The LIFT team is growing this year, with 6 new faces joining the project. Here is a roundup of your hosts for LIFT08 on February 6, 7 and 8, 2008.

Project lead:
Laurent Haug
Here to serve all team members and guests, making everybody has an as smooth ride as possible.

Experience:
Bread and butter
Cristiana & Laurent Bolli - aka the B&Bs - are back for another year, and will ensure you have an unforgettable experience at LIFT and LIFT+ once again in 2008.

Coordination & finance:
Sylvie Reinhard
Sylvie joined the team last year, managing the authors' room and the Open Stage with Noel. She will now take over the project coordination, ensuring that communication flows inside our geographically challenged team.

Media:
Ellen Wallace (and GenevaLunch)
Raluca Dan

These ladies will make sure journalists get better information from us before, during and after the event. Ellen is the founder and editor in chief of Geneva Lunch, and Raluca works as a program manager at HP.

Community:
Marc-Olivier Peyer
Victoria Visser

Marco and Victoria will focus on helping the LIFT community live and grow during and after events through blogging and animation of the different tools we will soon release.

Program:
Nicolas Nova
Steven Ritchey
Bruno Giussani (advisor)
Laurent Haug & the team and board

Helped by the rest of the team and by your suggestions, we will focus on finding the relevant topics and speakers for the conference.

Website:
Roberto Ortelli
Nicholas Wolff
Nicolas Dengler
Steven Ritchey
Bread and butter

Roberto - now working full time within LIFT lab - will continue developing the website. He will be joined by Nicholas Wolff (backend, programming), Nicolas Dengler (specification), Steven Ritchey (information architecture) and Bread and butter (design).

Sponsoring:
Jean-Daniel Sciboz

JD (call him jay-dee ;) will take the lead on the sponsoring side, working on finding partners and sponsors for the conference.

That's it. What an impressive list :) Our board is also growing this year and I will detail that in a separate post. Welcome to all the newcomers, and see you all at LIFT08!