Wiki for TPAC 2025 planning
WoT F2F meeting during TPAC 2025 (Hybrid)
- Registration: https://www.w3.org/register/tpac2025
- Event Team's announcement on TPAC 2025 (Member-only)
- GitHub repository for group meetings
Date
- 09-14 November 2025
- Plugfest will take place between 09-11 November 2025
- details can be found here
- On November 9 we can enter the PlugFest room at 1pm (until 6pm)
- Demo day take place on 12 November 2025
- WoT F2F meetings take place between 13-14. November 2025
Venue
- Kobe, Japan
- Kobe International Conference Center
- Floor 3 - 302 (for both days)
Participants
Please complete the table and indicate if possible to join/travel:
- YES Will join/travel or Local: 100%
- YES Possible and mostly approved: 90%
- YES Possible but need approval: 75%
- NOT sure yet: 50%
- NOT Decided yet and need approval: 25%
- NOT possible to join/travel: 0%
| Name | Organisation | % Attend | In-person? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaz Ashimura | Nagasaki University / IE | 100% | Y |
| Ege Korkan | Siemens | 100% | 100% |
| Daniel Peintner | Siemens | 100% | 0% |
| Kunihiko Toumura | Hitachi | 100% | 100% |
| Sebastian Käbisch | Siemens | 100% | 100% |
| David Ezell | Conexxus | 100% | 100% |
| Josh Thomas | Ignite Retail | 100% | 100% |
| Michael Koster | IE | 100% | 25% |
| Mahda Noura | Siemens | 100% | 100% |
| Tomoaki Mizushima | Internet Research Institute | 100% | 100% |
| Cu Pham | ECHONET | 100% | 100% |
| Tetsushi Matsuda | ECHONET | 100% | 100% |
WoT PlugFest & F2F Agenda (Draft)
PlugFest: Sunday-Tuesday, Nov 9-11
- see Details here
- PlugFest Minutes: Sunday, Nov 9
- PlugFest Minutes: Monday, Nov 10
- PlugFest Minutes: Tuesday, Nov 11
Breakout day: Wednesday, Nov 12, 17:30-18:30
- presenting PlugFest demos during a breakout session
- Minutes: Wednesday, Nov 12
F2F Day 1: Thursday, Nov 13, 09:00-16:45
- Timezones:
- PST: 04:00PM - 11:45PM
- CET: 01:00AM - 08:45AM
- Minutes: Thursday, Nov 13
- Meeting materials (presentations)
- Agenda:
- 09:00-09:15: Opening (Sebastian / Michael)
- 09:15-10:15: PlugFest Summary (all)
- 10:15-10:30: Reports from joint or relevant group meetings (e.g., JSON-LD)
- 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
- 11:00-12:30: Charter WG plans (Sebastian / Michael)
- 12:30-13:45: Lunch
- 13:45-15:00: Thing Description (Ege / Michael)
- 15:00-15:30: Coffee Break
- 15:30-16:00 HTTPS in local networks (Carlos)
- 16:00-16:45: Scripting API (Daniel / Cristiano)
- 16:45: End of day
- 19:00: WoT Dinner (tbd)
F2F Day 2: Friday, Nov 14, 09:00-18:00
- Timezones:
- PST: 04:00PM - 01:00AM
- CET: 01:00AM - 10:00AM
- Minutes: Friday, Nov 14
- Meeting materials (presentations)
- Agenda:
- 09:00-09:10: Opening (Sebastian / Michael)
- 09:10-09:20: Asking for comments on W3C Process for AB (Tatsuya Igarashi)
- 09:20-10:30: Liaisons (all)
- Latest status on OPC UA (Sebastian)
- Latest status on Smart City (Michael/Kaz)
- ECHONET (Dr. Pham / Matsuda; tbc)
- 10:30-11:15: Coffee Break
- 11:15-11:30: Use Case (Tomoaki / McCool)
- overview about latest changes
- what is the relation to the new charter?
