This is the second i50 event, the first being the May 19 IEEE Milestone . Now it's the ACM's turn, with The Royal Society hosting. 

Again, a high powered lineup of top speakers, this time focusing more on academics, but also including Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the ITU, and Maarten Botterman of GFCE/ICANN. 

What both events do have in common is the People Centered Internet and its co-founders, Vint Cerf and Mei Lin Fung.

Read on blog or Reader ISOC LIVE NOTICEBOARD On Monday July 15 2024 from 1pm-7pm BST (12:00-18:00 UTC) The Royal Society and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will be Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Internet in London, UK. The event will be opened by the co-inventor of the Internet Dr Vint Cerf and will feature a series of panels with eminent speakers that will look back at what the Internet has achieved in the last fifty years and focus on the next generation of the Internet and AI, and is supported by the Web Science Trust, People-Centered Internet, Digital Enlightenment Forum, The Digital Humanism Initiative, and the Web Science Institute, University of Southampton, UK. PROGRAMME (All times BST = UTC+1) 13:00 Welcome Areeq Chowdhury, Head of Policy, Data and Digital Technologies, The Royal Society Prof. Yannis Ionnidis, President, ACM Prof. Dame Wendy Hall, University of Southampton / Web Science Trust 13:05 Opening Speech / Conversation Dr. Vint Cerf, Vice President / Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Mei Lin Fung, Chair / Co-founder, People-Centred Internet 13:45 Panel 1: The Internet as an Infrastructure Prof. Andrew Ellis, Aston University Prof. Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Bristol Maarten Botterman, Board Director, ICANN Prof. Gaven Smith, The University of Manchester Chair: Sir David Payne, Professor of Photonics, University of Southampton 15:15 Panel 2: The Internet as a Facilitator of Opportunity Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary General, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Prof. Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Alan Kay, Computer Science Pioneer Prof. Bitange Ndemo, Kenya's Ambassador to Belgium and EU Chair: Mei Lin Fung, Chair / Co-founder, People-Centred Internet Respondent: Dr. Vint Cerf Panel 3: The Internet and Society Prof. Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University Prof. Victoria Nash, Oxford Internet Institute Prof. Sir Nigel Shadbolt, University of Oxford Prof. Hannes Werthner, Vienna University of Technology Chair: Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton / Trustee, Web Science Institute / Director, Web Science Trust Respondent: Dr. Vint Cerf Closing Remarks Dr. Vint Cerf, Vice President / Chief Internet Evangelist, Google   LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/ltF5uWB9Wg0 REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE https://bit.ly/4cW77lZ REAL TIME TEXT (see ISOC.LIVE) TWITTER #i50 @royalsociety @TheOfficialACM @PCI_Initiative @vgcerf @websciencetrust Digital Enlightenment Forum @DigHumTUWien @sotonWSI MASTODON #i50 @mastodon.acm.org ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/uk-i50

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