Lift conference
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Lift is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meeting the people who drive them.
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| 1 | VideoAlp ICT Venture Night 2012 | In this 4th edition of the Alp ICT Venture Night the following 8 start-ups pitched their projects to the audience: ZMS - InZair // Ecowizz - Geroco // Poken // pebbleage SA // Faveeo // Projet Amanda - Solvaxis Online // Eyep Media / Utribo // Museeka. Based on the live voting during the event the audience chose ZMS - InZair as the winner of the Alp ICT Venture Night. Congratulations ! | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoThe real journey of an entrepreneur | In the opening keynote of the venture night Christian Wanner, co-founder of leshop.ch, shows how the life of an entrepreneur can be really though. He compares this challenge to a legendary antarctic expedition in 1915, where a team of explorers was stuck in big blocks of ice during three months. Christian motivates start-ups to really fight for their visions and encourages them to (almost) never surrender, however though the challenges they face might be. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoKilling your digital identity | One of the co-inventors of the web 2.0 suicide machine, Gordan Savicic will tell us the story of his invention, and why he is on a mission to help users be smarter about their digital identities. | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Videoetoy.CORPORATION - twisting capitalism & technology since 1994 | etoy.CORPORATION SA is a corporate sculpture and a shareholder company registered in the city of Zug/Switzerland, using corporate structures to maximize cultural values. Since 1994 etoy is hacking the dominating model of the individual artist: the concept of the independent star and glorified genius is replaced by an abstract trademark - etoy. Legendary for its «digital hijack» (1,5 million search engine users kidnapped in 1996), etoy also coordinated «TOYWAR», a milestone in hacktivism, bringing down a multi-billion dotcom operation and thus creating the most expensive performance in art history. A pioneer in container architecture inspired by the Internet's paket system etoy currently invests all resources in MISSION ETERNITY – a digital cult of the dead and a long term data archive focusing on pioneers of the information age. | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoDancing with Handcuffs: The Geography of Trust in Social Networks | How did a student end up making international headlines for throwing shoes at the architect of China's internet censorship infrastructure and then become the hero for information freedom worldwide? Tricia tells us what happened to the student and how the outcomes were dependent on a variety of factors that tells us a lot about how we socialize and build trust online. | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoMass customisation and 3D printing | Lisa Harouni is responsible dor the day-to-day management of Digital Forming, a startup that offers design companies and lifestyle brands a competitive edge by allowing customers to get involved in the design process of products. After an introduction about 3D printing technologies, Lisa will show their benefits and implications for both businesses and individual: rapid prototyping, mass customization, return of local production, consequences on copyright laws, and more. She will also describe the potential fields of applications of this technology in the near future. | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoWE FELL IN LOVE IN A CODED SPACE | James Bridle talks about literature and storytelling when everything has become digital, the construction of knowledge and collaborating with robots. Ham, spam, word salad, and what is important in a tent. | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoOpen Source Nuclear Fusion | Mark Suppes built a nuclear fusion reactor with no formal science background. Prior to the fusion project, Mark became comfortable tackling the improbable with eight years of web startups. In these startups, he learned that it's better to be too ambitious than not ambitious enough. Considering the time and effort a startup requires, it makes sense to aim high. Then, in late 2008 Mark watched a video that would change his life. In that video Dr. Robert Bussard revealed his secret invention: a new approach to nuclear fusion called the Polywell. Bussard believed his invention could provide abundant and inexpensive clean energy; something the world desperately needs. Mark took an intense fascination to the Polywell. This fascination grew and spurred Mark to attempt building his own Polywell. Since he had no prior science background the project presented many steep learning curves. Over the course of three years Mark's Polywell fusion reactor project has transformed into a community project with hundreds of contributors. Mark's open source project has built the world's first amateur Polywell, a small but important step on the long journey to clean energy. | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoNetworking for the Unexpected: Building resilience and innovation with... | What are the desirable qualities in a communication network? Affordability, ubiquity, reliability, privacy, convenience. In the developing world, mobile networks are delivering telephony and broadband where it has never gone before but often at the expense of the above qualities. Village Telco, an Open Source, DIY, telco-in-a-box puts the power of telephone and broadband infrastructure in local hands and offers a complementary alternative network to conventional telecommunications services. | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoVisualizing urban flows with mobile data | In this presentation about the "Villes Vivantes" project with the City of Geneva, Lift and Interactive Things, Benjamin Widerkehr describes how the huge quantity of data generated by mobile phone usage can be employed to visualize urban flows. Benjamin focuses on how to create meaningful stories based on these data. