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W3C TPAC 2025?Sponsorship opportunity?is now available! TPAC (Technical plenary and Advisory Committee Week) is the W3C annual conference where hundreds of engineers and decision-makers from W3C Working and Interest Groups gather, network, and try to resolve challenging technical or social issues that the Web faces. This well-attended and popular event is an important means for W3C to coordinate solutions to technical issues that transcend Group borders. TPAC 2025 will be held in #Kobe #Japan 11-14 November 2025, Kobe International Conference Center. If your organization is interested in this opportunity, explore the Sponsorship package and learn about the benefits offered.? The deadline to confirm your sponsorship is 20 October 2025. If you have any questions, please get in contact via?[email protected] #webstandards #sponsorship https://lnkd.in/eWEr7t67?

#reminder The AC 2025 is fast approaching, and I am looking forward to meet many of our members, Invited Experts and colleagues. If you have plans to be there, reach out!

Twice a year W3C Members and Staff meet formally at?W3C Advisory Committee Meetings. Our next AC meeting is 7-8 April 2025 and will be hybrid with the main in-person hub in Sophia Antipolis, France. W3C AC Representatives, Board of Directors, TAG, AB, group Chairs, W3C Chapters staff, and a W3C Invited Experts can participate and should register now! Join us, in person and online, to talk about the strategic issues and future directions of W3C. Some of the discussions will be related to EU regulations and their implications and impact on the rest of the world. A session will also be dedicated to the 30th anniversary of W3C Europe. The full agenda will be available in the upcoming weeks. #webstandards #W3CAC2025 Registration is open until 31 March 2025 https://lnkd.in/ezq5TDsG https://lnkd.in/eZE7g59K

"International standards and World Economic Forum (WEF)" by Seth Dobbs Seth discussed the power of international standards in a blog post about his trip to #WEF #Davos. He noted: "Ultimately,?international standards can enable trustworthy solutions that support local control and security while providing a framework for global trust. We at W3C play a critical role in making this happen. Because of our long standing focus on enabling one web for all, and our current composition representing industry leaders, big and small, from around the world, we have the potential to influence global discussions involving the web... Our human-centric focus is distinct in the world of Standards Development Organizations and as such we need to be helping to shape the future of the web wherever we can." #webstandards #trust #oneweb https://lnkd.in/eFwCVPuq

Welcome back our Chinese friends in the web community after the vibrant celebrations of the Year of the Snake. May the qualities of the Snake—wisdom, agility, power, grace, and determination—inspire us all to embrace change and innovation as we navigate the opportunities and challenges ahead. We wish everyone a prosperous start in 2025! #HappyNewYear #LunarNewYear

Last week W3C CEO Seth Dobbs was on the OpenWallet Forum panel “Fostering Global Collaboration on Key Interoperability Challenges through Open Standards” hosted by OpenWallet Foundation, International Telecommunication Union, and the Swiss Confederation at #Davos #WEF. Lead by Daniel Goldscheider, Founder of the OpenWallet Foundation, the panel included: Arman A., Director of Technology, EMVCo Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation DT Gail Hodges, Executive Director, OpenID Foundation Dr. Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, International Telecommunication Union Viky Manaila, President, Cloud Signature Consortium Philippe Metzger, Secretary-General & CEO, IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation Seth noted: "I think the openness both in standards and in open source is what creates trust. And now more than ever we need that. And so having open processes really makes a difference. Particularly as we're building wallets, that's critical. If we want to put very personal information in there, we need to be able to protect that. And so having a trustworthy process is important. But also another emphasis we have in terms of developing standards is privacy and user agency in terms of the control of your personal information. So any kind of wallet solution from our perspective really needs to enable that for the users. That's what makes it trustworthy: knowing that when I put my information, whether it's health information, passport information, personal information, I have control over who has access to it. We see that it is an important aspect of the whole entire global data economy that requires interoperability and trust across all of that. Without that I think we have a lot of challenges in our future. But I'm excited to see this whole group, together, making a wallet work from hardware all the way up to the user interface. It's complex. It takes a lot of us and I'm just excited to be with this panel and hearing everything that's happening."? #trust #privacy #interoperability #InternationalStandards #WebStandards #DigitalWallets

