One pressing issue: push back against the dominance of the walled gardens. It was awesome to talk to them about the future of the web, and why it's important to fight for the openness of the web. All three of us have been doing open source and open web-related things for a couple decades. It was a panel discussion with Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress founder, and Mitchell Baker, who is a founder and CEO of Mozilla. So how did the panel go? As Buytaert told me: So, after the Web Summit concluded, Buytaert and I did just that. But talking to someone who acts on these issues is always heartening. Buytaert, who appeared on the Web Summit Panel, is not what I'd call a naive optimist. No one better to talk to than Dries Buytaert, founder and CTO of Drupal and founder and CTO of Acquia (billed as the "open digital experience platform for Drupal"). Boy, I need some holiday cheer, don't I? Dries Buytaert, founder and CTO of Drupal and Acquia weighs in Instead of a foundation for dialogue, we've built an algorithmic dystopia of obsessive consumerism and political radicalization via filter bubbles, hostile to any fact that undermines their divisive premise. If anything, I'd argue that online supersites are doing more to divide society than create a democratic/open model. But that doesn't mean a better Internet magically emerges. Big tech is falling under regulatory pressure, and social media supersites are taking unprecedented heat for their algorithmic/editorial/data decisions. One was Open web = open world?, where a panel of tech luminaries took on a volatile/essential topic. I was so focused on the rare chance to have vigorous roundtables with media colleagues - and network with fellow attendees across the globe - that I missed some notable sessions. Web Summit managed to pull off a virtual event at scale, while creating small niches and networking opportunities that stirred the pot, in the best of ways. But the organizers proved me wrong ( Web Summit already has their Lisbon 2021 site up for next November). I wasn't exactly looking forward to Web Summit 2020 - about as massive a tech event as you can find. As a rule, the bigger the event, the more passive/impersonal the so-called "experience." Readers know I've been perpetually disappointed by the lack of creativity in virtual events.
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