Winning the Urban Data Challenge
We just came back from San Francisco, where we announced the winners of the Urban Data Challenge, launched at Lift13. We quickly wanted to share the inspiring results with you:Just how frustrated are...
View ArticleMeet Jay Nath, the One-Man Municipal Accelerator
San Francisco and the entire Bay Area are well known as a tech innovation hotbed, for a thriving private sector with all its Googles, Facebooks and so on. But what about the public sector? What can a...
View ArticleThe Lift14 Poster is here
It's always a major step in the making of a conference when we agree with our friends at Bread and Butter on its visual identity. The design process includes usually quite a few hours of discussions of...
View ArticleSami Kanaan opens Urban Data Challenge exhibit at OKcon
On the second day of the world’s leading open data and open knowledge event, Sami Kanaan, Counselor for the city of Geneva, officially opened the Urban Data Challenge exhibit, showcasing some of the...
View ArticleFlight Assembled Architecture Pioneer at Lift14
Already since before his spectacular showcase of flight assembled architecture -complex bricklaying with a swarm of autonomous quadcopters- we've been trying to bring Fabio Gramazio to Lift, but...
View ArticleDesign & Print Your Own Lift14 T-Shirt !
This year, you get to design and print your own t-shirt during the conference!We're talking innovation here: after years of research, our partner Screenprint developed a totally new way of transferring...
View ArticleLift China showcases projects from HEAD Geneva
In order to kick off this event in style, let us share with you some shiny representatives of the emerging digital creative scene in Switzerland and China that will be exhibited at Lift China! We are...
View ArticleSwiss Digital Alliance Manifesto launched
Lift just launched the Swiss Digital Alliance past weekend in Locarno together with our partner in crime Festival Tous Ecrans. The alliance represents some of Switzerland’s most active organizations in...
View ArticleThe Lift15 Poster is here
Each year, in the creative process of the conference, we collaborate with our friends at Bread and Butter in order to give the Lift poster its unique visual identity. The creative process includes...
View ArticleWhat a Busy Year: Lift Activities Updates
You may have heard these past few weeks about Lift Basel, Lift China or other Lift projects - fantastic things are going on! We thought it's time to give you aconsolidated update on Lift’s...
View ArticleData Canvas: Sense Your City
In 2015, swissnex SF, Lift and Gray Area join forces again to bring about change in the urban landscape. With the collaboration of SEEED Studio, a Chinese hardware platform for and by makers, the City...
View ArticleThe winning projects of Data Canvas: Sense Your City have been chosen!
After 10 weeks of competition, we have received 34 amazing submissions from 62 creators around the world. Our international jury rated each one of them based on various criteria such as Creativity in...
View ArticleData Canvas: Sense Your City Exhibition in Geneva
Opening of international exhibitions in GenevaSince March 27, 2015, the 14 winning projects of the online data visualization competition Data Canvas: Sense Your City have been online for all to see and...
View ArticleLift China 2015 - Shanghai & Shenzhen
With 260 participants, 18 speakers and 7 startups coming from fields as diverse as entrepreneurship, social and interactive design, academia, technological innovation and business, Lift China 2015 was...
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