Douglas Irving Repetto is an artist and teacher. His work, including sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software is presented internationally. He is the founder of Dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, organism, mailing list and website.

Changing Innovation - The end of IT. In addition to 21 years culminating in a senior position in the BBC Euan has had five years of unparalleled experience learning how to make the most of this wired-up world of work and how businesses can prepare themselves for the challenges and the opportunities it represents.

What would a diverse, complex world brain look like? Considering how digital culture and enable a multiplicity of knowledges. Ramesh Srinivasan, an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, speaks about the importance of cultural differences in knowledge production and technology design. Through various stories, he shows the differences in cultural appropriation and the inherent creativity of people in adpating technologies to the uses that benefit them best.

Lee Bryant describes to what extent we reach a new culture ecosystem echoes with old traditions of trade, business and socialisation while the Twentieth century was all about mass market and mass production.

Laurent Haug, fondateur des conférences Lift présente le programme de ce premier jour de l'édition 2009 de Lift à Genève.