Wiki for TPAC 2026 planning
WoT F2F meeting during TPAC 2026 (Hybrid)
Date
- 25 to 30 October 2026
- PlugFest will take place between 25-27 October 2026
- Demo day take place on 28 October 2025
- WoT F2F meetings take place between 29-30 October 2026
- Please register here: https://www.w3.org/register/tpac2026
Venue
- Dublin, Ireland
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? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sebastian Käbisch | Siemens | 100% | 100% |
| Kazuyuki Ashimura | W3C Invited Expert (Nagasaki University) |
100% | 100% |
| Dave Raggett | W3C staff contact | 100% | 100% |
| Kunihiko Toumura | Hitachi | 100% | 100% |
| Noriaki Matsumura | Nagasaki University | 100% | 100% |
| Yohei Sonobe | Nagasaki University | 100% | 100% |
| Mahda Noura | Siemens | 100% | 100% |
| Christian Glomb | Siemens | 100% | 100% |
| Erich Barnstedt | Microsoft | 100% | 100% |
| David Ezell | Conexxus | 100% | 100% |
| Ege Korkan | Siemens | 100% | 100% |
| Daniel Peintner | Siemens | 100% | 0% |
| Tomoaki Mizushima | Voyager International | 100% | 0% |
| Ben Francis | W3C Invited Expert (Krellian) | 100% | 0% |
| Mateusz Jaworski | DNV (W3C Guest) | 100% | 100% |
| Phillip Larsen Tronstad | DNV (W3C Guest) | 100% | 100% |
| Johan Wilhelm Klüwer | DNV (W3C Guest) | 100% | 100% |
| Michael Koster | W3C Invited Expert | 100% | 0% |
| Robert Warren | (expected) W3C Invited Expert | 100% | 100% |
| Rob Smith | W3C Invited Expert | 100% | 100% |
| Cristiano Aguzzi | W3C Invited Expert | 100% | 0% |
Current schedule plans (draft)
- Sunday: Set up
- Monday: Plugfest
- Tuesday until 15:30: Plugfest
- Wednesday Breakouts:
- Please submit at https://github.com/w3c/tpac2026-breakouts/issues
- Plugfest results in the same room
- After the breakout session, please take down the equipment
- OPC Foundation Collaboration: https://github.com/w3c/tpac2026-breakouts/issues/16
- Smart Cities Breakout: Link To be provided
- Media Streaming: Link TBD. We make MEIG aware as well.
- Thursday/Friday: WoT WG
Joint Meetings (needs to be scheduled)
- Spatio-temporal Data on the Web group (contact Robert Warren)
- have group meeting on Friday
- proposed topics:
- Evaluating the recent SOSA release
- https://w3c.github.io/sdw-sosa-ssn/ssn/
- What we do like and what not?
- Opinion about temporal ordering of events without a specific date
- Evaluating media with geolocation information and other WoT-related metadata
- <some more topic; tbd>
- Evaluating the recent SOSA release
- JSON-LD (contact Benjamin Young / Manu Sporny)
- don't have group meetings at TPAC, however, open for a joint session
- VC (contact Manu Sporny)
- potential topics: evaluate if there a common use cases
- Smart Cities (contact Kaz)
- will also join our session
- topics will be collected in the next September meeting of the Smart Cities Group
- there will be a breakout session on Wednesday
- MEIG
- potential topic: media handling capability for WoT as a possible use case during the WoT Thing Description call
- there is also a breakout session planned on Wednesday
Draft F2F Agenda (Thursday / Friday)
F2F Day 1: Thursday, Oct 29, 09:00-16:45
- Timezones:
- PST: tbc
- CET: tbc
- Minutes: Thursday, Oct 29
- Meeting materials (presentations) (needs to be updated)
- Agenda:
- 09:00-09:15: Opening (Sebastian / Michael / Kaz)
- 09:15-10:15: PlugFest Summary (all)
- 10:15-10:30: Reports from joint or relevant group meetings (e.g., smart cities)
- 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
- 11:00-12:30 WoT and AI (tbd)
- topics:
- who can lead and contribute to "WoT Primer and Best Practice" deliverable?
