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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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    LiftLab2017 Recap

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2018 3:10


    The Lift:Lab is a unique open innovation program designed to allow individuals and organizations to tackle business and societal challenges using collaborative innovation. Through a curated program of inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, rapid prototyping infrastructure, social events, the Lift:Lab brings together innovators from across sectors and industries to a 2,5 days intense and fast-paced experiment.

    Prototyping Lab at Lift16

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2016 1:57


    The Prototyping Lab at Lift16 was a gathering of innovators from around the world! During 3 memorable days, teams of participants collaborated to build the future of your products, services and business models!

    Lift16 Recap

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2016 3:43


    Lift16 gathered more than 1,000 participants coming from 35 countries around the world. Spread over three days of workshops, masterclasses, interactive exhibitions, startup pitches and networking in social events, it explored the latest technology trends such as the blockchain, anti-disciplinarity or sustainable ICT.More info on our website: http://liftconference.com/lift16Recorded on Feb 10-12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Subodh Patil & Anaïs Rassat - Interview on Detection of Gravitational Waves

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2016 3:08


    On Thursday, February 11, a team of scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, short for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, announced that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. (source: New York Times)At the very same time, our "own" particle physicist Subodh Patil was on stage, talking about how to achieve breakthrough based on years of scientific research.We thought the coincidence was too beautiful not to invite him back on stage, along with another researcher and long-time lifter Anaïs Rassat, and tell us more about this groundbreaking discovery!Don't hesitate to also check out the official Einstein 100 website mentioned by Anaïs during the interview.Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Joël Vacheron - 1983: a blackened window on the world

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 23:17


    Joël Vacheron, journalist, sociologist, editor of VERITIES, interested in the impact of innovative projects on the production of recurrent narratives and aesthetics in everyday technologies.In this final talk of the closing session Making Sense of Technology at Lift16, Joël Vacheron considers how 1983 introduced a paradigm shift into our relationship with technology, reflected through the work of many artists.From visual art to music, video games to 3D printing, discover how the virtual world manifests in our collective unconscious!Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Natalie Kane - Uninvited Guests

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 18:08


    Natalie Kane, C&P officer at FutureEverything and researcher at Changeist, co-founder of Haunted Machines, a project which reflects on narratives of magic pervading technology.In this second talk of the session Making Sense of Technology at Lift16, Natalie Kane looks into the ghosts that live at the intersection between the digital and physical worlds and how technology can haunt us when sufficiently badly designed.Dive into the ethereal world of technology!Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva. See timecodes and reference hyperlinks here.

    Tobias Revell - The Internet of Damned Things

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 21:26


    Tobias Revell, artist, designer, co-founder of Haunted Machines, exploring myth, magic and hauntings in our relationship with technology.In this first talk of the closing session Making Sense of Technology at Lift16, Tobias Revell looks into our emotional relationship with technology, what we expect of it and how realistic (or not) it is.From magic to horror, take a journey through the history of technology and humankind!Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Nicolas Nova - Introduction to Making Sense of Technology

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 1:29


    Nicolas Nova, principal at Near Future Laboratory and professor at HEAD Geneva, was the moderator of the closing session of Lift16: Making Sense of Technology.In this short introduction, Nicolas Nova invites us to take a step back from technology and look at the hidden effect it has on us, from amazement to, sometimes, horror.Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Silviu Andrica - Nowy Connect: be a smarter networker with AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 10:06


    Silviu Andrica, co-founder at Nowy, using AI to help you network smarter, works on getting people to look up from their phones without missing opportunities to connect with one another.In this final Open Stage talk of the session Artificial Intelligence, Technology without Alternative? at Lift16, Silviu Andrica tells us the story of how a software engineer with zero specific knowledge in artificial intelligence integrated IBM Watson into an app, allowing users to find each other through their LinkedIn profiles.From smart design to AI powered search capabilities, discover how Nowy Connect is changing the very way we network.Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Panel Discussion - Artificial Intelligence, Technology without Alternative?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 19:35


    Featuring Alex Lebrun, head of Wit.ai at Facebook, Henri Bergius, VP engineering at The Grid and Min Li Marti, member of the Swiss Parliament, this panel moderated by Hannes Gassert goes deeper into the subject of Artificial Intelligence and the burning questions that it evokes.Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva as part of the session Artificial Intelligence, Technology without Alternative?

