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At this year's 18th International World Wide Web Conference, W3C organizes two "camps" — one on mobile widgets and one on the social Web, within the W3C track. In addition, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C director and inventor of the Web, will give a keynote at the conference followed by a press conference. Calendar at a glance:
| 22 April | 10:45-11:30 | Tim Berners-Lee
Keynote [slides] Twenty Years: Looking Forward, Looking Back |
| 22 April | 11:45-12:15 | |
| 23 April | 11:30-18:00 | Mobile Widgets Camp |
| 24 April | 11:30-18:00 | Social Web Camp |
All events will take place at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos Campo de las Naciones.
See also the WWW2009 Programme and the previous W3C Track in Beijing.
-- In association with MobEA --
11:30-13:00 |
Opening: |
| 14:30-16:00 | Session 1
Breakout Sessions: * Widget interoperability |
| 16:30-18:00 | Session 2 (including presentation of mobile widgets)
Breakout Sessions: * Widget discoverability / inter-widget discoverability |
11:30-13:00  |
Opening:
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| 14:30-16:00 | Session 1
Lightning Talks: - Antonio Tapiador Del Dujo (UPM) Breakout Sessions: * Location |
| 16:30-18:00 | Session 2
Invited talk: Social implications of twitter by Tony Abou-Assaleh (GenieKnows.com) Breakout Sessions: * Impact of location on social networks |
The W3C camp room is Paris-L1 (Left Wing, First Floor) of the congress center (see in floorplan).
Please register online, before 16 April 09, and use the code LWBC (in the "Group Code" field).
| 22 April | 11:45-12:15 | Press Conference with Tim Berners-Lee Room L-1 (Left Wing, First Floor) Read the press kit |
To attend, please write to w3t-pr@w3.org, or contact Marie-Claire Forgue (mcf@w3.org - +33.6.76.86.33.41), or register on WWW09's Web site.
7 April 2009: W3C Welcomes Developer Community at WWW2009 in Madrid (available in Spanish and other translations).
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, Keio University in Japan, and has additional Offices worldwide. For more information see http://www.w3.org/
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