^{Russell Davies on the Lift10 stage. Photo by Ivo Näpflin.}

The Lift conferences are built around a central question: What can the future do for you?. What are the current opportunities created by innovation? What usages observed on the other side of the planet could inspire the development of new services in your context? What are the ideas that will disrupt and shape tomorrow's society?

In a world changing at an unprecedented pace, Lift11 will help you stay in touch with the most important people and ideas, those that will impact us in the coming one to three years.

Lift11 topics and sessions

• Touchpoints: from Facebook to FourSquare: how social networks are integrating mobile and geolocalization.
• What's up in Asia? Social media, gaming and communications from the continent that represents 42% of internet users.
• Transactions: New forms of currencies, monetizing privacy and reputation.
• Pervasive gaming: What happens when gaming becomes pervasive.
• Connected everywhere: Connected objects and urban technologies.
• Future corporations: The new organizations and jobs.
• Creative thinking: The best ideas from various fields and cultures.
• Stories and new frontiers: Our traditional session dedicated to inspiring stories from people with extraordinary projects and lives.

New in 2011

Based on your precious feedback in the Lift10 survey and on the design research conducted by frog design, we are working on the following:

• Feedback and interaction system. More interactivity, an improved feedback system to allow for better interaction with speakers.
• Parallel tracks by theme. We will prepare parallel tracks of keynote speeches and workshops. Choose to explore the theme of your choice. The working titles for the three tracks are currently Technology, Creativity and Business. Each track will offer a mix of keynote speeches, workshops and discussions.
• Co-creation Workshops: following the success of the Lift10 workshops, we will expand and develop our offering at Lift11. Besides the community based workshops, there will be focus workshops (with a call for papers on a specific topic) and co-creation workshops. We will offer comprehensive coaching to all workshop organizers, and the formats will be labeled more clearly (lecture, demo, co-creation) to allow you to chose the format or activity level you prefer.
• New formats, entertaining presentations and varied sessions. Lift11 will feature fireside chats with emerging thinkers and doers, live interviews on stage based on audience questions, the traditional 20 minutes expert keynotes, short community talks (open stage), demos and playful performances.

Of course we will keep the Lift classics such as the fondue, long breaks and the unique, diverse, and inspirational mix of participants and speakers.

Tickets: unbundled and viral!

This year we unbundled the participation fee and logistics in the pricing to offer you more flexibility.

• With the unbundled price model we aim to sustain the diversity in our audience by keeping the ticket price as accessible as possiblem and offer you the flexibility to buy just what you need
• The price for the complete Lift package including 2.5 days with lunches, cocktails and the fondue stays basically the same - except we have to add the Swiss VAT (7.6%) this year.
• Big news: we will be selling daily tickets for thursday and friday as of Oct 1st
• Last but not least we have included a viral ticket option which allows you to get your ticket for less (or free!) by promoting Lift to your network.

Registration is now open

You can get your ticket immediately and print it at home. To the Lift11 tickets shop.