    Min Li Marti - AI Policy: is it possible? Is it necessary?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 9:28


    Min Li Marti, member of the Swiss Parliament, Publisher, Editor is shaping the political framework to manage and benefit from the evolutions of AI.In this first Open Stage talk of the session Artificial Intelligence, Technology without Alternative? at Lift16, Min Li Marti asks the important questions that governments, corporations and citizens should ponder when it comes to AI.Take a step back and consider this technology as a part of our human ecosystem with this talk!Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Henri Bergius - Websites Designed by Artificial Intelligence

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 16:19


    Henri Bergius, VP engineering at The Grid, an AI that builds your website based on its content, hacker and occasional adventurer, is the creator of Create.js and NoFlo.In this second talk of the session Artificial Intelligence, Technology without Alternative? at Lift16, Henri Bergius reveals for the first time how he and his team are automating design processes and how the use of such an AI could radically change the way websites such as the amazon catalog or no-budget blogs look like.How do you teach a machine to understand beauty, color matching, smart use of blank space? Enter the world of AI-designed websites with Henri Bergius!Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Alex Lebrun - Teaching Language to Machines

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 20:09


    Alex Lebrun, head of Wit.ai at Facebook, turning speech/text into actionnable data and making it possible for anyone to create voice-controlled apps.In this first talk of the session Artificial Intelligence, Technology without Alternative? at Lift16, Alex Lebrun looks back on the history of conversational AI, its challenges and the vast distance that has been traveled since its modest beginnings.Beyond the buzz, discover what companies such as Facebook are really capable of doing and where this might lead us in the near future.Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Hannes Gassert - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Technology without...

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 2:58


    Hannes Gassert, entrepreneur at the intersection of media, technology and culture, interested in human-centric technology, open source, democracy and transparency, was the moderator of this second session of the Friday at Lift16: Artificial Intelligence, Technology without Alternative?In this short introduction, Hannes Gassert explains why artificial intelligence is more than ever an important subject to cover, away from the buzz and down to the real talk.Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    David Li - E-Waste: an open source solution

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 13:30


    David Li, co-founder of XinCheJian, China's first hackerspace, and Hacked Matter, is revolutionizing the way we treat e-waste through a worldwide Maker initiative.In this final Open Stage talk of the session From Digital Transition to Ecological Resilience at Lift16, David Li reports back from his hometown Shenzhen, in China, where most of the world's electronics ends up to be dismantled and "recycled" for its gold. Though, in this very place, a revolution is brewing from the bottom up.Listen to David tell us how makers in China are taking the lead in revolutionizing the way we treat e-waste and creating a circular economy.Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Denis Slieker - Energy neutral: It’s easy when you turn things around

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 21:24


    Denis Slieker, director at Qurrent, an energy supplier aiming at providing as few energy as possible, helps households to become energy neutral by connecting them with regional renewable energy projects.In this second talk of the session From Digital Transition to Ecological Resilience at Lift16, Denis Slieker takes us along his personal and professional journey, from planting trees around the world to realizing the problem is more deeply ingrained in our economy. Taking action on this, he explains how his company is trying to change the status quo by providing as few energy as possible to its consumers.Watch this excellant example of how to actively take a stand and impact climate change in a positive way, working both on the market level and the human level!Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Lorenz M. Hilty - How to Align the Digital with the Ecological Transition

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 23:25


    Lorenz M. Hilty, professor of informatics and sustainability at the University of Zurich, attempts to use the transformational power of digital technologies to support sustainable development.In this first talk of the session From Digital Transition to Ecological Resilience at Lift16, Lorenz Hilty goes more in details into why technology needs to act fast to transform itself and its processes, using some of the latest analytical models to measure impact. He goes on and tell us how he envisions the future of truly sustainable technological innovation through 3 realistic examples.A great way to start the subject on the right foot!Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Laur Fischer & Daniel Kaplan - Introduction to From Digital Transition to...

