It is only the 13th day of the year, and we're already in full swing planning and organising Lift10! More than three months away from the conference, many journalists and bloggers have confirmed their attendance:

Television & Radio: Radio Télévision Suisse, BBC , World Radio Switzerland, Danish Broadcasting Company, Resonance104.4, Deutschlandradio Kultur.

Newspapers and Magazines: Bilan, Le Matin Dimanche, Tribune de Genève, Edelweiss, L'hebdo, Le Temps, La Liberté.

Online news and Blogs: GenevaLunch, GeneveActive, Climb to the Stars, Blogowski (Serbia), Creative Crowds (Netherlands), Motoricerca (Italy), Breitband (Germany), Swissinfo, Swisster, etc.

Lift09 hosted a hundred journalists and bloggers, and 170 articles and interviews were made during and after the conference. Request a pass if you are a journalist or blogger meeting the prerequisites.

• We have 194 registered participants and hope to pass 200 by the end of the year!
• Early bird closes in 3 days. Tickets will go from 650 to 850chf on January 1st. Register for Lift10.
• We have fifteen applications from Mexico, UK, Switzerland, Finland, USA, Italy, Germany and France for the free students pass. We need more before the January 15 deadline, there are twenty tickets up for grab don't miss that chance! Apply for a pass.
• On the press front, we have received thirty requests for accreditation. Ask for a press pass if you are a journalist or blogger.

These ads will appear in several publications around Romandy and Swiss Germany.

It's one of these stories that we love, and that shows how globalization can be an amazingly positive and strong force. We received a request for a press pass from a Nepalese journalist, and we of course granted it with an immense pleasure!

Sandeep Ghimire is a national freelance journalist who works as a reporter for the Children issue of Nepal's Largest selling newspaper Kantipur. He is also involved in more than 8 non-profitable organizations to help in uplift the condition of Nepalese people and the children.

He lives in Kathmandu and will be with us at Lift09. How amazing :)

Thanks to 60 journalists who covered LIFT08 we are getting amazing press coverage! We had more than 50 articles since the beginning of the year (and these are the ones we found) from our local medias (Le Temps, RSR, TSR, etc...) but also the likes of BBC News, Business Week or Wired. Here are a few excerpts from the international coverage:

LIFT is one of the highlights of the technophile calendar, an opportunity to meet up with some of the most interesting people around and engage in debate about the future with those who are actually building it instead of waiting for it happen.
BBC News

Yes, everyone may be talking up the news and happenings coming out of the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas [...] but some insanely interesting ideas also came out of the LIFT conference held early last week in Geneva, Switzerland.
BusinessWeek

LIFT 08 -- where you learn something new every day. It would have been worth coming here just to hear about "Citizen Cyberscience" and "Powerpoint Karaoke."
Wired blogs

Events like the World Economic Forum at Davos, TED in Monterey and Pop!Tech in Maine are often placed in this conference superleague. The LIFT Conference in Geneva, has been steadily climbing the ranks of the elite [...]
The Journal

Thanks to all those who took time to share their thoughts in the press, on their blog, in video, or any other form of expression. And don't hesitate to forward your articles to info@liftconference.com if we missed it. We use Google News (what else?) to find articles which means we miss 90% of what is not in English or French.

Hi!

I have asked my team to build a dedicated news feed for the conference. All the news from media and blogs in one feed!

in english: http://www.wikio.com/technology/lift_conference

en français: http://www.wikio.fr/high-tech/lift08

Pierre

This year we decided to give press passes to bloggers and started accrediting writers from the electronic media. We will welcome, among others, the following bloggers and podcasters:

Doris Obermair of infonomia.com
Stephanie Booth of climbtothestars.org
Nico Luchsinger of 150worte.blogspot.com
Thierry Weber of CulturePod.ch
Erik Hauth of berlinonline.de
Harald Taglinger of telepolis.de
Nicola Mattina of blog.nicolamattina.it
Marcella of vnr.de
Sijia Ng of designtaxi.com
Sandrine Szabo of profession-web.ch
Anil De Mello of mobuzz.tv
Patrick de Laive of thenextweb.org

And I just bumped in Gabe of Xolo.tv and they should also be here. That is tons of coverage coming your way!