Our CEO, Seth Dobbs, was at #Davos #WEF last week as part of the “Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure as a core element of the future economic growth and wealth in Switzerland” panel, hosted by digitalswitzerland on 21 January 2025. The panel was moderated by Franziska Barmettler, CEO of digitalswitzerland and included: * Marc Walder, Founder, digitalswitzerland * Meredith Whittaker, President, Signal * Tristan Harris, Co-Founder Center for Humane Technology? * Maya Bundt, multiple Board Member * Ryan Taylor, Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer, Palantir In his talk Seth noted that W3C sees web standards as the building blocks for a trustworthy and interconnected digital world, adding: "international standards can provide benefit for everyone. For citizens it can mean choices and trust. For businesses it can foster competition and innovation while providing a common playing field. And for governments it can let you embark on a digital transformation process that can avoid vendor lock, proprietary solutions while still facilitating the ability to exchange information with other entities." Seth added: "We invite industry and governments, civil society to consider the power of and the need for secure, private, accessible and international standards and consider the power of, the need for and the importance of technologies which are designed from the start to work for the good of humanity when envisioning new digital technologies and new projects."? #trust #WebStandards #DigitalTransformation

My time in #Davos this week was a whirlwind of impactful meetings, powerful conversations, and finding common cause amongst different organizations and people from around the world. In particular, I spoke at the “Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure” session hosted by digitalswitzerland and at the OpenWallet Forum panel hosted by OpenWallet Foundation, International Telecommunication Union, and the Swiss Confederation. It was great to have the opportunity to talk about the positive and at times life-changing impacts that international standards can have, and to hear others outside of the standards community express their interest, support, and even the very need for international interoperable standards. Key points: 1. Interoperability: Alain Labrique expressed how interoperable standards for health information can save lives by enabling the exchange of critical information in a crisis. Earlier in the week I shared the importance of interoperable standards around validating the provenance of critical information during disaster relief efforts. 2. Trust: there was much discussion throughout these sessions of the need to increase trust in the digital infrastructure and how openness, be it open source development or an open and royalty-free standards process such as we have at W3C, serves as a foundation for trust. 3. Privacy: I don’t believe you can discuss identity, security, and trust without talking about privacy. In our privacy principles, W3C emphasizes the importance of individual autonomy and the need for user agents to adhere to privacy principles in order to ensure a trustworthy web. Ultimately, international standards can enable trustworthy solutions that enable local control and security while providing a framework for global trust. I’m grateful for the opportunity to be a part of these conversations at #WEF as well as the many informal conversations that took place and to represent the mission and values of W3C. Thanks to Daniel Goldscheider and Franziska Barmettler for asking me to take part in these sessions.

We would like to thank GoDaddy for their generous donation of $40,000 to champion open web standards at W3C as part of their efforts to invest in open source and the open web.? https://lnkd.in/d_cZhv8T GoDaddy noted: "These contributions go beyond dollars and cents. They’re a testament to our belief in a free and open internet where everyone can contribute, collaborate, and succeed.” If, like GoDaddy, you are interested to support open web standards and our work to enable a world wide web that connects and empowers humanity. see our sponsorship page.?https://lnkd.in/eF9HRB3Q #sponsorship #donation #openwebstandards?

I am delighted to share that I've been invited to sit on a second panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week as well as to deliver a keynote. You can find me Tuesday morning with digitalswitzerland discussing International Standards during the Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure session. On Wednesday I'll be part of the OpenWallet Forum panel moderated by Daniel Goldscheider where we will explore the impact of emerging technologies, technical standards and?global interoperability. I am excited to represent W3C and share our vision of one interoperable Web for all humanity. If you are attending #Davos 2025 #WEF and would like to meet one-on-one or arrange an interview, please reach out to: [email protected]