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Here is the conference program as of February 8. If you are looking for the list of speakers head to the speakers page.

Wednesday 7

Wednesday is a day for workshops at Unimail. We provide the rooms, you create the exchanges and the discussions. More information.

18:00

Pre-conference drinks sponsored by Geneva Lunch!
Café l'insomnia

Thursday 8

	Both days happen at the CICG, Geneva's international convention center.
8:00	Doors opening Coffee and croissants offered by the Banque Cantonale de Genève
9:00	Keynote Florence Devouard Chair of the board, Wikipedia
~~9:25~~	~~Keynote~~ CANCELLED Jacques Attali is unfortunatly stuck in Paris and can not come this year.
9:45	Whisher - Wifi reloaded Ferran Moreno CEO, Whisher
9:50
	ROOM 2	ROOM 3
	The social web	Beyond conventional interactions
10:30	Open-ended play in Habbo Sampo Karjalainen	Do biologists dream of robotic art? R. Debatty & F. Cadet
10:55	Collective Intelligence inside the enterprise Lee Bryant	Jumping jack flash - new forms of interactions Jan-Christoph Zoels
11:20	Social = Me First Stowe Boyd	Contemporary space(s) Christophe Guignard
	Post-industrial worlds	From robots to cyborgs
11:45	What kind of Humanity do we want? Paola Ghillani	Beyond robotics Frederic Kaplan
12:10	Industrial Ecology - the future of hyperindustrial economy Suren Erkman	Towards a society of cyborgs? Daniela Cerqui
12:30	offered by Swisscom
	Technological opportunities for society	Mobile technology practices
14:30	Outdoctrination: Society, Children, Technology and Self Organisation in Education Sugata Mitra	Literacy, Communication & Design Jan Chipchase
15:00	Community on the Net: Going virtual in proportion to being actual Sister Judith Zoebelein	Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control Nathan Eagle
15:30	Communication technologies and new forms of social interaction Lara Srivastava	Sensor Networks: from the lab to the supermarket? Jacques Panchard
16:00
	Perspectives on Ubiquitous Computing	New technologies: impact and opportunities
17:00	When 1st Life Meets 2nd Life Julian Bleecker	Bankers can be bloggers too... Colin Henderson
17:30	The Luminous Bath: our new volumetric medium Ben Cerveny	Entrepreneur - a messy mind Bernino Lind
18:00	Everyware: Further down the rabbit hole Adam Greenfield	Media 2.0 Pierre Chappaz
19:00

Friday 9


8:00	Doors opening Coffee and croissants offered by Zurich Assurance
9:00	Keynote Collective Intelligence and Collaborative Creativity : What do we need more? Jaewoong Lee
9:30	Panel: The new economics of creation How to make a living from creative work in the peer to peer and Youtube era? John Buckman Founder, Magnatune and BookMooch, Creative Commons Board Member Zhang Ga Artistic Director / Curator, China International New Media Arts Exhibition 2008 Patrick Chappatte Cartoonist Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz CEO, vpod.tv Moderated by Philippe Mottaz
10:30
11:00
	The open stage is the opportunity for each LIFTer to give a presentation. Propose a speech and you might end up presenting on the big stage! More information.
11:00	Knowledge Ownership Dannie Jost Writer, tensoriana.org	Massaging the medium Ellen Wallace Editor, GenevaLunch
11:20	Understanding users, their needs and motivations Jean-Francis Balaguer User experience senior consultant, ELCA	Blowing the Web apart Ivan Pope founder ceo, Snipperoo
11:40	Work Environments for the Knowledge Age Clark Elliott Workplace Strategist, CLARK ELLIOTT CONSULTING	Trying to implement enterprise collaboration? Stephane Cheikh Manager, Online Tools and Knowledge Management, SITA
12:00	Embracing the real world's messiness Fabien Girardin Researcher, Pompeu Fabra University	How to make Innovation a sustained reality in your firm? Catherine SIMON Consulting Partner, Business Resonance
12:30
	ROOM 2	ROOM 3
14:00	Panel: Dealing with technological overload Is too much technology good for you? What are the consequences of our increasingly over-connected lifestyle? Stefana Broadbent Head of User Adoption Lab, Swisscom Fred Mast Professor, University of Lausanne Nada Kakabadse Professor, Northampton Business School Moderated by Matthias Luefkens	Panel: Facing the digital divide - Bringing it home One billion users on the Internet. It's changing the world, but six billion people are left behind! Sugata Mitra Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University Nathan Eagle Research Scientist, MIT Pukul Rana reachout-project Manager / Communications Officer, British Council Lara Srivastava Senior Policy Analyst, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Moderated by David Galipeau
15:00
15:30	Panel: The user/citizen centered society Will new technologies give power back to the individual? What are the implications for our society? Robert Scoble Vice President of Media Development, Podtech Beth Krasna Independent Board Member Thierry Crouzet Writer, bonWeb.com Moderated by Bruno Giussani
16:30	Special presentation CERN's 27km Big Bang machine Brian Cox
17:00	Wrap up Daniel Kaplan Fédération Internet Nouvelle Génération
17:30
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