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Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants (2006)

January 2006

20 January
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Interoperabilidad, accesibilidad y usabilidad en los servicios electrónicos de las administraciones públicas (Interoperability, Accessibility and Usability in eServices for Public Administrations)" at the "Jornadas Técnicas sobre Administración Electrónica "Abrimos 24 horas" (Electronic Administration Seminar - "24 Hours Open")" on Friday, 20 January 2006, in Gijón, Spain.
23 January
Steve Bratt gives an invited talk entitled "RFID-ed Things on the Web of Data and Services" at the "RFID Academic Convocation" on Monday, 23 January 2006, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
25 January
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web: non solo teoria (Semantic Web: not just theory)" at the "KM, semantic web, e-learning (KM, semantic web, e-learning )" on Wednesday, 25 January 2006, in Prato, Italy.
27 January
Nobuo Saito gives a keynote entitled "主催者挨拶 (Welcome Message)"; Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk entitled "セマンティックWebの経緯と今後の方向 (Past and Future of Semantic Web)" and participates at a panel entitled "セマンティックWebのこれまで、今、そして未来 (Semantic Web, the Past, Today and Tomorrow)"; Yasuyuki Hirakawa and Yoshio Fukushige run a booth entitled "W3C活動紹介 (Introduction of W3C (World Wide Web Consortium))" at the " セマンティック Web コンファレンス 2006 (Semantic Web Conference 2006)" , on Friday, 27 January 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.
28 January
Felix Sasaki gives an invited talk entitled "ITS タグセットについて (About the ITS tagset)" at the "翻訳支援環境に関するセミナー (JLA Open Source Documentation Seminar)" on Saturday, 28 January 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.
30 January
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "WCAG 2.0: A Convergence Target" at the "Instruments pour faire de l'accessibilité du Web une réalité (Instruments for Making Web Accessibility a Reality)" on Monday, 30 January 2006, in Paris, France.
30, 31 January; 1 February
Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "Multimodal Interaction Management" on Monday, 30 January 2006; Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Speech Enabling Web Browsers" on Tuesday, 31 January 2006; Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "W3C Multimodal Standards" on Wednesday, 1 February 2006 at the "AVIOS/SpeechTek West 2006" , San Francisco, USA.

February 2006

2 February
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Det nya om webben (The buzz about the web)" at the "SITI-konferensen 2006 (The Annual SITI Conference 2006)" on Thursday, 2 February 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
3 February
Masayasu Ishikawa participates at a panel entitled "XML複合文書技術の動向 (The trend of XML compound document technology)" at the "PAGE2006" on Friday, 3 February 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.
7 February
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote entitled "Improving The Quality Of Web Information Systems By Implementing Accessibility Guidelines" at the "Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems (EATIS 2006)" on Tuesday, 7 February 2006, in Santa Marta, Colombia.
7 February
Richard Ishida gives an invited talk entitled "Introduction to Internationalization" at the "Open Road Conference" on Tuesday, 7 February 2006, in Melbourne, Australia.
8 February
Richard Ishida gives an invited talk entitled "Internationalizing the Web" at the "Victoria Online Seminar Series" on Wednesday, 8 February 2006, in Melbourne, Australia.
8 February
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Is 'Net Neutrality' on the Internet a BIT Relative?" at the "Internet Caucus State of the Net Conference" on Wednesday, 8 February 2006, in Washington, DC, USA.
8 February
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Indian Office entitled "Overview of W3C Technologies" organized by the Delhi Chapter of the IEEE, on Wednesday, 8 February 2006, in Delhi, India.
9 February
Richard Ishida gives an invited talk entitled "Internationalizing Web sites and applications" at the " February WSG Meeting (Melbourne)" on Thursday, 9 February 2006, in Melbourne, Australia.
10 February
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled " Evoluzione recente e sviluppi futuri nelle linee guida per l' accessibilità delle informazioni: il ruolo del W3C (Recent evolution and future developments of information accessibility guidelines: the role of W3C)" at the " VIII Congresso Nazionale SIE (8th SIE National Conference)" on Friday, 10 February 2006, in Milano, Italy.
10 February
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Webben idag - vad man bör hålla ögonen på (The web today -- major trends)" at the "Aktuella utmaningar (Current issues)" on Friday, 10 February 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
10 February
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Indian Office entitled "W3C and Open Standards" at the "LinuxAsia Conference & Expo" on Friday, 10 February 2006, in Delhi, India.
10 February
Richard Ishida gives an invited talk on behalf of the Australian Office entitled "Internationalizing Web sites and applications" at the " February W3C/WSG Meeting (Canberra)" on Friday, 10 February 2006, in Canberra, Australia.
13 February
Marie-Claire Forgue , Philipp Hoschka , and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux run a booth at the "3GSM World Congress 2006" on Monday, 13 February 2006, in Barcelona, Spain.
15 February
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Interoperabilidad al cubo (Interoperability to Cube)" at the "II Congreso Nacional de BPMS (Business Process Management Systems) (II Business Process Management Systems National Congress)" on Wednesday, 15 February 2006, in Madrid, Spain.
15 February
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a talk entitled "Web Standards and Usability" at the "North East Usability and Accessibility (NEUA) Group Meeting" on Wednesday, 15 February 2006, in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
16 February
Eric Miller gives an invited talk entitled "Weaving Meaning: The Semantic Web " at the "Bioinformatics Summit" on Thursday, 16 February 2006, in Bethesda, MD, USA.
21 February
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Beneficios de los Estándares Web (Benefits of Web Standards)" at the "Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones, Grupo de Trabajo, CRUE ("CRUE" ICT WG Meeting)" on Tuesday, 21 February 2006, in Oviedo, Spain.

