Lift12 Program

The whole conference takes place at the Geneva International Conference Center (CICG, map). All talks will be given in English unless specified otherwise, a French translation will be provided.

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Wednesday 22 February

Show Wednesday

12:00

Doors opening and lunch

13:00

First time participants welcome

Are you attending Lift for the first time? Join us for a short presentation of the event, and you will find out how to maximize your presence during these three days.

14:00

Lift12 Opening Session: Technology vs. People

This session will ask a simple question: has technology made our lives easier, or do we now have to deal with an overwhelming flow of interruptions hampering our productivity? We will discuss overload, screens invading our homes, and try to find the solution to a growing problem: technology fatigue.

JP Rangaswami

Chief scientist, Salesforce

Technology and people

Anaïs Saint-Jude

Stanford University

Technological overload

Gordan Savičić

The story of the Web 2.0 suicide machine

Stefana Broadbent

UCL

Technologies at home: making our lives easier or harder?

Pierre Croce

Dailymotion

Powerpoint vs. People
[Presentation in French]

16:00

Break

17:00

Session: Development, Redevelopment

Vint Cerf, considered the "father of the internet", wrote in a recent column that Internet is not a human right, but an enabler of rights. The capacities it gives us - to communicate, organize and publicize everywhere - have been used for business and fun, but also for development and crisis response. This session will explore these last two aspects, and show the possibilities and the limitations too.

David Rowan

Wired UK

How the next web millionaires will be in Africa

Steve Song

Village Telco

Networking for the Unexpected: Building resilience and innovation

Marcel Kampman

Picnic

An update on project Dreamschool

Farida Vis

University of Leicester

Twitter usage during the UK riots

Kevin Anderson

Freelance Journalist

Social media in humanitarian/political crises

19:00

Transfer to the fondue

A tram will take participants from Nations to the fondue venue. It leaves promptly at 19:20!

19:20

Fondue!

No need to introduce this part of the program, the legendary Lift Fondue. A tram will take you from the conference center to the fondue at the Palladium (map)

Thursday 23 February

08:00

Doors opening

09:00

Session: Mobile

We will explore what possible ways to interact with tomorrow's phones are being researched in the labs, and hear how Google is launching new products and bringing innovations to developing countries using mobile terminals.

Gesche Joost, Fabian Hemmert
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
Democratizing Innovation - Grandma likes that.

Nick Heller

Google Europe

Benjamin Wiederkehr

Interactive Things

Visualizing urban flows with mobile date

10:20

Break

11:00

Session: Technology and Luxury

Despite the tough economical environment, the luxury industry is boasting strong results. In a field where innovation is not always a marketing argument, brands are trying to see how technologies can fit into their mix. We will explore some of these efforts, and discuss with entrepreneurs who are creating unique experiences with the latest innovations.

Ashley Benigno

Digital Brand Strategist

Luxury and mobiles: a mismatch made in heaven?

Xavier Dietlin Dietlin SA discussing the creation of unique experiences with Maximilian Busser Founder of MB&F.
[IN FRENCH]

Uché Okonkwo

Luxe Corp

Digital Media & Innovation: A New Frontier for Luxury & Prestige Brands

Parallel Workshops

Foresight surprise !
Nicolas Nova

Lots of clouds: a stormy weather for information privacy?
Michel Jaccard

Social Media
Kelly Dempski

The rise of the sharing economy
Cedric Giorgi

12:20

Lunch

14:00

Session: Beyond Finance

Beyond the much debated crisis, new ideas are proposed to reinvent the system. From peer to peer currencies to simpler and more transparent banks, we will explore what is possible when you mix innovation with finance.

David Birch

Consult Hyperion

The new financial services

Adrianne Jeffries

The New York Observer

Peer to peer currencies: the story and questions of Bitcoin

Sean Park

Anthemis Group

The new financial paradigm ahead

Parallel Workshops

Beyond Data Lab
Melinda Sipos

Book urbanism 2: visualizing social activies as cities
Laurent Bolli

Focus on analytics and leverage of Social Media
Alexander Fritsch

Help us to imagine new digital services for elderly people
Jonathan Landais

15:15

Break

16:00

Session: The New Face of Gaming

Gaming is evolving rapidly, and is now part of everybody's life thanks to smartphones and tablets. What are the new trends in this area? How to design games, make money, and create experiences across screens?

Kars Alfrink

Hubbub

The Social Contract Put at Play

Tom Armitage

Hide & Seek

Games: Systemic Media for a Systemic Age

Sebastian Deterding

Hamburg Univ.

