Frederic Kaplan, a researcher and robot designer from the Swiss Institute of Technology (Lausanne) talks about the future of robots as part of our daily life. He shows different scenarios that exemplify how everyday objects can become robotic and to what extent the next generation of computer interfaces will be influenced by this trend. In this talk Frederic Kaplan also presents how computers, which used to exist in their own world, now live in our daily life.

From Lift website

At the end of a decade during which the internet revolutionized our lives and organizations, the network is now moving beyond the browser, 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 is a three-day event taking place in Korea on September 4, 5 and 6 to answer these questions with a global community of doers and thinkers, featuring an innovative format made of scheduled talks, open sessions, and artists creating a special atmosphere to facilitate inspiration and networking.

Confirmed speakers: Joonmo Kwon (CEO of Nexon), Bruno Bonnell (founder of Infogrammes), Takeshi Natsuno (inventor of the imode for NTT Docomo), Eric Rodenbeck (Stamen Design), Wonsun Park (Hope Institute Korea), Adam Greenfield, Jeff Huang, Yang Soo-In, Frederic Kaplan, Tomoaki Katsuga, Jan Chipchase (Nokia), Christian Lindholm (Fjord), David Birch, and the one and only Dan Dubno (Green gadgets).

[13:00 Doors open]

14:00 Welcome Speech by Laurent Haug, founder of LIFT

14:15 Beyond the web we know: What's exciting on the web from the near future, what comes after web2.0?
Laurent Haug, LIFT (Switzerland)
Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design (USA)

[15:30 Break]

16:30 Virtual money: Recent changes in the digitalisation of money are less perceptible than more glamorous technologies, but they are of considerable importance. New banking solutions and money circulation practices are around.
David Birch, Consult Hyperion (UK)
Bruce Sterling (Italy)

[17:30 Break]

18:00 Sustainable Development Evening
Dan Dubno, Gizmorama (USA)
Another speaker to be announced soon.

19:30 Cocktail and Dinner

09:00 Aiming for a better society: How technologies can help shaping a more inclusive and sustainable society as well take advantage of the world's diversity.
Wonsun Park, The Hope Institute (Korea)
Raphael Grignani, Nokia Design (USA)
Another speaker to be announced soon.

[10:30 Break]

11:30 Networked city: The new digital layers provided by ICTs on contemporary cities have now become reality. What does that mean for its inhabitants? What changes can we expect? How will ubiquitous computing influence the way we live?
Adam Greenfield, Nokia Design (Finland)
Jeffrey Huang, EPFL (Switzerland)
Yang Soo Yin, The Living (Korea)

13:15 Lunch

14:30 Open Afternoon
Present your company, moderate a workshop, introduce your ideas to the world. The floor is yours, make your propositions!

16:30 The future of social worlds: Social platforms on the Web and Massive Multi-Player games are now merging in a new category of digital entertainment platforms with new business models and screens such as mobile phones. What does that mean for users? What does the usage of such platforms tell us about new forms of sociality?
Joonmo Kwon, Nexon (Korea)
Jury Hahn, Megaphone, (USA)

[17:30 Break]

18:00 Techno-nomadic life: The wireless and mobile technologies have freed us from the tyranny of "place", but what are the new constraints? What is the new behavior? Is the mobile web going through the same process as the Web of the 90s?
Jan Chipchase, Nokia (Japan)
Takeshi Natsuno, Keio University (Japan)
Christian Lindholm, Fjord (UK)

19:00 Dinner and party

10:00 From robots to networked objects: Current robots are going beyond the traditional anthropomorphism and start to communicate. What can we expect? What's hot in that domain that we will soon see all around us?
Tomoaki Kasuga, Speecys (Japan)
Frédéric Kaplan, EPFL (Switzerland)
Bruno Bonnell (France)

11:50 Conference wrap-up

12:30 End of conference

13:30 Social Activities and visits