Sir Timothy Berners-Lee OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA

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2017

“World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future”, WorldWebForum, Zurich, Switzerland, January 2017
“World Wide Web and W3C in Japan”, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, March 2017
Fireside chat, Innovate Global Summit,London, UK, April 2017

2016

“The Past, Present and Future of the Web”, Thought Leadership Event, Boster Group, London, UK, February 2016.
“Protocols and Politics - the inseparable pair” Haldane Lecture, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, March 2016.
“Connecting the World”, The NAPF Investment Conference 2016, Edinburgh, UK, March 2016.
“History of the Web, Big Data and Future of the Web”, Moderated Q&A, Flagship Conference, Standard Life Investments, Rome, Italy, March 2016.
Keynote, “Solid and re-centralizing the web” WWW2016 conference, Montreal, Canada, April 2016.
“Realizing the Vision of Publishing Technology Being Web Technology", DigiCon, Chicago, IL, USA, May 2016.
“Re-decentralizing the web - some strategic questions”, Decentralized Web Summit, San Francisco, CA, U.S,A. June 2016.
“Entrepreneurship, leadership, and innovation”, Amway Annual Sales Convention, Shanghai, China, August 2016.
“Threats to the Internet” Q&A session, CloudFlare Internet Summit, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. September 2016.
“The Internet of Things, The Power of Data, and The Future of Artificial Intelligence” Chicago Mercantile Exchange Forum, Naples, FL, U.S.A. November 2016.

2015

“Looking back over 25 years of the WWW “, St. James's Place event, London, UK, January 2015.
“A Magna Carta for the Web”, Magna Carta reception in the House of Lords, UK Parliament, London, UK, January 2015.
“Leapfrogging Competition: Tech Strategy for Business”, World Forum of Foreign Direct Investment, Shurooq – Sharjah, UAE, February 2015.
“Celebrating 25 Years of the World Wide Web” NetGain Ford Foundation event, New York, NY, February 2015.
Panel discussion “Imagine a city of the Future”, Smart Cities event , Technology is GREAT or UK GREAT festival (with Buckingham Palace), Shanghai, China, March 2015.
“Ask Me Anything” (AMA) , “Make Tech Human” Reddit, March 2015
“Impact of the Internet: Web Payments”, Innovation Project 2015 ,Cambridge, MA, March 2015
“Web at 25; W3C at 20”, W3C Advisory Committee meeting, Paris, France. May 2015.
“Direction of the WWW”, Accenture Global CIO Forum, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. May 2015.
“Towards a Magna Carta for the Web: Insight from Diverse Voices ”, Web We Want Festival, Southbank Centre, London, UK, May 2015.
“The coming AI revolution”, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Cannes, France, June 2015.
“The future of the web: promises and pitfalls of open, linked data”, Winton Lecture Series, London, UK, September 2015.
“The Development of the WWW”, World Retail Congress, Rome, Italy, September 2015.
“Data Governance, Re-decentralization and Privacy and Security on the Web” fireside chat, FutureM Conference, Boston, MA October 2015.
“Past, Present and Future of the Web”, Internet of things World Forum, video, December 2015.
“The socio-economical transformation through the usage of smart data”, Accelerating Space – All Flash.No Limits, HP event, Berlin, Germany, November 2015.
“The Web: Past Present and Future” McCann / Thiess Conference, Bucharest, Romania, December 2015.
“The Future of the Web: 100 years”, Conference on 'The Unknown, One Hundred Years From Now: A Voyage of Discovery', The Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2015.

