“Where Did the Future Go?” – LIFT09 Conference in Geneva

LIFT is an annual interdisciplinary gathering for creative doers and thinkers in Geneva exploring the social consequences of new technologies over cheese fondue. LIFT09 (February 25-28) will look back to look ahead, exploring topics like change, solidarity, love, or design, during three days of intense networking and inspiration themed around a simple question: “Where did the future go?”

frog attended in the past few years, and this year, our Milan-based creative director Fabio Sergio will participate in a panel on “design thinking” (where did the hype go?). Other speakers include Vint Cerf (Google), the “Father of the Internet;” Baba Wamé, a researcher who studied the impact of dating websites on African society; Patrick Gyger, director of the science-fiction museum La Maison d'Ailleurs; Juliana Rotich, author, editor, and digital activist with Global Voices Online and Ushahidi; Carlo Ratti, director of the SENSEable City Laboratory at MIT; Clive van Heerden, creative director at Philips; and James Gillies, CERN spokesperson and historian of the invention of the World Wide Web.

Off to the reception now!

http://liftconference.com/

Tim Leberecht is the CMO of frog and the publisher of design mind.