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Featured video

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?

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.

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.


All the talks

Talk titlesort iconSpeakerEvent
Considering how digital culture enables a multiplicity of knowledges (FR)Ramesh Srinivasan lift09
17 months and 14'000 km away from technologySarah Marquis lift-asia-08
A look at 2008, the "boring" year aheadBruce Sterling lift08
Another kind of online surveyDaniel Kaplan lift09
Architecture for a denser world (KO)Yoo Suk Yeon lift-asia-07
ArimazPierre Bureau lift-asia-08
Art & RFID? (FR)Nicolas Frespech lift-france-09
Bankers can be bloggers too...Colin Henderson lift07
Best of Lift Asia 08lift-asia-08
Beyond roboticsFrederic Kaplan lift07
Beyond the BrowserLaurent Haug lift-asia-08
Beyond the BrowserJaewoong Lee lift-asia-08
Blowing the Web apartIvan Pope lift07
Bringing a robot to every homeTomoaki Kasuga lift-asia-08
Building online worlds (KO)lift-asia-07
Building online worlds (KO)Jake Song lift-asia-07
Cameroon : Lies, mariage and the Internet (FR)Baba Wamé lift09
Casual gamingGuy Vardi lift08
CERN's 27km Big Bang machineBrian Cox lift07
Changing InnovationCatherine Fieschi lift-france-09
Changing InnovationMarc Giget lift-france-09
Changing InnovationEuan Semple lift-france-09
Changing InnovationMarcos García lift-france-09
Changing InnovationMartin Duval lift-france-09
Changing Innovation (2) – Innovating with the non-innovatorsDouglas Repetto lift-france-09
Changing ourselves, not the PlanetDennis Pamlin lift-france-09
Changing the PlanetFrank Kresin lift-france-09
Changing the PlanetElizabeth Goodman lift-france-09
Changing ThingsBruce Sterling lift-france-09
Changing ThingsMichael Shiloh lift-france-09
Changing ThingsUsman Haque lift-france-09
Changing ThingsMike Kuniavsky lift-france-09
Changing ThingsAlexandra Deschamps-Sonsino lift-france-09
ClipperzMarco Barulli lift08
Co-creationChris Lawer lift06
CoCommentKhaled Bazzi lift08
Collective Intelligence and creativityJaewoong Lee lift07
Collective Intelligence inside the enterpriseLee Bryant lift07
Communication technologies and new forms of social interactionLara Srivastava lift07
Conditional FutureJean-Michel Cornu lift-france-09
Conditional FutureRob Van Kranenburg lift-france-09
Considering how digital culture enables a multiplicity of knowledgesRamesh Srinivasan lift09
Consumerism vs. ActivismDavid Galipeau lift06
Contemporary space(s)Christophe Guignard lift07
Converting visitors into buyersDavid Sadigh lift08
Creative communitiesRoh Soh Yeong lift09
Creative communities (FR)Roh Soh Yeong lift09
Daniel Kaplan Lift France 09 interviewDaniel Kaplan lift-france-09
Design and sustainabilityJohn Thackara lift-france-09
Design Provocations (FR)Clive Van Heerden lift09
Design ThinkingFabio Sergio lift09
Design Thinking (FR)Fabio Sergio lift09
Digital Rights ManagementCory Doctorow lift06
Do biologists dream of robotic art?France Cadet lift07
Do biologists dream of robotic art?Régine Debatty lift07
Embracing the real world's messinessFabien Girardin lift07
Enabling Emergent InnovationMarkus Peschl lift08
Enabling Emergent InnovationThomas Fundneider lift08
Enchanted Objects (FR)David Rose lift09
Enchanted Objects - How fiction foreshadows innovationDavid Rose lift09
Enjoy the chaosHenriette lift08
Entrepreneur - a messy mindBernino Lind lift07
Everyware: Further down the rabbit holeAdam Greenfield lift07
Evolution of the mobile communication ecosystemFrancesco Cara lift08
Fast, Cheap, and Out of ControlNathan Eagle lift07
Foresight and InnovationBill Cockayne lift08
Foresight tools and perspectivesScott Smith lift08
From distributed computing to distributed thinkingFrançois Grey lift08
From Nespresso to Monodor, the story of an inventorEric Favre lift08
From Political Protest to Social InterventionIlpyo Hong lift-asia-08
From Robota to Homo RobotusBruno Bonnell lift-asia-08
From the Jurassic EraVint Cerf lift09
From the Jurassic Era of the Internet to its Futures (FR)Vint Cerf lift09
Generative and Future Open (FR)Tristan Nitot lift-france-09
Getting from here to there: ethnography, design, privacy, and locationPaul Dourish lift08
Global MicrobrandsHugh Macleod lift06
Globalism, Mobiles, & The CloudJuliana Rotich lift09
Globalism, Mobiles, and The Cloud (FR)Juliana Rotich lift09
Going virtual in proportion to being actualSister Judith Zoebelein lift07
