videos

The Lift10 videos are available in our archive. Thanks to the system developed by our partner Klewel, videos are synchronized with the slides of the speaker. You can see both at the same time (or switch to video only/slide only mode) and skip to any slide you like. Pretty convenient to go directly to where you want.

The most popular talks so far: Russell Davies (and his big red button) on printing the internet out, Basile Zimmerman on technology and cultural differences in China, Rahaf Harfoush on the technological and social trends impacting politics, Julian Zbar on how and why are the current generation is staying connected, Fabian Hemmert on making computers stiff, scratchy and stubborn.

François Grey explained at Lift08 the profound implications of citizen cyberscience for the public understanding of science, and for scientists' understanding of the public. Two years after his talk, François sent us an update on his latest work.

Two years after appearing at Lift, my life has changed completely. I can’t blame that all on Lift, of course! I was about to move a few months later from gentrified Geneva to bustling Beijing, which is a life-changing event in itself. But in some sense giving that talk, to that sort of community, at that particular time, was a turning point for me.

Certainly, it was light years from the typical scientific meetings I go to. I mean, imagine an academic conference where scientists dance on stage during the break to psychedelic music – not likely! And besides being funky, it exposed me to a lot of young people doing really neat stuff on the Web. That was encouraging, because I was trying to get an embryonic project going myself.

So at the end of my talk, I announced the intention to start a Citizen Cyberscience Centre publicly for the first time. I knew I was sticking my neck out a bit, as the center had not been officially approved by the partners: CERN, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and the University of Geneva. But I had no idea just how many complications we would face getting that approval, both due to management changes amongst the partners, and legal wrangling about the wording of the agreement.

And when the ink was dry on the agreement – which committed no one to spend a centime - we faced the next big challenge: funding! A year later, and after coming perilously close to throwing in the towel a couple of times, we’ve finally made it. I say we, because colleagues like Christian Pellegrini at UniGe and Ben Segal at CERN were enormously supportive the whole while. We now have projects with IBM and HP, and I’ve been awarded a Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship to develop the Citizen Cyberscience Centre further.

So two years later – two and a half, really – we’re about to have our first really big international event, a Citizen Cyberscience Summit, hosted at King’s College London on 2-3 September. It won’t be as funky as Lift, but it will still be cool. Scientists talking with citizens, rather than with each other. Whoa, risky! Who knows, maybe someone will even start dancing on stage? In any case, it is in some sense a godchild of Lift, so thanks to all you Lifters for encouraging that dream to fruition!

Learn more on the Summit here!

Lift is coming to everybody's favorite phone, one day after the iPhone was finally announced in Korea! Here comes our iPhone app on which you can watch our talks, push them to your people, bookmark your favorites, and find out about our upcoming events.

Download Lift Application for your iPhone.

The application was developed in partnership with Akosma software and our video guru Thierry Weber who tell me that if your organization has online videos it wants to spread on the iPhone you should contact them!

Lift videos are back on iTunes. Subscribe to have our talks delivered to your mobile device free!

Update: we need you to subscribe to our YouTube channel to get it approved! Please do it it's free and painless on youtube.com/liftconference!

We are trying to get our YouTube account upgraded to Partner status, in order to upload our talks that go well over the normal 10 minutes limit. If you have a contact that could help us please let me know (laurent at liftconference dot you know what). I tried to contact Youtube but can't seem to find someone to talk to.

Result is you'll find our talks on Vimeo, DailyMotion, Blip, Metacafe, Revver and Viddler, but not on the world's largest video sharing platform. And we want to post the talks of Google speakers like Vint Cerf or Kevin Marks!

More content: 6 workshops have been captured by Klewel. Here are the videos complete with slides and search. These will also be published on our video system but at a later date.

Six of the 21 LIFT workshops will be be captured by Klewel and published online on klewel.com/lift09.

• I remember voting for the first time at the age of 16 in 2025 by Jean-Henry Morin
• Web 3.0 round table - A techo-philosophical debate by Philipp Egli
• Lifestream - Visualizing my data by Jan-Christoph Zoels
• KashKlash: the Game! by Heather Moore
• Coworking Space, Home, Traditional Workspace, … ? Where will you work tomorrow ? by Pierre Belcari
• Dreamer’s Corner: Founding a New, Tech-based and Crisis-‘enwisened’ Economical Space? by Tim Anglade

More info on Klewel's blog.

The TSR got 100'000 views in 3 weeks on the LIFT08 content, but as our videos are hosted on numerous platforms (Nouvo, Google, Vpod, YouTube) it is not the only place where our speakers get a lot of online exposure. We are about to pass 100'000 views on Google Video:

For each person visiting the conference we get 150+ views on the online videos, which confirms there is strong interest in the ideas expressed at LIFT all over the world!

I just received the stats from the TSR regarding their LIFT08 videos mini-site, and the numbers are... beyond impressive! One video got around 50'000 views in three weeks, and overall the 100k bar has been passed. I will receive the precise figures soon but these numbers are a testimony to the quality of our speakers, and to the quality of the whole setting we managed to create around their ideas :)

I just finished uploading all videos and every single speech given at LIFT08 should now be online. The complete list of available videos is here, and check this cool piece about LIFT experience: