind of things you see in the video below. He will demo his latest creations on stage, and bring them to the Lift experience space where Lifters will be able to play and test the displays themselves!

To see the full list of Lift12 speakers, click here.

We can feel you are all growing impatient to be in February 2012. So are we! Here come the first confirmed Lift12 speakers:

Patrizia Marti is assistant professor and senior researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Siena where she teaches Human Computer Interaction and Design of Learning Technologies. In the Near Future session Patrizia will explore interaction between robots and elderly people.



Kars Alfrink is founder and principal designer of Hubbub, a networked design studio for applied pervasive games. You have probably guessed that Kars will speak in the "New Face of Gaming" session and present new perspectives on game design.



Ashley Benigno is a brand & digital strategist, with 10+ years in the mobile internet space (from UX on early data services to the launch of the Skypephone and Facebook-centric devices). Ashley will share his perspective on recent evolutions in the mobile industry.

The Lift11 program is almost complete, with many addition made in the recent weeks. To give you a comprehensive preview of the content of the conference, we added a page to our website listing all the presentations to be given on the big stage. Check the full listing and see what Lift11 will be about!

Among the presentations, you will find "Internet, geopolitics and national security" (Ben Hammersley), "Social currencies" (Brian Solis), "The reality of space" (Claude Nicollier), "Giving away your privacy to escape the US terrorist watch list" (Hasan Elahi), "Four trends for the digital world" (David Galbraith), "Those algorithms that govern our lives" (Kevin Slavin) and many more.

We are working hard with the speakers to define their talks and give you a preview of the content they will share on stage to allow the audience to better understand what to expect. See the interviews coming out weekly, the first ones with Vlad Trifa and Lucie Green.

Thank you for the great feedback on our call for women speakers! We have reviewed all your comments, tweets, e-mails and even phonecalls :). Here is a first selection of the recommended female speakers, that would actually fit in the Lift11 theme and more specifically the "Stories“, "Community Management“ and "New Frontiers“ sessions we are looking to source. When some of you recommended the same woman twice, we just listed her once.

We have invited the best matching of the recommended speakers and will keep you posted and let you know who will actually hit the stage in Geneva at Lift11 in February 2011.

^{Rahaf Harfoush on stage at Lift10. Photo by Yvo Näpflin}

Recommended by Koljenovic

• Sherine Tadros, correspondent for Al Jazeera English
• Gina Trapani, award-winning author,blogger, and programmer, founding editor of lifehacker.com and lead developer of ThinkUp, an open source crowesourcing platform the White House uses.
• Géraldine LeMeur, producer and organizer Le Web Conference, Paris
• Marissa Mayera, VP, Search Products and User Experience at Google
• Sarah Lacy, reporter and writer, columnist for BusinessWeek, co-host of Tech Ticker on Yahoo! Finance



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Great post on the SlideShare blog about how speakers can make conference organizers happy. I would add a few items to this list (stay within the allotted time, work on your talk in advance, rehearse) but that would already be a great start if all Lift11 speakers would do this ;)

1) Understand the event’s community
Get to know your audience ahead of the event. Spend some time with them (online or in person), and make sure you’re current with the most relevant topics of discussion or debate. This will also help if you choose to have a Question and Answer session. Find out who the other speakers are, and publicly reach out to them. This will help build momentum and comraderie in advance of the event, itself.

2) Promote the event
A speaker’s own following or readership is great source of potential attendees for a conference. Organizers are aware of this and will notice when you actively promote the event to your community. Get the word out on your blog, shared calendars, message boards and social networks.

3) Are dependable
Organizers will choose speakers who show up on time, have all their materials, are prepared for AV mishaps, and can adapt to last minute changes. Your reputation matters. Many speakers don’t realize it, but conference organizers of different events compare notes and talk amongst themselves to share their experiences working with speakers, on and off the stage.

4) Expect the unexpected
When it comes to professional events, Murphy’s Law prevails. Don’t assume there will be a dependable Internet connection. If you plan on presenting a “live demo”, make sure you have backup screenshots handy in case the Internet connection isn’t as speedy or stable as you need.

5) Participate in the event
Don’t just fly in, speak, and fly out. It doesn’t matter how busy you are, the event is your customer, and the audience is your extended community. Be approachable and make time to engage with attendees in the halls, in other sessions, at lunch. Be willing to do an impromptu podcast, and be a good sport about having your picture taken with attendees. It will be worth your time, you’ll meet interesting people and you just might learn something!

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We are working hard on the Lift11 program, and have already confirmed 11 speakers. See who will take the stage next February, and check the event's new homepage to see how the program will be structured and what is new in 2011!

As we continue putting the Lift11 program together, we want to introduce you to the four speakers that have already confirmed their presence:

Steve Portigal

Steve is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a boutique firm that brings together user research, design and business strategy to help organizations discover and act on new insights about their customers. Clients include companies such as Logitech, GE, Hewlett-Packard, Nestlé, and Sony. Besides being an avid photographer with a Museum of Foreign Grocery Products in his home, Steve has taught Design Research at the California College of Art. He also built one of the first online communities (Undercover, a Rolling Stones fan group) in 1992! At Lift11, Steve will share his experience on how to discover and act on new insights about customers - and your own organization.

