Sir Tim Berners-Lee Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne

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AKA inventor of the World Wide Web. If you're interested you need to get in quick..

Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be touring Australia for the first time in over a decade and will present a free public lecture at the University of Melbourne.

Sir Tim’s visit to the University of Melbourne is being organised by the Centre for Advanced Journalism, ITS Research and the University Library’s Information Futures Program.

For a full list of sponsors and information about Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Australian tour, please visit tbldownunder.org.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee



Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), overseeing the Web's standards and development. Sir Tim is a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation and is a member of the UK's Transparency Board. He is the author of Weaving the Web.

Having been ranked joint first in The Telegraph's list of '100 greatest living geniuses' he has received numerous awards throughout his career including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany's Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit.

‘The web provides us with new freedom … and brings the workings of society closer to the workings of our minds’

- Sir Tim Berners-Lee

http://www.eventbrite.com.au/event/5086489828?access=rls

 

[DavidL]

Get in there Melburnians!

 

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There is one in Sydney too
http://www.meetup.com/SydneyFuturists/events/96790982/

 

[findtim]

melbourne

i just got an email asking me to confirm within 24hours so look out for it and check your junk mail.

it came from

Karen Lee [karenl@unimelb.edu.au]

and went into my inbox not my folder as its a BCC

if you don't confirm apparently your last "ticket email" is invalid ? as they are now calling it a "waitlist" (email below)

i got 2 tickets so this went to 2 different email addresses

tim
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Thank you for expressing an interest to attend the public event to hear Sir Tim Berners-Lee speak. You were placed on the waitlist whilst the logistics of the event were being finalised, the below link is the formal invitation should you still wish to attend.
Formal Invitation
Due to the large public interest to this event you will have 24 hours to claim your spot, after this time this notification will expire and you will not be able to formally register via this link.
It is expected that further tickets will be made available over the coming weeks via http://www.eventbrite.com.au/event/5086489842134428
If you registered an expression of interest for more than 1 ticket and provided the same email address for the tickets you will receive multiple formal invitations as each invitation is for a single ticket.
Please note the event will now commence at 5.30pm sharp.

Regards,
Melbourne Event Coordinator

 

[Mark]

Sydney is on 5th Feb, and first round of tickets sold out but they are releasing more soon.

I've registered on meetup.com so hopefully will hear something soon

 

[DavidL]

There is one in Sydney too
http://www.meetup.com/SydneyFuturists/events/96790982/

Thanks FPR - confirmed. Anyone else going to Sydney?

 

[DavidL]

Sydney is on 5th Feb, and first round of tickets sold out but they are releasing more soon.

I've registered on meetup.com so hopefully will hear something soon

I just went straight through. I guess they are selective with invitees

 

[Mark]

Oh, I did get a confirmation from meetup.com so maybe I am in. Although this shows sold out

http://tbldownunder.eventbrite.com/