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 20:41


    Laur Fisher, research scientist at MIT, project manager of Climate CoLab, attempting to crowdsource solutions to the world’s biggest problems, starting with climate change and Daniel Kaplan, founder and CEO of FING, introduce us to this first session of Friday, February 12, at Lift16:  From Digital Transition to Ecological Resilience.Why did we decide to explore the relationship between technological innovation and ecological resilience? How will it impact our businesses but also our personal lives in the near future?Recorded on February 12, 2016, in Geneva.

    Game Jam at Lift16: prototyping health therapy games for kids

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 3:28


    During Lift16, we partnered up with Breathing Games and the Swiss Game Center to launch the Health Game Jam, a co-creation event that added a layer of fun and gamification to cystic fibrosis therapy for children. The goal of the Game Jam was to design exciting and imaginative game levels, imagine low-tech connecting devices for health and to build a strong community to continue this project on the long run.Check out what our game designers and makers came up with!

    MassChallenge Startup Summit & Launch at Lift16

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 3:11


    Lift and MassChallenge Switzerland joined forces in February 2016 to present the MassChallenge Startup Summit & Launch.A gathering of the most exciting Swiss and international startups as well as leaders from the entrepreneurial and political ecosystems.See the winners and all presenting startups on our website: http://liftconference.com/wss

    Caecilia Charbonnier - A Life in Motion

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 10:56


    Caecilia Charbonnier, co-founder and research director of Artanim, creates immersive universes through motion capture and virtual reality for science, entertainment and art.In this final Open Stage talk of the session Enter the Anti-Disciplinary Space, Caecilia Charbonnier introduces us to her work at Artanim, combining virtual reality with medical research, sport, immersive universes, art, historical reconstitutions and entertainment.One of the most promising VR companies in the world, discover what Artanim has been working on and what's awaiting!Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    James Patten - Challenging the Audience to Work in Anti-Disciplinary Spaces

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 20:19


    James Patten, interaction designer, inventor and visual artist, creates ground breaking interactive experiences.In this third talk of the session Enter the Anti-Disciplinary Space, James Patten goes one step further and shows us what anti-disciplinary projects look like, what environment you need to create them and how to approach them from an audience-centric perspective.Enter this surprising world combining virtual reality, design, electronics, UX and robotics!Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Sarah Brin - Making/Meaning in the Realm of Anti-Disciplinarity

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 16:48


    Sarah Brin, public programs manager at Pier 9, Autodesk's digital fabrication workshop, helps artists in residence imagine, design and create the future of making things.In this second talk of the session Enter the Anti-Disciplinary Space, Sarah Brin takes her personal case and the example of the multitude of artists she has worked with and exhibited to explain what it means to be anti-disciplinary, to fuzz out the norms and create freely.Buckle up and let Sarah take you to the edge of creation on the piers of San Francisco!Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Subodh Patil - The Art of Discovery

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 23:14


    Subodh Patil, research physicist at the University of Geneva and CERN, uncovering the fundamental physics that gave rise to the Big Bang.In this first talk of the session Enter the Anti-Disciplinary Space, Subodh Patil introduces the realm of creativity and discovery, from the point of view of a physicist, building on the learnings of thousands of years of scientific research.What does it take to achieve a breakthrough? Is there any standard model for creativity?Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Sophie Lamparter - Introduction to Enter the Anti-Disciplinary Space

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 6:32


    Sophie Lamparter, associate director at swissnex San Francisco, was the moderator of the third session of Lift16 Enter the Anti-Disciplinary Space.In this short introduction, she explains the concept of Anti-Disciplinarity and why we need such an approach to solve the ever-more difficult challenges of the 21st century.Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Atreyam Sharma (Leo) - The Next Wave of Disruption

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 8:11


    Atreyam Sharma (Leo) is a technology geek, programmer, hardcore-gamer and the co-founder and vice-president of Workshop4Me, who teaches young generations how to integrate code.In this final Open Stage of the session The Wild Promises of the Digital Customer Experience at Lift16, Atreyam Sharma presented a unique standpoint: no matter what we believe to be true about the digital world, his generation has already natively integrated it. How do we adapt to these new customers but also present/future programers, designers and entrepreneurs?Watch this video and get schooled by a 14-year-old disrupter :)Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Nadina Frehner - ShoeSize.Me: facilitating digital decision making

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 12:19


    Nadina Frehner, head of business development at ShoeSize.Me, helps shoe brands and retailers improve their customer’s digital experience.In this open stage talk of the session The Wild Promises of the Digital Customer Experience at Lift16, Nadina Frehner dived into the decision making process of online shoe customers, and how her startup ShoeSize.Me is revolutionizing it while also benefiting the retailers' supply chain.Discover how a simple button on a website can completely change the customer experience.Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Kristin Heinonen - The Upbringing of the Swedish Digital Citizen

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 20:08


    Kristin Heinonen, digital trend analyst, identifies communication trends & emerging user behavior and delivers research and insight reports for media executives in the Nordics.In the second talk of the session The Wild Promises of the Digital Customer Experience at Lift16, Kristin Heinonen took Sweden as a study case of what it takes to bring an entire population into the digital world, what benefits both citizens and governments can get and what limitations it might have.Check out her talk and discover how the Swedes declare their taxes through SMS and why it impacted their society as a whole.Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Brian Solis - The Experience when Business meets Design

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 31:04


    Brian Solis, award-winning author, prominent blogger/writer and principal analyst at Altimeter Group, helps people understand and define the role we play in the evolution of technology and its impact.In this first talk of the session The Wild Promises of the Digital Customer Experience at Lift16, Brian Solis shows us how brands are focusing their designs on customer experience and why it matters, especially in the digital world.Change your perspective and understand how to engage people online!Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Steve Ritchey - Introduction to The Wild Promises of the Digital Customer...

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 1:20


    Steve Ritchey, one of the cofounders of Lift and presently head of the Group Digital Communications at Pictet Group, was the moderator of the Lift16 session The Wild Promises of the Digital Customer Experience.In this short introduction, he gives some historical background to this very Lift subject.Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Blockchain Technology Beyond Bitcoin in 3min

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 3:16


    During Lift16, we focused an entire session on the Blockchain Technology powering the most used decentralized cryptocurrency in the world: Bitcoin, and tried to understand better what it is, how it works and what it can do with three international experts from the field: Stephan Tual (Slock.it, Ursium, Ethereum), Primavera De Filippi (CNRS, Harvard Law School) and Joseph Lubin (Consensus Systems, Ethereum).In this video, get the gist of their talks in 3min and never again find yourself saying "WTF is the blockchain?"Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Primavera De Filippi - Blockchain Technology and the Future of Work

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 25:20


    Primavera De Filippi, researcher at CNRS and faculty associate at the Berkman Center, Harvard Law School, is investigating emergent decentralized technologies to design new governance models.In this final talk of the session Blockchain Technology Beyond Bitcoin at Lift16, Primavera De Filippi explored the possibilities that live at the intersection between the blockchain and art, society and work, imagining what the future might look like when creative people use the full power of this technology.Hold on to your hats and embark on a journey into the future!Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Stephan Tual - Blockchain: it's about state