March 2006

1 March
Charlton Barreto gives a talk entitled "The Pi of Choreography" at the "W3C Technical Plenary" on Wednesday, 1 March 2006, in Mandelieu, France.
6, 7 March
Frank Yung-Fong Tang, Felix Sasaki , and Liam Quin give a talk entitled "Internationalization Features in XPath, XQuery and XSLT" on Monday, 6 March 2006; Richard Ishida gives a tutorial entitled "An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode" on Monday, 6 March 2006; Felix Sasaki and Richard Ishida give a talk entitled "Information about Internationalization and Localization in XML" on Tuesday, 7 March 2006 at the "Internationalization & Unicode Conference 29" , San Francisco, USA.
8 March
Jesús García gives an invited talk entitled "Estándares del Consorcio para la Web (W3C) y accesibilidad web (Accessibility Web Standards)" at the "Sesión informativa sobre accesibilidad web y presentación del Plan de eAccesibilidad de la Universitat de València " on Wednesday, 8 March 2006, in Valencia, Spain.
12 March
Shawn Henry participates at a panel entitled "Web 2.1: Making Web 2.0 Accessible" at the "SXSW Interactive" on Sunday, 12 March 2006, in Austin, Texas, USA.
13 March
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C 기술 개발 동향 (The Technical Trends of W3C)" at the "차세대 웹 컨퍼런스 2006 (NGWeb 2006)" on Monday, 13 March 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
13 March
Dave Raggett gives an invited talk entitled "Web applications and the Ubiquitous Web" at the "Next Generation Web 2006" on Monday, 13 March 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
13 March
Wonsuk Lee gives a talk entitled "유비쿼터스 웹서비스 기술 표준 동향 (Technical Trend of Ubiquitous Web Services)" at the "차세대 웹 컨퍼런스 2006 (NGWeb 2006)" on Monday, 13 March 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
13 March
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a talk entitled "Web Standards Project (WaSP): Open Meeting" and participates at a panel entitled "WTF: WaSP Task Force Panel: Getting the Job Done" at the "South by Southwest (SXSW)" , on Monday, 13 March 2006, in Austin, Texas, USA.
14 March
Jonghong Jeon gives a talk on behalf of the Korean Office entitled "W3C MWI와 모바일 웹 2.0 (W3C MWI and Mobile Web 2.0)" at the "차세대 웹 통합 컨퍼런스 2006 (NGWeb 2006)" on Tuesday, 14 March 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
14 March
Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth at the "Multimedia Handsets conference" on Tuesday, 14 March 2006, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
14 March
Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk entitled "The future of the Web" at the "e-Horizons Institute lecture" on Tuesday, 14 March 2006, in Oxford, UK. (See also a video and an audio format.)
15 March
Chris Lilley gives a talk entitled "Using Web Multimedia Standards for Mobile Multimedia" at the "Multimedia Handsets" on Wednesday, 15 March 2006, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
18 March
Felix Sasaki and Olivier Thereaux give an invited talk entitled "Open Source / Open Standards - W3C in the Open Source ecosystem" at the "オープンソースカンファレンス2006 (Open Source Conference)" on Saturday, 18 March 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.
18 March
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Szemantikus háló: egy rövid bevezetés (Semantic Web: a Short Introduction)" and Máté Pataki gives a talk entitled "W3C WAI, avagy a Weblapok akadálymentesítése (W3C WAI, i.e., Making Web Sites Accessible)" at the " Magyarországi Web Konferencia (Web Conference Hungary)" , on Saturday, 18 March 2006, in Budapest, Hungary.
20 March
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Exploring Web Accessibility: A Hands-On Introduction" at the "CSUN (21st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference)" on Monday, 20 March 2006, in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
22 March
Oreste Signore participates at a panel entitled "Mobile Web Initiative: come migliorare interoperabilità e usabilità nel web mobile (Mobile Web Initiative: how to increase mobile web interoperability and usability)" at the "Broadcasting & Videoconferencing " on Wednesday, 22 March 2006, in Milano, Italy.
22 March
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C에서의 웹서비스와 시맨틱웹의 표준화 현황과 전망 (Foundations and Future Directions of Web Services and Semantic Web in W3C)" at the "INISIS 초청 세미나 (INISIS Internal Seminar)" on Wednesday, 22 March 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
27 March
Eric Miller gives a keynote entitled "The Semantic Web: Building a Web of Data" at "The Semantic Web meets eGovernment: AAAI Spring Symposium" on Monday, 27 March 2006, in Stanford University, California, USA.
28 March
Tim Berners-Lee gives a lecture entitled "Web Design and Web Use: Hopes and Fears" at the "Richard Synder Presidential Lecture" on Tuesday, 28 March 2006, in Medford, MA , USA.

April 2006

4 April
Eric Miller participates at a panel entitled " The Semantic Web: Building a Web of Data" at the "Bio IT World" on Tuesday, 4 April 2006, in Boston, MA, USA.
4 April
Steve Bratt gives a state of the art report entitled "One Web: Going Mobile" at the "CTIA Wireless 2006: Wireless Internet Caucus Leadership Council" on Tuesday, 4 April 2006, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
4 April
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "Semantic Web: Building on what exists" at the " MIT Information Technology Conference" on Tuesday, 4 April 2006, in Cambridge, MA, USA.
5 April
Tim Berners-Lee gives an invited talk entitled "The Future of the Web" at the "Spencer Trask lecture " on Wednesday, 5 April 2006, in Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
6 April
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a keynote entitled "HTML and CSS does not Accessibility Make" at the "Knowbility Access U" on Thursday, 6 April 2006, in San Francisco, California, USA.
19 April
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled " The Web on the Move" at the ""Mobile Web Initiative" Analyst meeting" on Wednesday, 19 April 2006, in London, UK.
20 April
José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "Servicios en la Web (Services on the Web)" at the "CIO Summit 2006" on Thursday, 20 April 2006, in Madrid, Spain, Spain.
24 April
Ivan Herman gives a talk on behalf of the Hong Kong Office entitled "W3C and the Mobile World" organized by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), on Monday, 24 April 2006, in Hong Kong, China.
26 April
Eric Miller gives a keynote entitled "The Semantic Web: Overview of Strategy and Development at the W3C" at the "Semantiske dager 2006 (Norwegian Semantic Days 2006)" on Wednesday, 26 April 2006, in Stavanger, Norway.
27, 28 April
at the "Opening Ceremony of the W3C China Office" , Beijing, China.

