Lift is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn innovation into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meet the people who drive them.

What can the future do for you?

Lift is about answering that fundamental question. What are the opportunities created by innovation? What technology will force a reinvention of your business model? What usage - spotted on the other side of the planet - could be relevant to your clients and organization?

In a world that changes at an unprecedented pace, we help you stay in touch with the most important people and ideas, those that will impact your life and work in the coming one to three years.

Lift will reveal those shifts before they happen, so you can anticipate, and turn change into opportunity.

Join us!

Joining the Lift community is free, and will allow you to share your ideas and connect with our 4000+ members. Attending our conferences requires a separate registration, refer to the homepage of the event you want to attend to find more information. You can find a list of upcoming events here.

Lift videos

Hundreds of talks have been given over the years, most of them captured and freely available on the web in English, French, or Korean. » Lift videos.

Featured talk: Gunter Pauli on biomimetism

Writer and entrepreneur Gunter Pauli explains how biomimetism can help us solve some of our planets most important problems. Nature has millions of years of wisdom to offer, can we finally listen?

Featured talk: Carlo Ratti on the senseable city

MIT's Carlo Ratti talks about the senseable city, a place where networks of communicating objects and people create new layers of information changing the perception and possibilities of the place where more than half of humanity now lives.

Featured talk: Vint Cerf on the past and future of the internet

"Father of the internet" Vint Cerf shares his vision on the future of the network he helped build from the ground up in the 1970s. This talk is also available in English.