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 16:02


    Stephan Tual, founder of Slock.it & Ursium, CCO of Ethereum, is working at revolutionizing the emerging Sharing Economy infrastructure.In this second talk of the session Blockchain Technology Beyond Bitcoin at Lift16, Stephan Tual took us on a discovery tour of the type of applications that are already in place using the blockchain and what we can expect for the Internet of Things (IoT) in such a decentralized future.From smart locks to charging stations, discover how the blockchain has been changing our world.Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Joseph Lubin - The Basics of Blockchain and Ethereum

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 24:13


    Joseph Lubin is a founder at Consensus Systems (ConsenSys) and Ethereum, where he is preparing the next generation economy with decentralized applications.During his opening talk of the session Blockchain Technology Beyond Bitcoin at Lift16, he put in place the bases to understand what the blockchain is, how it works and what roadmap can be foreseen for that field.Put on your smart cap and get to know in-depth what the decentralized future has to offer!Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Clément Epié - Introduction to Blockchain Technology Beyond Bitcoin

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 3:14


    Clément Epié, co-founder of Cellabz, combining Blockchain and emerging technologies, was the moderator of Lift16's opening session Blockchain Technology Beyond Bitcoin.In this short introduction, he explains why we decided to look into this field in 2016 and how it will matter in the coming years.Recorded on February 11, 2016, in Geneva.

    Hans-Florian Zeilhofer - Surgeon Superpowers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2016 14:25


    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 the Hightech 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.

    Neil Goldsmith - Making Products with Synthetic Biology

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2016 21:48


    Neil Goldsmith heads the Basel-based biotech innovator Evolva, a 21st century brewer developing/producing next-generation health, wellness, and nutrition ingredients from fermentation. Why fermentation? Because nature contains a wealth of ingredients that can benefit humanity. But, many of them cannot be economically, ethically, or sustainably sourced, which limits their broader use. The only real work-around has been to source “synthetic” versions of these ingredients, mostly from petrochemicals. Evolva and bioprocessing are changing this paradigm. They transfer the genetic blueprint of high-demand ingredients into baker’s yeast, and grow it in a fermenter, exactly as if they were brewing beer. Instead of producing ethanol, their yeast produces high-value ingredients like resveratrol, vanillin, stevia, nootkatone, and saffron. This platform could be the factory of the future for our medicines, fragrances, even our blue jeans.

    Reto Schnyder - Disrupting Food

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2016 14:55


    Reto Schnyder heads the basel-based innovation studio / corporate company builder Break/Through Ventures. He works with his team across industries and has worked with many of the big players in food like Coca-Cola, Mars Inc., Kraft Foods, Arla Foods, Carlsberg or Lindt. At Lift Basel, Reto will talk about the fundamental change that is happening right now in fast moving consumer goods and especially the food business. He strongly beliefs that the current cash-cows of the large food companies will not survive this decade and that big food has to reinvent itself right now.

    Xavier Duportet - Creating programmable biological agents to eradicate...

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2015 19:17


    Named by MIT Technology Review as one of the top innovators under 35, Xavier is  enlisting the trillions of bacteria that make up the human microbiome to play an essential new role. He is working on substituting the "weapons of mass destruction” that can be current antibiotics, for “snipers” that work much more precisely, using code sequence specific antimicrobials. Leveraging the CRISPR code cutting technique,  the PhD in Synthetic Biology from INRIA, France’s leading computer science institute, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston is using the cutting-edge tools of synthetic biology not only to create new genetic cosmetics, but also to find novel ways to the ticking time-bomb of ever growing antimicrobial resistance.

    Marcel Salathé - Creating a European Culture of Innovation

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2015 22:36


    Marcel is a digital epidemiologist working at the interface of population biology, computational sciences, and the social sciences. He obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich and spent two years as a postdoc in Stanford before joining the faculty at Penn State in 2010. In 2014, he spent half a year at Stanford as visiting assistant professor. In the summer of 2015, Marcel became an Associate Professor at EPFL where he heads the Digital Epidemiology Lab at the new Campus Biotech.He has published papers in a variety of fields and recently wrote a book called "Nature, in Code". He led the development of the MOOC “Epidemics - The Dynamics of Infectious Disease”, a popular large-scale online course and co-founded PlantVillage, a knowledge exchange platform for growers of all kinds of plants. He also is deputy editor of PLOS Computational Biology.Marcel has spend a few years in the tech industry as a web app developer. He was part of the renowned Y Combinator startup accelerator’s class of 2014.

    Lift India 2015 - Recap

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2015 3:22


    Spread over a full week of events, Lift India, an initiative in collaboration with swissnex India, brought together more than 400 people from the main cities of India, Asia and Europe. The festivities started on Tuesday, October 27, with the opening of the Data Canvas: Sense Your City exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore (NGMA). The next day, 7 of the best Swiss startups of 2015 joined the Lift team for a crash-course on business in India and a visit of a few hand-picked innovation hubs of Bangalore. This discovery tour culminated with the Swiss Innovation Night on Friday 30, a fast-paced pitching session in front of representatives from corporations and governments, investors and fellow innovators, held at the Mövenpick hotel. On Saturday 31, all gathered back at the NGMA for the one-day, invitation-only Lift India conference, featuring our renowned combination of inspirational talks, workshops, masterclasses and interactive exhibition. Finally, the discovery tour headed to Mumbai for a soft landing into the innovation ecosystem at Zone Startups and a few meetings with key industry leaders.

    Philippe C. Cattin - Re-Inventing Bone Surgery

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2015 21:58


    Philippe C. Cattin is Associate Professor for Medical Image Analysis and Image-guided Therapy at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland and a M.Sc. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland in 1991 and 1991, followed by a doctoral thesis on biometric systems at the Institute of Robotics, ETH Zurich in 2002.After his Ph.D, Cattin lead the Medical Image Analysis Group of the Computer Vision Laboratory at the ETH Zurich until in late 2007, when he founded the Medical Image Analysis Center at the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel, Switzerland, which he is still leading today. Made possible by an endowment from the Swiss entrepreneur Dr. Hansjörg Wyss, the center has become a leading scientific contributor, developing and now minitaturizing robotic laser surgery. Cattin is currently also heading the newly established Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel and is widely expected to produce further breakthrouhgs in augmented reality and navigation and, his focus at Lift Basel, a computer-assisted robot-guided laser osteotome — simply put a robotic laser bone cutter.

    Gernot J. Abel - Open innovation to pave the way towards Bioeconomy

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2015 22:43


    At first sight, Gernot’s employer Novozymes from Denmark looks like a successful but fairly normal biotech company: they’re looking back at a long history, they’re building a campus, they’re really strong in industrial enzymes, microorganisms, and biopolymers, offering 700 biotechnology products in 130 countries.At second sight, there is more indeed: a strategic approach to open innovation and open source approaches that is far beyond the industry standard, with concepts like collaborative crowd-foresighting and their active involvement in local maker-spaces. These are open citizen innovation labs welcoming everybody to tinker with advanced technology, appropriate and apply it in new ways and making it meaningful to people’s lives in a very concrete way. For Gernot and his company, this is not about creating or securing intellectual property – it is exactly the opposite: they strive to learn and share with everybody, accelerating R&D in a smart and low-cost way. But how does Novozymes funnel open source innovations back from maker-spaces and into the corporation? Or in other words: how to they deal with the ubiquitous “not invented here” syndrome?

    Patricia Sigam - Digital Health, Time for New Players?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2015 13:38


    After her medical studies, Dr. Patricia Sigam started her career in surgery departments where she practiced for 6 years. Her interest in technology and in new ways of providing care brought her to eHealth and to over 5 years as physician for several telemedicine companies in Switzerland and further studies in Public Health at the University of Geneva. Passionate about the revolution brought by readily accessible mobile technology, she started digitalMedLab in 2012, a startup developing mobile solutions for health professionals.Having designed mobile apps for health call centers, for wound care, medication tracking and hypertension therapy, Patricia is in a unique spot to discuss the ongoing shift in doctor-patient relationships that go together with real-time health analytics and more and more data every day — and how Switzerland is coping with it.

