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

Talks

1992 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009

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2009

• "The Next Web", TED, 4 Feb 2009
• Keynote, Campus Party, São Paulo, Brasil, 20 January, 2009
• Learning and Technology World Forum, London, UK, 13 January 2009
• "Semantic Web and Linked Data", Campus Party Brazil, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 20 January 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