The first Lift10 workshops are in, and we have high quality speakers to share their knowledge with the audience:

Business Model Innovation for Start-ups, Corporations and Social Entrepreneurs

Alexander Osterwalder
In this workshop you will learn how to systematically develop innovative business models. The workshop is based on Business Model Generation, a new book developed with 470 business model innovation practitioners around the world. We will allow participants to start “practicing” the design of a business model during the workshop in a breakout session.

Surviving the crash: With preparation and backup

Alexander Finger
Do you remember Journalspace? Journalspace was an online community which died within a few seconds. The tale is that a disgruntled employee ensured that the databases were swiped out, that there was no backup and that that was the end of it.
In this workshop I'll give you some practical ideas about how to secure your applications and data, what to back up, how, and if the time allows it I'll show a real-world example of server backup using Amazon's S3 service and how to design your own safety net.

Travel 2.0

Matthias Luefkens
Is there a future for the printed travel guide? Lonely Planet, Rough Guide or Let's Go, the iconic backpackers accessory of the 1980s and 90s backpackers is about to be replaced by the smartphone. Will the Iphone replace the printed guidebooks? Google Goggles, Wiki Travel, Tripadvisor what are tomorrow's sources for travel information? Will Twitpic replace traditional postcards?

Workshops promise to once again be one of the most celebrated form of presentation at Lift. We have qualitative and diverse content, just like in 2008 and 2009. To propose a workshop login and click here.

Here is a post by Tristan Nitot recaping his workshop at Lift. See the original post here.

I was invited to hold a workshop at Lift France '09 which title was What's wrong with the Web. It looked like the topic was interesting, because it was the first workshop to reach the fully-booked status (with 25 seats) and we ended up with twice as many people in the workshop that we wanted! No doubt, LIFT participants – just like me – do think there are things to improve on the Web. I started the session with a brainstorm on sticky notes with the whole audience. We tried to put on the notes keywords describing what one considers as an issue with the Web (and more generally the Internet). We quickly ended up with hundreds of thee notes, posted on the wall. I asked Charles Nepote (FING member and LIFT co-organizer) to help with by categorizing the notes in order to list the top issues. Here they are, in no particular order:

• Identity management
• Universal access
• Too much centralization of services
• Off-line
• Security
• Privacy & big brother
• Business
• Content

Workshop "what's wrong with the Web?"

Then we discussed most of them, trying to identify the sub-issues and potential solutions. Here are the notes I took on the whiteboards^[1]:

If you are coming to Marseille next week, please register for the workshops and discussions you would like to attend. It takes only 1 minute and is really helpful for the moderators and participants of those events!

Beside team communications, this blog features posts written by community members. If you have a Lift account you can also share your thoughts and ideas by clicking here. Here is a post introducing in more details the Lift France workshop titled Managing ourself with art

[Version française ci-dessous]

How many times have you read, heard and pronounced the word "crisis" today?

These financial crises, economic, political, social as we are experiencing, affect all our businesses. But we often forget that the word "crisis" comes from the Greek "κρισισ" (krisis) that means decision. It therefore requires decisions and actions. The crisis is an unusual situation characterized by instability, which obliges us to adopt a new attitude, like an artist who continually calls into questions the existing.

In this context, I invite you to continue to have ideas, to innovate and undertake, to have self confidence and see this crisis in its positive aspects, such as a real opportunity for renewal, with the resources that are in us.

Count and identify these crises and we will talk about them at the workshop that I will run next Thursday, June 18th:

Combien de fois avez-vous lu, entendu et prononcé le mot "Crise" aujourd’hui?

We have now closed propositions for both workshops and open stage. Thanks to those who took time to submit a proposal, we received more than 20 quality submissions and will announce the final program next Monday.

If you want to lead a discussion you can still make a proposition, it is the last part of the program that is still open so take the opportunity!

We have now received 12 workshops propositions for Lift France and propositions are now closed. Please review all submissions and register for the presentations you would like to attend. Attendance is only possible if you are a Lift France 09 registered participant.

Visit the Lift France workshops page for more information.

The Open Program propositions are now open for Lift France.

Do you want to hold a workshop? Do you want to present in the open stage? Want to discuss with the community during a birds of a feather session? Make your propositions now!

More content: 6 workshops have been captured by Klewel. Here are the videos complete with slides and search. These will also be published on our video system but at a later date.

Six of the 21 LIFT workshops will be be captured by Klewel and published online on klewel.com/lift09.

• I remember voting for the first time at the age of 16 in 2025 by Jean-Henry Morin
• Web 3.0 round table - A techo-philosophical debate by Philipp Egli
• Lifestream - Visualizing my data by Jan-Christoph Zoels
• KashKlash: the Game! by Heather Moore
• Coworking Space, Home, Traditional Workspace, … ? Where will you work tomorrow ? by Pierre Belcari
• Dreamer’s Corner: Founding a New, Tech-based and Crisis-‘enwisened’ Economical Space? by Tim Anglade

More info on Klewel's blog.

The program of workshops is now 99% final. We only have one slot available at 13:45, and if I am insisting that much on this it is because if we get the final proposition before tonight, we will be able to add all workshops to the printed program.

Propose a workshop!