May 2006

4 May
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "Net Neutrality" at the "Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2006" on Thursday, 4 May 2006, in Washington, DC, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
At the heart of the net neutrality debate is whether the Internet, the Web, and associated technologies will continue to thrive as an open platform for innovation and free expression and what policies, if any, are necessary to ensure that they will. Our panelists will focus their discussion on several key scenarios of Internet usage in order to understand the most critical features that allow the Internet to remain open today and how the evolution of networks, technologies, and business models will impact the openness of the Internet tomorrow. The panelists will use scenarios involving web-based commerce, cached news delivery, voice over IP, and fully decentralized multimedia services to frame the discussion. The format for the plenary session is described below, but due to the ever-changing nature and uncertain future of the net neutrality issue, the precise plan for the program may be amended over the coming months.
7 May
Takayuki Watanabe and Makoto Ueki give a tutorial entitled "WCAG 2.0 ラストコール・ワーキングドラフト研究会 - JIS X 8341-3 と WCAG 2.0 の国際協調 - (Workshop on WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft -Intl. Harmonization of JIS X 8341-3 and WCAG 2.0-)" at the "WCAG 2.0 ラストコール・ワーキングドラフト研究会 - JIS X 8341-3 と WCAG 2.0 の国際協調 - (Workshop on WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft -Intl. Harmonization of JIS X 8341-3 and WCAG 2.0-)" on Sunday, 7 May 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.
8 May
Jesús García gives a talk entitled "Testeo y evaluación de accesibilidad (Evaluation and Accesibility Testing)" at the "Jornada sobre Testeo de Software (Software Testing Day)" on Monday, 8 May 2006, in Valencia, Spain.
8 May
Michael Wilson runs a booth at "The 2006 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2006)" between Monday, 8 May, and Thursday, 11 May 2006, in Glasgow, UK.
10 May
Allan Beaufour gives an invited talk on behalf of the Spanish Office entitled "XForms in Firefox" at the "Ciclo de Conferencias (Series of Talks)" on Wednesday, 10 May 2006, in Oviedo, Spain.
12 May
Bert Bos gives a tutorial on behalf of the Benelux Office entitled "CSS principes / CSS geavanceerd (CSS principles / Advanced CSS)" at the "Tutorial Cascading Style Sheets" on Friday, 12 May 2006, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
12 May
Chris Lilley gives a talk entitled "SVG: where are we and why does it matter" at the "SVG European Workshop" on Friday, 12 May 2006, in Zurich, Switzerland.
15 May
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a tutorial entitled "CSS for the Institutional Web" at the "Los Alamos National Laboratories Web Design Conference" on Monday, 15 May 2006, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
16, 17, 18, 19 May
  • Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial entitled "Introduction to XHTML2 and XForms" on Tuesday, 16 May 2006;
  • Henry Thompson gives a talk entitled "Efficient implementation of content models with numerical occurrence constraints" ; Steven Pemberton gives a talk entitled "The Power of Declarative Thinking" on Wednesday, 17 May 2006;
  • Erik Bruchez gives a talk entitled "XForms: an alternative to Ajax?" (see abstract); Felix Sasaki , Christian Lieske, and Sebastian Rahtz give a talk entitled "Internationalization and Localization of XML: Introducing "ITS"" (see abstract) on Thursday, 18 May 2006;
  • Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "Slidy - an web based alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint" (see abstract) on Friday, 19 May 2006;
at the "XTech 2006" , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract for “XForms: an alternative to Ajax?”:

Last year, we introduced server-side XForms as the most promising way of making XForms a short-term reality on the web.

In this year’s presentation, we discuss how this promise has materialized with hybrid Ajax-based open source implementations, and we demonstrate the most exciting capabilities of XForms running on today’s deployed web browsers.

We not only show how XForms fulfils its initial promise of becoming the next generation web forms, but also how it serves as a general-purpose dynamic user interface technology.

Finally, we show that hybrid XForms implementations effectively offer an abstraction layer over Ajax technologies, thereby greatly simplifying the implementation of common Ajax use-cases and giving XForms a place of choice in the “Web 2.0” ecosystem.

Abstract for “ Internationalization and Localization of…”:
Description of a new markup vocabulary called "Internationalization Tag Set" (ITS), which is used for Internationalization and Localization of XML documents and schemas.
Abstract for “ Slidy - an web based alternative to…”:
HTML Slidy is an open source Web-based alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint based upon XHTML, CSS and JavaScript, and which runs on a wide variety of browsers. I will introduce Slidy, and describe the challenges faced in developing an accessible cross platform browser-based editor for slide presentations.
19 May
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled "Da Enquire al Semantic Web (From Enquire to Semantic Web)" at the "Le Invasioni Tecnologiche - Come le nuove tecnologie cambiano il pensiero, la comunicazione e la scienza (Technological invasions - As new technologies are changing mind, communication and science)" on Friday, 19 May 2006, in Pisa, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Il World Wide Web, l’ invenzione che più ha rivoluzionato la nostra vita negli ultimi anni, nasce dall’ intuizione di Tim Berners-Lee, che peraltro ha sempre affermato che il Web è il frutto di un lavoro collettivo, e da un’ incredibile serie di sviluppi di ricerca e tecnologici. I principi ispiratori della proposta iniziale sono ancora vivi e attuali, e il Semantic Web è la realizzazione di un sogno che appariva impossibile.

Nella nascita e successiva travolgente diffusione del Web hanno giocato un ruolo fondamentale un’ impostazione tecnica e umana che ha privilegiato e valorizzato il lavoro collettivo e il rispetto reciproco, e una forte attenzione ai valori umani.

