Posted: March 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
I am in Vienna attending a Lift@home event organized by a local team of entrepreneurs and academics. Second talk of the day is Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives founder Michel Bauwens. John Thakara pointed in advance to this talk, he was right. Michel put some words on things “you don’t need a PHD to notice” but that, brought together in such a comprehensive way, connect into something powerful: a name for this movement most early adopters are feeling without being able to explain it further.
2 fundamentally wrong assumptions in our society:
- We think earth resources are infinite. But an infinite thinking within a finite system is wrong.
- We think we have to make cooperation difficult to make collaboration happen.
There is now a conscience that these assumptions need to change, and collaboration and openness are a key answer. Steps to make this happen:
1. identifying key aspects of openess (participation, transparency, “shareability”, access)
2. finding enablers of openness (a common language, assets, etc): definitions, code, licences, standards
3. infrastructures of openness: open meeting spaces, open territories (Regiowiki), open hardware (Arduino), open objects (eCars – Now), etc.
4. Practices of openness: open software (Linux), open designs (Honeybee Network), open knowledge
5. Domains of openness: education, science, business, government, spirituality (interesting to imaginea user generated religion…)
6. Products of openness: Open course ware, open books, open journals
7. Open movements: OpenMaterials, OpenCoalition
8. Open consciousness…
You can see Michel’s talk as a mind map here.
Posted: January 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We have five speakers coming to the Conférence TechnoArk 2010 on Jan 29th to talk about Digital Spaces, among them former Lift speakers Matt Jones and Fabien Girardin. 230 participants are registered and you can buy one ofthe remaining tickets here (50/150chf).
Speakers
Matt Jones
Design director à BERG London
Matt Jones travaille dans le domaine de la conception de produits et services numérique depuis 1995. Il a été le directeur créatif du site BBC News puis a rejoint Nokia entre 2003 et 2007 d’abord au département prospective puis comme directeur de l’expérience utilisateur des téléphones de la série N. En 2007, il a fondé la start-up de partage d’informations de voyage et de géolocalisation Dopplr, qui a été racheté par Nokia à l’automne 2009. Il a rejoint ensuite le studio de design BERG à Londres qui conçoit des interfaces originales et des objets communicants.
De part sa formation originelle en architecture, il s’intéresse depuis longtemps aux problématiques des nouveaux espaces numériques, où comment la ville est transformée par les services mobiles et géolocalisés.
Bruno Marzloff
Sociologue et directeur du cabinet Chronos
Bruno Marzloff est sociologue et anime depuis dix ans le Groupe Chronos, laboratoire des mobilités innovantes, qui rassemble une quinzaine de grands comptes autour des enjeux des mobilités urbaines et des organisations du temps de la ville. Il est également copilote du programme Ville 2.0 avec la Fing et membre du comité scientifique de l’OTEN (Observatoire des Territoires Numériques). Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages. Le dernier porte sur “Le 5e écran” (FYP Editions).
Zbigniew Smoreda
Sociologue au laboratoire des sciences sociales à Orange Labs.
Il travaille sur les technologies d’information et de communication saisies par le prisme de la sociologie de communication, des réseaux sociaux et de la mobilité
Blog de Zbigniew Smoreda
Fabien Girardin
Ingénieur, chercheur et co-fondateur de Lift lab
Fabien Girardin mène des études sur la co-évolution des technologies mobiles avec les pratiques humaines dans le contexte urbain. Il a obtenu un doctorat en informatique et communications numérique à l’Université Pompeu Fabra à Barcelone, Espagne. Dans son parcours académique, il fut affilié au Senseable City Lab du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pour mener le développement de méthodes d’analyses de données spatio-temporelles générées par la présence d’infrastructures logicielles.
Blog de Fabien Girardin
Ulrich Fischer
Responsable du projet Walking The Edit
Dès les années 90, alors étudiant en sociologie et ethnographie à Bâle, Ulrich Fischer démarre sa relation avec le monde des images à travers la photographie argentique. Il collabore pendant plus de 10 ans au sein du collectif du Cinéma Spoutnik. En 2000, il obtient le 1er prix de l’Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel de Genève. Entre 2000 et 2002, il participe au jury de la sélection de la compétition internationale du festival Viper, à Bâle, dont il devient le coordinateur en 2002. Depuis le début des années 2000, il donne des stages et workshops liés à la technique, suit les travaux de diplôme de l’ECAL en tant qu’intervenant extérieur et intervient ponctuellement dans des jurys. Actuellement il est en charge de la recherche menée au sein des Masters de Cinéma – le projet WALKING THE EDIT démarre en janvier 2008; des premiers résultats ont été présentés milieu 2008. Les résultats de la recherche ont été présentés publiquement en été 2009.
Posted: December 14th, 2009 | 27 Comments »
I am getting more and more involved in the meeting industry, helping others take their events to the level, giving talks at EIBTM or ICCA. I start to realize that the knowledge acquired through the organization of Lift is extremely valuable, coming from a fresh perspective, built on a community consistently challenging us to come up with innovative propositions.
