Lift France 11, with Fing: Be Radical!

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About Lift France 11

Lift France 11 is a three-day conference about current and emerging use of digital technologies and their effects on innovation, societal and economic transformation. Under the slogan "Be Radical!", Lift France will focus on disruption: when (high- or low-)tech contributes to redefining a market's terms of reference, a whole industry, a share of social life, etc. Participants come to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by digital technologies, to meet the people who drive these innovations, and to share their own insights.


6-8 july 2011, Palais du pharo
Marseille, France

Conference program

Lift is unique:

• Carefully prepared talks with some of the world's best speakers and innovators
• A unique interaction system, react on each slide from your mobile phone
• Dont't just listen: creative workshops are an integral part of the event
• The legendary Lift Experience exhibition

Who comes to Lift

We gather entrepreneurs, managers, designers, students, geeks, researchers, thinkers and doers from around the world. The conference is open to all, and the diversity and quality of attendees is one of our key differentiating factors.

A fabulous venue: Palais du Pharo

The conference program allows you to discover new and emerging technologies, see real life examples of implementations in different contexts, and expand your horizons by exploring ideas from other fields and backgrounds.

Wednesday July 6, 2011

14:00 Workshops - Hotel de Région, 27 Place Jules Guesde (map)
18:30 Nuit des mobiles (Mobile Night) - Marseille Provence Métropole (58 Boulevard Charles Livon, map)
20:15 Welcome party & drinks - Marseille Provence Métropole

Thursday July 7, 2011 - Palais du Pharo (map)

09:00 Welcome
09:30 Workshops
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Saskia Sassen
14:30 URBAN - Who needs to become "smart" in tomorrow's cities?
16:00 CARE - Disruptive innovation in healthcare and well-being
17:30 10 disruptive pitches, 6 mn each
19:30 Gala evening & networking

Friday July 8, 2011 - Palais du Pharo (map)

09:00 Workshops + Learning session (Masterclasses)
11:30 Keynote: Geoff Mulgan, NESTA
12:00 WORK/LEARN - Transforming the way we work, innovate... and learn
14:00 SLOW - Can we use technology to take back control over how we, and our organizations, manage time?
15:45 OPEN - What happens when barriers to innovation become drastically lower?
17:00 Lift France's wrapup and takeaways
17:30 Closing of the conference: Roger Malina, Philippe Lemoine
20:00 Closing party

See the full program.

Among Lift 11's speakers (full list here)

Saskia Sassen


Saskia Sassen is one of the world's leading researchers on globalization, immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions.

Geoff Mulgan


Geoff Mulgan is Chief Executive of NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). From 2004-2011 he was the first Chief Executive of the Young Foundation, which became a leading centre for social innovation, combining research, creation of new ventures and practical projects.

Roger Malina


Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Marseille Provence. Also Executive Editor of the Leonardo
Publications at MIT Press, and founder of Leonardo/ISAST which promotes interactions between the arts and sciences.

Robin Chase


Robin Chase is a transportation innovator. After Zipcar and GoLoco, she is now founder and CEO of Buzzcar, a service that brings together car owners and drivers in a carsharing marketplace.

Paul Wicks


Paul is director of R&D at PatientsLikeMe, a healthcare company that builds online communities for patients with life-changing illnesses, recognized as the 2nd most innovative healthcare company in the world by Fast Company.

Alex Pang


A futurist and a researcher, Alex currently focuses on "contemplative computing": figuring out how to design technologies and user experiences that promote concentration and deep focused thinking, rather than distract you, fracture your attention, and make you feel dumb.

Tobie Kerridge


Tobie Kerridge is interested in sensors and networks, biomedical electronics, and fabrication and prototyping processes. His research focuses on speculative design as a method for public engagement with science and technology.

Juliana Rotich


Juliana is Program Director of Ushahidi.com, an innovative non-profit startup that is creating a tool for mapping crises by gathering reports via mobile, e-mail and web. She also focuses on creating a network of environmental bloggers from around the world, encouraging conversations and engagement on environmental matters.

Adam Greenfield


Adam is the author of Everyware and the founder of Urbanscale. After 12 years designing interactive products and services — including 2 as Nokia’s head of design direction —, Adam is fiercely dedicated to the needs of the ordinary human being exposed to emergent technology.

Daniel Kaplan


Daniel is the founder and director of Fing, a non-profit think tank that produces and shares novel and actionable ideas to anticipate digital transformations. He is your host at Lift France 11.

Jonathan Kuniholm


Jon is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and a retired Marine Corps officer. After losing part of his right arm in Irak, he has worked for the DARPA "Revolutionizing Prosthetics" 2009 program. Jon is a founder of the non-profit Open Prosthetics Project.

Ville Keränen


Ville is the chief geek and learning designer at Monkey Business, a spin off company from Team Academy, Finland to promote and coach team learning in organizations. Monkeys reserve the right to change the world and make a difference...

Philippe Lemoine


Philippe Lemoine is CEO of LaSer, a European services company with 6000 collaborators. He is also involved in Social transformation through the "Modernity Action Forum"; Corporate transformation, by taking part in several boards ; And Technology, by chairing Fing, France's Next-generation Internet Foundation.

Georgina Voss


Dr Georgina Voss is a social researcher in science, technology and innovation studies. Georgina's research focuses on the dynamics of innovation in the creative industries, 'outlaw' and user innovation, technology and business ethics, science and technology policy, and gender and sexuality.

Gabriel Borges


A marketing and communications professional, who planned and managed strategies for a range of Blue Chip companies from numerous sectors in Brazil and in the UK. He was part of the team behind Fiat Mio, the first crowdsourced car.

Kris de Decker


Kris De Decker is a freelance journalist and creator of Low-Tech Magazine. Low-tech Magazine refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution.

Anna Meroni


An architect and designer, Anna Meroni coordonates the research unit DIS (Design and Innovation for Sustainability) – Strategic Design of the Politecnico di Milano and is an active member of the Slow Food movement.

Alain Renk


Alain Renk combines operational activities in the digital world (Videogames with Ubisoft) and in the architecture field (Living Lab for Orange R&D). In 2010, he founded a start-up called UFO to take part in open and collaborative town-planning.