Klaus Birkenbihl gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Die Zukunft des Web in 6 Punkten (The Future ofthe Web in 6 Points)" at the "Ausschusstreffen "Innovation und Umwelt" der IHK Köln (Workshop of the IHK Köln on Innovation and Environment)" on Thursday, 22 January 2004, in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
22 January
David Booth gives a talk entitled " W3C Web Services Architecture: An Overview and Update" and participates at a panel entitled "Web Services and XML Standards: Can we benefit while avoiding pitfalls?" at the " OOP 2004" , on Thursday, 22 January 2004, in Munich, Germany.
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "XML - mahdollisuudet ja kehitys (XML - the potential and development)" at the "3S Conference" on Tuesday, 24 February 2004, in Espoo, Finland.
24 February
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "XML, standardointi ja kehitys (XML, standardisation and development)" at the "XML käytännössä (XML in Practice)" on Tuesday, 24 February 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.
26 February
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Hungarian Office entitled "Áttekintés a Szemantikus Webről (Overview of the Semantic Web)" at the "Ontológiák és metaadatok műhelykonferencia (Workshop on ontologies and metadata)" on Thursday, 26 February 2004, in Budapest, Hungary.
26 February
Daniel J. Weitzner gives a talk entitled "Layers of Responsibility: Perspectives on Internet Governance" at the " Workshop on Internet Governance" on Thursday, 26 February 2004, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ossi Nykänen gives an invited talk entitled "Semanttinen Web ja Web-teknologiat (Semantic Web and Web Technologies)" at the "XML in software engineering meeting" on Thursday, 11 March 2004, in Tampere, Finland.
13 March
Wendy Chisholm, John Slatin, and Jeff Veen participate at a panel entitled "Accessibility is for Everybody" at the "SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Festival" on Saturday, 13 March 2004, in Austin, TX, USA.
Hugo Haas gives a keynote entitled "Standardisation des Services Web : Où En Sommes-Nous ?
(Standardaziation of Web Services: Where Are We?)" and Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth at the "2èmes Rencontres Web Services (2nd Web Services Meeting)" , on Thursday, 18 March 2004, in Paris, France.
Jesús García gives an invited talk entitled "WAI, Iniciativa de Accesibilidad Web
(WAI, Web Accessibility Initiative)" at the "Tecnología y Discapacidad Visual (Technology and Visual Disabilities)" on Wednesday, 24 March 2004, in Madrid, Spain.
24, 25 March
Jim Larson gives a talk entitled "W3C Voice Browser Working Group\'s activities" on Wednesday, 24 March 2004 and Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled " Multimodal Standards: Activities in the W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group" on Thursday, 25 March 2004 at the "AVIOS SpeechTEK Spring" , San Francisco, CA, USA.
24 March
Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "A W3C Perspective" organized by the University of Melbourne, on Wednesday, 24 March 2004, in Melbourne, Australia.
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "W3C & verkkojulkaisun standardit (W3C and Standards of Web Publishing)" at the "Web Publishers' Meeting at Tampere" on Thursday, 25 March 2004, in Tampere, Finland.
László Kovács and Nóra Vásárhelyi give a talk entitled "Webhez kapcsolódó szabványosítás Magyarországon
(Web Related Standardization in Hungary)" at the "Networkshop 2004" on Tuesday, 6 April 2004, in Győr, Hungary.
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "XML Schema - Perspectives" organized by the National Tax Administration, on Sunday, 11 April 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.
17 April
Patrick Hung gives a talk on behalf of the Hong Kong Office entitled "Introduction to Web Services" at the "Sixth Asia Pacific Web Conference" on Saturday, 17 April 2004, in Huangzhou, China.
19 April
Klaus Birkenbihl gives an invited talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Standards für die Zukunft des Web (Standards for the Future of the Web)" organized by the Fachhochschule Rosenheim, on Monday, 19 April 2004, in Rosenheim, Germany.
19 April
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Technological Responses to Spyware" at the " FTC Spyware Workshop" on Monday, 19 April 2004, in Washington, DC, USA.
