After Dinner Speakers: Tim Berners-Lee, Stereophonics, Aretha Franklin

Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. Now with the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, he directs the W3 consortium - an open forum of companies and organisations whose objectives are to realise the potential of the Web. Having graduated from Oxford university, Tim started work on CERN, to work on scientific data acquisition and system control in 1989, and then proposed the idea that was to be known as the World Wide Web. In 1995 this won him the Kilby Foundation’s “Young Innovator of the Year Award”. As one of the most sought-after speakers on the Internet, his subjects include, The Web: directions and Impact, History of the World Wide Web, and Creativity in Cyberspace.

After Dinner Speakers Shane Richie Syd Lawrence English Singer
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Mariah Carey Mark Todd Andrew Dilnot Soul man, musician and poet ­
Tess Daly Matthew Perry Katie Durham Legendary
Lord Nigel Lawson Gordon Owen Worlds ApartBowls Champion
Andrew Lloyd-Webber Butler Ranulph FiennesFormer soccer star, BBC guru
Alastair Morton Jackie Clunes Nigel ShortHollywood actress and popular international figure. Former wife of Humphrey Bogart.
Jools Holland Anthea Turner Annabel KarmelLegendary travel presenter of Wickers World and Tonight
Marillion Al Murray Wind & Fire EarthScottish comedy writer and performer
Terence Conran Nicholas Lyndhurst Daniella WestbrookHost of BBCTV's ‘Have I Got News For You?’ Writer, actor, raconteur. A hilarious after dinner speaker.
Juan Pablo Montoya Chay Blythe Ken LivingstoneStar of many US comedy movies
Larry King Horst Schulze Paul MerrettThe man who has fought a 30-year campaign to improve the lot of the British worker