As time passes, I am starting to think that a book would be a great way to avoid repeating the same things over and over again – read the book! – and take that conversation about events organization (a real passion for me) to the next level.
Inspired by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s Naked conversations, stealing a page from Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur’s playbook, relying on the principles I have always applied to my work (collaboration and transparency), I am writing today to gauge interest from my readers and friends in such a project. Would you be interested in helping, contributing ideas and pointers to a dynamic text to be printed as a book? Would you be interested in reviewing chapters as they are written, discussing formats, pricing (see my post @ Lift today), community involvement, partners and speakers management, and more? I would love to turn this into a collaborative effort!
Contact me using the comments or on laurent@liftlab.com.
Posted: December 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
Busy week with many events, TEDx Monday, the Lift10 launch and panel on Web 2.0 yesterday, and starting tomorrow I am animating Comedy & Media, a conference attached to the Festival du Rire (Humor festival) where industry leaders gather to reflect on the future of an industry that has been profoundly reshaped by new technologies.
Speakers come from Television (TSR, Canal+, France4, Comédie), Music industry (Warner, Orange Music), online video (Youtube, DailyMotion), and more. The full programme is here, and will give me a chance to meet one of the heroes of French humor: Alexandre Astier of Kaamelott fame!
Several tickets are still on sale, so don’t hesitate to join if you are interested in the future of the entertainment industry.
Posted: December 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
Most conferences are launching iPhone apps, Lift, TED, and now LeWeb who took the concept even further, offering a live stream of the talks right in the palm of Apple phone owners. The list of features is impressive
• get a live feed of the LeWeb stage as it happens on your iphone (a premiere!) with ustream
• latest news and tweets from/about LeWeb
• all the agenda with details from all the sessions and you can checkin to say you are going
• integrated chat and you can tweet/facebook your comments directly from the app
• find details about ANY participant and their twitter names to contact them (that is going to come handy for networking)
• maps of the venue and where everything is (it is a huge venue and lots of spaces to discover this year, like amazing coffee from Nespresso for example)
• photos and links, archived video sessions
Link
In the context of a conference focused on the web, it makes a lot of sense to offer a service to create interaction among participants. At Lift I prefer to avoid directing people to a specific tool for feedback – mainly because we have a diverse crowd with large differences in age and culture – so an iPhone app to manage interactions is not really relevant. But I look forward to follow the usage of this app, there will probably be a few interesting lessons to learn.
Time to wish the 2000+ participants of LeWeb a great conference!
Posted: November 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
Lift Lab is again in charge of the design and editorial management of TechnoArk 2010, the conference organized by TheArk in Sierre every January to talk about the internet of Things. We are happy to announce the 2010 program:
Les nouveaux espaces numériques!
Les nouvelles technologies envahissent chaque jour un peu plus nos espaces quotidiens: réseaux de capteurs, objets communicants et “intelligents”, appareils et contenu géolocalisé. Cet écosystème crée de nouvelles couches d’informations qui permettent d’appréhender l’espace différemment, créent de nouvelles opportunités et défis pour les citoyens et les entreprises.
Intervenants
Adam Greenfield, Directeur des interfaces et de l’interaction de Nokia, auteur du livre référence sur l’informatique ambiante « Everyware ».
Bruno Marzloff, est un sociologue spécialisé sur les questions de mobilité. Il est directeur du Groupe Chronos, cabinet d’études sociologiques et de prospective qui observe et analyse les enjeux des mobilités. À ce jour, seize sociétés comme Orange, SFR, Vinci, Renault ou la SNCF sont membres du Groupe Chronos.
Fabien Girardin est un chercheur Suisse qui a mené au MIT un projet de visualisation des déplacements touristiques dans les villes de New York, Barcelone et Florence.
Ulrich Fischer est le responsable du projet WALKING THE EDIT
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Posted: September 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cross post from the Lift blog. See you at Telecom next week?
The Lift team will be heavily involved in the upcoming ITU Telecom conference this week. We will participate actively, speaking and moderating at the following events:
(Free event, French)
Speakers:
• Eric Bachmann, Président Alp ICT
• Pierre-François Unger
• Thomas Hinderling, CEO du CSEM, Présentation de « Solar Islands »
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• Présentation de sept Start-ups de Suisse Occidentale
• Table ronde animée par Laurent Haug, fondateur des conférences LIFT
(English)
This program involves, promotes, and fosters promising and talented individuals to strengthen their local communities and to bring local Internet-related issues and ideas to the global stage. The Next Generation Leaders program brings together individuals at the intersection of policy, technology and business, and embodies the operating values – such as open standards, freely accessible processes, and transparent governance – shared among many of the key communities and organizations that have been central to the development and ongoing evolution of the Internet.
(English, registration)
Innovation delivers future developments and business models for interactive telecommunications. If infrastructures, devices, standardization and regulation are necessary to set up and to structure telecommunication ecosystem and its economy, they are insufficient to design and develop new services, new contents and new usages for their business and development opportunities. In prospect of the NGN and new protocols deployment, we propose to explore and design some possible future innovations that will allow improvement for health, transport, education, working or entertainment. The key question is how can these smart environments (intelligent object, remote monitoring, wearable devices, robotics, virtual reality or augmented reality) contribute to new innovations, sustainable development and wellbeing.