Richard Ishida participates at a panel entitled "Barriers to Localization" at the "UK UPA (Usability Professionals Association) Monthly Event" on Thursday, 22 April 2004, in London, UK.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial entitled "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)"
organized by the Professional Development Seminars Series of the Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM, on Saturday, 1 May 2004, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux participates at a panel entitled "Normes et standards ouverts de l'internet (Open norms and standards of the Internet)" organized by the Université de Printemps de la Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération, on Thursday, 6 May 2004, in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Jesús García gives an invited talk entitled "Herramientas de validación y reparación de accesibilidad
(Evaluation and Repair Tools for Web Accessibility)" at the "Bibliotecas Accesibles en la Web (Web Accessible Libraries)" on Monday, 10 May 2004, in Madrid, Spain.
12 May
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled " The changing Internet standards game" at the "INET 2004" on Wednesday, 12 May 2004, in Barcelona, Spain.
Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "W3C and the Semantic Web" organized by the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation, on Thursday, 3 June 2004, in Venice, Italy.
Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "Introducción al uso de la Web Semántica
(Introduction to the use of the Semantic Web)" and José Kahan gives a tutorial entitled "Implementing Annotea in Amaya using Raptor and Redland" organized by the Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe (SWAD-Europe), on Sunday, 13 June 2004, in Madrid, Spain.
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "The History and Future of the World Wide Web" at the "Millennium Technology Conference, Finnish Technology Award Foundation" on Wednesday, 16 June 2004, in Espoo, Finland.
Michael Wilson gives a talk entitled "Creating a Lingua Franca for the Web Out of SOAP" at the "Telco Web Services Conference" on Tuesday, 22 June 2004, in London, UK.
Jesús García gives a talk entitled "Accesibilidad en e-administración
(Web Accesibility for e-administration)" at the "I Foro Programa Ciudades Digitales (Digital Cities Programme Forum)" on Wednesday, 23 June 2004, in Logroño, Spain.
Michael Wilson participates at a panel entitled "Developments in XML Schema Languages" at the "Developments in XML Schema Languages" on Thursday, 24 June 2004, in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK.
24 June
Henry Thompson gives a talk on behalf of the United Kingdom and Ireland Office entitled "W3C XML Schema: Key features, plans and prospects" at the "Developments in XML Schema Languages" on Thursday, 24 June 2004, in Didcot, Oxon, UK.
25 June
Hugo Haas gives a talk entitled "Développement et standardisation des technologies services web
(Development and Standardization of the Web Service Technologies)" organized by the Bouygues Telecom, on Friday, 25 June 2004, in Vélizy, France.
27 June
Klaus Birkenbihl gives an invited talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Standards und Visionen: Das World Wide Web Consortium
(Standards and Visions: the World Wide Web Consortium)" at the "Annual Swiss IT Leadership Forum" on Sunday, 27 June 2004, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Switzerland.
Michael Wilson gives an invited talk entitled "The Future of the Web?" at the "BNCOD 2004 - 21st Annual British National Conference on Databases" on Thursday, 8 July 2004, in Edinburgh, UK.
8 July
Tex Texin gives a tutorial entitled "Hitchhiker's Guide to Globalization" at the "IWIPS 2004" on Thursday, 8 July 2004, in Vancouver, Canada.
John Wilbanks gives a talk entitled "The Role of Semantic Technologies in the Emerging Grid" at the "PharmaGRID 2004 Retreat" on Saturday, 7 August 2004, in Diessenhofen, Switzerland.
11 August
Dean Jackson gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web" at the "SIGGRAPH 2004" on Wednesday, 11 August 2004, in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
14 August
Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk entitled "When does the Semantic Web take off?" at the " XML Consortium Seminar" on Saturday, 14 August 2004, in Shinagawa, Japan.
