Lift is an open conference whose success depends in a large part on people's contributions. As a member of the community, there is a large number of things you can do to get involved in an active way. Here are the possibilities that are available:

Jump to:
• Lift at home, the program we launched to encourage community events
• Speak, as in hitting the stage!
• Share, pass your ideas to the community, and contribute to the conference remotely.
• Support Lift, get actively involved in making the events happen.
• Suggest a theme or a speaker.
• Follow & cover, subscribe to Lift and ask for a press pass.

Lift at home

• Organize a community Lift

At Lift we have considerably extended our community in the past years, adding social features to our site, launching a conference in Korea, one in France. Lifters are all around the globe, living in different locations, sharing a common envy to meet, brainstorm, share and explore. After several meet ups happened (in Zurich, Toronto, Lausanne) we decided to encourage these gatherings, to structure and promote them. Here comes Lift at Home!

Speak

• Suggest yourself as a speaker

Don't hesitate to ping us with an idea for a speech. Please keep the following in mind:
- we love great ideas and untold stories, if nobody has ever seen your speech it is a big plus
- we like unusual, funny and surprising talks
- each event has a theme, and you have more chance to be speaking if your talk fits it
- make sure you agree to our speakers policy. The most important rule is the no pitch no self-promotion rule.
- we get hundreds of suggestions and only have around 25 slots per edition, so don't feel bad if your idea is not accepted. We keep all suggestions into our database so you might get a call from us at a later date.

• Speak in the open program

Half of the program of each Lift is managed by the community. Are you attending one of the conferences? Go to the homepage, and click on "Open Program", all the currently available options will be there. Check past Open Programs for inspiration: lift09, Lift France 09, Lift08

Share

• Post to the Lift blog

As a member of the LIFT community, you can freely write on the "community blog" to tell us about an idea or person you found interesting, point to an article you wrote, or tell us about an event we shouldn't miss. This is your space, feel free to use it!

• Tell us how Lift changed your life!

Did you start your company or have an idea that changed your life at Lift? Please tell us what happened! Lift's impact happens over the years, and we love to hear your stories that motivate us to the highest point!

• Coming soon

Translate or transcript a talk, contribute without attending.

Support

• Volunteer for a conference

We welcome a large number of volunteers for each event! You will see how the conference is organized, meet cool people, and you can even see a few sessions!

• Partner with Lift

We offer visibility, connections and ideas in exchange for support to our events. Organizations like the European Commission, Mozilla, IEC WattWatt, HP, Microsoft, Alcatel Lucent, Orange, EPFL, City and Canton of Geneva, RATP, Bouygues Telecom and Alpict are among the partners of Lift.

• Coming soon

Host a Lifter during one of the conferences.

Suggest

• Suggest a speaker

We like to rely on the LIFT community to do an as exhaustive as possible trend-watch. Use the Suggestion form to tell us about a great speaker you saw, an amazing book you read, a theme you think we should be talking about. All suggestions are then used to build the events' programmes.

Don't forget to look at previous suggestions for inspiration.

Follow & cover

• Subscribe to Lift

You can follow Lift in a number of ways:
• get the latest news by email or RSS.
• get the videos of the talks by email or RSS
• Lift on Facebook
• Lift on LinkedIn
• Lift on Friendfeed.
• Lift on Flickr.

• Cover the conference

If you are a blogger or journalist, ask for a free pass to attend the conference!