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W3C New York Metro Chapter Meetup

Facilitator: Rachel Yager

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Everyone, um, so thank you for coming to this session.

This breakout is very exciting to talk about new W3C Chapter in New York Metro, which we have just launched during the summer of 2020.

I'm going to talk a bit about how we get to create this new Chapter and what is the future and also looking into the past.

So I hope you enjoy this session with me and I would definitely want to hear from you, what is important that you would like to see in the Chapter, what we can do for you, how we can serve you better.

So, first, I just want to make an announcement that there will be a new web innovation week, WebInnovationX event, it will be a whole week, it will be November 16th to 22nd, of course it's going to be virtual and there'll be live events in the morning, Eastern Time, between 10 to 12 noon, Eastern Time, there will be live events every day.

For the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, yes, we do have one to do stretch it for the whole week.

For the Saturday, I believe is 21st of November, there will be more of how to say a virtual event, not live but recorded and there will be entertainment also scheduled for the 22nd, which is a Sunday and also scheduled but it's all pre-recorded for the weekend sessions.

So I really welcome everybody who want to join the web innovation week, it's of course hosted from New York City, virtual, but anybody in the wall can join and I intend to invite everybody on planet earth to join our web innovation week.

So, I want to introduce myself first, that I'm Rachel Yager, I had to, I actually manage, I'm the Chapter Manager for the web innovation actually, the WebInnovationX W3C Chapter.

WebInnovationX is actually the umbrella that I use to promote the concept of the W3C Chapter in New York Metro, so, if you, we just created webinnovationx.com, that is where we will be recording our activities.

It's still nearly a work in progress but we see that before the end of the year, the community structure, in terms of how we want to roll out the different chapter activities, will be more or less coming into shape and also being able to be recognized in our social media channel.

So a lot of exciting things to happen in this year and also I see that in the following year, 2021.

So I just want to now go to talk a bit about the genesis of how we came about creating W3C New York Metro Chapter, I would like to also acknowledge the presence of someone very important in this whole path, how we have come to today W3C New York Metro Chapter, Karen Myers is here and she's the Business Lead (sighs) for the North America and also Australia and so she's the Business Leader for that and I really, she is really someone who is very important in this work that I'm doing.

Of course, Alan Bird, who is the Global Business Lead, he is also very instrumental and very encouraging towards the formation of a community and I want to thank them for recognizing the importance of forming W3C Chapter and also asking me to be the W3C Evangelist, back in 2018 and I also appreciate the fact that two of them have been really instrumental into looking in how the direction of the business community and also the technology community can benefit from all this activity.

So I just want to say thank you and also thank you again, Karen, for the IRC, right.

Um, so, the genesis of the New York Chapter, actually creates, it started back in 2018 and we have this notion about SymposiumX and somehow I'm obsessed with the letter X.

Um X is uh, means, can mean a lot of things, it can mean an X Factor, it can mean a crossroad, it can mean a target that you are going forward with.

So SymposiumX actually was created with the notion of, at the time, I was wearing my cap as a W3C Evangelist on financial innovation and look, really looking into financial innovation on the web and really looking into making expert panel discussion and also showcase and showing the trends and strategy and implementation.

So the first SymposiumX that we have is actually in November 2018.

And it's very encouraging because let me just go to the next slide so that you.

(upbeat music) So SymposiumX is about bringing communities together in financial innovation with thought leadership.

There's a lot of activity in the space around identity, authentication What our research shows is about a third of U.S people have a FinTech app that they use today.

We are trying to create a better business model for the web and as part of that we're creating a new web standard or promoting a new web standard called web monetization.

I make websites mobile site, mobile applications accessible for people with disabilities.

Technology should work for everyone, not just for some and I think part of the work that we've done with the web, new web authentication standard, is that exactly the type of visibility and adoption and impact we need the wall.

Why I get up to go to work every day, the combination of a modern payment system and a modern method of data sharing, can only enable the next round of innovation that will make, you know, what's been going on over the last few years look like nothing.

And it's the companies that are a part of W3C today and those that aren't, we have about 90 companies, the small two to 10 person kind of thing.

First, we want to build a trusted network of thought leaders, innovation advisory and we also want to build an educational consultation.

