Solid World: February 2025, Free webinar, Wednesday 18 February, 2026 04:00 PM GMT

Solid World February 2026. Mapping the future: the next era of the
decentralised Web.

Free webinar, Wednesday 18 February, 2026 04:00 PM GMT

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Join us for the February 2026 edition of Solid World, where we are looking
at

roadmaps for its adoption!

What is Solid?

Solid lets people take control of their data and combine it to achieve new
results. It gives creators new collaborative tools while passing power back
to users. It’s technology that returns the web to its original vision of
serving people. Find out more. <https://solidproject.org/about>

Featured Sessions


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   Jesse Wright will give updates on the ODI’s progress over the last
   quarter - including the integration of Solid into LibreChat to enable
   privacy and portability of chat history with LLMs.
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   Christoph Braun, one of the co-chairs of the Solid Community Group, will
   present its workplan for the next 6 months.
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   Oli Bage and Jesse Wright will present the ODI’s 2026 Roadmap for Solid.
   Our focus - the adoption of Solid!


Why Tune In?


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   Direct Access: Engage with the people behind the roadmaps during our
   interactive segments.
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   Stay Informed: Be the first to know about upcoming features, governance
   updates, and implementation goals for 2026.


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Speakers

Oli Bage, Strategic Advisor, the ODI <https://www.linkedin.com/in/olibage/>

Oli is currently an advisor to the Open Data Institute leadership team,
working on the roadmap for Solid and a number of other initiatives.

From 2020-2025, Oli was Head of Architecture for the Data & Analytics
division of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). LSEG D&A is one of the
world’s largest providers of data, analytics, AI and workflow software to
financial markets. Oli also led LSEG Engineering’s customer & industry
partnerships, and was responsible for Engineering Governance for the LSEG
group.

Between 1998 and 2020 Oli held multiple technology and data leadership
positions at Morgan Stanley. Most recently he was the Distinguished
Engineer in Morgan Stanley’s Center of Excellence for Data, and chaired the
investment bank’s architecture committee.

In 2020 Oli created and co-chaired the Cloud Data Management Capabilities
(CDMC) initiative, an industry group of 150 systemically important banks,
large cloud service providers, emerging data technology companies and
professional services partners.

Christoph Braun, Co-Chair of the W3C Solid Community Group, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT) & FZI Research Center for Information
Technology <https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-hj-braun/>

Christoph is a doctoral researcher in the Web Science research group at the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and guest researcher at FZI
Research Center for Information Technology.

He explores methods to build semantic data-sharing ecosystems based on
existing and emerging Web standards with a particular focus on
Decentralized Identity Management.

Working with Solid since 2019, Christoph has been an active contributor to
the community in both specification and running code. At Solid World Feb
2025 <https://vimeo.com/1062571527?share=copy#t=2921.799>, he presented the
MANDAT Project -- a research project of FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, DATEV eG,
and KIT where Solid formed the foundation to establish sovereign data
sharing for the tax and finance sector.


As a freshly elected Co-Chair of the Community Group, Christoph looks
forward to keeping the community's momentum high in progressing
specifications, improving developer experience, and strengthening the
broader Solid ecosystem.

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

Jesse Wright is the Project Lead for the Solid Project at the Open Data
Institute (ODI), where he is responsible for the coordination and
advancement of the project’s technical architecture, specification
development, and open-source ecosystem. Solid is a suite of web standards
initiated by Sir Tim Berners-Lee to enable decentralised data storage,
verifiable identity, and interoperable data sharing on the Web.

In addition to his role at the ODI, Jesse is pursuing a Doctor of
Philosophy (DPhil) at the University of Oxford in the Department of
Computer Science - with the topic of developing trusted neuro-symbolic AI
systems for the Web. Presently, he is developing query engines which
support Zero Knowledge Proof that data was derived from given sources.

Previously, Jesse has worked on the development of software and standards
for Solid and the Semantic Web through industry roles at Inrupt and the
Software Innovation Institute; academic projects at the Australian National
University; and as a freelance open source developer.