2014

"Adapting for the new era of technology and innovation". Leonteq conference, Zurich, Switzerland, January 2014
“What is the Web we want?" (part of CSAIL panel: “Computing the Future: MIT Scientists Tell All”), SXSW, Austin, Texas, March 2014.
“Ask Me Anything” (AMA) Reddit, March 2014.
“A Magna Carta for the web”, TED conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 2014.
"The World Wide Web and the Next 25 Years”, QCRI meeting, Qatar National Convention Centre Doha, Qatar, March 2014.
“Challenges for the future”, Lawtech Futures 2014, “The Future of Legal Technology" conference, London, UK, March 2014.
“The Web past and present”, Bank of New York and Mellon Investment Conference, London, UK, March 2014.
“WWW: the next 25 years”, WWW2014, Seoul, Korea, April 2014.
Speech and Panel discussion dedicated to the Web25 and Web We Want, Global Multistakeholder Meeting on Future of Internet Governance, ICANN Netmundial conference, Brazil, April 2014.
“The past, present and future of the Web”, Google UK, London, UK, May 2014.
“The Web We Want” introduction to Web We Want Festival, Southbank Festival, London, UK. May 2014.
“25 years after the birth of WWW, how will it shape our next 25 years -- and how we will shape it?”, Capacity Media Conference, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. May 2014.
"How can Web Science help shape the Web We Want?" panel, Web Science Institute Launch, Royal Society, London, UK, June 2014.
“Web challenges for the next 25 years“ Web at 25 Futur en Seine conference, Paris, France, June 2014.
Building Digital Cities roundtable, Bloomberg Technology Summit, London, UK, June 2014.
“Moonshot - a world-changing opportunity”, Deloitte UK Annual Partner Meeting 2014, London, UK, July 2014.
"Leapfrogging the competition: strategy for business", Infosys Connect 2014 , Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A. August 2014.
US Senate Committee briefing on Net Neutrality, meeting with Washington Post editoral board and at White House, Washington, DC, U.S.A., September 2014.
“The 25th anniversary of the Web: its evolution and what the future could hold”, Ideas Exchange (iEX) annual conference, London, UK, September 2014.
“London, its history, the Magna Carta and the Web”, Honorary Freedom of London, London, UK, September 2014.
“A Magna Carta for the Web”, Southbank Web We Want Festival 2014, London, UK, September 2014.
“Vision 2050 - Business and the Web”, IP EXPO Europe, London, UK, October 2014.
“Net Neutrality” panel, Internet Regulation in 2020 event,  Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy, Washington, D.C. U.S.A. October 2014.
“Web at 25: The Future of the Web”, W3C 20 Anniversary Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A. October 2014.
“25 years of the World Wide Web”, ODI Summit, London, UK. November 2014.
“The Past, Present and Future of the Web”, NBC Universal International Leadership Conference, Palm Springs, FL, U.S.A. November 2014.
Fireside chat on “The past present and future of the Web”, Guardian/Rolex The Every Second Counts Forum, London, UK, November 2014.
Meeting with the Intergroup on the Digital Agenda for Europe and European Commission Vice-President on Net Neutrality, and Digital Enlightenment Forum, Brussels, Belgium, November 2014.
“A Magna Charta for the Internet”, European Internet Forum (EIF), Brussels, Belgium, November 2014.
“In conversation with Sir Tim Berners Lee, Inventor, World Wide Web” with Loic Le Meur, LeWeb conference, Paris, France, December 2014.
“Platform of Knowledge Discovery”, The First Knowledge Conference, Dubai, UAE, December 2014.

2013

“The evolution of technology”, CareerBuilder Company Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, January 2013.
“Adapting for the new era of technology and innovation” Launch of the "Digital Productivity and Sen/ices Flagship", CSIRO, Syndey, Australia, January 2013.
"The Open Internet and The World Wide Web" lnternetNZ Event , Wellington, NZ, January 2013.
“The future of the Web”, linux.conf.au, Canberra, Australia, January 2013
“The importance of a linked data”, Australian Government Linked Data Working Group (AGLDWG): Syndey, Australia, January 2013
“Open data and innovation”, Gold Coast City Council (GCCC) and public lecture , Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Australia, February 2013.
“Web weavers of the future”, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, February 2013.
“Then, Now, Tomorrow: Sir Tim Berners-Lee - What’s next for the World Wide Web?”, University of Technology Sydney public lecture, Sydney, Australia, February 2013.
“Open Web Platform: Hopes & Fears", SXSW, Austin Texas, March 2013.
“The Web and the future” ICT Days 2013 Trentino Network, Trento Italy, March 2013.
"History and future of the web", Tufts University, Boston, MA, U.S.A. April 2013.
“Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on Reddit, April 2013
Panel: "Net neutrality and Internet freedom", WWW 2013, Rio, Brazil, May 2013.
“Past, present & future of the World Wide Web and its implications for our collaborative tomorrow”, SBS Global Korea Seoul Digital Forum 2013, Seoul, Korea, May 2013
"The Web and Entrepreneurship", 2013 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of The Year, Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 2013.
“Digital Rights for the Web”, Digital Enlightenment Forum, Brussels, Belgium, September 2013.
Satellite talk, from New York to Abu Dhabi Media Summit, October 2013.
“Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Global Context”, Vilnius Innovation Forum, Vilnius, Lithuania December 2013.
“Building a World Wide Human Rights Web: human rights and the free flow of information” , UN Human Rights Day, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2013.

2012

“The Semantic Web and the Open Web” Lotusphere conference, Orlando, FL, U.S.A. January 2012
“Protect the Open Web”, WWW2012 conference, Lyon France, April 2012.
“The data revolution”; Teradata conference, Dublin, Ireland. April 2012
“The future of the Web”, The Gulltagen Conference , Oslo, Norway, April 2012.
“The future of the Web”, The British Insurance Brokers' Association, Manchester, UK, May 2012.
"The Future of the Web: Understanding the Threats and Opportunities" SIX Management Conference, Zurich, Switzerland. May 2012.
“The Evolution of the Internet”, Royal Society event, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA. June 2012.
Introduction, Campus Party Berlin, Berlin, Germany, August 2012.
“WWW and Hopes for the future”, CSC Leading Edge Forum, London, UK, September 2012.
"How to get the most from the Web", Villa d'Este Forum, Lake Como, Italy, September 2012.
“The future of the Web”, Oslo Innovation Week, Oslo, Norway, October 2012.
“The Web as medium for positive change”, ITA Event and Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, December 2012.
“The WWW - Important Principles, Coming technologies” Turkey Innovation Week 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, December 2012.
“Social media and business, technology for the boardroom”, Aditya Birla Annual Leadership Awards , Mumbai, India, December 2012.
Guardian Activate Summit, Mumbai, India, December, 2012

2011

Keynote speech and moderated discussion with Al Gore, Campus Party Brazil, Sao Paolo Brazil, January 2011.
“WWW and Hopes for the Future”, National Centre for eLearning and Distance Learning conference, Riyadh Saudi Arabia, February 2011.
"Engineering the Web for a scale free society” speech and “Envisioning a Web Index” plenary discussion with Nigel Shadbolt, Network Science meets Web Science Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2011.
“The Web as a Decentralized System”, Complexity Conference, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, March 2011.
Net Neutrality Roundtable with Ed Vaizey roundtable, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, London, UK, March 2011.
Invited talk to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), New Delhi, India, March 2011.
“The Digital Debate: 'Information: Revolution or revelation?” panel, India Today conference, New Delhi, India, March 2011.
“Designing the Web for an Open Society”, WWW2011 Keynote, Hyderabad, India, March 2011.
“Dialogue on the Global Civil Society” with Gordon Brown, New York University, May 2011.
“Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything”, MIT150 symposium, Cambridge, MA, May 2011.
“A Distributed Infrastructure for Collective Intelligence”, OCW Conference, Cambridge, MA May 2011.
The Future of the Web, Bain event, London, UK, May 2011.
Linked Open Data panel, WWW2011, Bilbao, Spain, May 2011.
“The Web Universe” keynote speech and eGovernment Panel, Bilbao Web Summit, Bilbao, Spain, May 2011.
"Web: Threats and Opportunities" keynote, Profiting from the New Web conference, London, UK, May 2011.
"Past, Present and Future of the Web", Yorkshire International Business Convention (YIBC), Harrogate and Bridlington, Yorkshire, June 2011
session participant, “Session 3: Balancing Policy Goals to Strengthen Growth” at “The Internet Economy: Generating Innovation and Growth”, OECD/ISOC ITAC meeting, Paris, France, June 2011
“Protecting customer privacy”, Garlik dinner event, London, UK; June 2011.
Introduction, Campus Party Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; July 2011.
"The Web", CSAIL Qatar visit, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, July 2011
“Open Data, Open Society”, Austria Telecom event, Austria Vienna, October 2011.
“Evolving web technology and some security challenges which surround it”, RSA Security conference, London, UK, October 2011.
“First 20 years of the Internet and its future”, Italian Chamber of Commerce Event, Rome, Italy, November 2011.

