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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Peter Ohnemus - Making Measurable Impact Through Gamified Health Apps
Peter Ohnemus is the founder ofdacadoo, a startup combining mobile ...
Peter Ohnemus is the founder ofdacadoo, a startup combining mobile technologies, social networking,gamificationandbig data analyticsin order to help users to improve their health and well-being. They calculate a health score based on physical data, like weight, blood values and blood pressure, emotional data and activity data, such as nutrition, stress, sleep and walking distances, and use that score to influence behavior, shaping healthy habits in a fun way. Peter himself has been involved in high-tech and bio-tech investments for the last 25 years, as a serial entrepreneur and an investor in high-tech, bio-tech and sustainable energy startups. His track record includes senior executive positions with Sybase, Logic Works, The Fantastic Corporation and COS - all of which went public during his tenure.
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Gregory Katz - Therapeutic Innovation, Health Economics, and Big Data
Gregory Katz is chaired professor of theESSEC Chair of Therapeutic ...
Gregory Katz is chaired professor of theESSEC Chair of Therapeutic Innovationat ESSEC Business School (Paris-Singapore). He is also co-director of the ESSEC Institute of Health Economics Management. Invited as Eminent Scholar by the UCLA School of Public Health, his research focus on the social and economic impact of biomedical innovations, especially in the field of genomics and stem cell banks. He also heads the Fondation Générale de Santéwhich promotes research in cell therapy and supports altruistic donations of umbilical cord blood stem cells. He was the 2008 winner of the San Benedetto Prize awarded for his achievements in bioethics and humanism. Since 2012, Katz is also chairman of the board of the GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines’ global innovation fund.
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Irene Wüthrich - Fighting Microbial Resistance to Antibiotics
Irene is a research scientist and bioengineer at ETH Zürich, ...
Irene is a research scientist and bioengineer at ETH Zürich, where she works on building new solutions to the acute threat of complete microbial resistance to currently available antibiotics. She graduated as a biotechnology engineer/MSc from the Ecole Supérieure de Biotechnologie in Strasbourg. For her PhD studies she joined the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT. She is convinced that now, more than ever, a prosperous future for our planet hinges on pushing the boundaries of science further, and applying our skills and knowledge for the common good.
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Chas Bountra - Innovation Through Open Access and Public-private Partnership
Chas Bountra is a professor of translational medicine at the ...
Chas Bountra is a professor of translational medicine at the University of Oxford as well as Chief Scientist at the Structural Genomic Consortium, a public-private partnership that supports the discovery of new medicines through open access research. Prior to coming back to Oxford, Chas spent many years in the pharmaceutical industry and culminated as Vice President and Head of Biology at GlaxoSmithKline. He was involved in the identification of more than 40 clinical candidates for many gastro-intestinal, inflammatory and neuro-psychiatric diseases. He was involved in the launch and development of the first treatment for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Alosetron).
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Mike LaVigne - Building the Future of Family Planning
Mike feels that apps can create self awareness and lead ...
Mike feels that apps can create self awareness and lead to more collaborative and productive relationship between patients and doctors. Formerly a Creative Director at Frog Design and Fjord, two of the world’s most renowned design agencies, he is one of the creative minds behind Clue, the number one cycle tracking app in the US.Clue, which has been covered by The New York Times, Wired and Vogue, is a unique fertility tracking app that is confident, scientific - and not pink. In his presentation at Lift, Mike will share his experience from 15+ years in qualitative research and prototype development both on stage and in in-depth conversations following his presentation.
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Anders Sandberg - The Man-Machine: Are we living in the 1970s of brain hacking?
Exploring the Future of Humanity:Anders Sandberghas a background in computer ...
Exploring the Future of Humanity:Anders Sandberghas a background in computer science, neuroscience and medical engineering but is currently in the philosophy department of Oxford University, at theFuture of Humanity Institute. Anders’ research centres on management of societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and new technology, estimating the capabilities of future technologies, and low-probability high-impact risks. Topics of particular interest include global catastrophic risk, cognitive biases, cognitive enhancement, collective intelligence, neuroethics and public policy.He is currently senior researcher in theFHI-Amlincollaboration on systemic risk of risk modelling. He is also research associate to the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He has worked on enhancement neuroethics within the EU project ENHANCE, and robust risk estimation as an AXA research fellow.
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Bill Liao - The Man Behind Ireland’s Synthetic Biology Accelerator
Australian entrepreneur, venture capital investor, author and speaker with an ...
Australian entrepreneur, venture capital investor, author and speaker with an extensive record in the areas of business, development and community activism,Bill Liaoacts as European venture partner forSOSventures, a $200m international investment that backs, among others, health and biotech related startups such asSynbiotaorRestored Hearing.Bill was the first outside investor in Xing, the co-founder of the code-for-kids community CoderDojo and founded of Weforest, a large-scale reforestation initiative. This summer, he ranIndie Bio, the first synthetic biology startup accelerator program in Cork, Ireland.At Lift Basel, Bill will tell us about the disruption he expects to happen when new kinds of data-drive startups enter the space previously reserved for “big pharma”, about his controversial ideas and the bold bets he makes in the synthetic biology space — by investing, mentoring and accelerating.
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Lift14/15 Teaser
1000+ people from 30+ countries joined Lift in 2014 to ...
1000+ people from 30+ countries joined Lift in 2014 to make innovation happen!
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Scott Smith - Is This Really The Sharing Economy?
We talk a great deal about the “so-called sharing economy,” ...
We talk a great deal about the “so-called sharing economy,” “collaborative consumption” and an array of other buzzwords, but we still don’t agree on what it is. And now we are at a crossroads, down one road lies high-velocity markets of efficiently allocated assets, and down another lies cooperative local markets and deeper personal experiences. If we want this economy to survive and grow, we have to think about which one we choose.
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Lift 13 FR - Questions et Conclusion - Session "Enseigner autrement"
Avec Josiane Gain (Directrice des Relations Universitaires IBM France), Frédéric ...
Avec Josiane Gain (Directrice des Relations Universitaires IBM France), Frédéric Bardeau (co-fondateur simplon.co)et Pierre-Guy Hourquet (Kedge Business School)
