Guido Gybels
Director of New Technologies, RNID

Guido Gybels is currently Director of New Technologies at RNID (Royal National Institute for Deaf People, London, UK). He was born in Leuven, Belgium, but has been living and working in the UK for several years. He comes from a commercial IT background and is a well-respected researcher, developer and author in the world of Internet and programming. He has also studied and published in such different fields as history, linguistics, geography, didactics, docimology and psychology. After a successful career in Belgium where he was involved in a number of large and innovative commercial projects, he joined RNID in 2001 to drive policy, innovation, research and development in the domain of Internet, broadcasting and Mobile and wireless networking technology. In that role Mr Gybels has established RNID and his New Technologies department as a leading organisation in Technology and standardisation, recently winning the most prestigious award in the Information and Communication Technology arena, a Computing Award for Excellence.