21 August
Charles McCathieNevile gives a talk entitled "La Web Semántica por herramientas
(Semantic Web for Tools)" at the "La Web Semántica en América Latina (The Semantic Web in Latin-America)" on Saturday, 21 August 2004, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "W3C Activities in Multimodal Standards" ; Jim Larson, Rob Marchand, and Dave Burke give a tutorial entitled "Introduction to VoiceXML 2.0" ; Matt Oshry and Jeff Kusnitz give a talk entitled "VoiceXML vs. SALT: What's the Same and What's Different" ; Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote on Tuesday, 14 September 2004;
Brandon Porter, Jim Larson, and Deborah Dahl participate at a panel entitled "Speech Standards: From Core Ideas to Key Details" ; Scott McGlashan gives a tutorial entitled "Advanced VoiceXML 2.0" on Wednesday, 15 September 2004;
Dave Burke gives a tutorial entitled "AM Grammars" ; Luc Van Tichelen gives a tutorial entitled "Semantic Interpretation" ; Scott McGlashan gives a talk entitled "Developing Call Control Applications with CCXML" and gives a talk entitled "MultiModal on Mobile Devices." ; Wu Chou and Michael Johnston give a talk entitled "EMMA: Extended Multimodal Annotation Markup" on Thursday, 16 September 2004;
Karl Dubost gives a talk entitled "Normes et formats de fichiers ouverts
(Standards and Formats of Open Files)" at the "Informatique Libre (Open Computing)" on Saturday, 25 September 2004, in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial entitled "What does XML have to do with Immanuel Kant?" at the "Net.Object Days 2004" on Wednesday, 29 September 2004, in Erfurt, Germany.
Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "The Meaning and Interpretation of Markup" organized by the W3C German and Austrian Office, on Friday, 1 October 2004, in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
Shawn Henry gives a keynote, representing the Education & Outreach Working Group, entitled "A Web Revolution Through Higher Education" at the "HighEdWebDev 2004, eMergingVisions" on Monday, 11 October 2004, in Rochester, NY, USA.
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Information och kunskap i en distribuerad värld (Information and knowledge in a distributed world)" at the "Information Resource Management - trender (Information Resource Management - future trends)" on Wednesday, 20 October 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Den semantiska webben - vad som erbjuds, hur vi kan utnyttja det och vilka effekter vi kan uppnå
(The Semantic Web - what it offers, how to use ít, and what benefits it can give)" at the "Den semantiska webben - kunskapslyft eller hype? (The Semantic Web - improved power or hype?)" on Monday, 25 October 2004, in Linköping, Sweden.
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "W3C ja alueellinen standardointi (W3C and Regional Standardization)" at the "JHS Seminar (Planning and implementation of the Web services" on Wednesday, 27 October 2004, in Helsinki, Finland.
Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies"
organized by the School of Informatics Engineering, University of Oviedo, on Tuesday, 2 November 2004, in Oviedo, Spain.
2 November
Ossi Nykänen gives a talk entitled "Semanttinen Web (Semantic Web)" at the "Annual Finnish ADP Days" on Tuesday, 2 November 2004, in Lappeenranta, Finland.
Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experience" on Thursday, 4 November 2004 and gives a tutorial entitled "Styling the New Web Using CSS" on Saturday, 6 November 2004 at the "User Experience 2004" , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Daniel J. Weitzner gives a talk entitled "Patents, Standards and the Dynamics of Innovation on the World Wide Web" at the "First Annual JOLT Symposium: Patent Policy in the Context of Internet Open Standards Development" on Tuesday, 9 November 2004, in Los Angeles, USA.
Bert Bos gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Multiple Input Media, Multiple Output Media, but only One Web" at the "Gira Estándes W3C 2004 (Standards Tour W3C 2004)" on Wednesday, 10 November 2004, in Barcelona, Spain.
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "W3C Semantic Web Technologies in real life" at the "Gira Estándes W3C 2004 (Standards Tour W3C 2004)" on Thursday, 11 November 2004, in Valencia, Spain.
Thomas Baker gives a talk on behalf of the German and Austrian Office entitled "Introduction to Semantic Web"
at the "Arbeitskreis Application Development & Integration Technologies (Application Development & Integration Technologies Working Group)" on Tuesday, 16 November 2004, in Berlin, Germany.
