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Lift gathers brilliant minds who share their ideas and insights on how digital technologies reshape society.... more
FAQs about Lift conference:How many episodes does Lift conference have?The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.
May 24, 2011Tara Shears "An update on the Large Hadron Collider project"The Large Hadron Collider, one of science's most ambitious project ever, is producing headlines a few kilometers from Geneva. Tara Shears gives us an update on the recent findings (including the creation and capture of antimatter!), and tells us what to expect from the LHC in the near future....more23minPlay
May 24, 2011Nick Coates "Co-creation: present and future"Nick Coates of Promise Communities explains the fundamental rules that make co-creation possible. He shows how an idea that has been around for decades is being put back into the spotlight by communication technologies, and tells the audience what to expect for the future of this re-emerging discipline....more21minPlay
May 18, 2011Jennifer Magnolfi "Programming space habitat"Jennifer talks about the design process for space habitats, how designers and engineers approach the creation of space habitats for the extreme conditions offered by life in micro-gravity environments....more23minPlay
May 16, 2011Vlad Trifa "What about a web of things?"The Internet of Things (IOT) has been portrayed as the ideal solution to many problems in various disciplines. After describing the problems with our current approaches to build the IOT, Vlad proposes his refined version of the IOT vision - the Web of Things....more19minPlay
May 13, 2011Sabine Hauert "Robotics today"Sabine is a researcher from the EPFL specializing in robotics. Her presentation explains how robots are changing the way we live and work, with more autonomous and intelligent machines coming to us in the near future. Sabine closes her talk by explaining the legal and ethical challenges facing this growing industry....more20minPlay
May 12, 2011Marcel Kampman "Reinventing schools - project Dream School"What if you could reinvent a school from scratch? What would you change, how would the technologies that reinvent education impact the construction and design of the building? Marcel Kampman is taking over that challenge in the Netherlands, and share the story of "Project DreamSchool"....more21minPlay
May 09, 2011Brian Solis "Social currencies"Brian Solis discusses the notion of social currency, how the activity we have on social networks helps build an important asset: social capital....more22minPlay
May 06, 2011Tiffany St James "How to encourage involvement in online communities"Tiffany talks about how people are using online communities to galvanise like-minded participants into action and what we can learn from grass-roots community collaboration to support our own endeavours....more21minPlay
May 04, 2011Chris Heathcote "The invisible communities"After a brief history of community building on the Internet and how this has changed as web bulletin board and forum communities have become the place for communities of interest to gather, Chris looks at how communities can emerge even without the foresight or wish of the site operators....more17minPlay
May 02, 2011Hasan Elahi "Giving away your privacy to escape the US terrorist watch list"Hasan tells us his incredible story: he was suspected of terrorism by the FBI by mistake, and ended up living totally in public to protect himself from surveillance. His talk shows how forfeiting your privacy can in fact become a new form of protection of your identity....more21minPlay
FAQs about Lift conference:How many episodes does Lift conference have?The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.