Solid: bringing back choice by taking back control

I am Ruben Verborgh, computer scientist
and contributor to the Solid ecosystem.

• professor of Semantic Web technology
  at Ghent University – imec, Belgium
• Solid technology advocate
  at Inrupt inc., USA

With Solid, you choose where you store
every single piece of data you produce.

You can grant apps and people access
to very specific parts of your data.

Separating app and storage competition
drives permissionless innovation.

Solid is an ecosystem of data and apps
that work seamlessly together.

• data pods
  • profile
  • photos
  • comments
  • likes
  • …
• applications
  • photo album
  • meeting invites
  • document collaboration
  • …
• standards
  • HTTP
  • URL
  • RDF
  • LDP
  • LDN
  • …

At Ghent University – imec, we are actively
looking to collaborate on smart cities.

• bilateral projects
• national projects (ICON, FWO, VLAIO)
• European projects (H2020)