22 May
Rhys Lewis gives a keynote entitled "The Meaning of 'Life': Capturing Intent from Web Authors" at the "W4A2006 - Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?" on Monday, 22 May 2006, in Edinburgh, UK.
23 May
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "W3C's Technologies and e-Government" at the "Workshop on E-Government: Barriers and Opportunities" on Tuesday, 23 May 2006, in Edinburgh, UK.
23 May
Michael Wilson runs a booth at the "WWW '06" between Tuesday, 23 May, and Friday, 26 May 2006, in Oxford, UK.
24, 26 May
at "The 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006)" , Edinburgh, UK.
Abstract for “Introduction to the Semantic Web”:
This tutorial gives an overview of the basic Semantic Web Technologies developed at W3C. Using practical examples, the fundamentals of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) are presented, together with the mapping of the general RDF principles on XML. Then a detailed overview of RDF Schemas (a.k.a. RDF Vocabulary Description Language) is given, followed by an overview of the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Finally, new technologies, like SPARQL, SKOS, are also presented. The tutorial also gives some guidelines on how Semantic Web programs are developed in practice, gives example for applications, and finally gives some ideas on the directions the technologies evolve at W3C in the coming years.
Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge on XML.
Abstract for “ Broken Links on the Web: Local Laws and…”:
Across the World Wide Web there is government censorship and monitoring of political messages and "morally-corrupting" material. Google have been in the news recently for capitulating to the Chinese government's demands to ban certain kinds of content, and also for refusing to pass logs of browsing habits to the US government (while Microsoft and Yahoo complied wth the request). How can the Web survive as a unified, global information environment in the face of government censorship? Can governments and the private sector come to an agreement on international legal standards for the free flow of information and privacy?
24, 25, 26 May
at the "W3C Track, The 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006)" , Edinburgh, UK.
Abstract for “ An XML based architecture for Web 2.0…”:
There is no agreed upon definition of what Web 2.0 is but everybody has a personal definition. This talk will describe our interpretation of how a new generation of applications on the Web will be built. It will look at the current architectures and see why they do not satisfy the requirements of Web 2.0 (as we understand them). It will explain why we believe that Web 2.0 applications will rely on XML not only for serialization but as a fundamental underlying information model. We believe that there will be no more (or very little) Java or SQL code in this new generation of applications. Unfortunately the existing XML stack of technologies isn't complete at this point. In the talk we will also list the extensions we think will be needed in order to fulfill the goal of an XML-based declarative information hub as a fundamental architecture for such applications.
Abstract for “Next steps: Ubiquitous Web”:
The Ubiquitous Web as a synthesis of the Web and ubiquitous computing that extends the Web out into the physical world: importance of context awareness, device coordination, role of Semantic Web, trust, identity and security.
Abstract for “Internationalizing Speech Synthesis”:
This presentation focuses on the recent activity of internationalizing speech synthesis and SSML, and will present the issues and requirements that have arisen from the recent workshops and the work of the Voice Browser Working Group.
Abstract for “ Semantic Empowerment of Health Care and…”:
Health care practices and bioinformatics have already succeeded in utilizing database management, workflow and information retrieval technologies, which have provided syntactic search, heterogeneous data access and sharing, and limited forms of integration. We can realize more exciting potential of health care and life science if we have more automated ways for analysis leading to insight and discovery.
Abstract for “Advanced Layout ”:
The status of CSS2 and a demo of layout in CSS3. After much work on the implementations and the specification, we are finally reaching a well-supported CSS level 2. About 70% of all pages now use CSS. Designers are becoming more confident and push CSS2 to its limits. After an overview of the status of CSS, we'll end with a preview of a new grid layout scheme for CSS3.
Abstract for “Writing CSS For Syndicated Content”:
As more and more sites syndicate small chunks of markup, the integration of "foreign" CSS is causing all kinds of headaches for developers and site owners. This presentation will cover strategies for both site owners and syndicators to make sure these modules don't cause any more headaches.
30 May
Wonsuk Lee gives a talk entitled "유비쿼터스 웹서비스 (Ubiquitous Web Services)" at the "2006 웹코리아포럼 심포지엄 (2006 Web Korea Forum Symposium)" on Tuesday, 30 May 2006, in Seoul, Korea.

June 2006

1 June
Jesús García participates at a panel entitled "Taller de Accesibilidad (Accessibility Workshop)" at the "Tecnimap 2006 " on Thursday, 1 June 2006, in Sevilla, Spain.
1 June
Olle Olsson gives a keynote entitled "Metadata som hävstång (On the usefulness of meta data)" at the "Metadatas roll inom rättslig informationsförsörjning (The Role of Metadata in Legal Information Spaces)" on Thursday, 1 June 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
7 June
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Mikroformat, taggning och att spinna en väv (Micro-formats, tagging and weaving a web)" at the "Web 2.0 -- Nya mål och medel (Web 2.0 -- New Means and Objectives)" on Wednesday, 7 June 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
7 June
Paolo Baggia gives an invited talk entitled "Speech Technologies and Standards" at the "DIT Seminars" on Wednesday, 7 June 2006, in Povo, Trento, Italy. (see abstract)
Abstract:
An overview of the evolution of speech technologies and speech applications in recent years and an in-depth evaluation of the impact of W3C and IETF standards on speech application development. The VoiceXML and other W3C standards will be briefly introduced and the recent evolutions of the standards towards multimodal and video services will be described.
8 June
Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled " L' accessibilità sul Web: indirizzi internazionali e legislazione nazionale (Web accessibility: international context and national legislation)" at the "L' informazione è di tutti?" on Thursday, 8 June 2006, in Fucecchio, Italy.
8 June
Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "Web 4.0: now's the time to plan" at "The Web and Beyond, 10th SIGCHI.NL Conference" on Thursday, 8 June 2006, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
12 June
Judy Brewer gives an invited talk entitled "Accessible ICT: Future-Proof Development Processes" at the "ICT for an Inclusive Society" on Monday, 12 June 2006, in Riga, Latvia.
13, 14 June
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Roles and Responsibilities in Web Accessibility" on Tuesday, 13 June 2006 and gives a talk entitled "Managing Evaluation Results with EARL 1.0" on Wednesday, 14 June 2006 at the "Workshop on Web Accessibility and Metamodelling 2006" , Grimstad, Norway.
13, 15 June
Shawn Henry gives a tutorial entitled "Evaluating for Accessibility, Usability Testing in Diverse Situations" on Tuesday, 13 June 2006 and gives a talk entitled "Redesigning www.w3.org/WAI: A Tale of Two Sites" on Thursday, 15 June 2006 at the "UPA 2006" , Broomfield, Colorado, USA.
15 June
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a talk entitled "Internationalisation: Awakening the Sleeping Giant" at the "@media 2006" on Thursday, 15 June 2006, in London, UK.
16 June
Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel entitled "NET NEUTRALITY: What's at Stake - for the Internet, Politics and Consumers" at the "NET NEUTRALITY: What's at Stake - for the Internet, Politics and Consumers" on Friday, 16 June 2006, in Washington, DC, USA.
19 June
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Equal Access to the Web" at the "Euro-Southeast Asia ICT Forum 2006" on Monday, 19 June 2006, in Singapore, Singapore.
20 June
Deborah Dahl gives a talk entitled "W3C Multimodal Interaction Activities" at the "Midwest Speech Technology Association Monthly Meeting" on Tuesday, 20 June 2006, in Chicago, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
This talk will describe the Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces and EMMA (Extensible Multimodal Annotation) specifications. The MMI Architecture describes a loosely coupled architecture for integrating multiple modalities in an application and EMMA is a format for representing user inputs.
21 June
Michael Wilson runs a booth at the "XML Summerschool" between Wednesday, 21 June, and Monday, 26 June 2006, in Oxford, UK.
22 June
Daniel Dardailler gives a talk entitled "W3C Open Standard Development" at the "EGENI 2006" on Thursday, 22 June 2006, in Paris, France. (see abstract)
Abstract:

As one of the important provider of IST Standards, in the area of Web technologies (XML, http, HTML, CSS, WAI, etc), the international World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is well positionned to give its opinion on the matter of Open Standards definition.

