A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ( CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is also a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK.
He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is a founding Director of the Web Science Trust (WST) launched in 2009 to promote research and education in Web Science, the multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology.
He is also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to fund and coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
During 2009 Tim also advised the UK Government’s “Making Public Data Public” initiative.
In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany’s Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit. In 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of “Weaving the Web“.
Charlie Beckett is the founding director of Polis, the journalism think-tank in the LSE’s Media and Communications Department. Before setting up POLIS in 2006 he was an award-winning filmmaker and editor at LWT, BBC and ITN’s Channel 4 News. He is the author of SuperMedia (Wiley Blackwell, 2008) which sets out how journalism is being transformed by technological and other changes and how that will impact on society.
Polis is a public forum for debate about the news media in the UK and globally. Polis holds seminars, conferences and lectures and has published reports on topics such as social media, reporting politics, financial journalism, humanitarian communication and media and development.
Charlie Beckett is also a trustee of Article 19 and the Institute of Development Studies and Chairman of the Informed Society Council at the World Economic Forum. He is currently writing a book about the significance of WikiLeaks for political communications. He blogs at www.charliebeckett.org and is on Twitter as @charliebeckett.
Dr Graham Spittle is Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Software Group Europe for IBM UK Ltd, having held various other roles in IBM including VP Software for UK and Ireland, VP World Wide Integration Development and Director of the IBM Hursley Laboratory. He also chairs the Governing Board of the Technology Strategy Board.
Graham has lectured and published on Software Contracting and Intellectual Property. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Visiting Professor in the School of Informatics at Edinburgh University, a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Southampton University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol. Graham was awarded the CBE for Services to Industry in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2008.
As Chief Scientist at salesforce.com, Rangaswami will focus on helping salesforce.com’s European customers think about innovative ways to use the real-time, mobile and social capabilities provided by Salesforce apps and the Force.com platform.
Rangaswami joined salesforce.com in November 2010 as salesforce.com’s first Chief Scientist. He is tasked with the responsibility of contributing to salesforce.com’s product strategy and ensuring that the benefits of cloud computing are being promoted globally.
Prior to joining, Rangaswami spent four years at BT in London, most recently as Chief Scientist of the BT Group. He brings over 30 years’ of technology experience to salesforce.com with large multinational companies. This includes holding the role of global chief information officer at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, which he joined in 1997. While there, he established his reputation for innovation within the enterprise, culminating in a series of Harvard Business Review case studies. Rangaswami has also held a variety of leadership and technology positions at Burroughs Corp., Data General and Hoskyns Group.
Rangaswami is chairman of School of Everything, an educational start-up that teaches a broad range of socially focused topics via the web. He is also a venture partner at Anthemis Group.
Rangaswami is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and is a Chartered IT Professional of the British Computer Society.
He writes a popular blog called Confused of Calcutta, and contributed a guest chapter to The Cluetrain Manifesto, a best-selling business book.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Statistics from St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta.
Nigel Shadbolt is Deputy Head (Research) of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He is a Director of the Web Science Trust, and of the Web Foundation – organisations that seek to advance our understanding of the Web and promote the Web’s positive impact on society.
In June 2009 together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee he was appointed a Government Information Advisor to help transform public access to Government information – work which resulted in the data.gov.uk site. In May 2010 the Coalition Government appointed him to the Public Sector Transparency Board that oversees public data release. He is also Chair of the Local Public Data Panel within the Department of Communities and Local Government – this seeks to coordinate and promote local open data release.
He has researched and published over a wide range of topics; ranging from cognitive psychology to computational neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence to the Semantic Web. He was one of the originators of Web Science – this calls for a systems level approach to the Web that recognises the social and technical factors that shape its development.
He has also been heavily involved with the commercial exploitation of research. Recent companies he has helped found include Garlik, Tacit Connexions and Seme4. More details of his research and other activities can be found at http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrs/.
He was CEO of Europe’s first e-money service, Nochex, and of Europe’s first Google Maps mashup, OnOneMap. He designs and delivers Internetome, the Internet of Things Conference.
