Two weeks after welcoming the father of the Internet at Lift09, we have another legendary figure coming to Geneva tomorrow: Sir Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, a story that started exactly twenty years ago when TBL handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled “Information Management : a Proposal”. “Vague, but exciting” is how Mike described it, and he gave Tim the nod to take his proposal forward. The following year, the World Wide Web was born.

The event, hosted by the CERN and organized in cooperation with Lift, will be webcast, streamed both by CERN and the French newschannel lci.fr from 14:00 CET. For broadcasters: Eurovision will broadcast the event at 19:00 CET.

You can also ask a question to Tim Berners-Lee, and vote for the questions you like. I will relay the top three questions to him at the end of his keynote speech around 16h20. It is your chance to ask a question to the inventor of an invention that has reshaped your daily life, and maybe even created your job?

^{Vint Cerf on the Lift09 stage. I like this picture, it summarizes my conception of the role
of a conference organizer: on stage but not monopolizing attention, making sure things
go smoothly. Photo by Ivo Naepflin}

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