Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbold speak at conference on the next generation of the Internet

The conference, entitled “Profiting from the New Web,” took place on the 23rd of May at the Royal Society.

Other speakers included Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Charlie Beckett of the London School of Economics, Bill Thompson from the BBC, Ralf Herbrich from Microsoft Research Cambridge, Hector Arthur from News International and Graham Spittle, Vice President of Software Group Europe for IBM UK.

The conference mission was to “Discover new and better ways to do business, run our countries, and lead fulfilling and sustainable lives via the intelligent, innovative and diligent development of the New Web, and to make progress faster than otherwise.”

A video of some of the attendees of the conference talking about the New Web can be found here.