W3C follows a process that promotes the development of high-quality standards. This process has evolved over a period of ten years, from a very rough consensus building approach of writing specifications, to a formal set of obligations that promote fairness, responsiveness, and progress: all facets of the W3C mission.

Using the W3C process as a model, we present the set of requirements that a provider of technical specification must follow to qualify for the adjective Open Standard.

26 June
Judy Brewer gives a keynote entitled "Web accessibility: How to Improve Policy and Practice" at the "RESNA Annual Conference" on Monday, 26 June 2006, in Atlanta, GA, USA.
28 June
Jonghong Jeon gives an invited talk entitled "모바일 웹 2.0 - 모바일 웹의 재발견 (Mobile Web 2.0 - Rediscovery of Mobile Web)" at the "KRNet 2006" on Wednesday, 28 June 2006, in Seoul, Korea.

July 2006

3 July
Ivan Herman gives a keynote on behalf of the Australian Office entitled "Why Web Standard are Important: An overview of W3C, its operation and current technical directions" at the "AusWeb06" on Monday, 3 July 2006, in Australis Noosa Lakes, Queensland, Australia.
6 July
Michael Wilson gives a talk entitled "The Semantic Web: prospects and challenges" at the "Baltic DB and IS Conference 2006" on Thursday, 6 July 2006, in Vilnius, Lithuania.
7 July
Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "Web n+1: The Future of Web Interfaces" at "The Next Web" on Friday, 7 July 2006, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
10, 11 July
Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World" (see abstract) on Monday, 10 July 2006 and gives a talk entitled "Accessibility: Better, Faster, Cheaper" (see abstract) on Tuesday, 11 July 2006 at the "Web Design World 2006" , Seattle, WA, USA.
Abstract for “Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World”:
Web 2.0, Ajax, rich Web applications, blogs, wikis – the Web continues to develop. What are the accessibility issues in this next-generation Web? Scripting, once a no-no for accessibility, is a key aspect. Join us to get the latest on how the W3C's new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines address these Web developments. Learn how to take advantage of current and developing strategies to make dynamic Web content and applications accessible.
Abstract for “Accessibility: Better, Faster, Cheaper”:
Accessibility is now a requirement in many Web development projects. Unfortunately, many designers are struggling and see accessibility as a heavy burden. This session will help you turn that around. Join us for tips on optimizing your accessibility efforts, such as focusing on the black and white areas of accessibility to avoid getting bogged down in the gray murk. Get specific guidance on demonstrating the business case for accessibility, and putting accessibility on a higher level within your organization. Learn how to collaborate with people with disabilities in order to better understand accessibility issues and be more efficient in implementing effective accessibility solutions.
12 July
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C의 웹서비스 표준화 활동 (Web Services Standardization Activities at W3C)" at the "KT 세미나 (KT(Korea Telecom) internal Seminar)" on Wednesday, 12 July 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
12 July
Martín Álvarez gives a talk entitled "Estándares: los fundamentos de la Web (Standards: the Web Foundations)" at the "I Jornada sobre Tecnologías Web y Software Libre (I Web Technologies and Free Software Day)" on Wednesday, 12 July 2006, in A Coruña, Spain.
18 July
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled " AI and Semantic Web" at "The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence" on Tuesday, 18 July 2006, in Boston, MA, USA.

August 2006

8 August
Eric Neumann gives a talk entitled "Enabling the Vision of Bench-to-Bedside with Semantic Web Technologies" ; Susie Stephens gives a talk entitled "How Semantic Web Technologies are Enabling the Bench to Bedside Vision" ; Tonya Hongsermeier gives a talk entitled "The Role of Semantic Web Technologies in Clinical and Translational Medicine" at the "SWHCLS Panel at IBC's Drug Discovery Conference" , on Tuesday, 8 August 2006, in Boston, USA.
10 August
Liam Quin gives a talk entitled "Microformat Definition Language" at the "Extreme Markup" on Thursday, 10 August 2006, in Montréal, Canada. (see abstract)
Abstract:
A talk to discuss with the Markup community some aspects of XHTML microformats.
10 August
Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "W3C 모바일OK 추진 동향 (The Development of mobileOK at W3C)" at the "모바일 웹 2.0 포럼 준비 회의 (Mobile Web 2.0 Preparation Meeting)" on Thursday, 10 August 2006, in Seoul, Korea.
11 August
Steve Bratt gives a talk entitled "Emerging W3C Technologies, with Focus on Three" organized by the ENSCO, Inc., on Friday, 11 August 2006, in Endicott, New York, USA.

September 2006

6 September
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Accessible Web Development" at the "Internet für alle (Internet for All)" on Wednesday, 6 September 2006, in Bern, Switzerland.
6 September
Kazuyuki Ashimura participates at a panel entitled "W3Cにおける音声・マルチモーダルインタフェースへの取り組み ( W3C's Standardization Activity on Multimodal Interaction & Voice Browser)" at the "FIT2006" on Wednesday, 6 September 2006, in Fukuoka, Japan.
7 September
Philipp Hoschka gives a talk entitled "W3C's Mobile Web Initiative - Improving the Mobile Web User Experience " at the "MapOS (Mobile Application Platforms & Operating Systems) 2006" on Thursday, 7 September 2006, in London, UK.
12 September
Dan Connolly participates at a panel entitled "The Implications of Digital Scholarship for Research Libraries. Challenges of Access and Preservation" at "The Research Library in the 21st Century" on Tuesday, 12 September 2006, in Austin, TX, USA.
12 September
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Webben -- vad vi har idag och var vi hamnar i framtiden (The Web - today and tomorrow)" at the "Seminar at Graduate School of Language Technology" on Tuesday, 12 September 2006, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
14 September
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote entitled "Web Accessibility: the Past, the Present, and the Future" at the "Design for All Conference" on Thursday, 14 September 2006, in Rovaniemi, Finland.
18 September
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Webben från igår till imorgon (The web -- past, present, and future)" at the "DFS-ITvet möte (DFS ITvet meeting)" on Monday, 18 September 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
19 September
Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote entitled "The Evolving Web" at the "TerraFuture conference" on Tuesday, 19 September 2006, in Southampton, UK.
19 September
Dave Raggett gives a talk entitled "The Ubiquitous Web" at the "CE2006" on Tuesday, 19 September 2006, in Antibes, France. (see abstract)
Abstract:

The Ubiquitous Web aims to make it much easier to create distributed Web applications that work across a wide range of devices. It combines high level declarative application models and Web based approaches to accessing local and remote services and binding them as part of application sessions.

