Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants (Recent and Upcoming)

November 2007

21 November

Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled " What is the Semantic Web?" and Mauro Nunez gives an invited talk entitled "The World Wide Web Consortium" organized by the Zheijiang University, on Wednesday, 21 November 2007, in Hangzhou, China.

27 November

Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman give a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Wege zum Semantischen Web (Ways to the Semantic Web)" at the "ISOC German Chapter Mitgliederversammlung" on Tuesday, 27 November 2007, in Frankfurt, Germany. (see abstract)

Abstract:

repetition of the talk given on 18 October 2007, in Darmstadt, Germany.

27 November

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled " Knowledge creation: integrazione di HTML e Semantic Web ( Knowledge creation: integrating HTML and Semantic Web)" at the " The 12th KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FORUM" on Tuesday, 27 November 2007, in Milano, Italy. (see abstract)

Abstract:

Information available on the web can be integrated and merged to create new knowledge. After a brief recall of Semantic Web basic principles, we will show how GRDDL can be used to extract knowledge from web pages containing structured data.

28 November

Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "The World Wide Web Needs World Wide Standards" (see abstract) and gives a talk entitled "Emerging Technologies" at the "Open Standards International Conference 2007" , on Wednesday, 28 November 2007, in Beijing, China.

Abstract for “ The World Wide Web Needs World Wide…”:

The World Wide Web is a universal medium, which has already demonstrated an enormous potential to link people and information across a large and expanding portion the globe. Over 1 billion people now browse the Web through their computers, while close to 2 billion have the potential to browse the Web through their mobile phones. The fastest growth in Web usage is within emerging economies. To ensure that there be a single, universal Web, it is imperative that the diverse requirements of the world's citizens are supported by Web technologies. And to ensure that the requirements are supported, it is imperative that the world's experts are involved in the development of Web standards. This presentation will summarize (1) the World Wide Web Consortium's experience in developing the open, royalty-free standards that are the foundation of the Web, and (2) the great opportunities that we see as the Web standards development community expands across the globe.

29 November

José Manuel Alonso gives a talk entitled "Estándares Abiertos al rescate (Open Standards to the rescue)" at the "Taller de Interoperabilidad e Intercambio de Datos, Tecnimap 2007 (Interoprability and Data Exchange Workshop, Tecnimap 2007)" on Thursday, 29 November 2007, in Gijón, Spain.

29 November

Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "Converging Parallels" at "The Infinity Initiative" on Thursday, 29 November 2007, in Sophia Antipolis, France.

29 November

Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "Web Open Standards and WAI" at the "World Usability Day Sophia" on Thursday, 29 November 2007, in Sophia Antipolis, France.

30 November

Steve Bratt gives a lecture on behalf of the China Office entitled "Now and Future Web Technologies" organized by the Beihang University, on Friday, 30 November 2007, in Beijing, China.

December 2007

3 December

Encarnación Quesada Ruiz gives an invited talk entitled "El W3C en España" at the "Webmasters Meeting Point 2008" on Monday, 3 December 2007, in Madrid, Spain.

10 December

Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "Web Past and Future" at the "World Healthcare Innovation and Technology (WHIT 3.0) Congress 2007" on Monday, 10 December 2007, in Washington, DC, USA.

11 December

Philippe Le Hégaret participates at a panel entitled "Video Search Engines" at the "WebVideo Summit 2007" on Tuesday, 11 December 2007, in New York, USA. (see abstract)

Abstract:

It don't mean a thing if they can't find your work! An extraordinary percentage of your viewers will come from search engines, and you have to help them find you. Early video search relied on keywords and metadata. Now voice recognition and even scene selection will allow tighter searches, including to a specific part of your video. How do you work with the search engines for great results? How can you plan your project to connect with new viewers? Bring your questions to this session, featuring some of the world's top experts on the panel.

14 December

Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Le nuove linee guida internazionali per l'accessibilità del Web (New Web accessibility international guidelines)" at the "L’evoluzione dell’accessibilità informatica (Evolution of accessibility)" on Friday, 14 December 2007, in Venezia, Italy. (see abstract)

Abstract:

The talk will address the most recent WAI activity, give highlights on upcoming WCAG 2.0 and the recently published WAI-ARIA suite.

20 December

Martín Álvarez participates at a panel entitled "El W3C en el desarrollo de la Web (W3C in the the Development of the Web)" at the "II Jornadas de Ingeniería Informática en Asturias (II Day on Engineering in Computer Science in Asturias)" on Thursday, 20 December 2007, in Gijón, Spain.

January 2008

23 January

José Manuel Alonso gives a talk via Webcast on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "eGovernment and the Web" at the "Virtual W3C Seminar" on Wednesday, 23 January 2008.

23 January

Matt Womer gives a talk entitled "Unifying a Fragmenting Market Through Standardisation to Encourage Mobile Web Industry Development" at the "Mobile Web USA" on Wednesday, 23 January 2008, in San Francisco, CA, USA.

30 January

Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web" at the "JFokus 2008 " on Wednesday, 30 January 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.

31 January

José Manuel Alonso participates at a panel entitled "TIC y Gobernabilidad" at the "Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0 (Development Cooperation 2.0)" on Thursday, 31 January 2008, in Gijón, Spain.

March 2008

7 March

Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "State of the Semantic Web" at the "INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008" on Friday, 7 March 2008, in Tokyo, Japan. (see abstract)

Abstract:

The presentation will give a short review on the state of adoption of the Semantic Web today, as well as some of the latest developments. Technologies and developments such as linking open data, RDFa, role of SPARQL, OWL1.1, rules will all be addressed. The presentation will also provide examples of how the Semantic Web is used in practice by major companies or public institutions.

8 March

Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly" at the "SXSW Interactive 2008 Conference" on Saturday, 8 March 2008, in Austin, TX, USA.

April 2008

1 April

Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "Analysing The Importance Of Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage" at the "Mobile Internet" on Tuesday, 1 April 2008, in Berlin, Germany.

21 April

Ben Adida, Elias Torres, and Ivan Herman give a tutorial entitled "RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in HTML" ; Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web (through an example…)" ; Richard Ishida and Felix Sasaki give a tutorial entitled "Producing XML that works internationally" at the "17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008)" , on Monday, 21 April 2008, in Beijing, China.