Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He founded and Directs the World Wide Consortium (W3C) the forum for technical development of the Web. He founded the Web Foundation whose mission is that the WWW serves humanity, and co-founded the Open Data Institute in London.  He is the co-founder and CTO of inrupt, the company launched to ensure the success of the Solid platform and its open source community, and to build the ecosystem that supports it.




Tim is a long-time defender of rights such as privacy, freedom, Net Neutrality and the openness of the Web. He serves as Project Director of Solid is an exciting new project taking place at MIT. The project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.