Videos per edition

MMO's, movies, las vegas, and golf

Laurent Haug — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:08:10 +0100

In one of Lift's most legendary talks, Paul Barnett - creative director at Electronic Arts - explains that the conventional thinking which goes into designing an existing product and simply make it bigger, louder, taller, and crazier doesn't work in the world of online games. There has to be room for new ideas, and it's the person with the ideas who is going to be walking away with the money.

The Modern Age of Gaming

Laurent Haug — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:47:43 +0100

Robin is a researcher (studying artificial intelligence) now working for Electonic Arts. She is designing games for the Nintendo Wii - she worked on My Sims - and tells us about user-generated content and the importance of social software in gaming.

The Next Nature

Laurent Haug — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:34:39 +0100

Mobile phone cell antennas are being camouflaged as trees and tomatoes are turning square. Technology wants to look like nature, and nature like technology. Mieke Gerritzen is a dutch artist talking about how culture becomes nature.

Secrets, lies & the possible perils of truthful technology

Laurent Haug — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:23:39 +0100

Genevieve Bell grew up in Australia, moving between the working class suburbs of Melbourne and Canberra and the Aboriginal communities of Central and Northern Australia. She has a PhD in anthropology and works as Director of User Experience within Intel’s Digital Home Group. There she manages an inter-disciplinary team of social scientists, interaction designers and human factors engineers.

Evolution of the mobile communication ecosystem

Laurent Haug — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:24:21 +0100

Francesco Cara, a design strategist at Nokia with a psychology background, looks at the evolution of mobile communication ecosystems.

Google Open Social

Laurent Haug — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:56:14 +0100

Kevin Marks of Google talks about Open Social, a framework to build cross-site social apps and fight against social network fatigue and incompatibilities.

Implant technology to enhance human abilities

Laurent Haug — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:41:15 +0100

In this presentation Kevin Warwick takes a look at four different mergers involving the use of implant technology and micro electrode arrays, like technology for identifying and tracking humans, robots with biological brains, deep brain stimulation for therapeutic purposes and neural implants to enhance human abilities.

Let ALL things be connected

Laurent Haug — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:25:54 +0100

Why, after 20 years spent building online virtual worlds on the French minitel, then the Internet, Rafi Haladjian realized in 2003 that time had come to jump out of the screen and take the physical world as the new frontier. How Violet, the company he co-founded decided to start connecting everything, to get out of the lab and make actual products with a Darwinian view of the advent of ubiquitous computing...and why among all things he is convinced that the Internet of Things should start with a Rabbit.

Open-source in Asia

Laurent Haug — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:38:42 +0100

Gen Kanai is the head of Mozilla in Japan. He talks about open source in Asia, and the perception that Asia is contributing less to open source projects than other parts of the world.

The Hedonistic Company

Laurent Haug — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:33:32 +0100

How to be a socialistic-capitalist firm and turn your company into a "hedonistic company": the seven rules of working together professionally and still stay friends.

A look at 2008, the "boring" year ahead

Laurent Haug — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:19:31 +0100

In the LIFT08 opening keynote, science fiction writer Bruce Sterling looked in his rear mirror to see the near future, and predicts a boring 2008.

What can we learn by inviting people to be designers?

Laurent Haug — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:21:30 +0100

Younghee Jung talks about how Nokia explores the different usages of their mobile phones by customers to gain valuable insight on future products design.

What is the climate of the 21st century going to be like?

Laurent Haug — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:42:21 +0100

Notes from Bruno Giussani's LunchOverIP

Andy Reisinger is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC - wikipedia page) that won -- collectively -- the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Al Gore for their work on scientifically assessing the state of the Earth's climate. He's actually a very important member of the group, because he has coordinated the small group writing and editing the summaries of the reports -- the documents that you've read about in the press and that have landed on governmental desks all over the world.
I'm moderating the session and introduce him as a "co-laureate of the Nobel Prize for Peace". Before starting his talk, he stresses that he's expressing only his personal views and is not representing the IPCC in a formal capacity.
He shares five key messages:

• Climate change is unequivocally happening. There is an increasing confidence among scientists that the change over the last 50 years is very likely due to greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activities.
• Changes in climate of 21st century will be unilke everyting that human civilization has experienced previously. "The world has not been that warm, nor has the global climate changed that rapidly, at any time over the past 10'000 years (ie. The span of human civilization)". Some key impacts of climate change if warming keeps going as it is going: Water stress for more than 1 billion people; 20-30% of species at increasing risk of extintion; Reduced crop yield at lower latitudes; Costal flooding in megadeltas of Africa/Asia; Health risks from heath, malnurition and diarrhea; Long-term (centuries) risks of meters of sea level rise
• Greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow largely because they're linked to development status, and alot of people ispire to the development status of the western world (China and India and Brazil). Under business-as-usual global emissions are projected to increase by 25-90% by 2030. It's of course very difficult to tell developing countries that they can't seek that status.
• Technology is the key tool that will allow us to provide more and more people with better "services", but provided at a lower amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Lots of potential for energy efficiency in building, industry, plants. And of course renewables can make a significant contribution in reducing growth in emissions. Nuclear power is also an option, if reducing emissions is your focus. Carbon capture is the newest tech, it's not expected to make a significant contribution in the next 15 years. So a portfolio of technologies both on the supply and the demand side can do the job.
• But the real question is that the application of available technology is not only a function of tech itself: it's a societal choice. Most of the technologies are currently available, but they also have to be affordable of cost-effective (societal choice: put a price on carbon), must be attractive, and must not be crowded out by existing investments. This can only be achieved with adequate policies and choices.

Virtual environments and social justice

Laurent Haug — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:49:32 +0100

Jonathan Cabiria talks about relationships in virtual environments and social justice. He explores how platforms such as Second Life can be a recommended activity for marginalized people, especially if they suffer from issues such as loneliness, depression, isolation, pessimism and/or low self-esteem.

Mobile in Asia

Laurent Haug — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:38:34 +0100

Marc spends his time between academic work (China and technology), consulting (telecommunication) and pro bono activities. He talks about "Mobile In Asia" and explains how, for the first time in history, a technology is more used in the developing world than in the developed world.

Introducing Going-solo

Laurent Haug — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:16:22 +0100

Stephanie Booth presents Going Solo, a conference for independent professionals happening on May 16th, 2008 in Lausanne.

Getting from here to there: ethnography, design, privacy, and location

Laurent Haug — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:23:38 +0100

Ethnographic research is increasingly figured as a foundation for design practice, but the questions of just how these two approaches should be combined remain largely unanswered. In particular, designers often turn to ethnographic work more for marketing data than for cultural understandings. Drawing on some recent studies of mobility and privacy, I will outline an alternative approach that attempts to take ethnography seriously.

Paul Dourish has worked at Apple and at Xerox PARC, and is currently a Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and Anthropology. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of computer science and social science, and he is known particularly for his research in the areas of Ubiquitous Computing, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Human-Computer Interaction.

His book, "Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction" was published by MIT Press in 2001; it explores how phenomenological accounts of action can provide an alternative to traditional cognitive analysis for understanding the embodied experience of interactive and computational systems. He is currently on sabbatical at Stanford, working on book projects on social informatics and cultural aspects of ubiquitous computing.

Space Solar Power

Laurent Haug — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:34:24 +0100

Capturing Solar Energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth in a 24 hours a day controlled process, in combination with hydrogen technology, apppears as one of the global, clean and sustainable solutions to replace fossil fuels. The application is expected to be operational in 30 years from now, and technological development is already underway.

From distributed computing to distributed thinking

Laurent Haug — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:54:54 +0100

François Grey is the head of IT Communications at the CERN, the web's birthplace. In his talk, he discusses the profound implications of citizen cyberscience for the public understanding of science, and for scientists' understanding of the public.

The social network of the future

Laurent Haug — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:32:57 +0100

Pierre Bellanger talks about the future of social networks. As the founder and owner of Europe's largest site of such a kind (and the 17th most visited site on earth), he has a very interesting vision on what directions these tools will take, and hints at a future made of instant communication and mobile.

Using social software to encourage sustainable development

Laurent Haug — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:28:38 +0100

Tom Taylor works as a developer/tech consultant for Headshift, a London based company who build and consult on social software applications. He presents on the subject of using social software to encourage sustainable development.

Converting visitors into buyers

Laurent Haug — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:10:30 +0100

David Sadigh, founder of the Geneva-based IC-Agency, shows us how organizations can focus on user retention rather than user acquisition to boost traffic.

How social networks changed everyday life

Laurent Haug — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:43:29 +0100

Heewon Kim addresses the trends in web usage in South Korea, and focuses in particular on how teenagers use social software in the world's most wired country.

LIFT08 wrap up

Laurent Haug — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:37:10 +0100

Bill Cockayne wraps up the 2008 edition of LIFT, offering his observations and insights on a rich edition.