Moderator
• Dr Didier Fass, Associate Professor, ICN Business School and LORIA INRIA, France
Panellists
• Mr Laurent Haug, Founder & Director, Lift lab SARL, Switzerland
• Dr Mark I. Krivocheev, Professor, Chief Scientist , Radio Research Institute (NIIR), Russian Federation
• Dr Yoshihiro Fujita, Executive Research Engineer, Science & Technology Research Laboratories, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp), Japan
• Dr Hung Song, Vice President, Global Marketing Group, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Media & Communications, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea (Rep. of)
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is one of the projects that kept us busy all summer, after several requests from all over the world asked us to organize local, smaller scale events: Lift at home is our answer, an exchange of value between the conference (offering attention, support and online tools) and members of our community (who keep the conference alive all year by running small events).
When the idea came up, we thought “wow, this is really innovative and smart”. But quickly we found out that we had not invented anything: Tupperware has been doing for years. And since 1907 a famous movement has functionned in a similar way, groups of people getting together following guidelines expressed in a book. It is of course Scouting. Scouting spread all around the world based on Baden Powell’s book. So if you thought Barcamp and Pecha Kucha‘s concept of decentralized events was new, unfortunately it is not really. Welcome to the frustration of living in the 21st century, almost everything has already been done :)
The differences Lift at home bring are still many, first and foremost our community: a group of diverse and exciting people from different cultural and social backgrounds who can transform any event in a great moment. Then there is a bottom up approach I believe separates us from the rest. We don’t impose much. Just no commercial content, no charge at the door. The format, length, theme, location, date, all the rest is up to you, and we do it because we believe that great things will happen. Great things that will then inspire our “big” events, and allow us to continue organizing one of the world’s most innovative conference three times a year in Switzerland, France and Korea.
Over my brief career as a manager, I have noticed two reactions to freedom. Some people see it as a paralyzing factor. Not having enough rules can make one feel like he’s risking too much. On the other side, many use freedom to have to push the envelope and invent the future. I bet the latter will happen. Time to run your Lift!
Posted: September 12th, 2009 | No Comments »
A busy month awaits as I will be speaking at several events in September and October. See you there?
- BlogTalk (Sept 16, registration)
I will give a short opening talk on the second day of Blogtalk. As you might know Blogtalk and Lift Asia teamed together and both events happen in Jeju one after the other so foreign participants can enjoy 4 days of conference in one trip.
- Daum (Sept 16, private event)
I will address the Daum staff in a private talk at their Jeju office so all the staff who can not attend the conference (Daum sends “only” 50 persons ;) can also have an overview of the exciting ideas and trends that will be presented.
- Lift Asia 09 (Sept 17-18, registration)
As the founder of Lift I have the honor to open and close the event. This year’s closing speech will be the occasion to launch two new Lift initiatives, watch out for big news on September 18 :)
- DBB Digital days (Sept. 30, free event, registration needed)
I will give the opening talk of DBB’s annual event on trends in the digital world. Urban technologies, the new face of gaming, bexond web 2.0, I will explore the moment’s most interesting and disruptive innovation.
- First Tuesday (Oct 6, free event, registration needed)
I will join a panel on “Indepence, a state of mind” with several Geneva entrepreneurs.
- ITU Telecom World 2009 (Oct 9, registration)
I will be on a session on Future innovation: Scientific & technological foundations at Telecom, joining speakers like Kenji Nagai (Managing Director, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp), Japan), Mark I. Krivocheev (Professor, Chief Scientist , Radio Research Institute (NIIR), Russian Federation) and Ron Resnick (President & Chairman of the Board, WiMAX Forum, United States).
- EIBTM 2009 Technology Hour (Dec 2, registration)
I will join one of the events industry largest event for the second time for a panel with Corbin Ball on Motivating Generation Y – How can you design meetings and use technology to involve them?.
Posted: August 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I will be on the judging panel of the EIBTM WorldWide Technology Watch for the second year, looking forward to find out about great new technologies we will assess with a panel of international experts and under the guidance of meetings’ industry legend Corbin Ball. Send us your application if you developed an innovative product or service, you will get exposure at one of the industry’s biggest event!
WorldWide Technology Watch
If you have developed a new technology, product or service for the meetings and incentives industry, this is an excellent chance for you to receive recognition and gain increased exposure to your product.
Our specialist industry judging panel each year is looking for a new technology development or product that will have the most impact within the meetings, incentive and business travel industry. If you feel you have that development or product, you should enter the EIBTM 2009 WorldWide Technology Watch – Closing date for entries is Friday 4th September 2009.
Winner benefits:
- If your entry is selected as the winner you will receive a FREE stand to exhibit at the MPI Technology Village @ EIBTM in Barcelona 2009.
- You will receive recognition in all the EIBTM 2009 WorldWide Technology Watch promotional material leading to widespread promotional coverage in the industry!
- You will be able to present your winning product to an audience alongside the EIBTM Technology Hour during EIBTM in Barcelona.
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