- 11:30-12:30: Protocol Bindings: Status and (Note) publication plans (Mahda)
- Modbus, MQTT, BACnet, CoAP
- 12:30-14:00: Lunch
- 14:00-15:00: Joint meeting with JSON-LD WG (Manu Sporny)
- 16:00-16:30: Coffee Break
- 16:30-17:45: Joint meeting with WoT CG (Ege / Cristiano)
- 16:45-18:00: Closing (Sebastian)
- 18:00: End of day / F2F
WoT Plugfest during TPAC 2025 (Hybrid)
Dates
- November 9-11 Plugfest
- Note: On November 9 we can enter the PlugFest room at 1pm (until 6pm)
- November 12 Demo presentations between 17:30-18:30
Venue
- Plugfest will be part of the TPAC location
- Room: Floor 3 - 307 (from Sunday until Wednesday)
Zoom Link for Remote Participants
- we use the Zoom link of the main call: https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ec03eb60-4b45-4d3f-a924-b3f6e5554baf/20251112T130000/
Plugfest Prepearation & Topics
- see for details here
Participants
- We need an idea of who would be able to travel and participate in TPAC 2025 in November 2025.
- Please put your first name and select one of the following categories:
- YES Will join/travel or Local: 100%
- YES Possible and mostly approved: 90%
- YES Possible but need approval: 75%
- NOT sure yet: 50%
- NOT Decided yet and need approval: 25%
- NOT possible to join/travel: 0%
- Please indicate which days you can be there
- Please indicate if you can only join remotely
- Please note that the event on Wednesday requires a separate registration.
| # | Name | Organisation | % Physical Attendance | Remote Attendance | Registered to TPAC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaz Ashimura | Nagasaki University / IE | 100 | 0 | TBD |
| 2 | Kunihiko Toumura | Hitachi | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 3 | Sebastian Käbisch | Siemens | 100 | 0 | TBD |
| 4 | Ege Korkan | Siemens | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 5 | David Ezell | Conexxus | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 6 | Daniel Peintner | Siemens | 0 | 100 | TBD |
| 7 | Josh Thomas | Ignite Retail | 100 | 0 | TBD |
| 8 | Michael Koster | IE | 0 | 100 | TBD |
| 9 | Erich Barnstedt | Microsoft | 0 | 100 | TBD |
| 10 | Mahda Noura | Siemens | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 11 | Tomoaki Mizushima | Internet Research Institute | 100 (Observer) | 0 | Yes |
| 12 | Denis Ioan | ArmorSafe Technologies | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 13 | Cu Pham | ECHONET | 100 | 0 | Yes |
Materials (from previous discussion)
Meeting Schedule
WoT Meeting
Basic proposal to be confirmed
- Thursday, Nov 13, 8:30-18:00
- Friday, Nov 14, 8:30-18:00
Topics
Possible topics for the WoT F2F meeting include:
- Charter (WG/IG)
- How to deal with the UCR work?
- Thing Description / Binding
- Profile
- Discovery
- Architecture
- Scripting API
- Security / Privacy
- Liaisons
- OPC UA
- IEC SC3D
- Smart Cities IG
- Outcomes from joint meetings (e.g., JSON-LD?)
- Summary of PlugFest results
Joint Meetings
Which group(s)?
Candidates:
- JSON-LD WG
- need to check if there are meetings
- Smart Cities IG
- Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group
Less priority (only if there is time);
- Spatial Data on the Web WG
- DID WG
- Security IG
- Privacy WG
Potential Conflicts:
- DID
- VC
Breakouts
There will be:
- 9 breakouts in parallel for each time slot during TPAC 2025
- also see: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2025JulSep/0007.html
- we should provide an issue for our WoT PlugFest / Demo session
- should be a topic of the first ÜlugFEst planning call taking place on 20th August
- there should be also an issue for the Digital Smart City topic
- we should provide an issue for our WoT PlugFest / Demo session
- 9 one-hour slots during the TPAC week as follows (all times are JST):
- Monday: 1 one-hour slot at 17:00-18:00
- Tuesday: 1 one-hour slot at 08:30-09:30
- Wednesday: 6 one-hour slots at 08:30-18:30
- Thursday: 1 one-hour slot at 17:00-18:00