Having different perspectives, is how you create new things.

(upbeat music stops) So what I just showed is a run through of all the SymposiumX since 2018 and I believe, let me count four, five, we are going into the sixth SymposiumX this fall and it's unbelievable because I didn't like thought that it will be consistent, right?

Right from the start with the SymposiumX but definitely, the plan is that for 2021 to have the spring, summer and fall, SymposiumX and later on I will explain how the, we have actually grown into the notion of web innovation week, that we want to formulate this notion of a web innovation week with more than just SymposiumX from the New York Chapter and it will again, have this cadence of spring, summer and fall, and winter, we'll just celebrate.

So, that's the plan, right?

And it's wonderful for me to see a lot of the faces here and so let me just go through the first SymposiumX, as you can see and let me just explain what some of the speakers of course are: Jack Jaffe, was the first keynote to host our first SymposiumX back in 2018 fall.

We do we have speakers from Google and of course Ian Jacobs, everybody knows Ian Jacobs and then and also from American Express, from Shopify, from the clearing house.

So we have very excellent speaker right from the beginning.

One of the things that we wanted to do right from the start, and I have had very close conversation with Jeremiah so, we have both decided that is important for us to have the quality in this SymposiumX.

So actually, no one can pay to come to speak but rather, we will extend the invitation to really thought leaders in SymposiumX and we also want to recognize both of the W3C leaders, both technology or business leaders and also, we want to make sure that when the participants come, they are truly in the midst of thought leaders and experts in that domain.

So right from the start in 2018, I do receive, we've a relatively unknown events, I already received a lot of solicitation that people wants to speak at this Symposiumx.

Well, we have kept to our principle, to be excellence, 'To strive on excellence.' So really just, you just come by a seat, just to speak at this event.

So having said that, I just want to run through the next event in 2019, spring, we invited Yubico and also Consensus, and also Worldpay and was what was interesting with Worldpay, as the keynote was actually two weeks before the major, the biggest merger and acquisition in payments, I believe that is still the biggest so far.

I believe is $35 billion but bought over by FiOS.

So it was just very interesting, just two weeks before our 2019 spring SymposiumX and that Wordlpay make the biggest headline or about their biggest merger and acquisition.

So the SymposiumX in 2019 spring, we still focus on financial innovation, we talk about payments again but we're focusing on security, privacy and identity.

And of course, I want to mention and Allan Bird, Wendy Seltzer, was among the speakers and so was a very informative and of course, a very productive meeting in back in 2019, spring.

Now 2019 fall, there was a time that we recognized that we need to talk a bit more in terms of the business interests, and we move into the direction of where monetization, we talk about monetization and we invited the CEO of Koi and we also invited a lot of very interesting W3C Chair, Standard Working Group Chair, to speak in terms of privacy, identity, decentralization.

So and we also get in to the topic of blockchain and so things that are really in the trend, and really a big interest, as we observe in the industry.

So the core value when we, when I think about how we started with SymposiumX, we really have three ideas, is actually what I started in explaining what Symposiumx is about.

It's about community, we want to build the next generation of emerging technologies and standard, experts really thinking about the future, who can talk about the future and also business networking.

So, this is important for us to think about how, why we want a SymposiumX.

So, I'm going to go into the launch, which is now what happened in year 2020 and suddenly I uh, we all experienced the pandemic and suddenly I, we have the decision point to say whether you want to continue with SymposiumX because I was so used to having a spring lag in my mind in the beginning of this year 2020, I want to do a spring Symposiumx in April.

So the preparation we laid out, the room was reserved, you know, we actually have a very beautiful Conference Center on Wall Street, and I usually like to have fun with my participants and serving them nice others after the SymposiumX and have some very nice networking with all the participants.

Then suddenly, the lockdown back in March, in New York City.

So I'm in New York, so we are making all the headlines back in the last few months, right?

And the lockdown actually was a decision point and I change it really into a podcast.

And I actually have very nice keynotes and including from Worldpay, Steve Cole, who speak on security and Regina Gilbert and I also have a lot of like different experts, who were speaking about accessibility.

So that turned into a podcast and I actually launched the podcast and moved towards the digital direction.

