Peter Sweeney - Venturing in the Next Web

About this talk

Today’s Internet is way too much work. We all spend enormous amounts of time and money caught in the Web: searching for information, creating content, building social networks, shopping for products, and on and on. In five years, it will seem incredible that we have to work so hard just to get stuff done. Tomorrow’s Internet will look very different. New technologies have emerged that are drastically simplifying things. Entirely new modes of consumer interactions and new mass market networks are taking hold. If you are exploring possibilities for The Next Big Thing, this discussion is for you.

In this session, we’ll examine:

A framework for understanding how new digital activities and mass market networks emerge.
Breakthrough technologies that allow us to imagine better ways to use the Internet.
Demos of thought networking, a new way to use the Internet that leverages computers as personal assistants.

About the speaker

Peter Sweeney
Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Peter Sweeney is the Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Primal Fusion Inc. A serial entrepreneur and inventor, Peter has 13-years experience in forming and growing Internet-based companies. His focus is on disruptive innovations that provide new mass market opportunities.

In his current role at Primal Fusion, Peter directs R&D, product development, and market strategy for the company. Based in Waterloo, Ontario and founded in 2005, Primal Fusion is building an advanced platform of semantic technologies to power a more personal and convenient Internet for consumers. Peter’s vision is manifested in “thought networking” as an important new facet of our digital life.

Peter is an avid inventor and technologist. He has several patents and patents pending covering foundational technologies and applications within knowledge representation. His work in facet analysis, semantic synthesis, and adaptive classification systems underlie Primal Fusion’s technology platform. Peter’s interests are directed to highly personalized and scalable semantic networks.

Prior to founding Primal Fusion, Peter was co- Founder, CEO, and later CTO of Indimensions Entertainment Group (now the Official Community Corporation “OCC”). Based in Toronto and founded in 2001, OCC is a global network of online communities for major recording artists. As a pioneer in Web 2.0 community development, Peter defined a disruptive new business model for entertainers in the 21st century that has become the industry’s gold standard.

Peter shares his ideas regularly on his corporate blog at corp.primalfusion.com/blog. He can be reached at peter.sweeney@primalfusion.com.