Today we hear from Julia Streets and Dame Wendy Hall, in their session about the internet.
Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement), and is an Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. Wendy has been a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, the European Research Council and the Global Commission on Internet Governance.
Julia Steets is a champion of fintech and female entrepreneurship, innovation, equality, diversity and inclusion. She is listed in the 100WFinTech Directory and is a mentor for Accenture’s FinTech Innovation Lab.
Wendy will share with us what she believes is the greatest tech innovation of all time – the World Wide Web and the Internet. And she’ll discuss why there is a growing need for global governance, standards and control in this area.
If you want to find out more about Julia Streets you can find her on twitter @streets_julia and on LinkedIn. And if you’d like to connect with Dame Wendy Hall you can find her on twitter @DameWendyDBE
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