Google Open SocialKevin Marks lift08
Gunter Pauli Lift France 09 interviewGunter Pauli lift-france-09
Gunter Pauli on Biomimetism Gunter Pauli lift-france-09
Hardcore nonsense, the story of a Serbian bloggerJasmina Tesanovic lift08
HolistisCyril Lamblard lift08
How innovative projects can transform educationKushtrim Xhakli lift08
How social networks changed everyday lifeHeewon Kim lift08
How the Web was Born (FR)James Gillies lift09
How to make Innovation a sustained reality?Catherine Simon lift07
Implant technology to enhance human abilitiesKevin Warwick lift08
In-Flexions, Non-Standard Design (FR)lift-france-09
Industrial Ecology - the future of hyperindustrial economySuren Erkman lift07
Industrial Products And UbiquityBruce Sterling lift-asia-07
Initial and necessary challenge: "Technology & Society: Know your History!"Dominique Pestre lift-france-09
Innovation VS product lifecycleClement Charles lift09
Innovation VS product lifecycle (FR)Clement Charles lift09
Interactive CitiesJeffrey Huang lift-asia-08
Internet and the ordinary people's revolutionXavier Comtesse lift06
Internet in societyBruno Giussani lift06
Introducing Going-soloStephanie Booth lift08
iOAlessandro Valli lift08
Is it a cashless future?David Birch lift-asia-08
Is there such a thing as Government 2.0?Olivier Glassey lift09
Is there such a thing as Government 2.0? (FR)Olivier Glassey lift09
Jumping jack flash - New forms of interactionsJan-Christoph Zoels lift07
Key lemonGilles Florey lift-asia-08
Knowledge ownershipDannie Jost lift07
Learning to play with TomorrowAnab Jain lift09
Learning to play with Tomorrow (FR)Anab Jain lift09
Let ALL things be connectedRafi Haladjian lift08
Lifestyle ExperimentsNatalie Jeremijenko lift09
Lifestyle Experiments (FR)Natalie Jeremijenko lift09
LIFT Evening Seoul 2007 press releaselift-asia-07
LIFT Experience 2008lift08
LIFT takeaways (FR)Philippe Lemoine lift-france-09
LIFT07 conference wrap-upDaniel Kaplan lift07
LIFT07 overviewTristan Pfund lift07
LIFT08 wrap upBill Cockayne lift08
Lift09 introductionLaurent Haug lift09
Lift09 introduction (FR)Laurent Haug lift09
LiftCast interviewJongsoo Yun lift-asia-09
LiftCast interviewRichard Min lift-asia-09
LiftCast interviewJean-Henry Morin lift-asia-09
LiftCast interviewHojun Song lift-asia-09
LiftCast interview Grégoire Furrer (FR)Gregoire Furrer lift-asia-09
LiftCast interview Ida Daussy (FR)Ida Daussy lift-asia-09
LiftCast interview Olivier Mouroux (FR)Olivier Mouroux lift-asia-09
LiftCast interview Rafi Haladjian (FR)Rafi Haladjian lift-asia-09
Literacy, Communication & DesignJan Chipchase lift07
Living CityYang Soo-In lift-asia-08
Massaging the mediumEllen Wallace lift07
Media 2.0Pierre Chappaz lift07
Media art: making it or faking it?Régine Debatty lift06
Memoires of a magnificent futurePatrick J. Gyger lift09
Memoires of a magnificent future (FR)Patrick J. Gyger lift09
MetromanticsFrank Beau lift09
MixinNicolas Dengler lift08
MMO's, movies, las vegas, and golfPaul Barnett lift08
Mobile in AsiaMarc Laperrouza lift08
Mobiles and the urban poorBruce Sterling lift-asia-08
Monetization of the mobile InternetDavid Marcus lift08
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet's takeaways Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet lift-france-09
Nicolas Anderlé Lift France 09 interview (FR)Nicolas Enderle lift-france-09
Nine trends shaping the future of social interactionsJan Chipchase lift-asia-08
Open-ended play in Habbo HotelSampo Karjalainen lift07
Open-source in AsiaGen Kanai lift08
Outdoctrination: Society, Children, Technology and Self Organisation in EducationSugata Mitra lift07
Panel discussion: Facing the digital divide - Bringing it homeSugata Mitra lift07
Panel discussion: Facing the digital divide - Bringing it homePukul Rana lift07
Panel discussion: Facing the digital divide - Bringing it homeNathan Eagle lift07
Panel discussion: Facing the digital divide - Bringing it homeLara Srivastava lift07
Panel discussion: Technological overloadStefana Broadbent lift07
Panel discussion: Technological overloadFred Mast lift07
Panel discussion: Technological overloadNada Kakabadse lift07
Panel discussion: The Economics of creationZhang Ga lift07
Panel discussion: The Economics of creationRodrigo Sepulveda Schulz lift07
Panel discussion: The Economics of creationPatrick Chappatte lift07
Panel discussion: The Economics of creationJohn Buckman lift07
Panel: User/Citizen centered societyBeth Krasna lift07