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoOpen Data: How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Rufus Pollock | Over the past few years, there has an explosive growth in open data with significant uptake in government, research and elsewhere. Open data has the potential to transform society, government and the economy, from how we travel to work to how we decide to vote. But we have only just begun down this road, and the going, even so far, has not always been easy. In his talk, Rufus Pollock introduces the idea of open data, explains how, and why, we are where we are today, and, finally, looks to the future of the rapidly evolving open data ecoystem. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoTechnologies vs people | JP Rangaswami discusses the following interrogations: did technology make our lives easier or worse? What are the things that got better, beyond the obvious and utopian views? Did technologies make our jobs easier or worse? Are we collaborating better? | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoLevel vs. Level Are in the future all games gamified? | In this short presentation about gamification, Niklaus Moor focuses on the psychological mechanisms of video games and the role of motivation in game design. He describes how applying game mechanisms beyond entertainment is quite challenging and tricky. | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoThe future of mobile phone applications | Nick Heller addresses the future of mobile phone application, using technologies such artificial intelligence, sensors or voice recognition and how they relate to developed and developing countries. More specifically, he addresses what could we the western learn from other developing markets that have access to new technologies. With examples such as the use of internet of things and real-time language translation (from English to Zulu, Afrikaan to Zulu). | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoThe Open Source Satellite Initiative | Space programs so far have been the domain of governments and the military-industrial complex - rarely ever have individuals ventured into outer space. But after years of research Korean artist and independent satellite engineer Hojun Song has found that it is indeed possible to launch and operate a personal satellite at a fairly reasonable price. For the past six years he has been exploring ways to integrate the concept of a personal satellite project into cultural contexts and into his artistic practice. As his first satellite will take off from Kazakhstan this August he came to Lift to share his story, his struggles and his plans. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoPeer-to-Peer Currencies: The Amazing (And True!) Story of Bitcoin | The story of Bitcoin: how the world's most famous peer to peer currency went through a gold rush, a bubble, and a crash in only a few months. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoDemocratizing Innovation - Grandma likes that by Fabian Hemmert | In his talk, Fabian Hemmert talks about the democratization of technological innovation. He shows a series of projects conducted at the Design Research Lab in Berlin, which, rather than serving the average user, embraced niches and extremes. | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoPerspective on information overload by Anaïs Saint-Jude | Is information overload really new? Anais Saint Jude will provide a bit of perspective by looking at another great period of innovation: the 17th century. | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoReinventing finance, one startup at the time | Sean Park believes finance will change radically in the coming months. He will show us some of the startups he believes in, from people reinventing banks to new payment systems. Here are the links Sean mentions in his talk: Personal finance Simple* – Worry-free alternative to traditional banking Fidor Bank* – Banking with friends Movenbank – Spend, save and live smarter Zopa – A marketplace for money Wonga – Payday loans alternative Billguard – People-powered antivirus for bills Holvi – Smart Banking for Group Activities ArchiveMe – Invoices and expenses in a minute Payoff.com* – Money made simple, social and fun Markets and trading eToro – Your investment network StockTwits – The financial communications network AlphaClone – Follow the smart money Trefis – What’s driving the stock Estimize – Uncover the real consensus Risk management / insurance The Climate Corporation* – Total weather insurance OpenGamma – Unified financial analytics Wealth management Betterment* – A better investment Blueleaf* – Simple, personal financial tracking Covestor – Find and follow investing leaders Nutmeg – Smarter saving and investing Business banking FeeFighters – Comparison shopping for SMB finance Kabbage – Green to help you grow FundingCircle – Online lending marketplace AxialMarket – Online network for M&A professionals Bilbus – Locate your liquidity Payments Square – Mobile payments system Stripe – Payments for developers The Currency Cloud* – FX payments automation service Dwolla – The cash inspired payment network Ixaris – Open payments solutions Leetchi – Group payment application And just in case you are interested/curious, here are the other companies