One of the first computer scientists to undertake serious research in multimedia and hypermedia, she has been at its forefront ever since. The influence of her work has been significant in many areas including digital libraries, the development of the Semantic Web, and the emerging research discipline of Web Science. She has published over 400 papers and is frequently invited to speak at high profile conferences and events
With Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt she co-founded the Web Science Research Initiative in 2006 and she is currently a Director of the Web Science Trust which has a global mission to support the development of research, education and thought leadership in Web Science.
In addition to playing a prominent role in the development of her subject, she also helps shape science and engineering policy and education.
She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year’s Honours list, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 2009.
She was President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from 2008-2010; the first person from outside North America to hold this position. Other significant posts she has held include Senior Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, founding member of the European Research Council, member of the EPSRC Council, President of the British Computer Society and EPSRC Senior Research Fellow. She was appointed as Chair of the European Commission’s ISTAG in July 2010.
Philip Tetlow is an Executive IT Architect and a member of the (UK and Ireland) Technical Consultancy Group in IBM’s Global Business Services Practice. He holds the first PhD in Web Science, is a Chartered Engineer, an Open Group Master IT Architect, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Computer Science at the York University. He has over 20 years experience in the IT industry and has worked on a number of challenging client facing projects.
He specialises in the application of Web-based technologies, metadata and transformation techniques on large central government systems. He has participated in the World Wide Web Consortium and coordinated their taskforce on the application of the Semantic Web in Software Engineering as part of the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group. He is also acknowledged in the Object Management Group’s Ontology Definition MetaModel (ODM) specification and has been a Software Engineering workshop committee member at the International Semantic Web Conference on two occasions.
Bill Thompson has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984 and spends his time thinking, writing and speaking about the digital world we are in the midst of building. He appears weekly on Digital Planet on the BBC World Service and writes a regular column for the BBC News website and is an advisor to a range of arts and cultural organisations on their digital strategies. He is currently working in the Archive Development team at the BBC building relationships with museums, galleries and institutions.
Ralf Herbrich is heading the Bing Personalization team which works on enabling personalized experiences across Microsoft’s Online Services Division. Ralf joined Microsoft Research in 2000 as a Postdoctoral researcher and Research Fellow of the Darwin College Cambridge. During his time at Microsoft Research, he was co-leading the Applied Games group which engaged in research at the intersection of machine learning and computer games and the Online Services and Advertising research group which conducts research in the areas of online services, search and online advertising combining insights from machine learning, information retrieval, game theory, artificial intelligence and social network analysis. From 2009 to 2011, Ralf was Director of Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Lab UK demonstrating and enabling new social experiences through development of computational intelligence technologies on large online data collections, for example Project Emporia. Ralf is one of the inventors of the Drivatars™ system in the Forza Motorsport series as well as the TrueSkill™ ranking and matchmaking system in Xbox 360 Live. He also co-invented the click-prediction technology used in Bing’s online advertising system.
Ian joined Talis in June 2005 having worked as an independent technology consultant since 1995. During that time as well as consulting for multi-national corporations including Sony and Worldcom he founded three technology start-ups in the areas of large scale search, syndication and semantic web architectures. Ian is responsible for Talis’ Platform division, engagement with the developer community and coordinates involvement with standards bodies. Ian holds a BSc in Theoretical Physics, from the University of London.
Dr. Victor Henning is the co-founder and CEO of Mendeley, a London- and New York-based technology startup. Since its launch in 2009, Mendeley has grown into the world’s largest research collaboration platform with more than 900,000 users, and the world’s largest crowdsourced research database with more than 80 million uploaded documents. For his work on Mendeley, Victor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He holds a Ph.D. from the Bauhaus-University of Weimar, where he researched the role of emotion in consumer decision making.
Jonny joined Edelman as head of Analyst Relations and Strategy in 2006. He has led a range of campaigns for technology vendors covering both consumer and enterprise segments. His experience on clients include Intel, Xbox 360, HP, Orange, Motorola, Microsoft, Adobe, HDS, Reuters, FileNet, BT, Misys, ACI and Siebel. Prior to this, he worked at Informa, the telecoms analyst house, and as an IT consultant.
An advocate and evangelist of social media, Jonny has the highest ranked analyst relations blog (Technobabble 2.0), created TweetLevel, BlogLevel and the Social Media Index and is the author of a white paper focusing on online influence. His work has featured on CNN, Sky News, the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, Mashable and ReadWriteWeb.