20 September
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web" at the "Miniseminar om semantisk web (Mini-seminar on the Semantic Web)" on Wednesday, 20 September 2006, in Oslo, Norway. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The presentation gives a general overview of what the Semantic Web is all about, what some of the main issues and application areas are. The main goal is to answer to some of the frequently asked questions and misconceptions about the Semantic Web. The presentation also shows how the Semantic Web technologies can be and are used in real world applications.
20 September
Steve Bratt participates at a panel entitled "Web 3.0 Invented Here" at the "Global Vision Conference" on Wednesday, 20 September 2006, in Pasadena, California, USA.
22 September
Daniel Glazman gives a talk entitled "Les standards HTML et CSS, des origines à mercredi dernier (HTML and CSS from the beginning until last wednesday)" (see abstract) and Karl Dubost gives a talk entitled "Enrichissez vos liens : Des web sémantiques au Web Sémantique" at the " Paris Web 2006 " , on Friday, 22 September 2006, in Paris, France.
Abstract for “ Les standards HTML et CSS, des origines à…”:
HTML and CSS : where they come from, how they emerged and why you need expensive champagne to make them evolve; how works a W3C Working Group, what is a standardization process, and why you don't need cheap champagne to make it look like a battlefield... and finally the future of HTML and CSS, and why we need to switch from champagne to something stronger.
26 September
José Manuel Alonso participates at a panel on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "Web Semántica para e-Learning (Semantic Web for e-Learning)" at the "III Simposio Pluridisciplinar sobre Objetos y Diseños de Aprendizaje Apoyados en la Tecnología (od@06)" on Tuesday, 26 September 2006, in Oviedo, Spain.
26 September
Liam Quin gives a talk entitled "XML Query: what is it, how do I use it and why?" and Michael Wilson runs a booth entitled "W3C" at the "XML Access Languages" , on Tuesday, 26 September 2006, in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK.
26 September
Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke give a tutorial entitled "Extreme Standards: Using markup and CSS to create detailed, aesthetic and progressive site designs" at the "Web Directions 2006" on Tuesday, 26 September 2006, in Sydney, Australia. (see abstract)
Abstract:
Extreme Standards: Using markup and CSS to create detailed, aesthetic and progressive site designs As Web designers and developers we are often challenged by the complexities of technology and the nuances of design. We want to create usable, useful and aesthetic sites and know how to implement it effectively across web browsers. We want to manage our documents and workflow efficiently, to implement best practices in markup and CSS, and to create designs that are extremely manageable, accessible, forward thinking and visually compelling. In this full day session, Andy Clarke and Molly Holzschlag bring their respective experience and insight into the standards-based approach to client-side Web design. There will be plenty of visual and code examples as well as forays into other genres of design including the fine arts, architecture and multimedia design to demonstrate exactly what can be done with their more inclusive approach.
27 September
Klaus Birkenbihl gives a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Standards for machine to machine communication" at the "W3C-Tag (W3C Day)" on Wednesday, 27 September 2006, in Berlin, Germany.
27 September
Ivan Herman gives an invited talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web" at the "XML-Tage 2006 (XML Days)" on Wednesday, 27 September 2006, in Berlin, Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The presentation gives a general overview of what the Semantic Web is all about, what some of the main issues and application areas are. The main goal is to answer to some of the frequently asked questions and misconceptions about the Semantic Web. The presentation also shows how the Semantic Web technologies can be and are used in real world applications.

October 2006

1 October
Steven Pemberton gives a keynote entitled "Form - Content - Essence: Designing Markup for Information Representation" at the "EUROIA 2006" on Sunday, 1 October 2006, in Berlin, Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:

Considering that HTML is the world's most popular document format, it is seriously ill-fitted for information representation purposes.

After an enormous effort in the 90's to undo the damage caused by mixing content and presentation, it seems like that message is now coming through.

But there is still a long road to navigate. The tools you use for content delivery can greatly affect what you can achieve, and the amount of work you have to put in to achieve it.

Do we really want to re-author a site for each type of device that is likely to use it? What are the best ways to meet the challenges of multi-lingual environments and accessibility?

Work is ongoing at the World Wide Web Consortium W3C on producing markup languages that meet the needs of modern web content, and this talk describes the approach used, and in particular how XHTML2 and XForms meet the challenges of structured content, single authoring, accessibility, and device independence.

3 October
Richard Ishida gives a keynote on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "Practical and Cultural Issues in Designing International Websites" at the "Fundamentos Web 2006" on Tuesday, 3 October 2006, in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. (see abstract)
Abstract:

If you are a designer, developer or author working on a website that may be translated or adapted for users in other countries or languages, you need to ensure that you don't build in substantial barriers to localization. If you think that the translation vendor or localization team can take care of things for you when the time comes, you really need to hear this talk. We will use examples to examine some of the things that must be designed into the site, rather than treated as an afterthought, if it is to be successfully deployed in more than one language or country.

