Transcript WWW2007 Promo

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Conference Location
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Banff, Alberta, Canada
Banff National Park (Canada’s first, 1885)
Spectacular mountain scenery
International tourist destination
Year-round recreational opportunities
• Travel details:
– Fly to Calgary International Airport (YYC)
– 90-min travel time from Calgary Airport to
Banff by bus or rental car
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Conference Hotel
• Banff Springs Hotel
• “Castle in the Rockies”
• Scottish baronial
architecture (1888)
• Internationally-known
tourist destination
• World-class
conference centre
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© Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
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Key Personnel
• General Chairs:
– Carey Williamson, U. of Calgary
– Mary Ellen Zurko, IBM
• Program Chairs:
– Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research
– Prashant Shenoy, U. Massachusetts
• PCO: EventPlan, Calgary
– Unni Soelberg-Claridge, CMP, CMM
– Maura Duncan and others
• Conference Mascot: Megabite the Beaver
• Sponsorship Program: Quest Media Ltd (UK)
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Conference Structure
• 5-day format
• Tuesday, May 8 to Saturday, May 12
• Tutorials, workshops, refereed papers, plenary
talks, panels, posters, invited speakers, ...
• Lunch and AM/PM coffee breaks each day
• Evening events:
– Welcome reception: Wednesday, May 9
– Conference social event: Thursday, May 10
(Brewster’s MountView Barbecue)
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Proposed Tracks
• Browsers and
User Interfaces
• Data Mining
• E* Applications
• Industrial P&E
• Performance and
Scalability
• Pervasive Web and
Mobility
• Search
• Security, Privacy,
Reliability and Ethics
• Semantic Web
• Technology for
Developing Regions
• Web Engineering
• Web Services
• XML and Data
Languages
• Web Standards Issues
Possible Themes: Pervasive Web; Search; Web Security
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Related Events and Activities
• W3C Advisory Committee Meeting
– Sunday, May 6 to Tuesday, May 8
• Web History Day (tentative)
– See http://webhistory.org
• Students
– Travel subsidy program planned
– Outings and excursions (hiking, skiing, GPS)
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Key Dates
• Workshop Proposals:
– October 20, 2006
• Paper Submissions:
– November 20, 2006 (NO EXTENSIONS!!!)
• Posters: February 12, 2007 (tentative)
• Early Registration: March 5, 2007
• Hotel Reservation: March 15, 2007
• Conference: May 8-12, 2007
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http://www2007.org
Email: [email protected]
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