Panel: User/Citizen centered societyDerek Powasek lift07
Panel: User/Citizen centered societyRobert Scoble lift07
Panel: User/Citizen centered societyThierry Crouzet lift07
Participating in the new business conversationRobert Scoble lift06
PixeluxRaphael Arrigoni lift08
Play and mobilityMatt Jones lift06
Reinventing the personal computer (FR)Frederic Kaplan lift09
RFID and Security (FR)Melanie Rieback lift09
Rich data visualizationEric Rodenbeck lift-asia-08
Robotics in the leisure industryBruno Bonnell lift08
Robots don't have to look like robotsFrederic Kaplan lift-asia-08
Sarah Marquis' adventures (FR)Sarah Marquis lift09
Scientific fictionMatt Webb lift09
Scientific fiction (FR)Matt Webb lift09
Secrets, lies & the possible perils of truthful technologyGenevieve Bell lift08
Secu4Rimet Ralph lift-asia-08
Sensor Networks: from the lab to the supermarket?Jacques Panchard lift07
Social = Me FirstStowe Boyd lift07
Social media creates open educationEwan McIntosh lift08
Sociogeek (FR)Daniel Kaplan lift09
Soft Infrastructure SuperpowersDan Hill lift09
Soft Infrastructure Superpowers (FR)Dan Hill lift09
Space Solar PowerGuy Pignolet lift08
Spimes and the future of artifactsBruce Sterling lift06
Sustainability and mobile phone designRaphael Grignani lift-asia-08
The Dan Dubno's gadget showDan Dubno lift-asia-08
The digital nomadsChristian Lindholm lift-asia-08
The Estonian CyberwarBruce Sterling lift-asia-07
The Future of FakeJörg Jelden lift09
The Future of Fake (FR)Jörg Jelden lift09
The Future of Social MediaChang Kim lift09
The Future of Social WorldJoonmo Kwon lift-asia-08
The Hedonistic CompanyHolm Friebe lift08
The Hedonistic CompanyPhilipp Albers lift08
The importance of social networking and conversationsMatthew Colebourne lift08
The long here, the big nowAdam Greenfield lift-asia-08
The luck of sevenNoel Hidalgo lift08
The Luminous Bath: our new volumetric mediumBen Cerveny lift07
The Modern Age of GamingRobin Hunicke lift08
The Mozilla ProjectChris Hofmann lift09
The Mozilla Project (FR)Chris Hofmann lift09
The Next NatureMieke Gerritzen lift08
The read/write cityAdam Greenfield lift-asia-07
The Recurring Failure of Holy GrailsNicolas Nova lift09
The role of design in sustainable developmentOriol Pascual lift09
The role of design in sustainable development (FR)Oriol Pascual lift09
The Sensable CityCarlo Ratti lift09
The Sensable City (FR)Carlo Ratti lift09
The social network of the futurePierre Bellanger lift08
The Twentieth Century was wrongLee Bryant lift09
The Twentieth Century was wrong (FR)Lee Bryant lift09
The V*** projectFranz Groff lift06
Timelapse video: Lift08 afternoon breaklift08
Timelapse video: Lift08 breaklift08
Timo Arnall: "Making Things Visible"Timo Arnall lift-france-09
Towards a society of cyborgs?Daniela Cerqui lift07
Trying to implement enterprise collaboration?Stephane Cheikh lift07
UNESCO to supervise Google Index?Pierre Mounier lift-france-09
Upcoming trends in mobile servicesTaskeshi Natsuno lift-asia-08
Update on Wikimedia FoundationFlorence Devouard lift09
Update on Wikimedia Foundation (FR)Florence Devouard lift09
Urban mobile multiplayer gamingJury Hahn lift-asia-08
Urban Mobs (FR)Stéphane Distinguin lift09
Urban Mobs: How to visualize the cell phone activity in cities?Stéphane Distinguin lift09
Using social software to encourage sustainable developmentTom Taylor lift08
ViewdleLaurent Gil lift08
Viktoria Trosien Lift France 09 interviewViktoria Trosien lift-france-09
Virtual environments and social justiceJonathan Cabiria lift08
WattWattBill Thompson lift08
WattWattPhilippa Martin-King lift08
Web2.0 mashups and human rightslift06
What can we learn by inviting people to be designers?Younghee Jung lift08
What is the climate of the 21st century going to be like?Andy Reisinger lift08
What kind of Humanity do we want?Paola Ghillani lift07
What role can designers playJames Auger lift09
What role can designers play? (FR)James Auger lift09
When 1st Life Meets 2nd LifeJulian Bleecker lift07
WhisherFerran Moreno lift07
Who has no knife may not eat pineapplesFabian Kalker lift09
Who has no knife may not eat pineapplesFelix Koch lift09
Who has no knife may not eat pineapples (FR)Felix Koch lift09
Who has no knife may not eat pineapples (FR)Fabian Kalker lift09
Wikipedia: a social innovation?Florence Devouard lift07
Work environments for the knowledge ageClark Elliott lift07
Working in a wired worldEuan Semple lift06
WualaDominik Grolimund lift08