2010

“Intelligence: Human, Machine, Web” and “Does an Algorithm Run Your Life?”, “Weak Signals Workshop” invited sessions, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland,  February 2010.
“The year open data went worldwide”, TED conference, Long Beach, CA, February 2010
Panel discussion, “Why Study the Web?” Web Science event, Royal Society, London, UK, February 2010.
“The future of the Internet", invited talk, Brussels, Belgium, February 2010.
“The Evolution of Web Science” and “Open Government and the World Wide Web” Plenary Panel with David Ferriero; Professor James Hendler, Paul Jones; Andrew McLaughlin and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and “Future of the Web” public interview with Danny Weitzner by Lee Rainie, WWW2015, Raleigh, NC, USA, April 2010.
“The Power of Data” panel with Maurice Biriotti, Shami Chakrabarti, and Brian Fitzpatrick, Google Zeitgeist event, Hertfordshire, UK, May 2010.
“WWW: Past, Present, and Future”, Orange Business Forum, Bratislava, Slovakia, May 2010.
“Linked Open Data and Gov2.0”, O'Reilly Gov2.0 Expo, Washington, DC, May 2010.
“The World Wide Web: Opportunity, Challenge, Responsibility" keynote speech and Dresden Future Forum panel discussion with Ray Kurzweil, Ranga Yogeshwar, T-Systems, Dresden, Germany, June 2010.
Royal Society Future Technologies panel discussion with Wendy Hall, Bill Thompson, Stephen Fry and Jim Haseloff, Royal Society, See Further: The Festival of Science + Arts, London, UK, June 2010.
“Open Data” keynote, Over The Air 2010 conference, London, UK, September 2010.
“The past and Future of the Web”, UNESCO Niels Bohr Gold Medal Award Ceremony, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2010.
Keynote, Nokia World 2010, London, UK, September 2010.
“A History of the Web”, Do Lectures, Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, Wales, September 2010.
“Open Data and the Open Web”, Technology & Governance 2.0, Kennedy School, Harvard University September 2010.
"Future Hopes for the Web" keynote, Web Science: a new frontier symposium, The Royal Society, London, UK, September 2010.
“Future of WWW and Future of Your Business”, Netia Anniversary event, Warsaw, Poland, October 2010.
“The Web” keynote speech, La Ciudad de las Ideas, Puebla Mexico, November 2010.
“The Semantic Web—What is it? Is it Ready for Prime-Time? And How Can I Use it?” panel with Jim Hendler, George Thomas, and Marion Royal, International Open Government Data Conference, Washington, DC, November 2010.
“The Web: Past, Present and Future”, DE Shaw & Co Annual Speaker Series, New York, NY, November 2010.
“Open Data and the Web for All”, ICTD conference, London, UK, December 2010.
“Linked Data”, Linked Data in the Future Internet session, Future Internet Assembly, Ghent, Belgium, November 2010.

2009

"Semantic Web and Linked Data", Campus Party Brazil, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 20 January 2009
Learning and Technology World Forum, London, UK, 13 January 2009
Keynote, Campus Party, São Paulo, Brasil, 20 January, 2009
"The Next Web", TED, Long Beach, California, USA, 4 Feb 2009
“What I want from a User Agent”, World Wide Web Consortium Advisory Committee meeting, Cambridge, MA , March 2009
Keynote, “Web Science”, 1st Web Science Conference 2009, Society On-Line, Athens, Greece, March, 2009
“The History of the Web and the Future of the Web”, World Wide Web @20, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland March 2009
“The Internet Threat: Who needs privacy when we can have relevant ads?” UK House of Commons, Hearing on privacy and packet inspection, London, UK, March 2009
“Twenty Years: Looking Forward, Looking Back”, WWW2009, Madrid Spain, April 2009
"The Linked Open Data Movement" Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, May 2009
“WWW: Past, Present, and Future”, British Science Museum, London, UK, September 2009
"One web, free and open for all", address to the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA)  Committee at the European Parliament, December 2009

