Tim O'Reilly

Tim O’Reilly is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, the company that has been providing the picks and shovels of learning to the Silicon Valley gold rush for the past thirty-five years. The company delivers online learning, publishes books, and runs online events about cutting-edge technology, and has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. If you’ve heard the term “open source software”, “web 2.0”, “the Maker movement”, “government as a platform”, or “algorithmic rents”, he’s had a hand in framing each of those big ideas.

He is a visiting professor of practice at University College London's Institute For Innovation and Public Purpose, where he has been doing research on how big tech firms use their algorithms to extract economic rents.

Tim is also a partner at early stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and on the board of Code for America. He is the author of many technical books published by O’Reilly Media, and most recently WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us (Harper Business, 2017).