Speakers

Named one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century,’ Tim invented the world wide web while at CERN in 1989. He is the Founder of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards forum for technical development of the Web, and co-founded the Web Foundation. He co-founded and is President of the Open Data Institute in London. Tim is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Computer Science and AI Lab ("CSAIL”) where his research group works to re-decentralize the web. In April 2017, Sir Tim was awarded the Turing Prize, which is considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing."