Tim Berners-Lee is the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation.  A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and a director of the Web Science Trust (WST).  He is the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a joint appointment at MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) .  He heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) at CSAIL. He is also  a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK.

In 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first Web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.

In 2001 he became a fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany’s Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit. He is the author of “Weaving the Web”.

Marcia Blenko is a partner at Bain & Company and is currently based in the Boston office. She joined the firm in 1988 and was elected to the partnership in 1995. Marcia has spent more than half of her consulting career in London, serving many of Bain’s global clients.

Marcia leads Bain’s Global Organization Practice. She has extensive experience in organization design, decision effectiveness, and leading organizational change across a range of sectors.

Marcia has authored a number of articles on organization, decision effectiveness, leadership and executive compensation which have appeared in The Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The European Business Journal, Harvard Management Update and the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda.

Prior to joining Bain & Company, Ms. Blenko worked for Goldman Sachs in both New York and London. She earned her MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar. She received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics/Economics from Brown University and was elected Phi Beta Kappa.

Thomas Roessler joined the W3C Team in November 2004 to work on security, privacy, and European policy issues. He currently serves as Security Activity Lead, and Team Contact of the Web Security Context Working Group and XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group, and also spends time on the PRIME and PrimeLife projects.

Prior to joining W3C, Thomas worked at the University of Bonn on numerics of partial differential equations, and collected programming, systems administration and computer forensics experience. He served as the lead maintainer of the free software mail user agent mutt, and was involved with ICANN for several years. Thomas has published and given talks on topics including anonymization services, legal questions of digital signatures, and online privacy. He holds a degree in mathematics.

Wendy Seltzer will be a Fellow with the University of Colorado’s Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship in Boulder, researching intellectual property, innovation, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Tor Project, promoting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation.

She has taught Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Antitrust, Copyright, and Information Privacy at American University Washington College of Law, Northeastern Law School, andBrooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute, teaching a joint course with the Said Business School, Media Strategies for a Networked World. Previously, she was a staff attorney with online civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.

Wendy speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program (Perl and MythTV).