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "Proteger l'innovation avec les standards
(Protecting innovation with standards)" at the "Forum Integration" on Thursday, 25 November 2004, in Paris, France.
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Web Accessibility for Designers" on Wednesday, 8 December 2004 and gives a talk entitled "Web Accessibility: A Foundation for International Cooperation and Local Implentation" on Friday, 10 December 2004 at the "Designing for the 21st Century III" , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
9 December
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Arkitektur för framtiden - katedral eller koloniområde? (Future architectures - Cathedral or Allotment Area?)" at the "Gårdagens och morgondagens plattformar (Platforms Yesterday and Tomorrow)" on Thursday, 9 December 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "The Internet and the World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future" at the "British University in Dubai Open Lecture" on Sunday, 19 December 2004, in Knowledge Village, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Steve Ross-Talbot gives a talk entitled "Standards Bodies updates - W3C and Choreography to bind technology with business functions" on Tuesday, 1 February 2005 and participates at a panel entitled "Web Services Standards Update" on Wednesday, 2 February 2005 at the "Web Services on Wall Street" , New York, USA.
Masayasu Ishikawa participates at a panel entitled "XML文書技術の新展開 (New development in XML document technology)" at the "PAGE2005" on Friday, 4 February 2005, in Tokyo, Japan.
Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk entitled "セマンティックWebとW3Cの活動
(Semantic Web and W3C's activities)" at the "セマンティックWebコンファレンス2005 (Semantic Web Conference 2005)" on Thursday, 10 February 2005, in Tokyo, Japan.
10 February
Hiroyuki Sato gives a talk entitled "Overview and Objectives of the Semantic Web Data Access Working Group" at the "INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2005" on Thursday, 10 February 2005, in Tokyo, Japan.
Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "Multimodal Standards For Automating Customer Support" and Jim Larson gives a talk entitled "W3C Standards for Automating customer Support" at the "Service Automation Expo and Conference" , on Monday, 21 February 2005, in San Francisco, USA.
22, 23 February
Jim Larson gives a talk entitled "Semantic Processing and Multimodal User Interfaces" on Tuesday, 22 February 2005; Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Activities" on Wednesday, 23 February 2005; Jim Larson gives a talk entitled "Beyond VoiceXML: New Standard Languages from the world Wide Web consortium" on Wednesday, 23 February 2005 at the "SpeechTEK West" , San Francisco, USA.
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "The Role of Web Standards in Technology Transfer " at the "AMI Technology Transfer Event" on Tuesday, 8 March 2005, in Brussels, Belgium.
Matthew May and Wendy Chisholm participate at a panel entitled "How to use Accessibility Guidelines, Standards, and Testing Tools" at the "South by Southwest Interactive" on Sunday, 13 March 2005, in Austin, TX, USA.
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Exploring Web Accessibility: A Hands-On Introduction" on Monday, 14 March 2005;
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Accessible Web Design Beyond the Basics: CSS and Other Techniques, Tips, and Tricks" on Tuesday, 15 March 2005;
Judy Brewer gives a talk entitled "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Transitioning Your Web Site" on Wednesday, 16 March 2005;
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "A Vendor Neutral Reporting Language For Web Accessibility Evaluations" on Friday, 18 March 2005;
Matthew May gives a talk entitled "W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Test Suite Version 2.0 And Implementation Report" on Saturday, 19 March 2005;
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "Web Services Choreography" at the "e-Biz World 2005 Conference" on Wednesday, 23 March 2005, in Seoul, Korea.
30 March
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "Web open standards, a critical factor for e-administration " at the "@METIS Kickoff Meeting" on Wednesday, 30 March 2005, in Sophia Antipolis, France.
31 March
Máté Pataki and László Kovács give a talk entitled "Weblapok akadálymentesítése
(Accessibility of Web Sites)" at the "Networkshop 2005" on Thursday, 31 March 2005, in Szeged, Hungary.