WORLDWEBFORUM honours WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee
The WORLDWEBFORUM is all about business transformation and thought leadership, about the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0. The conference welcomed more than 2,000 people from 24 to 25 January 2017, twice as many as the previous year. Not only Johann Schneider-Ammann, but also Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the actual inventor of the web, and many other exponents were in attendance.
Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann presented the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), Tim Berners-Lee, with the "WORLDWEBFORUM Lifetime Achievement Award". Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann presents Berners-Lee with the "WORLDWEBFORUM Lifetime Achievement Award" for his life's work.
WWW invented in Switzerland?
"The fact that the internet was invented in Switzerland should be both a beacon and a challenge for us in the coming years: digitisation is a huge opportunity for us - we have the best starting position. We must take advantage of it. For innovative strength, competitiveness, jobs and prosperity," says Schneider-Ammann in a speech.
Diverse personalities
This year, the WORLDWEBFORUM has a record attendance of 2,000 visitors and is the largest event on digitalization in Switzerland. The WORLDWEBFORUM 2017 will be attended by personalities who are as diverse as they are inspiring: Ed Catmull, the American computer scientist, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and Oscar winner, Cuban Herminia Ibarra, Professor of Leadership at the renowned Insead University, or Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The British physicist and computer scientist invented HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) at the European nuclear research center CERN in Geneva and is thus the founder of the World Wide Web.
"Digitalization is still a buzzword for many companies," says WORLDWEBFORUM founder Fabian Hediger. That's why the conference was founded in 2012 to show decision-makers from business and politics what digital transformation means for business models and leadership.
Digital Manifesto
To ensure that Switzerland plays a leading role in the digital transformation worldwide, 50 digital thought leaders have drawn up a Digital Manifesto together with the location initiative digitalswitzerland. Marcel Dobler, designated ICTswitzerland president, digital shaper and National Councillor, and Marc Walder, initiator of digitalswitzerland and CEO of Ringier, hand over the Digital Manifesto to Schneider-Ammann.
Here you can go to the Digital Manifesto of digitalswitzerland.
