Lift09 speakers


  • Vint Cerf's picture

    Google, USA

    Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist who is the "person most often called 'the father of the Internet'. His contributions have been... » view full profile

  • Soh Yeong Roh's picture

    Art Center Nabi, Republic of Korea (the)

    Soh-Yeong Roh founded Art Center Nabi (Seoul) in 2000, transforming a contemporary art centre into a new media art centre, where art, technology,... » view full profile

  • Ramesh Srinivasan's picture

    UCLA, Dept. of Information Studies, USA

    Ramesh Srinivasan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies and Design|Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. His... » view full profile

  • patrickgyger's picture

    Maison d'Ailleurs - Museum of Science Fiction, Switzerland

    Patrick J. Gyger (born 1971 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Swiss historian, curator and writer. In the 1990s he specialised in medieval studies. Since 1999, he... » view full profile

  • Pascual Oriol's picture

    ENVIU, Netherlands

    Oriol Pascual is a business developer for Enviu and PhD candidate at the Design for Sustainability program at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands).... » view full profile

  • nicolasnova's picture

    Lift conference / Liftlab, Switzerland

    Nicolas is both Researcher and the editorial manager of the LIFT conferences.As the editorial manager of LIFT, he is taking care of the program of the... » view full profile

  • natalie jeremijenko's picture

    UCSD, USA

    Natalie Jeremijenko is a new media artist who works at the intersection of contemporary art, science, and engineering. Her work takes the form of... » view full profile

  • Melanie Rieback's picture

    FEW / Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit , Netherlands

    Dr. Melanie Rieback is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, in the group of Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum. Melanie's... » view full profile

  • Matt Webb's picture

    Schulze & Webb/Interconnected, UK

    Matt Webb is a principal of the design shop Schulze & Webb, which has a special focus on the social life of stuff. Projects include material prototypes... » view full profile

  • Laurent Haug's picture

    Lift Conference, Switzerland

    I am an entrepreneur and researcher who is passionate about understanding how technological innovation is reshaping society and culture. My job is to... » view full profile

  • Juliana Rotich's picture

    GlobalVoices/Ushahidi, Kenya

    Juliana Rotich is a blogger, digital activist and environment editor of Global Voices Online. With Global Voices, she helps to aggregate, curate and amplify... » view full profile

  • Jörg Jelden's picture

    Trendbüro, Germany

    Joerg Jelden is a senior trend analyst at Trendbuero – Consultancy for Social Change, in Hamburg and Beijing. At Trendbuero, Joerg advises companies like... » view full profile

  • James Gillies's picture

    CERN, Switzerland

    I'm Head of Communication at CERN, home of the world's most ambitious scientific project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC circulated its first... » view full profile

  • James Auger's picture

    Auger-Loizeau/Royal College of Art, UK

    James Auger is a partner in the critical design practice Auger-Loizeau whose projects explore the role of technology as a mediator and modifier of the human... » view full profile

  • Frank Beau's picture

    Freelance, France

    Frank is a researcher and independent consultant specialized on new media. He currently works with the RATP, the Parisian Transport Operator, on the future... » view full profile

  • Fabio Sergio's picture

    frog design, Italy

    Fabio Sergio is a design and user experience strategist.
    He's happiest in areas at the intersection of design, technology and (social) connectivity,... » view full profile

  • David Rose's picture

    Vitality, USA

    David Rose is a product designer, technology visionary, and social entrepreneur.

    Currently David is Chief Executive at Vitality, a company that is... » view full profile

  • Clive van Heerden's picture

    Philips Design, Netherlands

    Clive van Heerden is creative director of Philips 'Design Probes' program. Philips Design Probes is a dedicated ‘far-future' research initiative to... » view full profile

  • cityofsound's picture

    Arup, Australia

    Dan Hill has been working at the forefront of innovative information and communication technologies (ICT) since the early ‘90s and has been responsible... » view full profile

  • carloratti's picture

    MIT, USA

    An architect, engineer and agit-prop, Carlo Ratti practices in Torino, Italy, and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he... » view full profile

  • babawame's picture

    Yaoundé 2 University, Cameroon

    Baba WAME is professor in cyberjournalism and ICT at the Advanced School of Mass Communication (ASMAC) from the Yaoundé 2 University (Cameroon). Baba has a... » view full profile

  • Anthere's picture

    Wikimedia France and Wikimedia Foundation, France

    Previously chair of Wikimedia Foundation, the non profit organization behind Wikipedia.
    Now board member of Wikimedia France, as well as consultant... » view full profile

  • Anne Galloway's picture

    Concordia University, Design & Computation Arts, Canada

    Anne Galloway recently completed a PhD in sociology and anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, which involved an » view full profile

  • Anab Jain's picture

    Nokia Design / Superflux, UK

    Anab Jain is a designer and filmmaker. She likes to tell speculative stories of possible near futures at the intersection of the technological and... » view full profile

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