Tim O’Reilly is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O'Reilly Media, a technology and business training company that publishes books, produces tech conferences, and provides an online learning platform. The knowledge-on-demand platform at oreilly.com is used by thousands of enterprises and millions of individuals worldwide.
O'Reilly has a long history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry and frame big ideas such as "open source software", "web 2.0", "the Maker movement", and "government as a platform." O’Reilly is also a partner at early stage venture firm O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and he is on the boards of Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and PopVox.
O’Reilly 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). He is currently working on a new book about why we need to rethink antitrust in the era of internet-scale platforms.
