Solid Events
Solid Events provide an opportunity to meet others who are working on Solid or are interested in Solid. Solid Events are run by people like you. If you are interested in coordinating a Solid Event near you, reach out to the Solid Manager at info@solidproject.org.
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Interested in speaking at an upcoming Solid World? You can fill out the Solid World Speaker form.
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Have another Solid oriented event to share? Make a pull request to the solidproject.org events page.
2024 Events
| Date | Event | Organiser | Recordings, Slides and Notes |
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| 2024-02-27 | Solid World | Solid Team / Inrupt | Solid World Recording Solid World was held around the theme of “Solid for Social Benefit: Delivering Shared and Public Resources.” We heard news from the Solid Team and presentations from the PASS Project, Open Commons, the SleepyBike Project, and Digital Flanders. |
| 2024-05-02 - 2024-05-03 | 2nd Solid Symposium (Leuven, Belgium) | COST / VITO | |
| 2024-02-28 | Solid Community Flanders meeting “Media in the spotlight” (Ghent, Belgium) | SolidLab Flanders / athumi | This is an on-site event only, at De Krook. |
2023 Events
| Date | Event | Organiser | Recordings, Slides and Notes |
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| 2023-09-27 | Solid World | Inrupt | Solid World recording Aaron Coburn updated us on news from the W3C’s annual meeting. Jackson Morgan presented Linked Data Objects. Davi Ottenheimer presented on how Solid can enable responsible AI, and a team from Northeastern University presented on how predictive and generative AI can leverage Solid. |
| 2023-06-28 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World was held at 11:00 a.m. EDT/1700 CEST. There was an update on CSS, an announcement of Inrupt’s Solid hackathon winners, and presentations from Graphmetrix and Motius. Eventbrite. |
| 2023-05-31 - 2023-06-1 | My Data Conference 2023 | MyData | There will be a dedicated workshop/panel session about the Solid project at this conference, alongside interesting people and presentations from many like-minded projects. Location: Helsinki |
| 2023-03-30 - 2023-03-31 | Solid Symposium 2023 | COST Action on Distributed Knowledge Graphs | The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for researchers, early adopters from companies and public administration, and the community at large to discuss the current state of the art around Solid and exchange ideas for further developments. |
| 2023-03-29 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World recording Ruben Verborgh updated us on the Solid W3C Working Group, and Melissa Wood of SolidMcr announced the creation of SolidUK. Esther de Loof of SolidLab Flanders presented the findings from their first annual SOLIDMonitor report. Oz Olivo presented Inrupt’s Version 2.1 release. |
| 2023-02-21 | Solid App MVP’s and a Guest Presentation: An Open Source Opportunity | Jon Wilson | An online meetup discussing the essential parts to make Solid apps, and with a presentation by Chase Hunt, a contributor to SolidOS, about getting involved in open source, and the opportunities to join and help grow the Solid ecosystem. |
2022 Events
| Date | Event | Organiser | Recordings, Slides and Notes |
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| 2022-12-08 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World December recording Jun Zhao, Hunar Batra and Rui Zhao from Oxford University presented two Solid-based applications: Solidflix and Solid Calendar. Jackson Morgan presented LDO. We also heard about the formation of a Solid W3C Working Group. |
| 2022-11-10 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World November recording The BBC Research & Development team presented their new watch party product, BBC Together + Data Pod. |
| 2022-10-13 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World October recording Eliott Behar, a privacy and human rights attorney, Davi Ottenheimer, VP of Trust and Digital Ethics at Inrupt, and Michiel Fierens, doctoral researcher at SolidLab Flanders, participated in a panel discussion on Solid and New Data Regulations. |
| 2022-10-06 | Solid Amsterdam | PLDN | Register here |
| 2022-09-08 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World September recording Graphmetrix previewed the launch of their Trinpod service at Trinpod.us and Trinpod.eu Esther de Loof to us about SolidLab Belgium Melissa Wood told us about the latest Solid Manchester meetup |
| 2022-07-28 | Collaboration Call: Pods for empowering Due Diligence process | SolidMcr Meetup - Manchester | Right to Rent, Right to Work, Pre-Employment Screening, preventing modern slavery, DBS checks - CDD Services introduce two products requiring help to reach market. Sign up on EventBrite |
| 2022-07-22 | Solid, Linked Data and Decentralized Web Meetup | MCH 2022 / Muze | Muze hosts a meetup about Solid, Linked Data and Decentralized Web at MCH 2022, in Zeewolde, the Netherlands. There will be talks and workshops on three afternoons, starting at July 23th. If you’ve got something to show or tell, or just tell us that you’re coming, please mail to mch@muze.nl. |
| 2022-06-09 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World Recording Presentation: Ruben Verborgh told us more about Solid Lab Aaron Coburn told us about the v2.0 Inrupt ESS lanch |
| 2022-05-12 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World Recording Presentation: Flanders Data Utility Company Team: Hear first-hand insight into how the Flemish Data Utility Company wants to stimulate citizens’ trust in sharing data, by focusing on responsible and secure data sharing. The Data Utility Company’s Solid Pod platform is designed to establish trusted data ecosystems on this groundbreaking technology. The Data Utility Company’s platform mitigates the costs and risks associated with innovative technology, lowering the threshold for organizations to enter the Solid ecosystem. |
| 2022-05-09 | Introducing Solid IRL | Solid Minneapolis / Jon Wilson | |
| 2022-04-28 | Person-Centric Data: Solid, Pods, Personal Data Stores & Interoperability | Solid Mcr - Manchester / Mel W. | |
| 2022-04-14 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World Recording Presentation: Philippe Duchesne, DataVillage & Luk Overmeire, VRT. DataVillage is developing a platform to perform confidential data processing on personal data, where end users can allow service providers to process their data to produce derived data, while having the guarantee that the original data will not be read by the service provider itself. DataVillage will be joined by VRT, the Flemish public broadcasting company, which is using the DataVillage platform to build a user-controlled content recommendation service for its audience. |
| 2022-03-10 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World Recording Presentations: Jasmine Leonard, Solid developer tool PodPro Sebastien Rosset, ActivityPods, a new kind of architecture for web applications which aims to reconcile the ActivityPub and Solid standards |
| 2022-02-10 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World Recording Presentations: Gertjan de Mulder, PROV4ITDaTa Pete Edwards, The V1.1 release of the Conformance Test Harness All links from the meetup are shared on Solid Forum |
| 2022-01-13 | Solid World | Solid Team | Solid World Recording Presentations: Sarven Capadisli, W3C Solid Community Group Chair and Solid Editor, presented the recent milestone release of Solid Protocol Version 0.9. Ruben Verborgh, Professor of decentralized Web technology at Ghent University, presented a vision on access, query and search across the decentralized Web, and the role that Web APIs play therein. All links from the meetup are shared on Solid Forum |