The Lift conference goes to Korea!

Author: Artur Schmidt

Our close friends from the Lift conference - called "one of the highlights of the technophile calendar by the BBC" - announced that Lift is coming to Korea for the second time on September 4, 5 and 6, 2008. Lift is a special experience focusing on networking and new ideas, featuring inspiring talks and activities to look into the future of networked society.

The conference - which will be simultaneously translated in Korean and English - will raise an important question: what happens after the web browser?

At the end of a decade during which the internet revolutionized our lives and organizations, the network is now moving beyond the computer screen, invading objects, cities, toys, cars or medical devices. Where will the next big changes happen? What are the world's most innovative people working on right now?

Lift Asia will gather the global community of doers and thinkers in partnership with organizations like Daum, the Nabi Art Center, or the Jeju Knowledge Promotion Agency. The event will feature:

• Talks covering topics like urban technologies, online worlds, virtual money, new lifestyles or robots, featuring speakers like Joonmo Kwon (CEO of Nexon, the world's largest online games company), networked cities visionaries Jeffrey Huang (EPFL), Yang Soo Yin (The Living) and Adam Greenfield (Nokia design), I-mode inventor Takeshi Nastuno, Tomoaki Kasuga who works on the robots of the future, Gadget loving and Emmy award winning American guru Dan Dubno, and legendary speakers like Bruce Sterling (initiator of Cyberpunk),Bruno Bonnell, Frédéric Kaplan or Jan Chipchase.

• Interactive art installations curated by Nabi Art Center, creating a unique experience based on inspiring and engaging activities divided in four zones: opening, sharing, sparkling and expanding zones.

• Community speeches where participants can freely present their works and ideas inside one of the open rooms.

The full program is available here:

Registration starts at only 250$ (Students/Startups/NGO) with a normal price of 650$, and members of the DLD community get a supplementary discount of 10% by using code "dld09" during registration

If you have any questions or need more information, visit the conference website or contact our Lift friends using info@liftconference.com

 

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