Welcome

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Introduction

The Web has transformed the way you do business. It has transformed your relationships with stakeholders, their interactions with each other and their regard for your brands. This change was difficult to foresee just a decade or so ago. Imagine now what the New Web promises.

The New Web is here now, and the early adopters have begun to put it to work. The earlier your organisation understands what it is, what’s possible and what’s happening today, the sooner you can pursue the opportunities and secure competitive advantage.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and a host of experts bring you up to speed.

Schedule

08:30 Registration and coffee

09:15 Welcome and introduction

Philip Sheldrake.

09:25 Keynote – Web: Threats and Opportunities

Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Can’t wait? Watch Sir Berners-Lee deliver a 5 minute update on Open Data in a 2010 TED Talk: Continue reading →

10:00 Q&A

Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Your opportunity to quiz Sir Tim on his outlook, hopes and concerns for the new web.

10:30 Networking break

11:00 Panel 1 – Unlocking the value in open data

Nigel Shadbolt, Bill Thompson, Ian Davis and Andrew Stott.

Open data is a term describing the philosophy and act of making certain data freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other control mechanisms. The panel debates the wider benefits of institutions beginning to open their data.

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12:00 Panel 2 – Open for Business: mobility, agility and security

Phil Tetlow, Ralf Herbrich, Victor Henning and Lesley Cowley.

What further opportunities and challenges, beyond today’s norms, will the web hold for business? The panel discusses the opportunities and threats which increasing web openness and mobility will present to agile businesses.

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Welcome back

Wendy Hall.

Professor Hall gives a brief overview of the Web Science Trust.

14:10 Panel 3 – Driving business success through social analytics

Mike Galvin, Jonny Bentwood, Sudarshan Murthy and Paul Taylor.

Leading organisations listen actively to the social Web for clues about their performance and reputation; and that of their competitors. Moreover, they’re adept at translating this intelligence into competitive advantage. The panel reviews best practice to date, and takes a look at what’s expected in the next year or two.

15:10 Panel 4 – Is every company now a media company?

Charlie Beckett, Martin Moore, Hector Arthur and Noshir Contractor.

The media has always played a role in connecting organisations with stakeholders, but how have new media and disintermediation changed this landscape? The panel discusses social media, citizen journalism, brand journalism, and the ramification of device convergence and divergence – PCs, netbooks, mobiles, smartphones, TVs and tablets.

16:10 Networking break

16:40 What next?

Graham Spittle and JP Rangaswami.

JP Rangaswami and Graham Spittle are quizzed on their regard for the day’s proceedings and invited to add their perceptive take on the most important and urgent opportunities and threats – perceptions for which both are particularly renowned.

17:30 Close and drinks reception