currently in the Anthemis ecosystem: FinanceACar – World’s first car finance comparison site MileSense – Turning data into intelligent risk analysis Metamarkets – Fast insight for big data BluFin – Look at finance in a new way MoBank – Cutting edge mCommerce solutions PayPerks – Powering innovative solutions for the financially underserved PeerIndex – Understand your social capital Hooplo – Social games publishing platform Visual.ly – Data visualization platform for big data | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoDavid Rowan "Startup entrepreneurs should move to Africa now" | David Rowan thinks featured Africa is the next place where great technological innovations will happen. He will explain how startup entrepreneurs should move there. | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoLift12 preview with Sylvie Reinhard, Nicolas Nova and Laurent Haug | Short Preview of Lift12 by the Lift Team. We took the challenge of describing the conference in less than three minutes, and we failed! But really it is a condensed, action packed preview of what to expect on Feb 22-24 2012 in Geneva! | 2/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoPhilippe Lemoine "Wrap up and Take aways" | In his speech, Philippe Lemoine sum up all sessions that took place at Lift France 11 and brightly concludes by some inspiring take aways. | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoRoger Malina "Lift France 11 Wrap-up" | Roger Malina brings the first conclusion to Lift France 11 and comes back on some of the most inspiring speeches of the conference. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoAlex Soojung-Kim Pang "Contemplative Computing" | Information technologies today interrupt and distract us, dividing our attention across a range of activities and devices. This feels like an inevitable state of affairs, but Alex Soojung-Kim Pang argues in his talk that it is not. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, contemplative practices, and interface design, he describes how we can create and use information technologies in a more thoughtful, meditative way, to help us work in a more sustained, creative and focused manner. He also explains what contemplative computing might mean for individuals as well as corporations, institutions and civic actors. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoJuliana Rotich "Ushahidi: Powered by Open Source" | What happens when barriers to use of technology are lowered? What can we learn from the Ushahidi open source community and the technology landscape in Africa about the opportunity and the limits of open innovation? | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoAlexandra Deschamps-Sonsino "Homesense project: agile and open innovation... | In her speech, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino gives an update on the methodology and results employed in the Homesense experiment: a project that rethinks how we design smart homes and investigate how we interact with technologies at home. This project applies open collaboration methods of online communities to physical infrastructures in the home. | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoKris de Decker "Ecotech myths and lessons from the past" | The present-day approach towards a sustainable society is doomed to fail. The focus on sophisticated technology - electric and hybrid cars, energy-efficient devices, solar panels and wind turbines, for instance - has little or no effect because these green technologies require large amounts of energy and resources for their manufacture, which makes their development highly dependent on a continuous supply of fossil fuels. What we need to solve our problems is exactly the opposite: less sophisticated technology. There is a lot to learn from the past. While they often worked surprisingly good, most of low-tech solutions have been completely forgotten. In his speech, Kris de Decker explains that reverting to past technologies does not mean that we should go back to the Middle Ages. Rather, it means combining old tech with new knowledge and new materials, or applying old concepts and lost knowledge to modern technology. | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoGabriel Borges "Open innovation initiatives" | Gabriel shares the experiences of two different initiatives based on open innovation. One from a group of friends that got tired of not having the international concerts they wanted in their city, and decided to produce them by themselves with the help of social media. The other project comes from Fiat that decided to invite the consumers to help in the design of a concept car. Almost 15 months later, the auto-maker had a new concept model created with the help of 17 thousand people. Both projects were held in Brazil, a nation that is beholding an almost silent digital revolution as result of their current economy arose. | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoVille Keränen "From Team Academy to the future: Building organizations for... | In his speech, Ville Keränen presents the Team Academy, founded in 1993 by Johannes Partanen. The concept is really different from all schools we know: no lectures, no teaching, no exams, no grades, no simulations, but instead: team company, real clients and projects, lots of dialogue, and team coach. Through various examples, he explains the principles of such a school and what we could get from it. | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoAnna Meroni "Feeding Milano: a human platform to regain the meaning of slowness" | Food, in Latin cultures, means conviviality, pleasure, taking care of the others and being loved. How can the principle of conviviality, as pleasurable and collaborative