RSA® Conference, the world´s leading information security conference group, today announced that Jimmy Wales, best known as the Founder of Wikipedia, is confirmed as the Closing Keynote Speaker at the 13th annual RSA Conference Europe. The Conference takes place from 9th -11th October 2012, at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel, U.K.
Mr. Wales is an Internet entrepreneur, wiki pioneer, and technology visionary, who is best known as the founder of Wikipedia, the international collaborative free content encyclopedia on the Internet that is the 5th most visited Web Site worldwide. One of The Guardian´s "Open 20: fighters for Internet Freedom" the RSA Conference Europe audience will have the unique opportunity to hear a personal and inspirational message from one of the Internet´s true heroes.
Mr. Wales is also the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit charitable organisation dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. He also co-founded, the for-profit company Wikia, Inc., a wiki farm "´ a collection of individual wikis on different subjects, all hosted on the same website. Mr. Wales received his bachelor´s degree in finance from Auburn University and started with the Ph.D. finance program at the University of Alabama, where he left with a Master´s. He is also a Fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
Sandra Toms LaPedis, General Manager of RSA Conference, commented: "RSA Conference Europe is proud to welcome Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales as this year´s Closing Keynote Speaker. As a vocal supporter of free and open access to information on the web, our delegates will be extremely interested to hear Jimmy´s thoughts on these issues and how they conflict or compliment developments in private and public sector IT security."
General registration for RSA Conference Europe 2012 is now open, providing Delegates with a £225 discount off the standard registration fee if they sign up before 10th August. Delegates have access to all keynote sessions, all track sessions, discussion groups, all activities in Crypto Commons (the hub of RSA Conference Europe), Conference Bag and Presentations online.
Full details about registration and deadlines for special discounts are available at http://www.rsaconference.com/events/2012/europe/registration.htm
To find out more information regarding RSA Conference Europe 2012, please visit the event website at http://www.rsaconference.com/events/2012/europe/index.htm.
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