Lift Conference Podcast
About the Lift conference series Lift is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the ...
About the Lift conference series Lift is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meeting the people who drive them.
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Swiss-Korean Innovation Night, curated by Lift
April 18th 2012 we had the great opportunity to produce ...
April 18th 2012 we had the great opportunity to produce our 4th LIft Event in Korea. The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Presence Switzerland mandated us to curate a Lift event in Seoul, taking place prior to the 2012 Expo in Yeosu. Under the code name “Swiss-Korean Innovation Night” this event featured the traditional Lift ingredients: disruptive ideas, inspiring projects, carefully prepared speeches from pioneers of their fields and entertaining social events in a beautifully designed space. It's mission was to celebrate innovation and create and reinforce bridges of friendship between Swiss and Korean pioneers. We had a wonderful time, thank you all so much for coming and making it happen, 감사합니다 :)
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Alp ICT Venture Night 2012
In this 4th edition of the Alp ICT Venture Night ...
In this 4th edition of the Alp ICT Venture Night the following 8 start-ups pitched their projects to the audience: ZMS - InZair // Ecowizz - Geroco // Poken // pebbleage SA // Faveeo // Projet Amanda - Solvaxis Online // Eyep Media / Utribo // Museeka. Based on the live voting during the event the audience chose ZMS - InZair as the winner of the Alp ICT Venture Night. Congratulations !
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The real journey of an entrepreneur
In the opening keynote of the venture night Christian Wanner, ...
In the opening keynote of the venture night Christian Wanner, co-founder of leshop.ch, shows how the life of an entrepreneur can be really though. He compares this challenge to a legendary antarctic expedition in 1915, where a team of explorers was stuck in big blocks of ice during three months. Christian motivates start-ups to really fight for their visions and encourages them to (almost) never surrender, however though the challenges they face might be.
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Killing your digital identity
One of the co-inventors of the web 2.0 suicide machine, ...
One of the co-inventors of the web 2.0 suicide machine, Gordan Savicic will tell us the story of his invention, and why he is on a mission to help users be smarter about their digital identities.
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etoy.CORPORATION - twisting capitalism & technology since 1994
etoy.CORPORATION SA is a corporate sculpture and a shareholder company ...
etoy.CORPORATION SA is a corporate sculpture and a shareholder company registered in the city of Zug/Switzerland, using corporate structures to maximize cultural values. Since 1994 etoy is hacking the dominating model of the individual artist: the concept of the independent star and glorified genius is replaced by an abstract trademark - etoy. Legendary for its «digital hijack» (1,5 million search engine users kidnapped in 1996), etoy also coordinated «TOYWAR», a milestone in hacktivism, bringing down a multi-billion dotcom operation and thus creating the most expensive performance in art history. A pioneer in container architecture inspired by the Internet's paket system etoy currently invests all resources in MISSION ETERNITY – a digital cult of the dead and a long term data archive focusing on pioneers of the information age.
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Dancing with Handcuffs: The Geography of Trust in Social Networks
How did a student end up making international headlines for ...
How did a student end up making international headlines for throwing shoes at the architect of China's internet censorship infrastructure and then become the hero for information freedom worldwide? Tricia tells us what happened to the student and how the outcomes were dependent on a variety of factors that tells us a lot about how we socialize and build trust online.
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Mass customisation and 3D printing
Lisa Harouni is responsible dor the day-to-day management of Digital ...
Lisa Harouni is responsible dor the day-to-day management of Digital Forming, a startup that offers design companies and lifestyle brands a competitive edge by allowing customers to get involved in the design process of products. After an introduction about 3D printing technologies, Lisa will show their benefits and implications for both businesses and individual: rapid prototyping, mass customization, return of local production, consequences on copyright laws, and more. She will also describe the potential fields of applications of this technology in the near future.
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WE FELL IN LOVE IN A CODED SPACE
James Bridle talks about literature and storytelling when everything has ...
James Bridle talks about literature and storytelling when everything has become digital, the construction of knowledge and collaborating with robots. Ham, spam, word salad, and what is important in a tent.
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Open Source Nuclear Fusion
Mark Suppes built a nuclear fusion reactor with no formal ...
Mark Suppes built a nuclear fusion reactor with no formal science background. Prior to the fusion project, Mark became comfortable tackling the improbable with eight years of web startups. In these startups, he learned that it's better to be too ambitious than not ambitious enough. Considering the time and effort a startup requires, it makes sense to aim high. Then, in late 2008 Mark watched a video that would change his life. In that video Dr. Robert Bussard revealed his secret invention: a new approach to nuclear fusion called the Polywell. Bussard believed his invention could provide abundant and inexpensive clean energy; something the world desperately needs. Mark took an intense fascination to the Polywell. This fascination grew and spurred Mark to attempt building his own Polywell. Since he had no prior science background the project presented many steep learning curves. Over the course of three years Mark's Polywell fusion reactor project has transformed into a community project with hundreds of contributors. Mark's open source project has built the world's first amateur Polywell, a small but important step on the long journey to clean energy.
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Networking for the Unexpected: Building resilience and innovation with...
What are the desirable qualities in a communication network? Affordability, ...
What are the desirable qualities in a communication network? Affordability, ubiquity, reliability, privacy, convenience. In the developing world, mobile networks are delivering telephony and broadband where it has never gone before but often at the expense of the above qualities. Village Telco, an Open Source, DIY, telco-in-a-box puts the power of telephone and broadband infrastructure in local hands and offers a complementary alternative network to conventional telecommunications services.
