TheNextWeb2008 Update: Chris Saad!

Written on March 17, 2008 – 11:06 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,

In only 16 days The Next Web Conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From now on we will post short daily updates about speakers and events here.

Chris Saad ‘contemplating the future’

Chris Saad is the Co-Founder and Chairperson at DataPortability.org and CEO of Faraday Media and will be one of our keynote speakers during The Next Web Conference. Ernst-Jan wrote about Chris and his DataPortability project here before in a post titled “How to explain DataPortability.org to average users“.

This is how Chris explained DataPortability: “A user would simply log onto a site, grant permission, and their friends, personal details and media - images, video, documents - are already populated and accessible - Nothing more complex than that.”

The day after the interview was the day of Dataportability’s big breakthrough. Since then Google and Facebook have joined the DataPortability movement. Chris will be talking about his vision for the future of the web and how DataPortability will play a role in freeing our data. Chris lives in the South Brisbane Area, Australia and we are honored and thrilled that he will take the time to travel all the way to Amsterdam to talk to our guests.

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3 comments to “TheNextWeb2008 Update: Chris Saad!”

By Robert Gaal on Mar 17, 2008 | Reply

Great to have you in Amsterdam Chris :)
By Chris Saad on Mar 17, 2008 | Reply

Wow great photo choice haha

Thanks for the warm welcome Boris and Robert - look forward to seeing you both and the rest of the NextWeb crew!
By Anne Helmond on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply

Excellent picture indeed. I’ve got a similar one of Andy from Jaiku dreaming about selling to Google.
We need sleep to process our thoughts and I see some great examples here :)