Solid World: February 2025

Solid World: February 2025

Free webinar, Monday 24 February 2025, 16:00-17.15 GMT

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We’re excited to be back with Solid World on 24 February! This will be the
first Solid World organised by the Open Data Institute - who are now
stewards of Solid.

New to the ODI or Solid? Visit here
<https://theodi.org/news-and-events/news/odi-and-solid-come-together-to-give-individuals-greater-control-over-personal-data/>
to learn more.

In this Solid World we will:

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   Provide brief updates on what the ODI has been doing for Solid,
   including advocacy across Government and Industry
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   Present highlights of progress made in the Solid Community
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   Share updates on progress in the Linked Web Storage Working Group


Speakers

Noel De Martin
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/noeldemartin/overlay/about-this-profile/>

Noel is the creator of some Solid Apps you may have used before, such as
Media Kraken and Umai. In this month's event, he'll talk about one of the
most important possibilities that the world of Solid unleashes:
Interoperable Serendipity.

https://noeldemartin.com

https://noeldemartin.solidcommunity.net/profile/card#me

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noeldemartin/

Mastodon: https://noeldemartin.social/@noeldemartin

Christoph Braun <https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-hj-braun/>

Christoph is a doctoral researcher in the Web Science research group at
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany.

He focuses on methods to build semantic data-sharing ecosystems based on
existing and emerging Web standards.

https://uvdsl.solid.aifb.kit.edu/profile/card#me

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-hj-braun

Tobias Käfer <https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiaskaefer/>

As interim professor, Tobias leads the Web Science research group at
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. His research interests
are in decentralized and distributed knowledge graph-based AI systems. In
particular, he connects the modelling of behaviour (eg. from Business
Process Modelling, and dynamical systems) with web technologies for
semantic knowledge representation (Knowledge Graphs, RDF, OWL),
neurosymbolic / generative Artificial Intelligence, and decentralised
system interaction (HTTP).

https://kaefer3000.solidcommunity.net/profile/card#me

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiaskaefer


Louise Burke <https://theodi.org/profile/louise-burke/>, Chief Executive
Officer, the ODI

Louise is the ODI’s Chief Executive Officer and leads the team to deliver
on the organisation’s mission and vision. Having joined the ODI in 2012
Louise previously held roles as chief finance officer and chief operating
officer. She has expertise in data governance, data literacy, data
institutions, data assurance and innovation, as well as a professional
background in accountancy and finance. She was named one of the 100 Top
Influencers across the UK’s open technology communities
<https://openuk.uk/about-us/2021honourslist/> in 2021.


With a career that has involved building many businesses from the
ground-up, and expertise in fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, and
scaling, Louise has commercial acumen along with a commitment to deliver on
the ODI’s vision.

As an accountancy professional, she has lectured in the UK and overseas for
the ACCA and CIMA and has authored academic books, study systems and
business articles.


Although Louise loves working, she also finds time for the gym, visits to
the theatre and spending time with her family. She’s also a school governor
and mentors teenagers in her free time.

Chair Jesse Wright <https://theodi.org/profile/jesse-wright/>, Solid Lead,
the ODI

Jesse Wright is a passionate advocate for a Web that empowers individuals
by giving them control over their own data. With a commitment to
open-source and community-driven technology, Jesse has contributed
significantly to the development and deployment of Solid.


Jesse’s work on Solid spans several years, encompassing both volunteer and
professional contributions to the project. He has developed and maintained
a variety of libraries essential to the Semantic Web and Solid ecosystems,
including eye-js <https://github.com/eyereasoner/eye-js/>, shaclcjs
<https://github.com/jeswr/shaclcjs>, N3.js <https://github.com/rdfjs/n3.js>,
LDflex <https://github.com/LDflex/LDflex/>, and Comunica
<https://github.com/comunica/comunica>. Professionally, Jesse’s industry
experience includes deploying Solid Pods for Indigenous health use cases at
the Software Innovation Institute <https://sii.anu.edu.au/>, as well as
building foundational Solid infrastructure at Inrupt
<https://www.inrupt.com/>.


As an academic, Jesse is a DPhil researcher at the University of Oxford’s
EWADA group, led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt. His
research revolves around designing architectures that enable decentralized
agents to autonomously negotiate and make decisions, thereby establishing a
logical framework for Solid <https://solidproject.org/>. Through his
academic work, Jesse has contributed to numerous W3C standards.