Join us to celebrate the future of the Open Web 30 years after the creation of the World Wide Web at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Expect an evening of music, food, drinks, and networking, including the launch of ECAL’s Infomesh Web Platform, an interactive timeline visualizing the history of the WWW. 

Organized by swissnex San Francisco in partnership with EPFL, ECAL, and Wikimedia, this event follows a day program of The Web Conference called “The Future of the Open Web” on May 16 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco hotel. Attendance is free for conference badge holders; RSVP required.

Program

6:30pm — doors open
7:00pm — presentations
10:30pm — doors close

Speakers

Robert West
Bob is an assistant professor of Computer Science at EPFL, where he heads the Data Science Lab. His research aims to understand, predict, and enhance human behavior in social and information networks by developing techniques in data science, data mining, network analysis, machine learning, and natural language processing. He holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University.

Tim Smith 
An Open Science advocate leading initiatives at CERN and in the wider science community. He drove the launch of CERN’s Open Data Portal to share LHC big data with the world, as well as the Higgs Boson webcast which shared its discovery live around the globe. He also instigated and nurtures Zenodo within the European Commission’s OpenAIRE project as an open data service for world-wide science. Tim came to CERN at the end of the 80s, obtained a PhD in Particle Physics and performed research at the LEP accelerator for 10 years. He then joined the CERN IT Department to lead teams innovating in computing farm management and physics data management.

Jan Gerlach
Jan Gerlach is a Senior Public Policy Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he advocates for laws that promote openness and free knowledge. Jan is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society at BI Business School in Oslo, Norway and a Fellow at the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St.Gallen. Jan has previously worked as the Executive Manager of the Research Center for Information Law and spent time as a Visiting Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and at the Berkeley Law School. His research, focused on the relationship between public discourses and Internet regulation, has been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.