University of Southampton
Academics working at the university include Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, Wendy Hall, inventor of Microcosm (hypermedia system) a predecessor of the World Wide Web, founding director of the Web Science Trust between the University of Southampton and MIT, José Antonio Bowen, President of Goucher College and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Erich Zepler, who made leading contributions to radio receiver development, David Payne, who invented EDFA for use in fibre optics cables, Sir Barry Cunliffe, a pioneer of modern British archaeology, Ray Monk, the biographer of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Albie Sachs, former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and Tim Holt, former President of the Royal Statistical Society and Office for National Statistics.
IP Expo
As well as technology vendors, the event also offers attendees the opportunity to watch noteworthy speakers. In past years these have included world-famous hacker Kevin Mitnick (2013), inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee (2014), Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (2015), Oxford University Professor and author Nick Bostrom (2016), World-renowned scientist Brian Cox (physicist) (2017) and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield (2018).