Whether you've been following every update from the Solid Symposium in London or are only just hearing about Solid26 for the first time, this session is for you.
In the first section, Roberto Breitman will sit down with Jesse Wright for a recap of the Solid26 announcement — a great entry point if you're new to Solid, and a useful overview if you want to make sure you have the full picture.
We'll then open the floor to a panel discussion with elf Pavlik and Christophe Braun, answering your question on Solid26, the Solid Symposium, and beyond.
For those new to Solid, this is a chance to hear directly from some of the people building it. For those already in the community, it's your forum to dig into the details of SOlid26 now that you've had time to explore it a bit.
Expect a dynamic session, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions, and engage with a cross section of the Solid community from anywhere in the world!
Speakers
Christoph is a doctoral researcher in the Web Science research group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and guest researcher at FZI Research Center for Information Technology.
He explores methods to build semantic data-sharing ecosystems based on existing and emerging Web standards with a particular focus on Decentralized Identity Management.
Working with Solid since 2019, Christoph has been an active contributor to the community in both specification and running code. At Solid World Feb 2025, he presented the MANDAT Project -- a research project of FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, DATEV eG, and KIT where Solid formed the foundation to establish sovereign data sharing for the tax and finance sector.
As a freshly elected Co-Chair of the Community Group, Christoph looks forward to keeping the community's momentum high in progressing specifications, improving developer experience, and strengthening the broader Solid ecosystem.
elf Pavlik, co-chair of W3C Solid Community Group
elf Pavlik is co-chair of W3C Solid Community Group, CG representative to Solid-ODI AC, co-editor, and co-author of various CG reports, and maintainer of https://sai.js.org. Before focusing on Solid, he participated in various other W3C Community Groups, including RDF/JS and Hydra API. Between 2014 and 2015 he participated as an invited expert in W3C Social Web Working Group. Pavlik focuses on application interoperability, authorization, notifications, and develops sample implementations in typescript. For TPAC 2024 he prepared a three-part video mini-series explaining selected aspects of Solid, it is available at the official event website.
Roberto Sequerra Koogan Breitman, Solid Community Manager, the ODI
Roberto Sequerra Koogan Breitman is ODI’s Community Manager for Solid. He has a background in both Computer Science and Political Science, and joined the ODI after three years working on Solid as part of the Go to Market team at Inrupt.
He holds a bachelor's degree from Tufts University, in Computer Science and International Relations, and a Masters degree in the Transnational Governance of Technology from the European University institute. Roberto was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Jesse Wright, Solid Lead, the ODI
Jesse Wright is the Project Lead for the Solid Project at the Open Data Institute (ODI), where he is responsible for the coordination and advancement of the project’s technical architecture, specification development, and open-source ecosystem. Solid is a suite of web standards initiated by Sir Tim Berners-Lee to enable decentralised data storage, verifiable identity, and interoperable data sharing on the Web.
In addition to his role at the ODI, Jesse is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) at the University of Oxford in the Department of Computer Science - with the topic of developing trusted neuro-symbolic AI systems for the Web. Presently, he is developing query engines which support Zero Knowledge Proof that data was derived from given sources.
Previously, Jesse has worked on the development of software and standards for Solid and the Semantic Web through industry roles at Inrupt and the Software Innovation Institute; academic projects at the Australian National University; and as a freelance open source developer.