In this short presentation about gamification, Niklaus Moor focuses on the psychological mechanisms of video games and the role of motivation in game design. He describes how applying game mechanisms beyond entertainment is quite challenging and tricky.

Nick Heller addresses the future of mobile phone application, using technologies such artificial intelligence, sensors or voice recognition and how they relate to developed and developing countries. More specifically, he addresses what could we the western learn from other developing markets that have access to new technologies. With examples such as the use of internet of things and real-time language translation (from English to Zulu, Afrikaan to Zulu).

Space programs so far have been the domain of governments and the military-industrial complex - rarely ever have individuals ventured into outer space. But after years of research Korean artist

and independent satellite engineer Hojun Song has found that it is indeed possible to launch and operate a personal satellite at a fairly reasonable price. For the past six years he has been exploring ways to integrate the concept of a personal satellite project into cultural contexts and into his artistic practice. As his first satellite will take off from Kazakhstan this August he came to Lift to share his story, his struggles and his plans.

The story of Bitcoin: how the world's most famous peer to peer currency went through a gold rush, a bubble, and a crash in only a few months.

In his talk, Fabian Hemmert talks about the democratization of technological innovation. He shows a series of projects conducted at the Design Research Lab in Berlin, which, rather than serving the average user, embraced niches and extremes.

Is information overload really new? Anais Saint Jude will provide a bit of perspective by looking at another great period of innovation: the 17th century.

Sean Park believes finance will change radically in the coming months. He will show us some of the startups he believes in, from people reinventing banks to new payment systems.

Here are the links Sean mentions in his talk:

Personal finance

Simple* – Worry-free alternative to traditional banking

Fidor Bank* – Banking with friends

Movenbank – Spend, save and live smarter

Zopa – A marketplace for money

Wonga – Payday loans alternative

Billguard – People-powered antivirus for bills

Holvi – Smart Banking for Group Activities

ArchiveMe – Invoices and expenses in a minute

Payoff.com* – Money made simple, social and fun

Markets and trading

eToro – Your investment network

StockTwits – The financial communications network

AlphaClone – Follow the smart money

Trefis – What’s driving the stock

Estimize – Uncover the real consensus

Risk management / insurance

The Climate Corporation* – Total weather insurance

OpenGamma – Unified financial analytics

Wealth management

Betterment* – A better investment

Blueleaf* – Simple, personal financial tracking

Covestor – Find and follow investing leaders

Nutmeg – Smarter saving and investing

Business banking

FeeFighters – Comparison shopping for SMB finance

Kabbage – Green to help you grow

FundingCircle – Online lending marketplace

AxialMarket – Online network for MA professionals

Bilbus – Locate your liquidity

Payments

Square – Mobile payments system

Stripe – Payments for developers

The Currency Cloud* – FX payments automation service

Dwolla – The cash inspired payment network

Ixaris – Open payments solutions

Leetchi – Group payment application

And just in case you are interested/curious, here are the other companies currently in the Anthemis ecosystem:

FinanceACar – World’s first car finance comparison site

MileSense – Turning data into intelligent risk analysis

Metamarkets – Fast insight for big data

BluFin – Look at finance in a new way

MoBank – Cutting edge mCommerce solutions

PayPerks – Powering innovative solutions for the financially underserved

PeerIndex – Understand your social capital

Hooplo – Social games publishing platform

Visual.ly – Data visualization platform for big data

David Rowan thinks featured Africa is the next place where great technological innovations will happen. He will explain how startup entrepreneurs should move there.

Short Preview of Lift12 by the Lift Team. We took the challenge of describing the conference in less than three minutes, and we failed! But really it is a condensed, action packed preview of what to expect on Feb 22-24 2012 in Geneva!

In his speech, Philippe Lemoine sum up all sessions that took place at Lift France 11 and brightly concludes by some inspiring take aways.