    Bastian Greshake - Opening up a million genomes

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2015 17:32


    Bastian is a “lapsed evolutionary biologist-turned-bioinformatician”. He’s currently working on his PhD in applied bioinformatics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. At least this is what he’s doing by day. By night, he takes out his open data cape and works on openSNP.As companies offering personal genetic testing are growing rapidly, so is the potential for scientific discoveries by repurposing their data. Nearly 2 million people already submitted samples and got their own genome decoded. But where is the data? With openSNP, Bastian wants to provide anyone with a platform where they can share their genome, to either get rid of their last bit of genetic privacy or revolutionize how science is done.At Lift Basel, Bastian will discuss the multitude of effects, the surprises both good and bad that happen when genome data is not stored in locked-down databases but is made readily available to a new breed of citizen scientists.

    Cécile Monteil - Unique Relationship Between Patients and Doctors

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 14:51


    Cécile Monteil is an entrepreneur and physician, who advocates for the beneficial use of new technologies applied to health and medicine while keeping the patient and doctor relationship at heart. Cécile is a physician working in a pediatric emergency room department in Paris, as well as Medical Director for Ad Scientiam, a start-up using apps and connected objects to improve the monitoring of patients in clinical trials and medical practice. At the beginning of 2015, she founded Eppocrate, an NGO devoted to bridging the gap between the French physician community and the digital healthcare ecosystem. As an ambassador for the Thousand Network in Paris, a global community of 1000+ entrepreneurs, she facilitates knowledge and experience sharing among people. At Lift Basel 2015, Cécile will discuss the ongoing shifts in the doctor-patient relationship and how technology in the hands of patients affects the trust and power in these intimate relations.

    Rob Carlson - Building our Biological Future

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2015 22:58


    Rob Carlson has a curve named after him. And not just any curve. Rob predicted long ago that the doubling time of DNA technologies would be as fast as that of computer power. They turned out to be faster! The Economist basically named the 'Carlson Curve' the biotechnology equivalent of Moore’s law. A visionary thought leader of the bioeconomy, he is as much interested in the development of machine making custom DNA as he is concerned about the ethical and societal context of the application of biotechnology.In 2010 he published Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Lifeat Harvard University Press. Today, he is the Managing Director of venture capital firm Bioeconomy Capital.

    What future for Democracy?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2015 2:26


    What is democracy and how has it evolved? What will the various models used nowadays look like in the future? To what extent does it impact our happiness? Can we scale Swiss democracy to massive countries like Brazil?A discussion between Anja Wyden Guelpa (Chancellory of State, Geneva), Wolfgang Gründinger (Researcher) and Jon Mark Walls (CEO GovFaces)Recorded at Lift15, in Geneva.

    Makers in China: the power of community

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2015 2:23


    As one of the fastest growing countries in the world, China is becoming the next big innovator in the field of technology. Shenzhen has risen as the epicenter of industrial-size production of pretty much everything that has to do with connected hardware.What role do hackerspaces and makers play in this great change? How do they impact the ecosystem and allow Chinese people to innovate better and faster?Recorded at Lift15, Geneva.

    A Best Friend in Your Pocket

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2015 2:02


    Our smartphones have reached a level of computing that allows us to do almost anything we want, including creating 3D models of the space that is around us. What applications will come out of it for our everyday life? How far will these portable computers take us in our mobile endeavours?Recorded at Lift15, in Geneva.

    Lift to Space

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2015 2:16


    The European Space Agency (ESA) is joining forces with Lift to find new business applications and models using satellite data by working hand in hand with innovators. And keep in mind, space has no limit!Recorded at Lift15 in Geneva.

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