Laurent Haug, founder of the Lift Conference, opens the Lift09 conference and introduces the events' program.

As the director of the Swiss museum of science-fiction, Patrick Gyger has access to a large variety of documentation concerning the past representation of the future. In his Lift09 talk, he revisits these visions and describes the reasons why they fail to materialize

3 great innovators have agreed to speak at Lift France, and many more will be announced in the coming days:

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is CEO of technology and design consultancy Tinker.it!. She designs technology-enabled and socially-aware creative solutions to problems. She ran the "Web of Things" workshop at Lift Geneva '09.


Euan Semple is one of the most respected specialists of social software. After years introducing all kinds of exotic tools inside the BBC, he became a consultant, helping businesses enable conversations inside their organizations as well as outside.

Usman Haque designs interactive architecture systems and researches how people relate to each other and their spaces. He has created responsive projection environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and choreographed performances. Recently, he launched Pachube, a web service that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world, facilitating interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual.

Lift09 - Aggregated blog stream with commentary.

Hi,

Just a little reminder, if you like the music you are earing during the conference

it is available for download here:

1/ Future! Go

2/ 50s-70s Alien chase

3/ Chillout UFO !

Enjoy,

Lucas Grolleau

www.soundsgood.fr

Proudly creating Lift Europe soundtrack since 2007

At this address you can find some picture of yesterday's workshop and today's LIFT conference.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raphlift09

Enjoy it. More pics coming soon.

The Lift Conference has already begun for me. Throughout the day I reflect about what I will experience from what I believe will be an incredible conference and memorable event. I am really curious about those who will also be attending. I ask myself, who will I meet and what amazing conversations will we have.

I frequent this Lift Portal often to see if anyone has posted some thoughts or has shared any words about how they are preparing for Lift. When reading this blog I ask myself, where is everyone? How are the participants preparing themselves for Lift?

Now it is your turn to share a thought or two. What do you expect from this Lift Experience? How are you preparing for this incredible experience?

Recently I interviewed Nicolas Nova, editorial manager of LIFT, at the Mobile City Conference in Rotterdam, NL. The topics covered in this interview are: The future of education and learning, blended-learning, remote-accessed field trips, communication, collaboration, the changing roles of teachers & professors, surveillance, privacy and The Lift Conference. I was very impressed with Nicolas's reflections on the topics mentioned above and I make this interview available to the lift community in order to inspire thought and discussion on the topics Nicolas addresses.

An enhanced podcast can be obtained here: http://www.mamk.net/?p=727

Dave Gray, founder and CEO of Xplane, will be in Geneva to host a workshop on “Making the Complex Clear” on March 18 at Arvetica (full workshops schedule here).

Dave and his company have brought visual techniques to major companies like Credit Suisse, Nokia, Apple, IBM, Bank of America and many more, to help them with topics such as improving strategic thinking strategy development and communication, streamlining change management or clarifying their communications with clients.

In this podcast Dave explains the value of visual techniques for businesses and private banks and outlines what we will be doing during the workshop in March. He particularly stresses that mediocre communications lead to misalignment in management and hence result in poor implementation. Dave invites entire management and project teams to participate in the workshop so that they can directly work on concrete business problems. That’s quite an opportunity to be able to benefit from individual coaching by one of the leading thinkers in visual business communications.

If you are interested in participating in the workshop download the flyer (pdf) and send us the registration form.

We offer a 10% discount on the workshop fee (normal price is 1650CHF) to the members of Lift community (you simply mention LIFT when you register)