relationship, change the way a city feed itself? Anna Meroni believes this principle impacts also the way in which producers and consumers get in touch and exchange produce and knowledge. Anna Meroni created in Milano, together with Slow Food, a human platform supported by information technology that is designing and prototyping a number of new services to shorten the food chain and feed the city. We can see this platform as a design supported community that is experimenting a brand new system of possibilities to create a sustainable foodshed, by building a network of trust and sympathy among producers themselves and with consumers. It encourages the last mile to be a human mile and relationships to happen, which implies also for designers being there and creating human links as a way to operate. In her speech, Anna Meroni addresses the design challenge of making that possible. | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoEdial Dekker "Trusted networks and the rise of the micro-entrepreneur" | We're in a world where exponential change is the new normal. Old economic structures are being challenged by newer ones and networked technologies are changing the way we can distribute resources. For a world with so limited resources, it's amazing how much idle-capacity we have at the moment. This does not only apply to natural resources such as minerals and forests, but also applies to human resources, such as knowledge, skills, and tangible resources such as tools and equipment. In his presentation, Edial Dekker dives deeper in the role of social layers connected to the 'social object' of distributed resources and the effects that it has on the network. The talk will touch the concept of a trusted network, the rise of the micro-entrepreneur and why it challenges us to rethink the way corporations and organizations are structured. | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoGeoff Mulgan "Openness and collective intelligence, its prospects and its... | In his speech, Geoff Mulgan talks about collective intelligence and how we think about the idea of openness. Through several examples, he introduces a reflection around crowd sourcing data and its use. | 8/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoJonathan Kuniholm "Open Prosthetics, where it comes from, what it changes,... | Open Prosthetics is a movement and a community that looks (i) to find economically feasible ways of producing medical devices for underserved medical populations and (ii) to give patients a way to participate to (even large and sophisticated) projects that develop technologies in their name. By facilitating the exchange of knowledge, Open prosthetics has allowed projects to develop that make prosthesis more available, while others focus more on new possibilities that would never find a market before that (such as specialized, customized, or even fancy replacement limbs), or even new ways of producing high-end research (lego hands for prototyping...). | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoAlain Renk "Unlimited cities" | Alain Renk describes "Unlimited Cities", a participatory platform used by architect to enable citizens to change their neighborhood. A rapid prototyping tool, this service aims at allowing people to bring their ideas and react to architectural or urbanistic proposals in a situated way. | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoRobin Chase "Building the cities of the future: People empowered (by... | Cities were once constructed by the efforts of individuals, until the grand plans of master architects, and then city planning departments took over, making sense of the "chaos." The city of the future will be both globally connected and highly local and customized -- once again shaped primarily by the individuals living within it. This new power will include sustainable local economies and be thanks to the miracle of the Internet combined with fast, easy access it to through ubiquitous mobile devices and sensors throughout our environment. | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoTobie Kerridge "Debating Biotechnology – Speculative Design as Public... | In this speech, Tobie Kerridge describes the "Material Beliefs" project, a design research project with a focus on a speculative approach to biotechnology as a form of engagement with the public. | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoPaul Wicks "Putting patients at the center of healthcare; disruption in... | The current disruption in healthcare corresponds to the fact that patients can access tools to gather information, aggregate data, act, and see results reflected in real-time. In his speech, Paul Wicks presents the consequences which can be listed as follows: Medicine: Patients are more engaged with managing their own illness, receive better outcomes / resistance from medical community in some quarters Research: Patients can find out about clinical trials going on anywhere in the world and participate online or even carry out their own research programs - increasingly being viewed as credible in the peer-reviewed world Business: Payers want to pay for improved outcomes, not transactions. The pill must be shown to be more effective than existing alternatives in the real world, not just a placebo in a controlled trial. Safety: Patients can submit their own safety events in real-time and enter in to a dialogue with manufacturers about how to improve their products. | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoFrédéric Mazzella "How car-pooling can help forecast car traffic" | Carpooling consists in sharing a car on a similar trip. Drivers publish their available seats with a price, and passengers buy seats for home-to-work carpooling (on a day-to-day basis for a distance of around 20km) and long-distance carpooling (one-off trips or week-end round-trips for distances of 300km in average). The speech focuses on how to forecast car traffic based on car-pooling platforms with visual representations. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoDavid Marcus "New business models in mobile channels" | In this February 2008 presentation, David Marcus, founder and CEO of Zong, talks about the new business models created by mobile channels. Zong lets people use their mobile phones to buy virtual goods. The system is easy to use: enter your number, go through the verification process, and pay on your monthly cell phone bill. Zong, which works with 250 mobile network operators in 45 countries, was acquired in July by ebay, and David is now VP Mobile for Paypal. | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoAdam Greenfield "On public objects: connected things and civic... | This talk explores some of the issues that emerge around networked information-collecting objects in our public spaces, and to frame a taxonomy of such objects from the unobjectionable (due to local effect and a clear public good associated with them) to those that ought to be causing us significant concern (no public benefit, global impact, pernicious second-order effects). | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoSaskia Sassen "The Future of Smart Cities" | A leading researcher on globalization, global cities and new technologies Saskia Sassen discusses the current hype around smart cities. She reminds us that “It is the need to design a system that puts all that technology truly at the service of the inhabitants—and not the other way around.” | 8/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoTimo Arnall "Making things visible" | A designer and researcher at Oslo School of Architecture, Timo Arnall offers here his perspective about networked objects and ubiquitous computing. His presentation, and the intriguing design examples he takes, highlights two phenomena. On the one hand, he describes how sensors and RFIDs can enable to "make things visible" as the title of his presentation expresses. On the other hand, he shows the importance of going beyond screen-based interactions. | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoEric Favre "The story of the invention of Nespresso" (FR) | From Nespresso to Monodor, the story of an inventor. 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. | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoCarlo Ratti "The Sensable City" | Carlo Ratti, director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, shows various projects he and his lab conducted around the theme of sensed data (mobile phone, flickr pictures) and how they allow to reveal new information layer on top of urban space and or lead to new experience for citizens. | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoJan Chipchase "Literacy, Communication & Design" | Jan Chipchase is Principal Scientist at Nokia Research Center. He presents about "Literacy, Communication & Design" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007 | 7/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoSampo Karjaleinen "Open-ended play in Habbo Hotel" | Sampo Karjalainen is Chief Creative Officer at Sulake Corporation. He presents "Open-ended play in Habbo" at the LIFT07 conference in Geneva. | 7/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoJose A. Briones: "A New Approach To Innovation Management" | This video has been uploaded by a member of the Lift community. To send us your videos, click here. Product innovation has been described as the way out of today's difficult business environment. However, the rate of success of development projects, in particular white space or disruptive innovation projects remains too low. We believe that a reason for the low success rate is the erroneous application of methods designed for incremental innovation like Stage Gate to projects with high levels of uncertainty. In this presentation we will discuss the different types of development projects based on degree of uncertainty, and the creation of different project tracks. Projects are managed using different tool sets based on the best fit between information available and decision making needs. ( | 7/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoJohn Tackara "Design and sustainability" | John Thackara, who is director of Doors of Perception, gives a provocative talk about the role of design in finding solutions to the ecological crisis. After inviting us to avoid terms such as "future" or "sustainable" as they maintain a certain distance to the problem we face, he shows a rich set of projects he participated in. He makes the important point that the resources to be put in place already exist and that they might not necessitates complex technological developments. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoVinton Cerf "From the Jurassic Era of the Internet to its Futures" (FR) | IP protocol inventor Vinton Cerf, who is now Vice President and Internet Evangelist at Google gave the concluding talk at Lift 09. After a quick recap of the history of the Internet, he basically gives an enthusiastic tour of its current limits (bitrot, IP address shortage) as well projects about its evolution, such as interplanetary internet though satellites. | 7/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoLift France 11, with Fing | This video presents a snapshot of the Lift France 11 conference. This 3rd edition of Lift France took place on July 6-8 2011 in Marseille, France and welcomed over 700 participants. | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 50 Episodes |
