Tim O’Reilly
Author, publisher and technology convener
Tim O’Reilly is an Irish-American author and publisher who founded O’Reilly Media. He helped bring the phrases “open source” and “Web 2.0” into wide use.
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American Born 1954 in Cork, Ireland
About Tim O’Reilly
Tim O’Reilly founded O’Reilly Media, which publishes books, runs conferences and offers online learning. He was born in Cork, Ireland. He has often convened industry conversations. In 1993 he started the earliest commercial website on the internet to carry advertising. In 1998 he organized the meeting that settled on the name “open source software”. In 2004 he ran the Web 2.0 Summit. In 2009 he held the Gov 2.0 Summit, which focused on modernising government technology. His book WTF? considers what artificial intelligence (AI) and the on-demand economy, along with other new technologies, mean for the future of work and business.