Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web and CTO & Co-founder | Inrupt
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Named one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century,’ Tim invented the web while at CERN in 1989. He is the Founder of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards forum for technical development of the Web, and co-founder of the Web Foundation whose mission is that the World Wide Web serves humanity.
He co-founded and is President of the Open Data Institute in London. Tim is an Emeritus Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Computer Science and AI Lab ("CSAIL”) where his research group works to re-decentralize the web.
In April 2017, Sir Tim was awarded the Turing Prize, which is considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing”. Tim is a long time defender of Net Neutrality and the openness of the web.
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Meet Charlie: The AI That Works for You, Not the Platform
| Event | Year | Location |
|---|---|---|
| SXSW London 2026 | 2026 | 🇬🇧London, United Kingdom |
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