11 October
Philippe Le Hégaret participates at a panel entitled "Innovations and New Directions in Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)" at the "FSTC’s 2006 Annual Conference: Financial Services in the 21st Century" on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, in New York City, NY, USA.
12 October
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "WCAG 2.0 im Entwicklungsprozess (WCAG 2.0 in the Development Process)" at the "Warum barrierefreies Internet (Why Barrier Free Internet)" on Thursday, 12 October 2006, in Vienna, Austria.
16 October
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "State of the Semantic Web" organized by the IBM China Research Lab, on Monday, 16 October 2006, in Beijing, China.
17 October
Bert Bos gives a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "CSS Paged Media" at the "W3C Print Symposium 2006" on Tuesday, 17 October 2006, in Heidelberg, Germany. (see abstract)
Abstract:
An overview of various features in CSS that are important for printing and their current status of development and deployment.
18 October
José Manuel Alonso gives a talk on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "Analyzing the role of standards in Web 2.0" at the "Sixth Internet Next Generation Workshop" on Wednesday, 18 October 2006, in Madrid, Spain.
19 October
Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke give a tutorial entitled "CSS for Developers" at the "Carson Workshops: CSS for Developers" on Thursday, 19 October 2006, in London, UK. (see abstract)
Abstract:
A one-day workshop designed to cover technical aspects of CSS. It's aimed at developers but also anyone who wants to build highly flexible, easily manageable, standards-based websites with CSS and XHTML should attend. It's an in-depth course, taught by two of the most well-known advocates of standards and accessibility.
20 October
Martín Álvarez gives an invited talk entitled "Estándares en la Web (Standards in the Web)" at the "Curso de Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas (Universidad Laboral) (Course in Application Developing )" on Friday, 20 October 2006, in Gijón, Spain.
24 October
Sriganesh Madhvanath and Stephen Watt give a state of the art report entitled "Digital Ink Markup Language - Status Update IWFHR 2006" at the "10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recogition (IWFHR-10)" on Tuesday, 24 October 2006, in La Baule, France.
26 October
Jesús García gives a lecture entitled "Accesibilidad Web (Web Accessibility)" and José Manuel Alonso gives a lecture entitled "El W3C y la nueva Web (W3C and the new Web)" organized by the Escuela de Ingeniería Técnica Informática, Universidad de Oviedo, on Thursday, 26 October 2006, in Oviedo, Spain.
26 October
Richard Ishida gives a keynote entitled " The Internationalisation Tag Set - What Happened Next" at the "LRC XI" on Thursday, 26 October 2006, in Dublin, Ireland. (see abstract)
Abstract:

The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) work at the W3C, led by Yves Savourel, defines a standard to support better internationalisation and localisation of schemas and XML documents (both existing and new ones). The standard proposes a set of data categories, for which it then defines implementations as a set of elements and attributes. It also provides examples of how ITS can be used with popular existing markup schemes such as DocBook and DITA, and in three schema languages, XML DTDs, XML Schema, and RELAX NG.

The first version of the standard is nearing completion. It addresses how to identify translatable vs. non-translatable content, localisation notes, terminology references, directionality of text, language markup, inline elements, and ruby annotation.

The aim is to ensure that XML formats support features needed for international use and for efficient localisation. It should also make the job of vendors easier by standardising the format and processing expectations of localisation-related markup items, and allowing translation tools to more effectively identify how content should be handled.

The talk will use examples to acquaint you better with ITS and its relevance to the localisation community.

27 October
Marie-Claire Forgue gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web to Help Combine your Bio Data" at the "EuroBio 2006" on Friday, 27 October 2006, in Paris, France.