And it's ironical because, you know, we are doing web innovation, or rather like focusing on financial innovation but and now because of the pandemic, one of the very positive outcome is that actually using digital means, right?

To really carry out what we want to talk about is to promote thought leadership.

Then um, back in, I believe, is in July, that I remembered, he actually approached me and asked me if I would want to host W3C Chapter in New York City and, of course, I said, yes, you know, and I felt intuitively that is actually a very timely move because of you, that we need that kind of community presence, more than ever because of what we are experiencing.

And so I told him, I say, I remember I wrote in the email saying that 'This is the time to do it now, you know, I want to do it.' So, we signed a contract, MIT, W3C, society's contract and agreement, right?

Actually, to how we're going to function, this chapter, and I'm going to share with everybody some of how W3C Chapter, what it means right?

And former obligations that we need to fulfill and also how we carry out our activity.

So the launch actually happened back in 2020, summer, so I signed an agreement to have W3C, to host the W3C Metro Chapter, from my company, with my company Fortune Times Group.

So I'm the Founder and CEO of the Consulting Company, Fortune Times Group, and so I agreed to host W3CC New York Metro Chapter, and so in August 2020, so just two months ago, I really made sure that we launched it and I just want to go through a few uh.

(upbeat music) W3C is the Web Standards Organization.

We have a wonderful mission.

Our mission is to lead the web with its full potential.

There was a time, about actually three and a half, four years ago, the interchange of ideas you have between pure technology companies and pure industry companies and how they come together to build, to make the web better.

We have quite a number of organizations.

Some of the organizations are the large companies, small companies that dominate and seize globally, that is, US, Europe, Asia everywhere.

Because I travel around the globe, I run into a lot of different models that people use for finance.

Some people are very cash oriented, some people are very plastic oriented other people are looking at non-traditional funding models.

You have the unbanked and I think all of those things are coming together over the next three to five years to come up with a truly global ecosystem of inclusion.

Much of the work happens in, for incubation happens in what we call community groups, those are free, anyone can participate.

We have thousands and thousands of people participating worldwide in these community groups, so the web authentication, is now a standard brought to us from Phyto Alliance and other members, that is now a standard, we're now working on additional features and essentially, it's to eliminate the passwords in the browser with two factor authentication.

We also are pleased to announce that just this week, verifiable credentials has gone to recommendation, the data model 1.0, and this is very interesting work.

This is a brand new group that's just started again, came out of a community group where we incubate new technologies.

This is a new kind of a decentralized identification system, it's very exciting.

One of the things we all have to be thinking about is the challenges of information and misinformation.

How do we vet what we're seeing online?

How do we use those connections for good, and, you know, restrict the ability for others to infiltrate that and use our connections against us.

Members certainly benefit, we are looking to do more of these kinds of events to bring people together, to have thought leadership conversations, facilities for really networking and meeting everyone and learning from each other.

So that's our goal here today, not only for members but others who might be interested in participating.

(upbeat music stops) So as you can see, everybody can see that I was drawing from the experience that we had back in 2018 and 2019 and with the W3C Chapter, it's really about really formulating the leadership in the future of digital and the future of the web, how to galvanize the community, in this case, the community, of course, is the New York Metro Web Community, how are we going to bring them together in this?

So it's really you, we would not have come to this phase without what we have learned in 2018 and 2019.

So 2020 really is a time I reveal that, I know, it's strange that I say this but I feel I placid that, you know, with the opportunity that we can further move forward, some of this leadership that we want to build.

So, um.

(upbeat music) I'm going to show you what this mean I'm going to show what this is in terms of the core value and remember just now I mentioned about SymposiumX and we really are talking about community expert and networking.

And we want to carry on the next step, which is AccelerationX, which is really looking to open innovation and also startup support.

CertificationX, is the notion about professional development and how we can have a professional development, not only at the technology level but also at the business level, how how we can really move forward a technology into products, into services.

And, of course, the core value really in what we want to do and I use the word WebInnovationX because as I mentioned, I just a bit I like the letter x, so, as you can see I put all the X in oddest things that we want to do.

In these three areas of SymposiumX, AccelerationX and CertificationX, we really want to recognize leadership in business, technology and innovation.

