Lift Conference

Lift Conference

LIFT is a series of events discussing the challenges and opportunities of technology in society. There have been four events held, three in Geneva, Switzerland and one in Seoul, South Korea

LIFT was founded by Laurent Haug, now the conference director, and is organized by a team of Swiss and international practitioners.

LIFT Asia 08

Lift's second Asian event is set to happen in Jeju Island, Korea, on September 4-5-6, 2008. The program features a mix of international and Asian speakers like Joonmo Kwon (CEO of 300 million users game company Nexon), Takeshi Natsuno (inventor of the imode for NTT Docomo), Bruno Bonnel (Founder of Infogrammes), Dan Dubno and Eric Rodenbeck (Stamen Design).

LIFT08

LIFT08 was held on February 6-8, 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland. The topic of the conference was "Challenges and opportunities of technology in society". The conference was a sell out, hitting its target of attracting 700 participants. There were 45 speakers, including Kevin Warwick and Pierre Bellanger.

LIFT Evening

The first LIFT evening was held on September 12, 2007 at the Yurim Art Hall in Seoul, South Korea. The event was about Spaces, how technological developments in both the physical worlds and virtual environments are reshaping our buildings, our games, and soon our web browsers. Four speakers participated in the event, Adam Greenfield, Bruce Sterling, XL games CEO Jake Song and Korean architect Yoo Suk Yeon.

The event was attended by 180 persons.

LIFT07

LIFT07 was held on February 7–9, 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland, both at the University of Geneva and the International Conference Centre Geneva. LIFT07 incorporated extra elements normally found in unconferences — peer to peer workshops and conference participant presentations.

LIFT07 Open Stage was a test to see how unconference models can be incorporated into traditional conferences.

The event was attended by 550 persons, among them speakers like Florence Devouard, Brian Cox, Sugata Mitra, Jan Chipchase, Stowe Boyd or Régine Debatty and featured more than 50 presentations and workshops.

LIFT06

LIFT06 was held on Feb 2-3, 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland, at the CICG.

The conference welcomed 350 persons, among them speakers like Cory Doctorow, Robert Scoble, Bruce Sterling, Euan Semple or Hugh MacLeod.

External links

* [http://liftconference.com/ LIFT] . Official website.
** [http://liftconference.com/videos Videos] , all the presentations available for free in a variety of formats.
** [http://www.liftconference.com/lift-evening-seoul LIFT evening Seoul] . Event archive
** [http://liftconference.com/2007 LIFT07] . 2007 conference website archive.
** [http://liftconference.com/2007/lift/liftcamp LIFT07 Open Stage] .
** [http://liftconference.com/2006 LIFT06] . 2006 conference website archive.
* [http://liftlab.com/think/laurent Laurent Haug] , founder & director
* [http://liftlab.com/think/nicolas Nicolas Nova] , editorial manager
* [http://bread-and-butter.ch Bread and butter] , art direction and design

Media coverage

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6411495.stm The rise of technology addiction] . [The BBC]
* [http://www.liftconference.com/press LIFT press center]


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