Tim Berners-Lee to Keynote IDPF’s DigiCon event 10 May 2016 in Chicago

W3C is pleased to announce that Tim Berners-Lee, Web Inventor and W3C Director, will deliver a keynote address on Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at IDPF DigiCon, the annual digital publishing conference hosted by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and co-located with Book Expo America (BEA) at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, USA. In his talk, "Realizing the Vision of Publishing Technology with Web Technology" Berners-Lee will preview potential new ways of reading, authoring and publishing in the future that are being made possible by the new rich media environment for publishing.

For the past three years W3C's Digital Publishing Activity has been collaborating with the IDPF and other publishing industry groups to bring key requirements of the publishing industry to the Web. For more information, see the Media Advisory. To register for the DigiCon event, see registration form.