stories

^{Lift tshirt in the Maldives, courtesy of long time Lifter Paul Hintermann.}.

We decided to start documenting Lift's impact on the life of its participants. Did the conference boost your projects, did it change your life? If yes, please send us your testimonial, we want to know!

Our passion is to create an environment where great things happen. Our carefully designed events offer a unique opportunity to connect with the world's brightest minds, and see tomorrow's ideas ahead of everybody else.

The problem is that most of the time, great things happen without us knowing, as participants meet again outside of the conference, to start new companies, new projects, or start dating ;) We are on a mission to find your stories, please let us know what difference Lift has made in your life!

• Have you created a new project or start-up at Lift?
• Have you met incredible people you started a project with?
• Have you raised money for your idea?
• Have you met your business partner, soul mate or true love at Lift?
• Anything else that happened and would like to share with the community?

Let us know, thanks!

Jörg Jelden is a senior trend analyst at Trendbuero – Consultancy for Social Change, in Hamburg and Beijing. His main field of interest is centered around Network Economy: How will the rise of the internet change our society? How will consumer behavior change? How will we do business tomorrow? What will be new business models to answer the changes?

Together with Prof. Peter Wippermann he produces the Trend Day. Every year in May 600 decision makers come together to discuss the most important topics with international acclaimed speakers like Muhammad Yunus, Richard Florida, Daniel Nissanoff, Howard Rheingold, Jimmy Wales etc. In cooperation with Interone Worldwide Joerg established InsightBench, a semantic research tool to analyse digitally published opinions and texts.

During his stay at Trendbuero´s Asia-Pacific office in Beijing Joerg examined The Future of Fake. He tried to find out, why fakes are so succesful, what they do differently and what brands can learn from the fake industry. This will also be the topic of his talk during the Stories session on Friday morning. Sounds interesting? Learn more about him on his LIFT page or on Trendbuero.