Foresight and Innovation

Laurent Haug — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:14:55 +0100

William Cockayne's ongoing research dissolves the socially constructed membrane used to separate "real" and "virtual" lives. His findings indicate that the concepts we hold about our relationship with mediated social environments may need to be re-evaluated.

The luck of seven

Laurent Haug — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:11:46 +0100

Noel Hidalgo talks about "the luck of seven", a tour of the world he started On 7-7-7 which took him through the 7 continents, visiting the 7 wonders of the world in 7 months.

Monetization of the mobile Internet

Laurent Haug — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:20:26 +0100

David Marcus, serial entrepreneur now founder and CEO of Zong, talks about the new business models created by mobile channels.

From Nespresso to Monodor, the story of an inventor

Laurent Haug — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:31:59 +0100

Eric Favre patented the Nespresso process in 1978, the first step of the amazing story of an inventor turning his idea into one of the world's most successful product.

Robotics in the leisure industry

Laurent Haug — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:37:49 +0100

Bruno Bonnell, founder and former CEO of Infogrames, discusses the implications and opportunities of robotics in the leisure industry.

Foresight tools and perspectives

Laurent Haug — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:41:35 +0100

Scott Smith, founder of foresight firm Changeist, explains that his job is about "helping people see change clearly" and offers seven tips of foresight like "understanding the role of values" or "having a view, not an ideology".

Hardcore nonsense, the story of a Serbian blogger

Laurent Haug — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:42:34 +0100

Back in the nineties, during the darkest moments of the Milosevic regime, when every freedom of expression was suffocated by blaring nationalist propaganda, the dissident founders of the legendary B92 radio, driven to bold desperation, decided that their line of work would have to become "hardcore nonsense."

WattWatt

Laurent Haug — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:20:35 +0100

Bill Thomson and Philippa Martin-King introduce WattWatt, an online community for individuals interested in electrical energy efficiency.

How innovative projects can transform education

Laurent Haug — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:18:14 +0100

Kushtrim Xhakli works at the IPKO Institute in Kosovo. He speaks about how innovative projects can transform education.

iO

lift — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:35:42 +0200

Presentation of iO at the LIFT08 venture night.

Casual gaming

Laurent Haug — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:45:55 +0200

Guy Vardi from Oberon Media talks about casual games, an emerging part of the gaming industry that widely differs from the cliche we usually have on gamers and games.

Viewdle

Laurent Haug — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:54:50 +0200

Presentation of Viewdle at the LIFT venture night.

LIFT Experience 2008

Laurent Haug — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:24:23 +0100

Discover the LIFT experience, a series of activities inviting LIFTers to get together, create and share.

Clipperz

Laurent Haug — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:08:20 +0200

Clipperz's presentation at the LIFT08 venture night.

Wuala

Laurent Haug — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:52:09 +0200

Wuala presents at the LIFT08 venture night in Geneva on February 6, 2008.

Enabling Emergent Innovation

Laurent Haug — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:34:21 +0100

The fascinating aspect of “real” radical innovations does not primarily lie in their manifestations as entirely new services or products; what is of interest are rather the new forms and processes of knowledge creation having led to these manifestations.

Pixelux

Laurent Haug — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:57:46 +0200

Raphaël Arrigoni presents Pixelux Entertainment at the LIFT08 Venture Night.

Holistis

Laurent Haug — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:02:20 +0200

Cyril Lamblard presents Holistis at the LIFT08 venture night.

Social media creates open education

Laurent Haug — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:18:14 +0100

Ewan McIntosh is the National Adviser for Learning and Teaching Scotland, the education agency responsible for curriculum development. He talks about how social media creates open education.

Timelapse video: Lift08 afternoon break

Laurent Haug — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:31:14 +0100

Michael Scholl made an amazing series of timelapse videos. Here is what happens during the last day break inside the main room.

Timelapse video: Lift08 break

Laurent Haug — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:27:49 +0100

Michael Scholl made an amazing series of timelapse videos. Here is what happens during the breaks!

The importance of social networking and conversations

Laurent Haug — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:20:09 +0100

During the LIFT08 open stage, Matt Colebourne of coComment talks about The importance of social networking and conversations are having for companies and bloggers.

Mixin

Laurent Haug — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:00:06 +0200

Nicolas Dengler presents Mixin at the LIFT08 venture night.

Enjoy the chaos

pinkbike — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:32:03 +0100

Henriette is an online community specialist. She talks about how we should all enjoy the chaos.