LES INTERVENANTS 2010

Matt Jones
Design director at BERG London
He has been delivering digital products and services since 1995. He was creative director for the launch version of the BAFTA award-winning BBC News Online. Between 2003-2005 he worked at Nokia on areas as diverse as RFID/NFC applications of tangible/physical interfaces and the human universal experience of play. From 2005-2007 he was director of user-experience design for Nokia’s Nseries range within Nokia Design. In early 2007 he co-founded and designed Dopplr.com, which grew into an influential and popular start-up travel service, before being sold to Nokia in the autumn of 2009.
He studied Architecture, qualifying in 1995 RIBA Part II and BArch from the Welsh School of Architecture. He has spoken at events such as Reboot, Ars Electronica, Webstock, O’Reilly’s Etech and FooCamp; and has written on interaction design, comic books and planetary-scale, self-replicating robot dogs for 10 years at http://www.magicalnihilism.com.

He is an advisor to the learning startup Schoolofeverything.com and is a visiting tutor on the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art.
 

Bruno Marzloff
Sociologist and director of the firm Chronos
Bruno Marzloff is a sociologist who, for the last ten years, has headed Groupe Chronos. This organisation is a research platform for innovative mobility services, drawing together fifteen or so major companies to focus on issues of urban mobility and methods of organising time in the city. He is also joint co-ordinator of the Ville 2.0 programme with Fing (Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération) and a member of the scientific committee of OTeN (Observatoire des Territoires Numériques). He is the author of several publications, the most recent being Le 5e écran (FYP Editions).


Fabien Girardin
Engineer, researcher and co-founder of Lift lab
Fabien Girardin conducts research projects into the simultaneous development of mobile technologies and human behaviour patterns in an urban context. He holds a doctorate in computer science and digital communications from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. His academic career has included affiliation to the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to lead the development of methods of analysis of spatio-temporal data generated by the presence of software infrastructures.
Fabien Girardin’s blog

Ulrich Fischer
Manager of the Walking The Edit project
It was in the 1990s, when he was a student of sociology and ethnography in Basle, that Ulrich Fischer embarked on his relationship with the world of images via silver-based photography. He was a member of the Geneva-based Cinéma Spoutnik collective for over 10 years. In 2000, he was awarded the first prize by the Geneva Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel. Between 2000 and 2002, he was a member of the selection panel for the international competition at the Viper International Festival for Film, Video and New Media in Basle, of which he became co-ordinator in 2002. For the last few years, he has been giving courses and workshops related to film, monitoring the work for the degree awarded by the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) as an external tutor and from time to time sits on examination panels. He is currently responsible for research carried out as part of programmes for the Masters degree in cinema - the WALKING THE EDIT project began in January 2008, and the initial results were presented in mid-2008. The results of the research were presented publicly in summer 2009.
 

Laurent Haug (modérateur)
Founder of the Lift conferences
An entrepreneur and researcher who is passionate about understanding innovation, Laurent Haug is a graduate of the university of Lausanne who spent the early years of his career developing and implementing technological solutions in a start-up company, before joining Arthur Andersen and then Pictet. He now works to identify and understand future changes, believing that an innovation that is anticipated is an opportunity, whereas an innovation that is simply undergone is a threat. Laurent is the founder and director-general of the Lift conference, a series of events built around a community of actors and thinkers who meet in Europe and in Asia to study the social impact of new technologies. He also writes a blog and is an adviser to business start-ups.
Laurent Haug’s blog