CTO
Latakoo Inc
Ben Werdmuller is CTO of Latakoo, an Internet company providing new kinds of services around video content, and also acts as Geek in Residence at the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab, helping all 12 Edinburgh Festivals innovate with web technology By the time he was 16, his software projects had already been featured in the technology and financial press. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, he co-founded Elgg, the leading open source social networking platform, and was CTO of Curverider, the company founded to support it. As part of a two-person team with no budget, he brought the software from a standing start to a point where users included the World Bank, and turned Curverider into one of the few British open source companies to attract investment. He also works as an independent web strategist, helping companies and institutions develop social web applications, as well as evangelising about the future of the web.