We are proud to announce the re-signing of a partnership with Alp ICT and the Geneva Economic Development Office for Lift10. Faithful partners since 2007, both organization will be alongside us for next year :)

Beside giving local entrepreneurs a chance to attend Lift, Alp ICT and the Geneva Economic Development Office will also organize a public showcase on Wednesday evening where Lift attendees will be given the possibility to discover the products and services developed in Western Switzerland, in a similar spirit to the Lift08 Venture Night.

Meet the partners who help us make Lift possible with their support. Today we introduce Asiance, the company founded by our friends Olivier Mouroux and Bosun Kim, who are main partners of Lift Asia 09. Check the current partners roster and contact us if you want to

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Asiance is based in Seoul, South Korea, a major business hub of Northeast Asia, and the world’s most developed IT country.

Our ground-level insight enables us to provide global clients with web development and interactive marketing services tailored to answer the cultural, and technological, specifics of Asia's online markets.

As a cross-cultural company, our people work in English, French, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.

Our clients can therefore rest assured that their projects will not be affected by the language and culture barriers all too often associated with doing business in Asia. Asiance will see your project through from inception to completion.

The radio show Place de la Toile will be live at Lift on Friday june 19 at 11am as Caroline Broué and Thomas Baumgartner will install a radio set during the break and discussions between 11am and noon in the Conference Hall.

We have come to an era where society breaths technology. Screens are familiar to us, however we do not know the consequences that tie with their domination.

Place de la Toile is a radio show that brings to the table the different aspects of this technological revolution. It is less about the technical site, but more about what it will induce on the media, communications, information technology, the social links and finally the way our lives are organized in society. The show offers a weekly round of findings in the science and information technology community, meets the doers in the field, highlights the important events, and discusses the economy, politics and philosophy of this revolution.

Conceived and animated by Caroline Broué and Thomas Baumgartner, the show is structured in two parts; one 45 minute report followe by a chronicle about new medias.

We are proud to announce that Alcatel will support Lift France 09 as main partner. They will also be hosting the Workshop Communication-mashups.com on June 18th. Check it out and sign up!

Alcatel-Lucent is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users.

A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivaled technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry.

With operations in more than 130 countries and the most experienced global services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 16.98 billion in 2008 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris.

Big news today: we are proud to announce that Mozilla is now one of the main partners of Lift09! We are delighted to get the support of an organization we regard as an example, respect profoundly for its integrity and independence, and whose values are shared by our community. Welcome to Lift!

The Transformeurs 2009 event is set to happen in two weeks, and there are only 40 seats still available. If you want to hear Daniel Kaplan (CEO of the FING), David Orban (of the Open Spime project) and Jean-Louis Fréchin (ENSCI and No Design), with workshops by Nicolas Nova (Lift), Xavier Comtesse (Avenir Suisse), Raphaël Briner (HyperWeek) or Alexandre Cotting (Institut Icare/Rfid Center), visit technoark.ch/technoark2009 to find more information.

The Ark is offering ten free passes to Lifters, and we still have five available. Please use the comments below or email us if you want one!

Lift happens thanks to partnerships with local and international organizations who support the conference. We will introduce 5 of them every week. Check the full partners list, and contact us if you want to partner with the conference in Europe or Asia.

Main Partners

1875 FINANCE

1875 Is one of Geneva's major independent financial institutions specialized in private wealth management and multi-family office services.

WATTWATT

wattwatt is an independent community website set up by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), a Geneva-based, non-governmental and not-for-profit organization, leader in electrotechnical standardization. IEC believes that the question of electrical energy efficiency is one that needs to be addressed and that everyone of us, as individuals, has a part to play.

Supporters

LE SHOP

LeShop.ch is Switzerland's number one online supermarket, celebrating ten years of success and serving thousands of customers across the country.

Event Partners

REZONANCE

Rezonance is the leading social network for business, people and knowledge in Switzerland since 1998 and organiser of First Tuesday in the French speaking Switzerland gathering more than 20'000 entrepreneurs.

MIGROS

The Pour-cent culturel is a voluntary engagement by Migros in domains like culture, society, education, leisure and economy. With it's institutions, projects and activities, the Pour-cent culturel allows a large part of the population to access cultural and social activities.

We are proud to announce that SWISS International Air Lines will be the Official Carrier for Lift09!
SWISS offers special Congress Fares to all participants. These Congress Fares offer reductions and special flexibility on selected flights, depending on the fare type, route and space availability.

The special SWISS congress fare is marked with a "C". It may not necessarily be the lowest fare (the economy saver fee, if available, remains the cheapest offer) but it offers flexibility in the event of rebooking or cancellation.

Click here for more information on how to take advantage of this offer.

MBC, Jeju Special Self-governing Province Development Corporation and Jeju Free International City Development Center are the latest partners joining the conference. MBC will, just as we do in Switzerland with the Télévision Suisse Romande, provide professional capture of our speeches that will be provided online a few hours after they happen.

The Jeju Special Self-governing Province Development Corporation and Jeju Free International City Development Center help us hold the conference on the island by facilitating our presence here.

What a busy day today! Things are getting really hot with the event only 9 days away. We have around 270 persons registered (170 online, 100 via paper tickets issued to partners) and hope to match the number of participants we welcomed at our first ever conference in Europe: 350!

Join us at Lift Asia!

We are proud to announce that we partnered with one of the best Korean conference: the World Women's Forum! We will collaborate on many aspects like events format, scheduling, promotion, and share speakers ideas and contacts.

The World Women's Forum, hosted by MBC (Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation), the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Ewha Womans University, intends to empower women in Korea and abroad.

I am honored to have been invited to speak at the 2008 edition on the theme of "Building a Diverse and Sustainable future" with speakers like Mia Farrow, Rory Kennedy, the mayor of Seoul, or the minister of higher education of the Philippines.