Meet the Speakers

the Lift Conference

Feb. 5-7 2014 – CICG, Geneva, Switzerland

Meet the Speakers

  • Alexa Clay
    Co-author of The Misfit Economy, exploring underground, black market and informal innovation
  • Alexis Lloyd
    Creative Director of The New York Times R&D Lab
  • Arnaud Bertrand
    Founder & CEO of HouseTrip, one of the world's leading holiday rental websites
  • Bracken Darrell
    President and CEO, reinventing Logitech
  • Che Wagner
    Political activist planning to unleash entrepreneurial spirit by ensuring unconditional income for all
  • Dan Williams
    "Hacker" making things to playfully explore technology
  • David Pescovitz
    Co-Editor and Managing Partner at Boing Boing, research director at Institute for the Future
  • Fabio Gramazio
    World-class architect using robots to re-connect architects to how buildings get built
  • Frederic Kaplan
    Professor in Digital Humanities at EPFL Lausanne
  • Hans Raffauf
    First-generation family business founder, agitator of Berlin's start-up scene
  • Ian Bogost
    Leading scholar of videogames and award-winning game designer
  • Isaac Nii Noi Nortey
    Co-Founder of RetailTower in Ghana
  • Jerry Michalski
    Founder of the Relationship Economy eXpedition (REX)
  • Joanne McNeil
    Writer exploring how technology is shaping art, literature, and society.
  • Joel Serra
    Eatwith.com Country Manager Spain, changing the way people travel and eat
  • Juval Dieziger
    Chief Emotional Officer of Berlin's most exciting urban project, co-founder Bar 25
  • Lia Giraud
    French plastic artist, "growing" pictures with algae
  • Mario Husten
    Chairman of the Holzmarkt cooperative, making sustainable urban development happen in Berlin
  • Mark Post
    Professor at Maastricht University, Maker of the World's First In-Vitro Burger
  • Narkis Alon
    Serial social entrepreneur from Tel Aviv, Co-Founder of Elevation.
  • Olivier Audemars
    Member of the board of directors of Audemars Piguet, leading a global family business
  • Open Stage: Anais Rassat
    Science communicator, exploring the dark universe
  • Open Stage: Andres Colmenares
    Imperfect future strategist, co-founder of wabi-sabi lab
  • Open stage: David Fauchier
    Product Designer at Yoyo
  • Open Stage: José Achache
    Managing Director of AP-Swiss, a joint undertaking by the European Space Agency, and the Swiss Space Office
  • Open Stage: Philippe Méda
    Specialist in Business Model Innovation and Disruption
  • Philippe Silberzahn
    Professor debunking the myths of entrepreneurship and innovation
  • Porter Erisman
    Movie director, ex-VP alibaba.com telling the story of a westerner inside China's alibaba.com
  • Ramia Marielle El Agamy
    Editor-in-Chief of Tharawat Magazine, a global publication for family businesses
  • Scott Smith
    Critical futurist, founder of Changeist
  • Sean D. Goff
    Teenage Hacker and Maker
  • Thomas Landrain
    Co-founder of One of the World's Largest Do-it-yourself Biology Labs