Understanding how analyst relations has evolved over the past ten years, Jonny monitors analysts use of social media and publishes a league table of analyst bloggers and tweeters every quarter.
Jonny is a director and founding member of the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) and is a regular speaker on analyst relations and social media, including Forrester’s IT Forum, Oxford University and Social Media Week. Jonny is a Leeds Metropolitan University graduate.
Dr. Sudarshan Murthy is the Director of The Else Institute, a non-profit institute to foster, conduct, and apply scientific research and research education.
Prior to joining The Else Institute, Dr. Murthy was the Director of Applied Research at Wipro Technologies. Before that, he founded and operated a software-engineering business in Portland, Oregon, and prior to that, architected software for international trade finance.
Dr. Murthy has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in data management at the Oregon Health & Science University; and software engineering at the Oregon Institute of Technology.
Dr. Murthy has a PhD from the Portland State University and a Masters from the Oregon Graduate Institute. His current research interests include database systems, programming languages, software engineering, web science, and service science.
Hector has trained as an economist, worked on four national newspapers as a staff features journalist, led a web development consultancy advising RBS and BA, put together an MBO, and helped steer the digital transformation at News International.
Alongside his work with Meanwhile, Hector heads up digital development at The Times, recently relaunching thetimes.co.uk and shaping the editorial and product strategy to deliver subscription revenue alongside transactional revenue via the first paid-for mainstream newspaper app in the world.
As the senior editorial partner for the commercial teams at The Times, Hector has conceived and overseen delivery of numerous cross-platform branded content partnerships for clients including BMW, Accenture, Lloyds Bank, Volkswagen, IBM, Cisco and Microsoft.
As Vice President of Marketing & Community for Radian6 in the UK, Paul uses innovative monitoring and engagement techniques as well as traditional marketing methods to strengthen the international Radian6 brand. Previously co-founder of 6Consulting Ltd (acquired by Radian6 March 2011) he is a successful entrepreneur with a process improvement consultancy background and has experience in enterprise-wide software deployment for leading brands such as Kellogg’s, ASDA and Sophos.
Paul is recognised for innovation via the use of social media monitoring across British police forces as well as specialist groups including the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Serious & Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). You can follow Paul on Twitter at @Paul_TaylorUK.
Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences and the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University, USA. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks. His research program has been funded continuously for 15 years by major grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation with additional current funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Air Force Research Lab, Army Research Institute, Army Research Lab and the MacArthur Foundation.
Professor Contractor’s book titled Theories of Communication Networks (co-authored with Professor Peter Monge, published by Oxford University Press, and translated into Chinese in 2010) received the 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association. He is the lead developer of C-IKNOW (Cyberinfrastructure for Inquiring Knowledge Networks On the Web), a socio-technical environment to understand and enable networks among communities, as well as Blanche, a software environment to simulate the dynamics of social networks. Professor Contractor has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a PhD from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.
Member of the Public Sector Transparency advising UK Government on Transparency and Open Data. Previously, Director for Digital Engagement, and Deputy Government CIO at the Cabinet Office.
Lesley has been Managing Director / Chief Executive of Nominet since 2002. She is responsible for leading Nominet and for the development and implementation of strategy. She leads relationship building and liaison with Nominet members and stakeholders and international representation and leadership in the Internet field.
In 2007, she won the CBI First Women Award for Technology. In 2006, she was a top five finalist in Britain’s Best Boss awards and received a special commendation.
Lesley is an elected Council Member of the Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, The Institute of Credit Management and The Chartered Management Institute.
Lesley is a Trustee of the Nominet Trust and the Jenner Hall charity. She has an MBA, with distinction.
The conference mission
Discover new and better ways to do business, run our countries, and lead fulfilling and sustainable lives via the intelligent, innovative and diligent development of the New Web, and to make progress faster than otherwise.
What is the New Web?
The term Web 1.0 is applied retrospectively to a Web of documents and ecommerce. The term Web 2.0 has come to describe social community and user-generated content. The New Web – the Web of Data or the Semantic Web, and sometimes Web 3.0 – entails the Web itself understanding the meaning of that participation and content.
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