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Let's meet: Lift14 Brainstorming Apéro in Geneva

LIFT Conference — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:50:15 +0000

We would love to catch up and exchange ideas for the Lift14 program. Join us on Monday June 17 at 5pm for drinks and discussions at the Lift Office in Geneva at Quai du Seujet 18.

Learnings from the Lift13 Survey

LIFT Conference — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:20:29 +0000

It took us quite a while to study all the survey results - understand, analyze and digest your numerous comments. Many thanks for your feedback, we really appreciate it ! And a big thank you to OWL Re, the independent company who has been running the Lift satisfaction survey of the participants for the last six years.

OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now!

LIFT Conference — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:39:38 +0000

Great book: "Interviewing Users" by Lift speaker Steve Portigal

LIFT Conference — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:34:50 +0000

Steve Portigal, who delighted us with his speech Lift11 speech "Discover and act on insights about people" just published his first book:

Interviewing Users explains how to succeed with interviewing, including:

Meet Jay Nath, the One-Man Municipal Accelerator

LIFT Conference — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:07:52 +0000

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 city do to leverage such assets, such a culture not only for higher tax revenues, but for the development of the processes, structures and infrastructures of the city as a whole? There must be more than just a hands-off approach?

The Business Impact of Open Data: A Case Study

LIFT Conference — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:16:29 +0000

Recently Sylvie met Thomas Gauthier at the Lift office for coffee. Thomas is co-founder of Biometis, a startup which offers data-driven decision support services to healthcare companies.

Winning the Urban Data Challenge

LIFT Conference — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:57:59 +0000

We just came back from San Francisco, where we announced the winners of the Urban Data Challenge, launched at Lift14. We quickly wanted to share the inspiring results with you:

New event: Open Knowledge Conference

LIFT Conference — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:00:00 +0000

Urban Data Challenge: international exhibition of your project

LIFT Conference — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:40:53 +0000

Only 3 weeks left to participate in the Urban Data Challenge between the cities of San Francisco, Geneva and Zurich! Thank you for the great feedback so far, we are delighted about the 300+ sign-ups from all over the world. If you have any questions or are still looking for a team member, it's not too late: Check out our google group.

Start-up Scene in Uruguay

LIFT Conference — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:52:07 +0000