Kevin Slavin

Kevin is the founder of area/code, creating cross-media games and entertainment for clients like Nokia, CBS, Disney Imagineering, MTV, Nike, Puma and EA. Area/Code builds on the landscape of pervasive technologies and overlapping media to create new kinds of entertainment. They have built mobile games with invisible characters that move through real-world spaces, online games synchronized to live television broadcasts, and a game in which virtual sharks are controlled by real-world sharks with GPS receivers stapled to their fins. Their Facebook game "Parking Wars" has generated over 1 billion pages in 2008.

David Calvo

David is a game designer and sci-fi writer. He works at Ankama, an emerging French video-game studio best known for its 2D MMORPG, Dofus. David founded Ankama Play in 2007 as an indie R&D venture inside Ankama. They are currently developing Islands of Wakfu for the Microsoft's online game platform (XBLA). As the creative director, David is taking care of the transmedia approach of the project. He builds the structure of the game universe and supervises its adaptation to various game platforms.
David Calvo has published novels, short stories, poems, pen and paper RPGs, LARPS, video games and comic books.

Vlad Trifa

Long-time friend and active member of our community Vlad Trifa will hit the Lift11 stage. A PhD candidate at the Institute for Pervasive Computing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), he is a Research Associate with SAP Research. Prior to that, Vlad designed software for sensor networks to monitor and recognize tropical antbirds in the Mexican rainforest and in Californian natural reservations with the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) and the Department of Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Afterwards, he spent a year as researcher at ATR International Research Center in Kyoto (Japan), where he worked on multimodal human-computer interaction, humanoid robotics, and computational neurosciences. Vlad will talk about the "Web of Things" in one of the parallel session focused on technical innovation on Thursday.

Don't forget that as a member of the Lift community, we count on you to recommend speakers! Send us the names of people or organizations you think would fit our program. Remember the sub themes: Touchpoints, Social media & gaming in Asia, Transactions, Pervasive gaming, Connected everywhere, Future corporations, Creative thinking, Stories and new frontiers.

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WEB SQUARED, MAKING SENSE OF THE WORLD THROUGH SHARED DATA

Session 1: The New Science of Data

>Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Indian Prime Minister - What can Indian innovation tell and teach the world?
>Yan Moullier Boutang, - How can we create and share knowledge out of the masses of data we collect on the world?
>Fabien Girardin, urban data researcher - From mobile data to visualizations of urban activity
>Jan Blom, Nokia research center - How can mobile phone users be more than sensors for data analysts?

Session 2: Open Public Data, a New Resource for Innovation and Participation

>Jarmo Eskelinen - Open public data: the finnish example, apps for democracy
>Michael Cross, The Guardian - How can open public data become reality? The "Free our data" initiative
>Hugues Aubin - Open public data and public transports in Rennes

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"FAB LABS", REINVENTING INDUSTRY

Session 3: Future things, future design process and challenges

>Matt Cottam, CEO Tellart - New material for physical computing and independent manufacture
>JL Fréchin & U Petrevski - Hacking industrial machinery to design desirable objects
>Amit Zoran, MIT - Personal fabrication: what does it mean? What are the opportunities?

Session 4: What If Anyone Could Make Almost Anything ?

>Adrian Bowyer, University of Bath - The RepRap: Towards open-source personal manufacturing?
>Ton Zijlstra, FabLab Foundation Netherlands - What does it take to BE a fab lab?
>Haakon Karlse, Fablab Norway - The global Fab Labs network

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"PEOPLE HACK", DISTRIBUTING CONTROL AND KNOWLEDGE

Session 5: Designing for implications

>Anab Jain, founder Superflux - Designing for 'implications': prototyping near future worlds with emerging technologies

We have confirmed four speakers for next week's Lift@home on innovation. I just extended the number of available seats to 35 but we can't extend further so hurry up and register now!

Christian Miccio, Product Manager at Google
"Innovation tips and tricks" (20 minutes, English)

Samuel Mueller, Director for Business Development at WDHB Consulting Group
"Good innovation starts with ideas" (20 minutes, English)

Giorgio Pauletto, Technology and Strategy Advisor at Observatoire Technologique, CTI, Etat de Genève
"Innovation et secteur public: mythe ou réalité?" (20 minutes, French)

Patrick Genoud, IT advisor at Observatoire Technologique, CTI, Etat de Genève
"Innovation et secteur public: mythe ou réalité?" (20 minutes, French)

Lift Asia 09 is in less than a month, and we are posting profiles of the confirmed speakers. Don't forget to have a look at the program!

Hojun Song is an artist and also Director of Open Source Satellite Initiative (OSSI). He thinks kids will soon ask their parents to offer them satellites, and that an open source initiative could make it more affordable and realistic than you think.

On 28th August 2009, he is launching the official website for OSSI. His team plans to test and launch the satellite in 2010 and to operate it in conjunction with artists, funding satellite program with cultural events and ultimately demonstrate that private satellite program is possible. Lastly, for effective knowledge sharing, OSSI aims to strive for responsible and kind open source project to build satellite and the entire satellite building process will be presented.

Hojun Song graduated from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Korea University and the ICU Engineering Graduate School. His various designs and projects are presented in Studio hhjjj.

View Hojun Song 's full profile.