One of the upcoming Lift@home will happen in Vienna on March 18, an ambitious event gathering 100 participants to talk about enabling changes and innovation in society. Join us for our first Austrian event!

The lift@Austria team is happy to announce a distinguished mix of speakers to drill down the theme "Enable" from a wide range of perspectives: Florian Brody from Silicon Valley, internationally acclaimed digital media specialist, Stefan Camenzind, architect and designer of the Google Labs in Zurich, Felix Oldenburg, CEO of Ashoka Germany, the biggest social entrepreneur network worldwide and many more!

The entire 3-days are designed as one piece. The first day will be devoted to explore existing enablers, such as the HUB, StartUp Weekend and the metalab. The insights from this exploration tour will be fed into the the second day, where we start with selected speakers to frame the topic of the conference. Thereafter, you can expect a full day of intense workshops, trying to work out the different dimensions of Enabling. The results will be illustrated and displayed in a gallery.

For more information, go to the website and read the propositions or see for yourself how we want to reward excellent input/people.

Cheers!
Thomas for the organizing team!

Announcing a massive Lift@home event to take place in Vienna next March under the guidance of Thomas Fundneider and other local entrepreneurs.

LIFT@austria | Enable!

International Conference in Vienna
Vienna, March 18-20, 2010, Drinkomathallen, Hütteldorf/Vienna

This international conference will bring together people, organizations and networks who want to ENABLE "game changing" innovation and break down the barriers of the status quo. A multidisciplinary gathering of Doers, Thinkers, Creators, Citizens and Change-makers will be addressing domains such as information technology, design, architecture, sociology, economy, philosophy and city planing in the context of innovation and sustainability.

In close partnership with Lift, we are expecting brilliant speakers, inspiring talks and fruitful workshops.

The conference will take place in an early 20th century fabric building, which is to be transformed into a creative cluster within the next years. This site in transition provides a stimulating environment to introduce novel conference formats which stimulate interaction, learning and the creation of new knowledge. Attendees are to be asked to co-create the convention, so suggest a speech or a speaker!

Visit the conference website to:

• get the early-bird price
• suggest a talk or a speaker (open till January 17, 2010)
• initiate a meetup
• look around and tell you friends

We hope to see you in Vienna this spring!