Lift Conference Podcast
About the Lift conference series Lift is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the ...
About the Lift conference series Lift is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meeting the people who drive them.
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James Barlow - Searching for sustainable health systems
James Barlow has worked at Imperial College Business School since ...
James Barlow has worked at Imperial College Business School since 2003, where he holds a Chair in Technology and Innovation Management in Healthcare. From 2006-2013 he led HaCIRIC, a major programme of research on the adoption, implementation and sustainability of innovation in healthcare systems. Since September 2013 he has been Associate Director of Research and Evaluation ofImperial College Health Partners.Much of James’ research and practice has been on the development and introduction of healthcare technologies such as telehealth, as well as organizational and financial innovations such as public-private partnerships. He has published widely and has been a member of many expert panels on healthcare innovation, both in the UK and internationally.He is a member of the executive for theNIHR Northwest London CLAHRCand the Dept. of HealthPolicy Innovation Research Unit. In September 2014 he was appointed President of theInternational Academy for Design and Health.
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Thomas Landrain - Biohacking: When biotech breaks free
Thomas is the co-founder and president of the nonprofit organization ...
Thomas is the co-founder and president of the nonprofit organization "La Paillasse" in Paris, one of the world's largest community laboratories, commonly called hackerspaces, that foster open access and open source biotechnologies. He is an active member of the Do-it-yourself Biology (DIYbio) community, organizing the launch of DIYbio Europe, and working regularly as one of its spokespersons.Convinced that the 21st century will be the century of biotechnologies, he has been focusing on making biology more accessible to use as a technology for citizens and amateurs, developing cheap genetic diagnostic and creative use of biomaterials.He is currently finishing hisSynthetic BiologyPhD studies at iSSB, a CNRS-Genopole research institution.
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Ben Waber - “People Analytics”: Creating better organizations based on how...
CEO, Sociometric SolutionsComputers like numbers and there’s plenty of them ...
CEO, Sociometric SolutionsComputers like numbers and there’s plenty of them around work: Presence, actions, movements, interactions, contacts, inputs, outputs, outcomes… Human Resource Management and Job Search rely more and more on data and metrics: Value, contribution, reputation, social graph, reputation, health, and all kinds of traces. Where is the value in all that data? What insights does it provide, and to whose benefit? Could we use it to find new ways of measuring, valuing and compensating all kinds of social and productive activities ?Video filmed at Lift with Fing 2014 in Marseille
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Henry Stewart - The “Happy Manifesto”: Creating Great Places to Work
Founder and director ofHappy.co.uk, the happiest company in the world.The ...
Founder and director ofHappy.co.uk, the happiest company in the world.The borders of work communities no longer match those of firms. Office spaces tend to shrink while new, hybrid “third places” and coworking places emerge. For many, the phone and laptop are the true work place, social networks and projects the true work communities, clients and domain experts the true hierarchies… The times are ripe for extended enterprises, temporary organizations, autonomous corporations, shapeless and borderless networks. Do work communities still need organizations? Do firms still need managers or employees? What new agile, lean, learning, open organizations and spaces will we need to invent in order to work in the future?Video filmed at Lift with Fing 2014 in Marseille
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Jeremy Myerson - Designing Tomorrow’s Networked Workplaces
Research director at theRoyal College of Art.The borders of work ...
Research director at theRoyal College of Art.The borders of work communities no longer match those of firms. Office spaces tend to shrink while new, hybrid “third places” and coworking places emerge. For many, the phone and laptop are the true work place, social networks and projects the true work communities, clients and domain experts the true hierarchies… The times are ripe for extended enterprises, temporary organizations, autonomous corporations, shapeless and borderless networks. Do work communities still need organizations? Do firms still need managers or employees? What new agile, lean, learning, open organizations and spaces will we need to invent in order to work in the future?Video filmed at Lift with Fing 2014 in Marseille
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Stefana Broadbent Nesta - When digital technologies and social network make...
Tech AnthropologistThe era of life-employment is over. Markets demand flexibility; ...
Tech AnthropologistThe era of life-employment is over. Markets demand flexibility; Robots and software will automize most of our jobs; Individuals want and income, but they also want professional improvement, change, and meaning. Whether they like it or not, they are their own entrepreneurs: They create and maintain their own tools, their expertise, and their networks; They mix paid and unpaid activities, freelance and salaried work…How to support people in building their own rich, flexible and secure working itineraries? How can we ensure that these opportunities benefit the many rather than a small number of "knowledge workers"?Video filmed at Lift with Fing 2014 in Marseille
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Robert Riener - The Man Behind the Formula One of Prosthetics
Robert Rieneris Full Professor for Sensory-Motor Systems at the Department ...
Robert Rieneris Full Professor for Sensory-Motor Systems at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich. His current research interests involve human motion synthesis, biomechanics, virtual reality, man-machine interaction, and rehabilitation robotics. He authored and coauthored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and 20 patents.At Lift, Riener will present a new approach to accelerate progress in his field:Cybathlon, a championship for athletes with disabilities who are using advanced assistive devices, including robotic technologies, the most modern powered knee prostheses, wearable arm prostheses, powered exoskeletons, powered wheelchairs, electrically stimulated muscles and novel brain-computer interfaces - the “Formula One” of prosthetics.
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Hans-Florian Zeilhofer - Engineering the Augmented Surgeon
Professor Hans-Florian Zeilhofer, born in 1952 in Freising (Germany), is ...
Professor Hans-Florian Zeilhofer, born in 1952 in Freising (Germany), is an associate professor and since 2002 Head of the Department for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Hospital in Basel. Additionally, he is a Chief Physician at the Kantonsspital Aarau plus Head of theHightech Research Center of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, which was established by him.After his studies, Hans-Florian Zeilhofer finished his doctorates at the TU München, where he habilitated in 1998. His research includes the use of computer-assisted 3D-methods in the surgery of the facial skull. Hans-Florian Zeilhofer received multiple awards for his scientific work.
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Oscar Jasklowski - How Crowdfunding Promotes Creativity in Research
As recently as three years ago, Oscar, who represents Experiment ...
As recently as three years ago, Oscar, who represents Experiment at Lift Basel, was making bone glue. You read that correctly - as a graduate student in the bioadhesives lab at the University of Utah, he was studying how and why things stick. He took a break from his studies for the opportunity to work at Experiment, a crowdfunding platform dedicated to showcasing and funding science research. While he’s on indefinite (but not permanent!) hiatus from the lab, his focus is on co-leading Experiment’s growth.Because as a society, we are in a position to study, learn, and innovate more than ever before. Yet there is one major bottleneck: funding. Experiment, an open and democratic platform for funding science, is on a mission to change just that. Researchers from over 150 institutions and universities are using the San Francisco startup to fund important seed-stage research that would otherwise go unfunded.
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Sibylle Peuker - User Experience Architect, Computer Scientist, Mathematician
Sibylle Peuker is passionate about bringing a better user experience ...
Sibylle Peuker is passionate about bringing a better user experience to healthcare – because she is convinced that good design can make people healthier, happier, and even save lives. Sibylle, a mathematician and computer scientist by training, works as a Senior User Experience Architect atZeix, an user-centered design agency in Zurich.Many years ago, Sibylle was working with safety-critical systems at a research institute in Australia. There she realised that for building a safe system it is important to understand the people using it and building an interface that supports their work routines. Since then, she has been the users’ advocate in all her projects, be it during her time at Swisscom’s innovation department or now working on applications and websites in several industries.Sibylle always tries to infect others with her enthusiasm for user-centered design, be it as a lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences or at theSwiss eHealth Clubmeetups she initiated.