2008

“Web History and Web Science”, IBM, London, UK, March, 2008
Saving the Web, W3C AC meeting, Beijing, China, 21 April 2008
“The Future of Web Applications”, WWW2008 Conference, Beijing, China, 24 April 2008
The Future of the World Wide Web, Tetherless World Research Constellation Conference, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, 10 June 2008
“Linked Open Data", LinkedData Planet, New York, NY, USA, 17 June 2008
Web Science Overview, NESTA Launch, London, UK, 8 July 2008
“The Future of the Web”, Campus Party Event, Futura Interactiva, Valencia, Spain, July 2008

2007

“The Mobile Web”, 3GSM Conference, Barcelona, Spain, February 2007.
“The Future of the World Wide Web", Hearing on the "Digital Future of the United States: Part I, Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, March 2007
“Looking Back, Looking Forward: The process of Designing Things in a Very Large Space”, Lovelace Lecture, British Computer Society, London, UK, March 2007
“Looking Back, Looking Forward”, NACStech keynote, Nashville, TN, USA, April 2007
“Web Science”, Draper Prize Lecture, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 2007
“The Two Magics of Web Science”, WWW2007 Conference, Banff, Canada, May 2007
“Data Integration and Transparency”, Toward More Transparent Government: Workshop on eGovernment and the Web, Washington, DC, USA, June 2007
“"Invention to Phenomenon: Short History of the WWW”, 2007 John Pinkerton Lecture, Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, UK, September 2007
“Web Future”, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, Boston, MA, USA, October 2007
"Web Science and Fractals", MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2007
"Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing the Mobile Web with Open Standards", Mobile Internet World, Boston, MA, USA, November 2007
"Web History and Web Science", ANN Conference on Webscience, Networks, and Society, California, USA, November 2007
"Web Past and Future", World Healthcare Innovation and Technology (WHIT 3.0) Congress, Washington, DC, USA, December 2007

2006

"The Future of the Web" Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK, March 2006
"Web Design and Web Use: Hopes and Fears", Snyder Presidential Lecture Series, Tufts University, MA, USA, March 2006
"Semantic Web: Building on What Exists", MIT ILP Conference, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 2006
“The Future of the Web", Spencer Trask Lecture Series, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, April 2006
"Democracy and the Semantic Web", speech to Stennis Congressional Fellows, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 2006
"The Next Wave" panel discussion, WWW2006 conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006
"Tabulator: AJAX Genric RDF browser", Developer's Day speech, WWW2006 conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006
"AI and Semantic Web", Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Boston, MA, USA, July 2006
"Shrinking the World - Riding the New Wave", Global Leadership Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2006
"Semantic Web and Geospatial Information: Data Integration Across Domains", Ordnance Survey Terra Future event, London, UK, September 2006
"Semantic Web: Changing gears: Data on the Web: "Crossing the chasm"" Branding and Innovation Lecture Series, HP Labs, Marlborough, MA, USA, September 2006
“Searching for Web 3.0”, W3C Advisory Committee Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, November 2006
“Tabulator: AJAX Generic RDF browser”, ISWC conference, Athens, GA, USA, November 2006
“Identifying and Describing Things on the Web”, CrossRef 2006 Annual Member Meeting, Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2006

2005

"The WWW: Future Developments", Millennium Distinction-event, Tampere, Finland and Oulu, Finland, March 2005.
"The Unfolding Semantic Web" keynote, Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS) conference, Washington, DC, April 2005.
"The Future of the Web", invitation-only workshop, British Computer Society, London, UK, September 2005.
"Semantic Web Challenges" Invited talk, University of Edinburgh, UK, September 2005.
"Semantic Web: Building on Existing Systems," Working Knowledge Conference, Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA, October 2005.
"Web of Rules: Discussing whether knowledge can be represented in a web-like way using rules, so as to derive serendipitous benefit from the unplanned reuse of such knowledge" ISWC and RuleML conference, Galway, Ireland, November 2005.
Industry Day – Information Juggernaut panel discussion, National University of Ireland, Galway, Novmeber 2005
"Web - past, present and future", MITRE Technology Speaker Series, Bedford, MA, - USA, November 2005
Carey Lecture Series, Lexington, MA, USA, December 2005

