Daniel Applequist

Daniel is Director of web Advocacy & Open Source at Samsung Research where he leads the web Developer Advocacy team behind Samsung's mobile and VR web browser. He has also been co-chair the W3C's Technical Architecture Group (TAG) since 2013 with Tim Berners-Lee. The TAG is a special working group within the W3C, chartered with stewardship of the web architecture.

He has been working on the web for over 2 decades, first helping to create startups in the web publishing sphere and then (after moving to London from New York in 1999) working on the convergence between web and mobile through many projects and initiatives. He has also led open standards strategy for the UK Government and remains a member of the UK Government Open Standards Board.