Monday, 23 November 2015

Dear Researchers, Academica, and Members of the UWA Community

As you might know, UWA along with the 3 other main WA universities has won the right to host the prestigious and large WWW 2017 conference covering all things Web related (and certainly not just technical aspects).  This is a great opportunity for UWA to market our research and any other vaguely Web-related activities.

Do you want to be involved, or have colleagues here or elsewhere who we should think of involving? If so, please read on .

Please then give us some details as set out below and send us an email at [email protected] (with the subject WWW 2017)

Summary (with thanks to our colleagues from Curtin):

  • WWW2017 is a conference hosted by UWA, Curtin, Murdoch and ECU.
  • DATES: Sunday 2nd April – Sunday 9th April 2017 (before Easter).
  • Registration opens April 2016.
  • Each day starts at 10am – keynotes at 10am.
  • For a comparison to next year’s conference you can view the website of www2016 in Montreal at https://www2016.ca /

1.    Four conference themes:

a. Making Decisions – crowd-sourcing, symantic web, web standards, governance, behavioural economics, collaboration, etc.

b. Rethinking place – telecoms, cloud-based computing, massive online gaming, GNSS, mapping and geoblocking, etc.

c. The balance between technology and culture – eCommerce, facial recognition, remote sensing, censorship, etc.

d. Living in the always on – wearables, encryption, privacy, surveillance, big data, inter-connection, IoE/IoT.

2.     Connecting all four themes

  • eLearning on local and global basis
  • Data and network security
  • Privacy and privacy data mining
  • Provision of remote services in eHealth, eGov’t, and eBusiness

3.    Currently we are proposing an eight-day conference

  • With government, eLearning, big data, Pawsey/iVEC, SKA, and many other Aus-based highlights.
  • Anticipating ~1500 attendees, plus additional attendees at co-located events
  • Approx 25 workshops, and 25 tutorials over the weeklong conference.

4.     Two program chairs appointed by Int’l committee (used to be Sir Tim Berners-Lee – no longer, but still attends), so Perth does not have to create the content for the conference.

5.      Potential events:

  1. Potentially have keynote speakers who don’t fit into any theme – for Montreal, keynote speaker will talk about AI.
  2. Big data collocated conferences
  3. Half of the workshops are pre-determined, the other half can be formatted to local expertise
  4. Potential IoE hackathon.

6.      Focus:

Around the core technical program, we want to showcase the work of local scientists. We want a legacy from this conference so that international attendees view WA’s tech strengths more clearly.

  1. We have four partners – Australian Computing Society, etc.
  2. Also the opportunity to engage with SE Asian collaborators and push for their involvement at future conferences.

7.      Getting involved:  We need people to fulfil “participation” roles, e.g.:

  1. Tutorials, workshops, seminars
  2. Students’ work
  3. Identifying guest speakers, hold panel discussions
  4. d.   Could be as simple as nominating individuals who could play a crucial role.
  5. Need to provide marketing and events staff feedback from each group about potential funders. They want assistance in identifying partners and sponsors to ensure that there’s not complications or overlap.

WHAT TO DO NOW:

Please send us an email at [email protected] (with the subject WWW 2017).

In your email please send us the following information about your proposed contribution:

Name:

Email:

Phone:

School/Part of UWA:

Theme: (which of the four)

Subtheme/Topic:

Type of event proposed:  (eg technical, non-technical track, workshop, tutorial, panel, seminar, co-located event. Social event)

Level of involvement offered: (eg lead, help organise, participate):

Other comment/suggestion:

Thanks very much.

Associate Professor Mark Reynolds

Head of School of Computer Science and Software Engineering

(on behalf of UWA's members of the WWW 2017 Programme Committee)

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