Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist, Talis, UK is this weeks speaker. Richard is a track keynote speaker on day two of the conference.
Day 2: Track 2 - Catch the semantic wave - or drown in a sea of content

Q: Which are the most important topics, due to be discussed at the Online Information Conference 2008 and why?
Richard: Having spoken with several key speakers, whilst recording the Online Information 2008 podcast series, it is clear that many sessions that I am looking forward to are building on the experience of Web 2.0 and new social patterns to predict an exciting and challenging future.

Q: Besides your own, which tracks would you recommend to delegates attending the conference?
Richard: The Web 2.0 after the Buzz track - because we need to take the lessons of Web 2.0 and project them forward.

Q: What are you looking forward to most about participating in Online Information 2008?
Richard: Meeting both speakers and attendees to join in the physical social networking

Q: If you had to choose only one - which social network would you recommend to colleagues?
Richard: It would totally depend on their area of interest - dependant on the conversation I use Linked-in, Facebook, Twitter and Doppler.

Q: Where are you planning to spend Christmas this year?
Richard: A few old fashioned web-less (with the exception of iPlayer) days at home with the family and lots of food.

About Richard Wallis
Richard's thirty year plus career in the computer information industry, the last eighteen of which has been with the UK's leading Library Systems and Semantic Web technology company, Talis, coupled with his passion for and involvement with new and emerging technology trends, gives him a unique perspective of the issues challenging Libraries, and Information professionals today. Richard has been at the birth of several major System Developments, as architect, research and technical lead. As Technology Evangelist he is at the forefront in promoting, explaining, and applying new and emerging Web and Semantic Web technologies in the library and wider information domain. Richard is an active blogger on Panlibus, a regular podcaster in the Talking with Talis series, and host and chair of the Library 2.0 Gang.

For more information, or to view the conference programme in full, please visit:
www.online-information.co.uk/conference