Lift Conference 2014

the Lift Conference

Feb. 5-7 2014 – CICG, Geneva, Switzerland

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!

 

A big thank you for for having participated in Lift14 and making it what it was! It was such a great pleasure seeing you all. We really hope that you enjoyed the experience and left inspired and nurtured with new contacts and tools to help you further your ventures. By the way: Lift14 unlocked a new record in participants, welcoming over 1100 participants from 35 countries.

Watch All Talks

 

Controversial Debates

More Lift14 videos

Community map

 

Explore more digital traces of the event experience on storify, vine, instagram, live-sketches by Hélène Pouille and typographical quotes by Geoffrey Dorne - and of course the extensive media coverage.
 

Official Lift Pictures

 

Live pictures from participants

 

Lift Format

Lift is carefully crafted to offer a wide range of learning opportunities, hands-on experiences and networking spaces. The Lift Team builds the event around key ingredients to deliver three unique and inspirational days where you learn, make and connect:

LEARN

MAKE
Experience Design
CONNECT
Social Events

 

Meet the Speakers

  • Alexis Lloyd
    Creative Director of The New York Times R&D Lab
  • Bracken Darrell
    President and CEO, reinventing Logitech
  • David Pescovitz
    Co-Editor and Managing Partner at Boing Boing, research director at Institute for the Future
  • Olivier Audemars
    Member of the board of directors of Audemars Piguet, leading a global family business
  • Sean D. Goff
    Teenage Hacker and Maker
All Speakers

Hands-on Workshops

Embodiment, Employment and Labour to 2040 and Beyond

By the collaborative design practice Superflux, London

Impulse Response: a strategic approach to algorithmic encounters

By the New York Times R&D Lab

Privacy & Data Protection conversations

The University of Geneva teams up with BCCC Attorneys-at-Law to lead the discussion

Prototyping the Self

By Alexa Clay, co-author of the Misfit Economy, and her Ladytourage friends

It's A Big Data World

By Anthemis, reinventing financial services through technology

Taste the City

By Bastien Kespern, interaction designer at l'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique

 

All Workshops

Official Partners

Official Sponsors