{"id":371,"date":"2014-02-06T15:22:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/?p=371"},"modified":"2015-11-13T20:16:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T19:16:24","slug":"how-to-surf-the-innovation-wave-and-survive-learning-from-the-lift-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"How to surf the innovation wave and survive? Learning from the LIFT Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lift Conference is one of Europe\u2019s key events about innovation and digital technologies. It features a special blend of inspiring speeches by some of the world\u2019s best speakers, truly interactive workshops, exhibitions of interactive media projects and prototypes to play with \u2026and the legendary Fondue!<\/em><\/p>\n

One thing I have learned from Lift is that Robots might not have soul, but like the Blabdroid, they might help humans to reveal their own soul and personality. Blabdroid is a tinny, lovely and simple robot<\/a>, based off the Boxie robot research from MIT, aiming to talk and to question humans in their humanity, what a paradox!<\/p>\n

Next, Bracken P. Darrell, CEO of Logitech, came on stage<\/a> and, while not being as much tinny and lovely than the Blabdroid, Bracken has some level of humanity, as he wants his company to remain small, at least reachable to everyone, and creating big products!<\/p>\n

Of course, for him the next big thing is the Internet of Things. Would you expect something else from the Logitech CEO? No, not really\u2026 nevertheless, if he could put his vision of following Apple\u2019s extreme design path: Simplicity, Functionality and Design; and keeping his company small in operating and remaining Agile; then Logitech might even exceed future customer\u2019s expectations!<\/p>\n

Most speakers talked about creativity and designers, Philippe Silberzahn, a professor debunking the myths of entrepreneurship, cited Arnold J. Toynbee, who had written, \u201cThe source of decline is the loss of creative capacity in the organization\u201d. Of course\u2026 then someone in the audience asked<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can we measure creativity?\u201d<\/p>\n

Arrrggghhh\u2026 human nature, willing to measure everything… sometime it is just good to STOP it and just DO it!<\/p>\n

If one speaker was full of creativity, it was Sean D. Goff, a teenager from Basel Switzerland. Sean was admitted, at the age of 9, to the advanced electronics workshop at “Jugend Elektronik- und Technikzentrum Regio Basel JETZ” as the youngest participant ever… and when he was asked how he is inventing all those things, he simply said\u2026 well, when I see a problem I think I can solve, I try\u2026 the BEST entrepreneur tip from a 16 years old guy, et voil\u00e0!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lift Conference is one of Europe\u2019s key events about innovation and digital technologies. It features a special blend of inspiring speeches by some of the world\u2019s best speakers, truly interactive workshops, exhibitions of interactive media projects and prototypes to play with \u2026and the legendary Fondue! One thing I have learned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[67,10,69,72,81,84,98],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-en","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-designers","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-innovation","tag-liftconference","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}