Lift Conference 2013

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Engaging formats

Interactive Workshops

Disruptive Start-ups

Inspiring Talks

Speed Dating

Experience Exhibition

Röstigraben Express

Hot Topics

Resilience and Resistance

What methods and mindsets help us embrace our present realm of VUCA - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity?

The Agile Enterprise

Learn how businesses stay lean and nimble in the face of accelerating innovation cycles.

Innovation Drivers XXX

In the true Lift spirit of cross-pollination, what can we learn from the strongest creative industry nobody talks about: adult entertainment.

Reinventing the Crafts - the Future of Jobs Traditions

Discover how leading businesses mix old skills and traditional values with new technologies and contemporary esthetics to become proudly artisanal and globally scalable.

Noise and Speed - Loose Breaks and Failing Filters

Mails, tweets, sounds, images, we are experiencing an age of content explosion and a crisis of relevance. How can we cope without shutting our eyes and ears and inboxes?

Democracy in Distress – Re-engineering Participation

How can democracy survive and develop in an age of global networks and ongoing acceleration?

Fabulous Speakers

Abhijit Bhaduri

Chief Learning Officer, Wipro Ltd
Caroline Drucker

Country Manager at Etsy Germany
Daniel Freitag

Co-founder and Creative Director FREITAG
Dave Gray

VP Strategy Dachis Group, Author of Gamestorming
Kate Darling

IP Research Specialist MIT Media Lab

All Speakers

" It is the place to get new fresh ideas, get inspired and meet interesting new people you wouldn’t normally meet. "

Urs Bucher, Head of Online Properties, KPMG Europe

" LIFT - where you learn something new every day. "

WIRED blogs

" [...] some insanely interesting ideas also came out of the LIFT conference held early last week in Geneva. "

BusinessWeek

" There are creative people everywhere! "

David Rowan, Editor, Wired UK

" The LIFT Conference in Geneva, has been steadily climbing the ranks of the elite [...] "

The Journal

" It’s one of the best environment in Geneva: it’s bubbly, it’s lively, it’s international, it’s today with a look for the future. "

Dannie Ivanova, Consumer Goods & Services, Accenture AG

" I’m leaving here, feeling just as the name Lift says: I’m lifted up! "

Robert D. Fresh, Copy Writer, Emakina Switzerland

" Lift for me is a bit like putting back bubbles in champagne. "

Maximilian Büsser, Owner & Creative Director, MB&F

" For me Lift is how you can put some of these ideas together to make a greater whole. "

Simon Wellard, Information Product Manager, Thomson-Reuters

" The one thing about Lift is everybody has a great story. Beautiful people, great content and a great atmosphere. "

Marcel Kampman, Creative Director, Picnic

" A place where I can find new ideas, understand new trends in innovation and usages. An occasion during the working year to stop and think. "

" This is when I realise that the conference I'm at now, Lift, has been programmed with real genius. "

Wired UK

the Lift Conference

Feb. 6-8 2013 – CICG, Geneva, Switzerland