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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