We have negotiated with Jeju hotels - and especially our official hotel, the Hyatt Regency Jeju - some rooms at a preferred price. These rooms are blocked for Lifters until Friday, which means that it will be harder for you to get a low price after that date.

So if you haven't booked your travel visit Club Jung-Tour. They are our partner travel agency and allow you to make your bookings at the preferred price in a few clicks, both for the plane and the hotel.

On the tickets from Geneva to Seoul front, the ride will now cost you 1040$ with Finnair, really not a bad price knowing I paid an average of 1'500$ for my last six trips to Korea.

For Lift Asia we created a very affordable ticket at 250$ for students, NGOs, and start-ups. Our idea is to keep a high level of diversity in the event, and to allow those who can't necessarily pay more to have access to all the people and ideas of Lift.

One question is coming up quite often from: what do we consider a start-up? So here is the rule for Lift Asia: a start-up is a company that has been in business for less than 3 years and employs less than 20 persons.

If you qualify for this price then grab one of the 52 remaining tickets, they won't be here for long!

^{Funny poster seen in Geneva in 2007}

We are now accepting propositions for the Open Afternoon. I added a page linking to the form and showing the current program in the three open rooms. Take your chance and join Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path who grabbed the first open slot with a presentation called "The Wonderful World of Make Believe".

Visit the Open Afternoon page and speak at Lift!

We are proud to announce that we partnered with one of the best Korean conference: the World Women's Forum! We will collaborate on many aspects like events format, scheduling, promotion, and share speakers ideas and contacts.

The World Women's Forum, hosted by MBC (Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation), the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Ewha Womans University, intends to empower women in Korea and abroad.

I am honored to have been invited to speak at the 2008 edition on the theme of "Building a Diverse and Sustainable future" with speakers like Mia Farrow, Rory Kennedy, the mayor of Seoul, or the minister of higher education of the Philippines.

Do you want to enjoy open communication with Korean web expert in free style? You can join Barcamp Jeju that will be held in the morning of September 4th (09:30~13:30). before main Lift Asia conference. This event is made by Channy Yun, an organizer of Barcamp Seoul has been an annual meeting in Seoul, Korea since 2005.

Its style is famous and popular in Korean community of web experts. Many Korean Lifters will be joined. Although its official language will be Korean, but you can talk with good participants in english too. It has 12 presentation slots with 15 minutes and lunch also will be offered in final session before door open of Lift.

Don't miss such an opportunity to meet Korean web experts! If you want to join this event, please refer to Barcamp Jeju(mostly Korean) and send e-mail to channy@liftconference.com.

We had a small problem on our registration website this past week-end and some of you could not get your tickets. Sorry about that, everything is fixed and back to normal on amiando.com/lift-asia-08!

Lift Asia experience curator Sey Min published a short explanation of the concept she will develop during the conference in Jeju Island:

We all live different lives: we come from different backgrounds and cultures — different life experiences. Our lives and relationships have had a big transition due to the rapid development in technology, and they are still revolving. One of the obstacles human beings MUST get though is how to communicate with each other when we all come from different backgrounds and have different perspectives. Each one of us is very special and unique—not only physically, but also in spirit.

In this new digital era, how does technology help us get closer to each other?

What does “getting closer” mean to us now?

How do human beings keep each other company without losing connection?

The project “Bonding Company” is an experimental showcase for the ‘opening, sharing, sparkling, and expanding’ in communication.

Read more on the Lift experience page!

With the recent additions to the event (Friday's Swiss lunch, Nabi Art Center partnership, etc..) we had to completely rewrite the program page and the new and detailed version is now up. Check it out for the latest schedule, and for more info on the (really cool) social events we are preparing.

We are happy to announce that Presence Switzerland will partner with Lift Asia. Presence Switzerland is an official body of the Swiss Confederation promoting the worldwide dissemination of general knowledge about Switzerland. They will support us in bringing the "swiss touch" to the Lifters in Korea ;) Thank you very much for that Presence Switzerland!

As Lift Asia will be both in English and Korean we wanted to translate the site's most important pages to Korean, and Channy Yun - who is one of the key members of the team in Asia - took the challenge and created a korean version of the site.

So if you speak Korean check the 프로그램, read the 참가 방법 if you need help with hotels and planes, and don't forget to 사전 등록!