- how MCP can help to create valid TDs based on documentations (Mahda)
- ...
- topics:
- 12:30-13:45: Lunch
- 13:45-15:00: Thing Description (I / II) (Ege / Michael / Mahda)
- Topics:
- Summary of the TD Work
- Summary of the new bindings and changes
- Summary of the Binding Registry
- Specification Tool Chain (Mahda)
- TD roadmap / Prioritization / Who is responsible of specific tasks?
- ...
- Topics:
- 15:00-15:30: Coffee Break
- 15:30-16:15: Thing Description (II / II) (Ege / Michael / Mahda)
- 16:15-16:45: Scripting API (Daniel / Cristiano)
- topics: tbd
- 16:45: End of day
- 19:00: WoT Dinner (tbd)
F2F Day 2: Friday, Oct 30, 09:45-17:30
- Timezones:
- PST: tbd
- CET: tbd
- Minutes: Friday, Oct 30
- Meeting materials (presentations) (needs to be updated)
- Agenda:
- 08:30-09:30: Media for WoT (Chris Needham; as part of the breakout session)
- approved
- 09:45-09:55: Opening (Sebastian / Michael / Kaz)
- 09:55-10:15: WoT Roadmap I / II (Sebastian/Ege)
- publication of deliverables (e.g., Bindings like Modbus, Registry etc.)
- 10:15-11:00: Liaisons (all)
- Latest status on OPC UA (Sebastian, Erich)
- approved
- Latest status on Smart City (Michael/Kaz)
- approved
- ECHONET (Matsuda)
- not approved yet
- Latest status on OPC UA (Sebastian, Erich)
- 11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
- 11:30-12:15: Spatio-temporal Data on the Web group (Robert Warren)
- approved
- 12:15-12:45: WoT Roadmap II / II (Sebastian/Ege)
- 12:45-14:00: Lunch
- 14:00-14:30: Joint meeting with JSON-LD WG (Manu Sporny / Benjamin)
- approved
- 14:30-15:00: Joint meeting with VC WG (Manu Sporny / Benjamin)
- approved
- 15:00 - 15:30: Presentation from DNV: Web of Things in Maritime Industry (Johan Wilhelm Klüwer)
- approved
- 15:30-16:00: Coffee Break
- 16:00-16:45: Joint meeting with WoT CG (Ege / Cristiano)
- not approved yet
- 16:45-17:30: Closing (Sebastian)
- 18:00: End of day / F2F
- 08:30-09:30: Media for WoT (Chris Needham; as part of the breakout session)
WoT Plugfest during TPAC 2026 (Hybrid)
Dates
- October 25-27 Plugfest
Venue
- Plugfest will be part of the TPAC 2026
- Room: tbd
Zoom Link for Remote Participants
- we use the Zoom link of the main call: tbd
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 | Yes |
| 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 | Michael Koster | IE | 0 | 100 | TBD |
| 8 | Erich Barnstedt | Microsoft | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 9 | Mahda Noura | Siemens | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 10 | Christian Glomb | Siemens | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 11 | Robert Warren | IE | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 12 | Robert Smith | IE | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 13 | Ben Francis | IE | 0 | 100 | Yes |
| 14 | Mateusz Jaworski | DNV (W3C Guest) | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 15 | Phillip Larsen Tronstad | DNV (W3C Guest) | 100 | 0 | Yes |
| 16 | Noriaki Matsumura | Nagasaki University | 100 | 0 | TBD |
| 17 | Yohei Sonobe | Nagasaki University | 100 | 0 | TBD |
| 18 | Cristiano Aguzzi | IE | 0 | 100 | Yes |