2004

Lecture, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, April 2004.
Keynote, WWW2004 conference, New York, NY, May 2004
“Connections – it’s all connections”, talk, Stata Center Opening symposium, May 2004
“The Future - Speech and the Web”, keynote, SpeechTEK conference, New York, NY, September 2004
“The Web: Past, Present and Future", Lecture, IEEE Life Members Chapter Seminar, Lexington, MA, Septebmer 2004
"The Semantic Web", W3C Life Sciences Workshop, Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, October 2004

2003

“The Semantic Web and Challenges“, ILOG Technical Advisory Board, Boston, January 2003.
“Standards, Semantics and Survival”, Keynote Speech,, Software and Information Industry Association conference, January 2003.
Keynote, Boston Foundation, Boston, MA, February 2003.
“The Semantic Web: Build the metadata, and it will come”, keynote, 26th Annual PC Forum conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 2003.
“Web Services-Semantic Web: Integrating Applications”, Gartner Web Services and Application Integration Summit, Los Angeles, CA, May 2003
keynote, Open GIS Consortium “IT – The Emerging Technology” Summit, Washington, DC, June 2003
“Web Services-Semantic Web”, keynote, MITRE Web Technology Convergence Symposium, Bedford, MA, August 2003
“Web Accessibility Initiative”, keynote, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, “IT- The Universal Enabler” conference, London, UK, September 2003
“The Future of the World Wide Web”, The Royal Society, London, UK, September 2003
Keynote, World Creative Forum, London, UK, September 2003
“Documents, Data and People: World Wide Webs” lecture, The Computer History Museum, San Jose, CA, October 2003
“Semantic Web: Where to Direct our Energy”, keynote, Second International Semantic Web Conferece, Sanibel Island, FL, October 2003
Keynote, The Role of Science in the Information Society conference, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2003

2002

"Webizing Python", The Tenth International Python Conference, Alexandria, VA , February 2002.
“The World Wide Web - Past Present and Future”, Japan Prize Commemorative Lecture, Narita Japan April 2002.
Keynote, Information and Privacy Commission conference, Toronto, Ontario, June 2002.
“Boundryless Information Flow: the Role of Web Services”, Open Goup Web Services Conference, Boston, MA July 2002.
Keynote, Telluride Tech Festival, Colorado, August 2002.
Cadence Distinguished Speakers Series, Chelmsford, MA, November 2002.

2001

Keynote, Software AG Experience Conference, Orlando, FL April 2001.
Keynote, Analog Devices Conference, Danvers, MA April 2001.
“English as a Global Language: Opportunities and Challenges” discussion with Sir David Frost and author, Deborah Tannen, Smithsonian Associates; Washington, D.C., May 2001.
Keynote, Digital Media Forum, Ford Foundation, Alexandria, VA May 2001.
Lecture, Congressional Internet Caucus Speaker's Series, Washington, D.C June 2001.
Keynote, Web Services conference, Software Development Conference and Expo, Hynes Convention center, Boston, August 2001.
“Democracy and the Internet : New Rules for New Times”, Europeaneum Policy Forum, Oxford, UK September 2001.
"Semantic Web: New Issues in the Web of Machine-Processable Data", Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, December 2001.

2000

Bakersfield Business Conference, Bakersfield, CA, October 2000.
“XML and the Web”, Keynote XML World, September 2000.
Keynote: National Summit of Young Technology LeadersAustin, TX, July 2000
Keynote: Digital Reality II Conference, South Boston, MA: J.F. Kennedy Library, June 2000.
London 2000 Conference, London, UK, June 2000.
E.volution - the 21st Century Business Imperative, A.T. Kearnery Business Meeting, London, UK, June 2000.
Keynote, GovTech 2000, Washington, D.C., June 2000.
Staffware Corporation Annual User's Conference, Cambridge, MA - Royal Sonesta Hotel, June 2000.
Keynote: National Summit of Young Technology LeadersAustin, TX, July 2000.
“Lifespan of the Internet” panel, Internet & Society 2000 Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2000.
Keynote, eBusiness Summit 2000, San Diego, CA. March 2000.

