The Lift Conference

Name: The Lift Conference
Start: 2014-02-04 00:00
End: 2014-02-07 23:59
Location: Centre International de Conférence de Genève

February 4 - 7, 2014

Geneva, Switzerland

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About the Event

Lift Conference is one of Europe’s key events about innovation and digital technologies. It features a special blend of inspiring speeches by some of the world’s best speakers, truly interactive workshops, exhibitions of interactive media projects and prototypes to play with …and the legendary Fondue!

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Our Speakers

Abby Margolis

Research Director

Claro Partners

Aldo de Jong

Founding Partner

Claro Partners

Alexa Clay

Co-Author

The Misfit Economy

Alexis Lloyd

Creative Director

The New York Times Research & Development Lab

Alper Çugun

Principal, data engineer

Hubbub

Anais Rassat

Science communicator

Mapping the geometry of the dark Universe

Andrei Savolainen

Visual Designer

Fjord

Andres Colmenares

co-founder

wabi-sabi lab

Anita Eichholzer

Specialist for Research and Design Methods

Stimmt AG

Arnaud Bertrand

Co-Founder & CEO

HouseTrip

Bastien Kerspern

Service and interaction designer

L’École de Design Nantes Atlantique

Bianca Praetorius

Startup- Pitch-performance-engineer,actrice and playwright

N/A

Bracken Darrell

CEO

Logitech

Carole Baudin

Professor

EDANA laboratory

Che Wagner

Political activist planning to unleash entrepreneurial spirit by ensuring unconditional income for all

N/A

Cori Moore

SparkCRAFT

Point-BIank International

Cyril Dorsaz

Project Manager - Startup Services

swissnex San Francisco

Dan Williams

"Hacker" making things to playfully explore technology

N/A

Daniel Kaplan

CEO

Fing (Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération)

David Fauchier

Project Designer

Yoyo

David Pescovitz

Co-Editor and Managing Partner

Boing Boing

Dotti Toellner

Co-founder and managing director

Point-Blank International

Eva-Maria Zoll

Ambassador for Germany

Design for Change

Fabien Mieyeville

Associate Professor

Ecole Centrale de Lyon

Fabienne Kilchör

Co-founder and project manager

the design agency Emphase Sàrl

Fabio Gramazio

Partner

Gramazio & Kohler

Franziska C.E. Krüger

Team Lead Service Innovation Team

AutoVision GmbH (Ein Unternehmen im Volkswagen Konzern)

Frederic Kaplan

Professor in Digital Humanities

EPFL Lausanne

Gaëtan Bussy

Industrial design engineer

EDANA laboratory

Georg Greve

CEO

Kolab Systems AG

Georgina Voss

Visiting Fellow at Science and Technology Policy Research

University of Sussex

Gerrit-Jan Zwenne

Partner

Bird & Bird LLP

Glenn Oberholzer

Founding partner

Stimmt AG

Hanna-Mari Parkkinen

Business Design Director

Fjord

Hannes Gassert

Editorial Board

Lift Conference

Hans Raffauf

First-generation family business founder, agitator

Berlin's start-up scene

Ian Bogost

Leading scholar of videogames and award-winning game designer

N/A

Iason Nikolakis

Anthemis Group

Isaac Nii Noi Nortey

Co-Founder

RetailTower in Ghana

Jean-Henry Morin

Associate Professor

University of Geneva

Jerry Michalski

Founder

Relationship Economy eXpedition (REX)

Joanne McNeil

Writer exploring how technology is shaping art, literature, and society

N/A

Joel Serra

Country Manager

Eatwith.com

José Achache

Managing Director

AP-Swiss

Justin Pickard

Writer & Futurist

Superflux

Juval Dieziger

Chief Emotional Officer, co-founder

Bar 25

Kars Alfrink

Founder and games designer

Hubbub

Ksenia Avetisova

Interaction and UX Designer

Fjord

lia giraud

French plastic artist

"growing" pictures with algae

Lysianne Lechot Hirt

Professor, Dean of studies

Geneva University of Art and Design

Marcel Kampman

Creative Strategist

N/A

Marieke Hermans

Captain Dragon

connects people & ideas

Mario Husten

Chairman

Holzmarkt cooperative

Mark Post

Medical Doctor, Chair of the Physiology Department

Maastricht University

Markus Maurer

Social Media Consultant

Federation of Migros Cooperatives

Matt Boggie

Director of Technology Strategy, Research and Development

The New York Times

Narkis Alon

Co-Founder

ZE-ZE

Neila Romdane

UK Connector

Medialab Session

Nicolas Nova

Professor

HEAD-Genève

Noah Feehan

Maker

The New York Times

Olivier Audemars

Member of the board of directors

Audemars Piguet, leading a global family business

Patrick Oltramare

Strategic and financing consultant

N/A

Peter Hesseldahl

Senior innovation specialist

The Universe Foundation

Philippe Meda

Specialist in Business Model Innovation and Disruption

Merkapt

Philippe Silberzahn

Professor

EMLYON Business School

Pierpaolo Andriani

Associate Professor in Complexity and Innovation Studies

Euromed Management

Porter Erisman

Movie director, ex-VP

alibaba.com

Ramia Marielle El Agamy

Editor-in-Chief

Tharawat Magazine, a global publication for family businesses

Renaud Gaultier

Founder

IDEA program at EM LYON

Romain Saillet

Story-telling Consultant and founder

Medialab Session

Samantha Ghiotti

Director

Anthemis Group

Scott Smith

Critial futurist, Founder

Changeist

Sean D. Goff

Teenage Hacker and Maker

N/A

Sylvain Métille

Head of Technology and Privacy

BCCC avocats sàrl

TeeKay Thorsten Kreissig

Performance Artist, Think-Tanker

N/A

Thomas Goossens

Partner

BCCC Attorney's-at-Law LCC

Thomas Landrain

Member of the steering committee

France Synthetic Biology Forum

Tobias Revell

Associate designer

Superflux

Yann Heurtaux

Digital Migrant and Community Dynamics Consultant

N/A

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Location

Centre International de Conférence de Genève

Rue de Varembé 15, 1202 Genève ‎

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