Conference theme: "dot.Real"

Webify the real world!

This year Lift France with Fing gathered 560 participants and explored how the technologies and concepts of the web are changing the real world today and in the future. For the last 20 years, networked technologies have redistributed the power of imagining, evaluating, and acting. No frontier has remained fixed. No longer the world's factory, Asia has become a major source of innovation. Consumers have also become producers. The divisions between industries or disciplines are being redefined.
This change extends far beyond the digital. It transforms manufacturing, learning, cities, public policy, perhaps even our own minds… The Web changes the world – But to what extent? With what limitations? How can it reach its full potential?

The conference hosted sessions on:
"Web Squared", Making Sense of the World through Shared Data;
"Fab Labs", Reinventing Industry;
"People Hacks", Distributing Control and Knowledge;
"Privacy Revisited, Protect and Project".

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Exchange on our Lift France 10 page on Facebook

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Speakers

Yan Moulier Boutang (France) Philosopher and economist Multitude	Haakon Karlsen (Norway) Fab Labs Foundation	Amit Zoran (Israel) MIT - Smart Cities Lab	Michael Cross (UK) The Guardian / FreeOurData.org
Alma Whitten (USA) Google's privacy engineering lead	Anders Sandberg (Sweden) Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University	Stefana Broadbent (United Kingdom) Digital anthropologist	Sam Pitroda, India Advisor to the Prime Minister, thinker, telecom inventor and entrepreneur

See the full speakers roster. At Lift the audience manages half of the conference, check the open program.

Participant takeaways

• Innovation watch, find out what the most important technological and innovation trends of the moment are. We all lead very busy lives, so let Lift bring you up to speed in three days.
• Networking, meet emerging doers and thinkers, those who are reinventing their field and will be the leaders of the future.
• Knowledge sharing on the realities and myths of online behavior, essential to anybody interacting with the connected citizens of the 21st century.
• Inspiration, Lift will expose you to unexpected ideas and people from all over the globe. Incorporate them into your daily life to spark new breakthroughs for your projects.

See the registered participants.

Also: hands-on workshops, art installations, prototype demos, startup zone, etc

Lift plays host to thirty workshops organized by our community that will address important technological and innovation issues in a hands-on, in-depth way. The Lift experience will display the work of artists and innovators in a dynamic networking space. See the most talented Swiss entrepreneurs introduce their products and services in the Alp ICT Startup Corner.

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