Niki Skene will share an introduction to the 2021 Version of the Web, known as Web3.

His talk will cover the Journey from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0 and share current cases and an outlook about what the world will look like when Web3 has reached the Internet Population.

From Wikipedia:

Web3, also known as Web 3.0, is an idea for a version of the Internet that is decentralized and based on public blockchains. The concept gained popularity in 2020 and 2021 with interest from cryptocurrency enthusiasts and investments from high-profile technologists and companies.

Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 refer to eras in the history of the Internet as it evolved through various technologies and formats. Web 1.0 refers roughly to the period from 1991 to 2004, where the vast majority of Internet users were solely consumers of content. Most websites were static pages that displayed content from the server filesystem rather than a database. Web 2.0 is based around the idea of "the web as platform". Far more users of the Internet produce content, which they upload to social networking services, blogs, or video or image sharing websites. Many web pages are dynamic and serve content from relational databases, or are full-featured web applications. Web 2.0 is generally considered to have begun around 2004, and continues to the current day.

Web3 is distinguished from a concept for a semantic web created in 1999 by Tim Berners-Lee, which has sometimes also been called "Web 3.0". Some writers referring to the decentralized concept usually known as "Web3" have used the terminology "Web 3.0", leading to some confusion between the two concepts; furthermore, some visions of Web3 also incorporate ideas relating to the semantic web.