The Lift conference – coming up next week 4-6 February

The annual Lift Conference is coming up next week. Don’t miss out on the special 10th anniversary event. Lift15 will be offering an exclusive program, full of super-rich, rather intimate sessions in an interactive break-out format. Participants from over thirty countries will enjoy taking a break from the all-day plenary preaching format and explore the future of innovation, out of the conference room. Recognised amongst the top 5 innovation and entrepreneurship events in Europe, Lift15 will take place in Geneva on Feb 4-6 2015. Join an international and diverse community for 3 days of talks, masterclasses, workshops, creative events and social gatherings.

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Latest Confirmed Speakers

Alexandre Rose profile picAlexander Rose, executive director of the Long Now foundation, designer of the 10’000-year clock, will help us see the future (and past) in a new perspective. After his talk, Alexander will be joined on stage by Jobst Wagner, owner of a vast European family business, for a debate on “Switzerland in the Long Term”.

@zander

 

Sophia Lin Small

Sophia Lin, founder of Shanghai-based Make+ art and technology program, advocating for crossover collaborations between artists, designers, engineers and scientists. At Lift15 Sophia will run the masterclass on makers in China, supported by swissnex Shanghai.

 

 

Xavier Damman Small

Xavier Damman, co-founder of Storify.com, the largest social media curation platform used by top publishers, brands and organizations around the world and acquired by Livefyre in 2013

@xdamman

 

 

Joining speakers like Frederic Jacobs, co-founder Open Whisper Systems who just made the news by partnering up with Whatsapp for encrypting all their messages by default and Adrian Hon, author of “A History of the Future in 100 Objects”

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Meilleur du Web – 27 November 2013

The event Meilleur du Web is now accepting submissions from web and digital media professionals. The annual competition for best web or digital project will select  the winners at their annual  event to be held at the Fédération des Entreprises Romandes in Geneva on 27 November 2013.

The 9 categories, which will be judged by a committee of web professionals are:

  • innovation
  • technology
  • usability
  • business effectiveness
  • online marketing
  • performance campagnes
  • branding campaigns
  • creation
  • mobile

Agencies, free-lances, and all digital media professionals will be able to submit their projects which must have been completed between December 2012 and October 2013 , and uploaded to the site  www.meilleurduweb.ch between the 2 and 20 of September 2013. The shortlist will be available on the site as of October 15 2013.

For further information consult the website or contact one of the three organisers directly:   Victoria Marchand, Rodolphe Koller ou Thierry Weber

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iPad and Kindle Reading Speeds

According to new research by Jakob Neilsen, the new wave of electronic book readers have faster reading speeds than those that have gone before them. They are also significantly better than reading from computer monitors, thanks their higher-resolution screens and more natural and comfy reading position.

Many companies are betting big that electronic book readers, such as iPad and Kindle, will be one of the main ways people read long-form text in the future. But are they as good as books?

They do have several benefits, not least the ability to make an library of books portable, but the Neilsen study found that reading speeds are still slower than print.

So will they take over from the printed word? Only time will tell.

More about the Jakob Neilsen study >

Melitta

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