1999

“The Web is changing – What Will Happen to Electronic Commerce”, invited keynote, 1999
Internet Commerce Expo, Boston, MA, March 1999.
“Standards, Publishing, and the Future of the Web”, invited talk, XML and the Publishing Industry, Seybold Boston, March 1999
AT&T Web Week Conference, invited keynote, Somerset, NJ, April 1999.
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, invited keynote, Washington, D.C., April 1999.
“Challenges of the second decade”, invited keynote, Eighth International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1999.
The Wall Street Journal Millennium Forum, Harvard Business School, McCollum Center, Cambridge MA, October 1999.
"The Future of the Internet" Panel, 92nd St. Y, Lexington Ave. New York, NY, October 1999.

1998

World Economic Forum, invited talks, Davos Switzerland, Feb. 1998.
“The World Wide Web: Hopes for the future”, invited keynote, Quebec Internet Forum 1998, Montreal, Canada, Feb. 1998.
“XML and the Future of Web Publishing”, invited talk, Seybold Seminars, New York, NY, March 1998.
“Evolvability”, invited keynote, Seventh International World Wide Web Conference, Brisbane, Australia, April 1998.
“Managing the Web: Chaos to Quality”, invited keynote, AIIM ’98, Anaheim, CA, May 1998.
NationsBanc Software & Internet Conference, invited keynote, Boston, MA, June 1998.
“Web Phase II: Revolution or Evolution”, invited keynote, DCI’s eBusiness World, Boston, MA, Sept. 1998
AMIA Conference, Orlando, FL, Nov. 1998.

1997

“Internet imperative”, and “The future of the internet”, invited sessions, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, Feb. 1997.
“The World Wede Web at the Millennium”, invited keynote, ComNet 97, Washington, D.C. Feb. 1997.
“What won’t change?”, invited keynote, Internet/Intranet Development Conference (IAD) ’97, New York, NY, March 1997.
“Of Webs and Objects”, invited talk , Object World Conference, Boston, MA, March 1997.
PC Forum 97, invited keynote, Tuscon, AZ, March 1997.
“How is the Web evolving?”, invited keynote, Comdex UK, London, April 1997.
“Learning and working together”, invited keynote, Online Learning 97, Seattle, WA, Sept. 1997.
“The Web Directions and Impact”, invited keynote, 7th Int’l Conference of Siemens Nixdorf IT Users, FOCUS 97, Rome, Italy, Sept. 1997.

1996

“ The World Wide Web: Today and Tomorrow”, invited lecture, Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme (SNI) Technology Leadership Lecture, Munich, Germany, March 1996.
“The Past, Present and Future of the World Wide Web”, keynote, Internet Conference hosted by University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 1996.
“The Axes of Revolution”, opening plenary keynote 2nd day, Java One Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 1996.
“Web, World Wide Web Consortium, and the Future”, luncheon keynote, Massachusetts Software Council Fall Membership Meeting/International Software Exposition, Boston, MA, Sept. 1996.
“Building Industries on the Web”, invited keynote, Foundations: Breaking New Ground Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, Sept. 1996.
“Creativity in Cyberspace”, invited keynote, Software Development ’96, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1996.
Making Sense of Technology Conference, keynote address, New York, NY, Nov. 1996.
EITC Conference, Future markets and the future of IT, plenary keynote address, Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 1996.

1995

World-Wide Web: the Future”, invited lecture, Leeds University, England, 25 April 1995.
Invited talk, National On-line Meeting 95, Washington DC.
“World Wide Web: What Will We Want? When?, Invited talk, National Online Meeting, New York, NY, May 1995.
“The W3 Consortium and the Future”, invited keynote, DAGS, June 1995.
“The Evolution and Revolution of the Web”, invited keynote, INET ’95, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1995.
“Five Years On”, invited presentation, Fourth International World Wide Web Conference, Boston, MA, Dec. 1995.

1994

“Issues for the future of the Web” opening keynote, First International World Wide Web Conference, Geneva, May 1994
“Worldwide Hypermedia,” closing keynote, European Conference on Hypertext (ECHT94), Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. 1994.
“The World Wide Web and W3C,” Invited plenary, Second International World Wide Web Conference, Chicago, Nov. 1994.
Nearnet annual seminar, November 1994.
Northeastern University, Dec. 1994.

1992

Presentation of the World Wide Web, Xerox PARC, August 1992

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