The 10th International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW10)

The Tenth International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW10) will be held in Hong Kong from 1-5 May in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Over a thousand delegates from around the world are expected to descend on Hong Kong to join local Internet researchers, web developers, and e-commerce specialists. The is the first time the International WWW Conference is being held in Asia and Hong Kong is honoured to be the host.

The International World-Wide Web Conferences are events of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2). They are conferences endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) chaired by Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN, the High Energy Physics Laboratory in Geneva.

The International WWW Conference is first and foremost a research conference on an international scale where leading-edge members of the Web community assemble in high concentration to present the latest in Web technologies, report on the emerging standards and critically review the most recent innovation in systems and software.

The WWW10 Programme will consist of refereed paper sessions, panel sessions, a poster track, a W3C track, and several specialized tracks including Culture, E-commerce on the Web, Law and the Web, Vendors Track, Web and Education, Web Internationalization, and Web and Society. The main conference will be held from May 2 to 4, preceded by a day of tutorials and workshops (Day 1) and will conclude with a developers' day (Day 5).

WWW10 is jointly hosted by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Productivity Council, Cable and Wireless HKT Schoolteam (Asia) Ltd, The Hong Kong Information Technology Federation, and The Hong Kong Web Symposium Consortium.

The 7th Hong Kong Web Symposium (Sym 7)

The Hong Kong Web Symposium Consortium (HKWebSym) has incorporated its 7th Hong Kong Web Symposium (Sym 7) as the Education & WWW Track at the WWW10 (Days 2-3, May 2-3) . This is the first time that education has been given a track within any International WWW Conference.

Registered members of the Consortium, through sponsorship, can enjoy a special concessionary rate when participating in the main conference, which includes the Education Track/Sym 7, other tracks and the plenary sessions. Details are in the Member Benefits section. We are accepting membership applications now.