Speakers
- Arthur Barstow
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Bert Bos
- Dan Brickley
- Tantek Çelik
- Hannah Donovan
- Jeremy Keith
- Eduardo Manchón
- Matt May
- Charles McCathieNevile
- Ismael Nafría
- George Oates
- Allan Sandfeld
- Mike Schroepfer
- Doug Stamper
- Jeffrey Veen
- Rigo Wenning
Suggestions:
Arthur Barstow
Arthur Barstow has been a Senior Architect at Nokia since 1998. His interests include Web Applications, Widgets, Semantic Web and Declarative Languages for Applications and User Interfaces. Barstow is the Chair of the W3C's Web Application Formats Working Group. He has over twenty years of experience in the computer industry including active contributions to the Open Source community via the X Window Consortium, Open Software Foundation and the W3C.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, holds the 3Com Founders chair and is a Senior Research Scientist in the Decentralized Information Group at the CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is co-Director of the new Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) and is a Chair in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK.
In 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML have been the basis for the ones used today.
Bert Bos
Bert Bos was, in 1994, one of the original authors of CSS. He joined W3C in 1995 to set up W3C's internationalization activity and was part of the groups that created HTML and XML. He is now coordinator for W3C's style sheet and math activities. Bert studied mathematics in Groningen, The Netherlands, and holds a PhD from that university. He is co-author with Håkon Wium Lie of the book Cascading Style Sheets: designing for the Web.
Dan Brickley
Dan Brickley is a developer, advocate and researcher in the area of Semantic Web and social computing. He spent much of the last decade helping develop and promote data interchange standards for W3C, joining the Web Consortium team in 1999 to help establish the Semantic Web initiative. He is now working at Joost on widgets, TV annotation and 'social Web' integration. Previously he has directed a developer-outreach EU project (SWAD-Europe), been technology director of a project on medical content labelling, co-created the FOAF project, and worked on a variety of educational technology and search projects at the University of Bristol where he established one of the first research groups devoted to Semantic Web technology.
Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik is dedicated to advancing open standards and simpler data
formats for the Web. Tantek is one of the founders of both the nascent
microformats.org open standards community and the Global Multimedia
Protocols Group, and invited expert to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Cascading Style Sheets working group. He has played a key role in the development and popularization of
practical social network portability technologies such as the hCard and XFN
microformats. During 2003 and 2004, as Technorati's Chief
Technologist, Tantek played an active role in refining and evangelizing
hCard, bringing it from a wiki proposal to one that's endorsed and supported
by individuals, numerous small organizations, major companies ranging from
AOL to Yahoo, and implemented for over a hundred million user identities and
business listings on the Web. Previously Tantek was a veteran representative to the W3C for Microsoft,
where he also helped lead the development of the award-winning Internet
Explorer 5 for Macintosh, the first web browser to bring widespread
standards compliant HTML4 + CSS1 + PNG1 support to millions of users. He shares his
thoughts at tantek.com.
Fernando Claver
Fernando Claver is the editor of PC ACTUAL, the most prestigious computer magazine among Spanish-speaking users. As a journalist, he has focused his entire career on technological press, being one of the pioneers in diffusing on-line culture, since the times of videotex and BBS (Bulletin Board System), in the early ninety’s.

