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Navigating the Future
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Event details

Date:
– Japan Standard Time
Status:
Confirmed
Location:
Floor 4 - 405
Participants:
Sneha Agarwal, Daniel Appelquist, Sarven Capadisli, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Shawn Lawton Henry, Binh Trong Hoang, Xiaocheng Hu, Jasper Hugo, Darius Kazemi, Philippe Le Hegaret, Lola Odelola, Tzviya Siegman, Sami Tikkala, Anna Weine, Chris Wilson, Jeffrey Yasskin, Zhizhen Ye
Big meeting:
TPAC 2025 (Calendar)

The web is expanding constantly. Expansion of new technologies (AI, Digital Wallets) is happening faster than ever, shifting wildly society and the economy. W3C needs a consistent, strategic way to navigate those evolutions. The technology strategy initiative task force goal is to guidance to help W3C know when to address changes and innovation, when to ignore changes and innovation, and when there might be opportunity for W3C to instigate change.

W3C has been using minimally structured incubation pipeline that focuses on early exploration, open collaboration, and review over the years:

  • Community Groups: WICG, Credentials, Machine Learning, …
  • Workshops: Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access (2025, jointly with IAB), Smart Voice Agents (2026)
  • Interest Groups: Media and Entertainment, Web Payment Security, Smart Cities, …
  • W3C Team strategy pipeline: w3c/strategy issues

The Task Force would like input from the community. What new technology are we missing and, most importantly, why? How do we evaluate new technologies? What guiding principle are we missing? How do we prioritize?

Agenda

Chairs:
Philippe Le Hegaret

Description:
The web is expanding constantly. Expansion of new technologies (AI, Digital Wallets) is happening faster than ever, shifting wildly society and the economy. W3C needs a consistent, strategic way to navigate those evolutions. The technology strategy initiative task force goal is to guidance to help W3C know when to address changes and innovation, when to ignore changes and innovation, and when there might be opportunity for W3C to instigate change.

W3C has been using minimally structured incubation pipeline that focuses on early exploration, open collaboration, and review over the years:

  • Community Groups: WICG, Credentials, Machine Learning, …
  • Workshops: Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access (2025, jointly with IAB), Smart Voice Agents (2026)
  • Interest Groups: Media and Entertainment, Web Payment Security, Smart Cities, …
  • W3C Team strategy pipeline: w3c/strategy issues

The Task Force would like input from the community. What new technology are we missing and, most importantly, why? How do we evaluate new technologies? What guiding principle are we missing? How do we prioritize?

Goal(s):
Gather input from the community our how we decide to address technology evolution

Agenda:

  • Introduction to the task force and current approaches to navigate new technologies (slides)
  • Discussion

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