ABOUT

The Web Conference (formerly known as WWW conference) is a yearly international conference on the topic of the World Wide Web

The conference began in 1994 at CERN and is organized each year by a local team of volunteers in different parts of the world who come together to organize the conference in collaboration with the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2). The Conference aims to provide the world with a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conference brings together researchers, policy makers, developers, users and commercial ventures — indeed all those who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer.

30th The Web Conference should take place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia within April 12-23, 2021. With all circumstances of the current health constraints worldwide, the Conference will be organized as a virtual only, fully supported as an advanced experience of a virtual one.

Ljubljana

Conference host city Ljubljana has a lot to offer, from historical and cultural aspects, signature of our famous arhitect Joze Plecnik. Vivid city of a thousand events is surrounded by parks and natural protected areas. It is often called a lively green city combining the charm of a small capital and the self-confidence of large European cities.

Cankarjev dom

Our carefully selected conference venue is the largest Slovenian convention, congress and culture center called Cankarjev dom. 
It is located in the area of our business and government area, at Congress square, house of the parliament with a view to Ljubljana castle.

Slovenia

Slovenia has among natural beauties, clean rivers, springs, seaside, mountains and forest a great collection of cultural places and events, worth exploring.
This is a land where you can taste exceptional culinary and fulfil expectations.

Learn more about our inspiring places.

COMMITTEES

Jure Leskovec

General co-chair
Stanford University

Marko Grobelnik

General co-chair
Jožef Stefan Institute

Leila Zia

Program committee
co-chair
Wikimedia Foundation

Marc Najork

Program committee
co-chair

Google

Jie Tang

Program committee
co-chair

Tsinghua University

Aljaz Kosmerlj

Local organizing committee co-chair
Jožef Stefan Institute

Marija Komatar

Local organizing committee co-chair
Pitea

Lovro Subelj

Local volunteers Chair
University of Ljubljana

Bob West

Tutorials track co-chair (hands-on)
EPFL

Marinka Zitnik

Tutorials track co-chair (hands-on)
Harvard

Smriti Bhagat

Tutorials track co-chair (lecture)
Facebook

Paul Groth

Tutorials track co-chair (lecture)
University of Amsterdam

Julian McAuley

Workshops track
co-chair

University of California San Diego

Karthik Subbian

Workshops track
co-chair

Amazon

James Hodson

Demos track
co-chair

AI4good

Janez Brank

Demos track co-chair
Jožef Stefan Institute

Ricardo Baeza Yates

Panels co-chair
NTENT & Northeastern University, SV Campus

Emine Yilmaz

Panels co-chair
University College London

Dan Brickley

Developers track co-chair
Google

Andreas Harth

Developers track
co-chair

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Michael Witbrock

Artificial Intelligence Day
University of Auckland

Silvia Rodríguez

Web4all co-chair
University of Geneva

Ted Drake

Web4all co-chair
Intuit

Tim Althoff

Web of Health Chair
University of Washington

MunMun De Choudhury

Diversity & Inclusion chair
Georgia Tech

Gregoris Mentzas

PhD Symposium co-chair
National Technical University of Athens

Dunja Mladenic

PhD Symposium co-chair
Jožef Stefan Institute

Rudi Studer

PhD Symposium co-chair
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Srijan Kumar

Student scholarship co-chair
GaTech

Shobeir Fakhraei

Student scholarship co-chair
Amazon

Ben Steichen

Student scholarship co-chair
Cal Poly Pomona

Evgeniy Gabrilovich

Future of Web
Google

Mark Minevich

Sponsorship & Networking co-chair
Going Global Ventures

Balaji Krishnapuram

Sponsorship & Networking co-chair
Pinterest

Yang Yang

Sponsorship & Networking co-chair
Zhejiang University

James Shanahan

Sponsorship & Networking co-chair
UC Berkeley

Peng Zhang

Communications & social media chair
Zhipu.AI

Rayid Ghani

Communications & social media chair
Carnegie Mellon University

Luca Aiello

Proceeding co-chair
Nokia Bell labs

Meeyoung Cha

Proceeding co-chair
KAIST

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