Join us for the February 2026 edition of Solid World, where we are charting the course for the next era of the decentralised web. This session, we’re bringing together the key voices shaping the Solid ecosystem for a comprehensive look at what’s ahead.
Featured Sessions
The Solid Roadmap presented by Oli Bage & Jesse Wright. Get a high-level view of the strategic milestones and technical evolution driving the Solid protocol forward.
Solid Community Group Roadmap presented by Christoph Braun. A deep dive into the community-led initiatives, standards development, and collaborative efforts powering our ecosystem's growth.
Why Tune In?
Direct Access: Engage with the people behind the roadmaps during our interactive segments.
Stay Informed: Be the first to know about upcoming features, governance updates, and implementation goals for 2026.
Speakers
Oli Bage, Strategic Advisor at The Open Data Institute
Oli is currently an advisor to the Open Data Institute leadership team, working on the roadmap for Solid and a number of other initiatives.
From 2020-2025, Oli was Head of Architecture for the Data & Analytics division of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). LSEG D&A is one of the world’s largest providers of data, analytics, AI and workflow software to financial markets. Oli also led LSEG Engineering’s customer & industry partnerships, and was responsible for Engineering Governance for the LSEG group.
Between 1998 and 2020 Oli held multiple technology and data leadership positions at Morgan Stanley. Most recently he was the Distinguished Engineer in Morgan Stanley’s Center of Excellence for Data, and chaired the investment bank’s architecture committee.
In 2020 Oli created and co-chaired the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) initiative, an industry group of 150 systemically important banks, large cloud service providers, emerging data technology companies and professional services partners.
Chair: Jesse Wright, Solid Lead
Jesse is a passionate advocate for a Web that empowers individuals by giving them control over their own data. With a commitment to open-source and community-driven technology, Jesse has contributed significantly to the development and deployment of Solid.Jesse’s work on Solid spans several years, encompassing both volunteer and professional contributions to the project.
He has developed and maintained a variety of libraries essential to the Semantic Web and Solid ecosystems, including eye-js, shaclcjs, N3.js, LDflex, and Comunica. Professionally, Jesse’s industry experience includes deploying Solid Pods for Indigenous health use cases at the Software Innovation Institute, as well as building foundational Solid infrastructure at Inrupt.As an academic, Jesse is a DPhil researcher at the University of Oxford’s EWADA group, led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt. His research revolves around designing architectures that enable decentralized agents to autonomously negotiate and make decisions, thereby establishing a logical framework for Solid. Through his academic work, Jesse has contributed to numerous W3C standards.