Featured Events
Welcome! Since 2006 Lift explores the business and social implications of digital innovation through international events and open innovation programs, in Europe and Asia. Our mission is to support organizations and individuals to turn innovation into opportunities. To make innovation happen.
Projects Portfolio
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Curation & Co-Production
For The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Presence Switzerland.Lift curated the Swiss-Korean Innovation Night in Seoul. The project was part of the event series “Swiss Weeks in Seoul” commemorating and celebrating the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and Switzerland. Lift brought together Swiss innovators and their Korean peers, up-and-coming leaders, artists, researchers and young professionals, to explore prototypes and witness exclusive demos of state-of-the-art projects.
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Open Innovation Workshop
For Allianz SE.Allianz commissioned Lift for two open innovation projects: a co-creation workshop in Geneva on “How to leverage Open Data for Allianz” and a second workshop in Berlin about the “Future of Mobile”. Lift organized the workshops and put together an international panel of early adopters and experts to co-create ideas together with Allianz team members. Both workshops contributed significantly to the Allianz Digital Labs initiative.
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Open Innovation Project
For The City of Geneva, Swisscom.In coproduction with InteractiveThings.This project is an artistic visualization of digital traces created by the mobile phones of the city's population. These 'digital traces' offer new insights on the urban environment in Geneva that are of great interest from both an economic and political perspective. Lift was responsible for the global coordination of the project and organized a co-creation workshop on data visualization and its impact. Ville Vivante was featured at the ITU museum in Geneva, Future en Seine Festival in Paris, Ars Electronica and Bejing Design Week.
www.villevivante.ch/
Talks
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Vinton Cerf, Vice President Google, Internet Evangelist: "From the Jurassic Era of the Internet to its Futures" (FR)
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Lucie Green, Solar Researcher: "Researching and studying the sun"
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Alex Osterwalder, Business Model Innovator: "A new approach to designing business models"
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James Bridle, Writer, Publisher and Artist: "We fell in love in a coded space"
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Don Tapscott, Chairman of the think tank Moxie Insight: "MacroWikinomics"
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Kevin Slavin, Co-Founder and CCO of Starling: "Those algorithms that govern our lives"
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Sean Park, Founding Investor Anthemis Group: "Reinventing finance, one startup at a time"
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Mark Suppes, Entrepreneur, Technologist, Coder, Creative: "Open Source Nuclear Fusion"
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Hojun Song, Artist: "The Open Source Satellite Initiative"