Posts Tagged ‘lift conference’
Weekly inspiration #33: LIFT talks
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010While TED talks are now widely spread over the Web, reaching a total of 250 million views in April, one sometimes tends to forget about other sources of highly inspirational videos. With LIFT conference starting on Wednesday in Geneva, we would like to bring the excellent LIFT Talks to your attention, recorded over the last 4 [...]
Read More..(0)The upLIFTing dinner
Saturday, February 28th, 2009When we attended the LIFT conference in Geneva for the first time last year, we immediately loved it. Laurent, Nicolas and their team are doing a great job in creating a nice atmosphere with inspiring content, where a very diverse crowd of super-interesting people meet. Thus, it was clear that the Sandbox team would be [...]
Read More..(0)Meeting the Father of the Internet
Saturday, February 28th, 2009A living legend for geeks from all continents, Vint Cerf is a 65 years old computer scientist who is most frequently considered to be the father of the Internet. He is now a Google vice-president, and their Chief Internet Evangelist. In this talk in Geneva during LIFT09, Vint Cerf mentioned the biggest challenges now faced by the information and communication technology, two of which have particularly raised our attention: the necessity to increase the number of IP addresses, and the development of an Interplanetary Internet
Read More..(2)Sandbox @ LIFT
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Nico, Fabian and I will be in Geneva for LIFT from tomorrow to Friday. LIFT is a conference exploring the social consequences of new technologies. We’ll be twittering a lot: follow us to read our updates! Also, we are organising a dinner on the Feb 25 with Sandbox members and participants to the conference. Click below to read more.
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