We also want to carry our step foot forward, right?

More than a W3C Chapter as in the W3C Chapter but really do some research into the social and economic impact of the web.

And, of course, a very timely topic about diversity and inclusion and I must share with you that in the past, it has been really difficult for me to find a woman speaker and I must tell you for two years, it's very difficult when I approach a woman speaker and asked them to speak at SymposiumX, there is always a hesitation and very difficult.

And I'd like to say that this is not going to continue, this is something that we could do, especially I feel that SymposiumX and WebInnovationX and me as a woman in technology, and also in business, we got to help each other and also promote women and also diversity, minority groups, into how to tap onto this innovation pipeline.

I of course, are looking into podcasts and new media.

So it's something I just want to share, is something I'm learning myself but I'm formulating podcasts and different videos that all the things that you're seeing is all really nearly come together, it's not.

I'm not a media house, I'm not working as a media person but I recognize that this is important in order to promote our thought leadership.

So definitely, a lot of effort also doing, going into podcasts and new media videos, et cetera.

And another thing I want to stress is that I really felt that when people come to SymposiumX and in the past two years, when we are meeting in person, it's very quite intimate events.

I'm not having this, like big events right?

Where everybody come in and you do not really know each other after the event.

My own experience after the event, and I made a lot of friends, you know, like, so a lot of people came and enjoyed it.

And then they have good memories, like their good feelings about, you know, how they experienced it.

So one other thing I taught that is quite important, is to have social events and also fun.

Um, I did that, I tried to do that, ironically.

I know that I've done that quite well in terms of my, because I know that some of you who know me, I like food, I like to eat, (laughs) so I stress a lot I even serve champagne.

(laughs) No as other, you know, like after the SymposiumX back in 2018 and 2019, so I want to carry that one step further.

And in 2020 summer, during the launch of the W3C Chapter, I had an opportunity to actually use events by the jazz blue singer On in the Blue, and I actually contributed that video, also in the social event of Teepack, to also support Teepack in this wonderful events, Teepack is for our web community and so the jazz blue singer, actually I dedicate that was carefully selected the songs for including the rise and others motivational songs, through a knowledge the difficult situation the entertainment industry is facing right now and even now and I think that still going to face in 2021.

This is a deep disruption in the media and entertainment industry, I mean, in the entertainment industry.

And so (clears throat) and I know that there's a lot of things that the web and innovation can really have in this community, for example, and so in many other community.

So, our communities are in business in New York City.

So the social events and the fun, I think that I just want to stress, I think that's very important.

So, this is a time that I actually would like to encourage you, if you would be so kind to share your point of view, what is the most important for you when you come to a W3C Chapter?

What is the most needed that, you know, opinion, So, if you can do it privately to me or on to the whole group, I'm going to see whether I can assess the chat.

Yeah, I think I can.

So I just, okay.

(laughs) So thank you, Jen, for saying that this is exciting.

Alright?

So I want to make sure that we are making a very exciting W3C Chapter in New York Metro, so, I will be sending survey in to social channel.

So I actually have already dominated the WebInnovationX as a social handle in other important social channel, including LinkedIn, YouTube and of course, Facebook, and Instagram, et cetera and of course Twitter.

So if you want to provide your opinion after this event, please do reach out to me, I've also dominated, I'm the only Rachel Yeager, in LinkedIn.

and so, Rachel Yeager as in one word, (laughs) and so you can reach me easily and so please reach out to me if what is important for you, as a W3C Chapter, how we can serve you better, how we can make this exciting, how we can make our innovation meaningful and also that feeling that there's support from the W3C itself and also from the local chapter to really care about what you want to move forward in your agenda in terms of innovation and the web, are making the the web better, making the ,you know, making positive changes for the world, supporting our community, who are suffering, now because of the because of the pandemic, how are we going to do all this things effectively.

So, again, please, you know, put in the chat, what do you think is important for you?

Is it the community, the experts knowledge on the open innovation?

Really, you may be a startup, you may want to have professional development, everything else, alright?

So I'm going to go to the next slide.

Alright.

(upbeat music) And I'm going to now show this is the launch, (upbeat music) that we invited Zoom CIO. It's just like I was in the conference room, standing in front of the screen and you can do some interesting things such as I can make myself a lot bigger.

