Solid World Feb 2026

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.

Christoph Braun, Co-Chair of the W3C Solid Community Group, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) & FZI Research Center for Information Technology

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.

Chair: Jesse Wright, Solid Lead

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.