Richard Harris
CEO, Vision, Strategy & Architecture

Richard is a visionary innovator and architect of internet technologies, online communities and social networks, with quarter of a century’s experience as a strategist, researcher, developer, consultant and entrepreneur.

Among the technologies he has pioneered are mobile devices, electronic cash, semantic systems, metadata ontologies, blogging and collaborative social networks, in the process creating the Ubiquity model of socially-enabled content services. In 1995, he was CTO and co-founder, with Douglas Adams, of The Digital Village, there creating the Cody award-winning game Starship Titanic and the real Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (h2g2.com), a service which pre-figured sites such as Facebook and Wikipedia. The architecture of h2g2 now forms the core of the BBC’s online interactive services.

He has worked with many leading innovators, including Apple, Intel, AT&T Labs and SAS Institute. His experience ranges from driving the creation of the first e-commerce enabled web site for Comic Relief ’99 (which took £500,000 in online donations) to providing communications and multimedia networks in support of Mountain Gorilla conservation in Congo and Rwanda and the design of a business intelligence architecture for genetic pharmaceuticals. Prior to co-founding The Do Lab, he worked with Russia’s leading film and TV distributor to design a socially-enabled, multi-platform IPTV service. He has been refining the ideas behind SlipStream for ten years.

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