(upbeat music stops) So that was the video for the SymposiumX that we had, back in August, that innovation week, and that we invited the CIO of Zoom, Harry Moseley, to speak with us and what is the interesting point about his keynote, which is it's very exciting and we will be further sharing in a lot of different channels, including sharing on the W3C website and on our chapter website as well, is about the notion about the future of work.

And of course, Zoom in this short period since August, has also, of course, won a lot of recognition and also they have further have come up with a lot of like, interesting notion, including virtual reality and also different ways of portraying on shaping the future of work, which is a interesting point and again, there are many people who are working very important, working very hard in terms of the web innovation and definitely in terms of without the web, we would not have survived on so well in this pandemic.

I want to mention a few people also without mentioning their names but I will be sharing in my social channel, I have invited a lot of advisory, I formulate our advisory council.

And I, the truth is, I make sure that we have a voice also for diversity and inclusion.

So we actually came up with this idea of reading poems and also reading how it feels because we were in a lockdown back in, even back in July, and I believe back in August or so, we were still in a lockdown phase in New York City, so, that our expression of what WebInnovationX, our web innovation means to us, what the web means to us and I express the thinking about a friend, you know, like how the power and friend would have felt, if she had the whap, right?

And as much as we will be maybe complaining about what we are feeling at this moment but definitely the notion of web and also the innovation, how that can move us further forward.

Alright?

So, definitely, the web innovation week and also the launch of W3C New York Metro Chapter, is actually a timely event, to capture that moment where we are thinking about the future of work and also we are not really celebrating but we can't because it's in the midst of the pandemic.

But we are, we found a few that gave a sense of obviously we're very lucky, right?

To be in this time and with W3C, setting a standard, making sure everything, you know, like that, we have a very small pathway for innovation.

So that is the feeling, it may not be a big, like I have like a big celebration of a firework but it's a big celebration in terms of our sentiment and how we want to encourage everybody in this community.

So it's in that context that we set up the W3C Chapter in New York City.

So again, I need to put this into your attention, the web innovation week is going to happen again in November fall and remember the cadence of web innovation week is going to be spring, summer, fall, spring, summer, fall going forward.

And so this fall is coming soon and we are now confirming all the speakers and all the participants and we will be doing a huge promotion in the next two weeks, I'll be sending a lot of email campaigns and making sure everybody knows about this again, join us.

So I just want to remind everybody of the web innovation week which is on November 16, to 22nd.

So please look out for this and sign up.

Now, I just want to go back into what we talked about, like strategic activities and roadmap.

I don't know whether anybody at this point has any questions and I'm not to use about, like not asking the audience to contribute but if there's any question, please do feel free to interrupt me alright?

But then, that is also I just want to go back to what we do as a chapter, we definitely are creating a Point of Presence of the W3C within the New York metropolitan and also to bid up and enhance the web community and to assist the W3C member and to help attract new the W3C members.

Of course, I am sharing here a strategy map that I actually aligned using a breakdown of how we see it benefiting our customer and also how we grow internally and basically, that is definitely emphasis in terms of what the have in SymposiumX, CertificationX and AccelerationX.

So, this is a rough timeline that I did, I didn't touch up again, that was back in June, July, I believe it's July that I did this and I did not change it.

So this is a roadmap of activities that we see that we have already launched, so this is a check map, I check it, okay, I launch it, which is, in summer, there's some celebration and then I like to engage in at this moment is to engage the community to come and to participate in our activities and to also strengthen our infrastructure for the community, just like, you know, like, just like we need some form and shape to in terms of physical structure, the digital structure, in terms of a community platform, that is something that I want to build up during this stage two phase, where I want to engage all of you to help, to come together and to participate.

And of course, we are also working on stage three, which is rewarding our participants because we want to recognize all the wonderful members and W3C members, and also non members who have contributed in web innovation., so we want to do things, different types of events, to a knowledge, to help everybody to enjoy our community activities.

So, um, I let me see if there's, okay, so I think that I'm going to stop here, right?

And if there's any questions, maybe I can answer.

If there's any questions or maybe I can stop the recording event here.