Ruling the World: When Life Gets Gamed

Niklaus Moor

Swisscom

Open stage:
Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation in gamification

José Luis de Vicente

Maison d'Ailleurs

Open stage:
On the Mythologies of Play

Parallel Workshops

Crowd Financing: Success factors
Matthias Günter

The Future of Retail in Challenging Times
Roger Kirby

The New Face of Leadership-A Digital Perspective
Marie Elisabeth Boury

17:25

Break

18:00

Alp ICT Venture Night

Partner event organized by Alp ICT and Etat de Genève with CTI start-up and Creapole.

Daniel Loeffler

Service de la promotion économique, Switzerland

Welcome

Christian Wanner

Co-founder & CEO, LeShop

Keynote

Eight Western Switzerland startups will present their products and services

19:30

Drinks!

Friday 24 February

08:00

Doors opening

09:00

Workshops

Attend or moderate a workshop during these sessions dedicated to networking and experience sharing.

Title (click on it to register)	Moderator	Organization
#ITSMYWORLD: mobilizing citizens through social media	Eva Sander	Ondore
Adopt-a-disruption: Collectively anticipating digital discontinuites	Daniel Kaplan	FING - The Next-Generation Internet Foundation
Digital Communications Programs for Post Conflict and Crises Areas	John Horniblow	Bladedigital Ltd
Digital Sentient Mapping	Yasmine Abbas	neo-nomad
DJing in the cloud	Douglas Arellanes	Sourcefabric, o.p.s.
Game mechanics in location-based games	Nicolas Nova	Near Future Laboratory
Let's cut features!	Christian Miccio	Self
Story writing and how to write requirements for the Web	Jonas Vonlanthen	Liip SA
The Future of Higher Education (Rebooting Higher Education)	Jean-Henry Morin	University of Geneva - CUI, Institute of Services Science (ISS)
Who framed Crowdsourcing?	Ulysse Rosselet	Information Systems Institute, HEC Lausanne

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11:00

Break

11:30

Session: Stories

Stories from people with amazing lives and projects, to inspire and surprise you.

James Bridle

We fell in love in a coded space

Tricia Wang

University of California

Dancing with Handcuffs: The Geography of Trust in Social Networks

Rufus Pollock

Open Knowledge Foundation

Pierre Spring

Open stage:
Following up on the Don't make me steal manifesto.

12:50

Lunch

14:00

Session: Near Futures

This session explores near future technologies, those innovations that will happen in the next 5 years and change the way we live, do business, love, learn, play, interact, etc.

Ben Bashford

Bashford LTD

Artificial emotion and empathy in digital products

Julien Dorra

MuseoMix

Web-infected: events and post-web creativity

Lisa Harouni

Digital Forming

Mass customisation and 3D printing

Tom Bieling

Design Research Lab

Open stage:
Interfaces for alternative Communication

Tej Tadi

Mindmaze

Open stage:
Virtual reality for stroke patients rehabilitation

15:25

Break

16:00

Session: Extreme Hackers

The internet favored the rise of the hacker in areas such as journalism and music. Now, some are taking that concept to a whole new level, from rocket-building to nuclear physics experiments... Meet the extreme hackers.

etoy.AGENT ZAI

etoy.CORPORATION

Twisting capitalism & Technology since 1994

Hojun Song

The Open-Source Satellite Initiative

Mark Suppes

Amateur Nuclear Fusion

17:30

Lift12 Wrap up

Lift founder Laurent Haug will wrap up Lift12, summarizing the ideas heard during the two and a half days.

Laurent Haug

Founder of Lift

Conference wrap up

17:40

Closing of the conference

21:30

Party

Let's meet for post conference chatter, drinks and dancing :)

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Lift12

Lift12 News

Wednesday 22 February

Doors opening and lunch

First time participants welcome

Lift12 Opening Session: Technology vs. People

Break

Session: Development, Redevelopment

Transfer to the fondue

Fondue!

Thursday 23 February

Doors opening

Session: Mobile

Break

Session: Technology and Luxury

Parallel Workshops

Lunch

Session: Beyond Finance

Parallel Workshops

Break

Session: The New Face of Gaming

Parallel Workshops

Break

Alp ICT Venture Night

Drinks!

Friday 24 February

Doors opening

Workshops

Break

Session: Stories

Lunch

Session: Near Futures

Break

Session: Extreme Hackers

Lift12 Wrap up

Closing of the conference

Party

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