November 2006

1, 2 November
Daniel Dardailler and Shadi Abou-Zahra participate at a panel entitled "Equal Access on the Web" (see abstract) on Wednesday, 1 November 2006; Daniel Dardailler participates at a panel entitled "W3C I18N Activity" on Wednesday, 1 November 2006 and participates at a panel entitled "W3C Open Standard " on Thursday, 2 November 2006 at the "UN Internet Governance Forum Workshop" , Athens, Greece.
Abstract for “Equal Access on the Web”:
W3C/WAI - The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) is an international, vendor-neutral, industry consortium with the commitment to lead the Web to its full potential. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops its work through W3C's consensus-based process, involving different stakeholders in Web accessibility from around the world. These include industry, disability organizations, government, accessibility research organizations, and more.
1 November
Shadi Abou-Zahra participates at a panel entitled "Equal Access on the Web" at the "Internet Governance Forum (IGF)" on Wednesday, 1 November 2006, in Athens, Greece.
5 November
Ivan Herman gives a keynote entitled "Uncertainty and the Semantic Web" at the "Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning on the Semantic Web" on Sunday, 5 November 2006, in Athens, GA, USA.
6 November
Marie-Claire Forgue gives a talk entitled "Your Web on the Move" at the "Mobile Monday Paris" on Monday, 6 November 2006, in Paris, France.
6 November
Molly E. Holzschlag gives a tutorial entitled "From the Content Out: Creating Structured, Semantic Documents for the World Wide Web" at the "An Event Apart" on Monday, 6 November 2006, in Austin, Texas, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
How working with content to identify its meaning helps you properly mark that content up. Keeping markup lean and semantic. Improving workflow by separating the production of markup from the process of design.
6 November
Steve Bratt gives a keynote entitled "One Web: Going Mobile" at the "mobile2.0" on Monday, 6 November 2006, in San Francisco, California, USA.
6 November
Tim Berners-Lee , Dan Connolly , Yuhsin Chen, Lydia Chilton, Ruth Dhanaraj, James Hollenbach, Adam Lerer, and David Sheets give a talk entitled "Tabulator: Exploring and Analyzing linked data on the Semantic Web" at "The 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop" on Monday, 6 November 2006, in Athens, GA, USA.
7 November
Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a talk entitled "Why Accessibility?" at the "WebTop100 Conference" on Tuesday, 7 November 2006, in Prague, Czech Republic.
9 November
Christian de Sainte Marie gives a talk entitled "Rules Interchange and the Semantic Web" at the "9th International Business Rules Forum" on Thursday, 9 November 2006, in Washington, DC, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
As part of its development of the Semantic Web, the W3C in 2005 chartered the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) working group with the mission to specify a format for rules that “will function as an interlingua into which established and new rule languages can be mapped, allowing rules written for one application to be published, shared, and re-used in other applications and other rule engines”. The group is scheduled to make its recommendation in May 2007.
9 November
Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "Semantic Web @ W3C: Activities, Recommendations and State of Adoption" at the "Industrial Track of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006)" on Thursday, 9 November 2006, in Athens, GA, USA. (see abstract)
Abstract:
The presentation presents the status of the Semantic Web from W3C’s perspective, referring to the finished and active works in terms of W3C groups, view of available tools, and ideas floating around for possible future work. References and examples of real Semantic Web applications will also show the widening adoption of the technology by the industrial community.
10 November
Jesús García gives a keynote entitled "web + accesibilidad = Web (web + accessibility = Web)" and José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote entitled "El papel de los estándares en la Web de hoy... y en la del mañana (The role of standards in today's Web... and in tomorrow's)" organized by the Escuela de Ingenierías Industrial e Informática, Universidad de León, on Friday, 10 November 2006, in León, Spain.
14 November
Shawn Henry gives a talk via Webcast entitled "Web Accessibility: What’s New and WCAG 2" (see abstract) and gives a talk via Webcast entitled "Accessibility Throughout the Design Process" (see abstract) at the "World Usability Day" , on Tuesday, 14 November 2006.
Abstract for “ Web Accessibility: What’s New and WCAG 2”:
This session walks through differences between Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 and WCAG 2.0, highlighting advancements in Web accessibility. It introduces recent materials from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) that address key issues and answer common questions on how Web accessibility standards are developed, roles in making the Web accessible, and more.
Abstract for “ Accessibility Throughout the Design…”:
A guide to integrating accessibility and involving people with disabilities throughout the design process, for all types of products.
15 November
Richard Ishida participates at a panel entitled "Where Would We Be Without Unicode?" (see abstract), gives a talk entitled "Internationalizing Style on the Web: What's Planned for CSS3" (see abstract) and gives a tutorial entitled "An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode" (see abstract) at the "Internationalization & Unicode Conference" , on Wednesday, 15 November 2006, in Washington DC, USA.
Abstract for “Where Would We Be Without Unicode?”:
At last count, there are somewhere north of 1,000 software industry standardization organizations, all established at least in part to guarantee some sort of interoperability and portability between systems. And most places you turn, Unicode is the standard that drives that interoperability -- from readable documents outlining the standard specification, to runtime compatibility on-the-wire or across the API. In this keynote panel, leaders of standards organizations will explain how they rely on the Unicode standard to forge ahead with their own standards, and how the future of Unicode, in internationalization, localization and globalization, will support their own standards programs. Other industry experts will detail how Unicode is key to enabling new capabilities and relate the business reality of supporting additional languages. Finally, trends in upcoming standards with respect to the emerging markets and new scripts in Unicode as well as when and how they will be leveraged will be discussed.
Abstract for “ Internationalizing Style on the Web:…”:
Work on CSS3 is getting nearer to completion and will provide a huge leap forward for rendering and styling non-Western text. Many of the innovations are focused specifically on the needs of Asia and include such things as vertical text, grid layout, auto spacing, sophisticated white-space handling and text wrapping, justification, advanced list styling, styling for ruby, emphasis, kumimoji, and more. This presentation will show you examples of a number of these developments, and discuss how we need help to move the work forward.
Abstract for “ An Introduction to Writing Systems &…”:
The tutorial will provide you with a good understanding of the many unique characteristics of non-Latin writing systems, and illustrate the problems involved in implementing such scripts in products. It does not provide detailed coding advice, but does provide the essential background information you need to understand the fundamental issues related to Unicode deployment, across a wide range of scripts. It has also proved to be an excellent orientation for newcomers to the conference, providing the background needed to assist understanding of the other talks! The tutorial goes beyond encoding issues to discuss characteristics related to input of ideographs, combining characters, context-dependent shape variation, text direction, vowel signs, ligatures, punctuation, wrapping and editing, font issues, sorting and indexing, keyboards, and more. The concepts are introduced through the use of examples from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi/Tamil, Russian and Greek. While the tutorial is perfectly accessible to beginners, it has also attracted very good reviews from people at an intermediate and advanced level, due to the breadth of scripts discussed. No prior knowledge is needed.
16 November
Andrea Rus gives a talk entitled "Embracing Device Diversity" ; Andrew Bovingdon gives a talk entitled "Life on the Mobile Web - 2006/2007" ; Daniel Appelquist gives a talk entitled "Mobile Completes the Web" ; Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk entitled "Best Practices for a MobileOK Web" ; Donald Francis gives a talk entitled "Enabling Web Access on Feature Phones" ; Michael Smith gives a talk entitled "The Web, Mobile" ; Philippe Lucas gives a talk entitled "FTGroup perspective: towards a mobile Web" ; Ronan Cremin gives a talk entitled "dotMobi - W3C standards in action" ; Stéphane Boyera gives a talk entitled "Mobile Web to Bridge the Digital Divide" at the "W3C Mobile Web Seminar" , on Thursday, 16 November 2006, in Paris, France.
20 November
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux gives a talk via Webcast entitled "An Introduction to the Mobile Web Best Practices" at the "W3C Webinar" on Monday, 20 November 2006.
21 November
Olle Olsson gives a keynote entitled "Vart är webben på väg? (Whereto goes the Web?)" at the "Beyond IT" on Tuesday, 21 November 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
23 November
Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Webben - från forntiden till framtiden (The Web -- From Ancient Times to the Future)" at the "DFS-seminarium (DFS Seminar)" on Thursday, 23 November 2006, in Stockholm, Sweden.
27 November
Judy Brewer gives a talk entitled "W3Cが進めるWebアクセシビリティ (W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI))"; Michael Cooper gives a talk entitled "WCAG 2.0の技術解説 (WCAG 2.0 Technical Overview)"; Shawn Henry gives a talk entitled "WCAG 2.0入門 (WCAG 2.0 Introduction)" at the "Information Accessibility International Standardization Seminar 2006 - Harmonization of JIS X8341-3 (Web Contents) and W3C WCAG 2.0" , on Monday, 27 November 2006, in Tokyo, Japan.

December 2006

4, 6 December
at the "3G World Congress & Mobility Marketplace 2006" , Hong Kong, China.
5 December
John Boyer gives a talk entitled "Applying XML Signatures to XForms-based Documents" (see abstract) and Paul Downey gives a talk entitled "W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding" (see abstract) at the "XML 2006" , on Tuesday, 5 December 2006, in Boston, USA.
Abstract for “ Applying XML Signatures to XForms-based…”:
The W3C XForms Recommendation provides a standard markup language for documents that allow content creation into the XML data structures that drive business-oriented web applications. The XForms architecture provides an open platform for expressing the core processing model and view of XML data while delegating presentation to a host language most suited to application-specific requirements. This architecture presents an interestin