Schedule

Sunday 19 April - Developer Meetup

Event: Hangzhou Developer Meetup

Location: Ant Space, No. 569 Xixi Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Time: 17:30-21:00 (UTC +8)

Monday 20 April

Calendar info (*) 

Join IRC

(*) including Zoom link for plenary and breakout rooms

Room: Xianzi Hall, Building 3

Time (UTC+8)Agenda topics – Day 1
08:00Registration opens
08:30-09:00

Community building

Community Building and Engagement in W3C, existing tools, platforms, and the upcoming Membership Survey - Naomi Yoshizawa, Tzviya Siegman (W3C) [slides] [video]

09:00-09:50

W3C Member engagement and experience [breakout sessions]

  • Topic: Cross-cultural meetings; how to make them work given different communication styles. How to work well together?  - organized by Naomi Yoshizawa (W3C) [slides] - Xianzi Hall
  • Topic: Identify one positive aspect of W3C, one area for improvement, one challenge (especially for new AC reps) - organized Tzviya Siegman (W3C) [slides] - Lilan Hall
09:50-10:20Break
10:20-10:30

Setting the context

  • Welcome & reminders - Angel Li (W3C) [slides] (10:20-10:25)
  • The strategic initiatives - Seth Dobbs (W3C) (remote) [slides] [video] (10:25-10:30) 
10:30-10:40Sponsor Talk

Huawei
10:40-12:00

Challenging how we see the web

Looking at the future of web browsers: Applications and Agentic - Panel and open discussion

While concerns around privacy and governance remain, the Web User Agents continue to evolve constantly. This panel explores two dimensions of the evolution: the Web as an Application Platform for Users and AIs, as well as the evolution into Web AI-assisted User Agents.

  • Martin Alarez-Espinar (Huawei) [slides] [video]
  • Web Capability Enhancement Extensions for Agentic AI - Zuojian Lin (Alibaba Qwen) [slides] [video]
  • Ben Greenstein (Google) (remote) [slides] [video]
  • Tantek Çelik (Mozilla) (remote) [posts 1 & 2] [video]
  • Andrew Nolan (Microsoft) (remote) [slides] [video]
12:00-13:30Lunch - Guixiang Yuan, Building 1
13:30-14:40

Digital wallet - 3 years in, where are things going? - Panel and open discussion

As we move deeper into everything digital, the digital wallet has turned into a crucial element for our digital lives. It is becoming a portable, secure container for digital credentials, with the potential of addressing a wide variety of use cases, for users and digital products.

  • Identity and Age-Verification - Tara Whalen (W3C) [slides] [video]
  • China practice and case study DID practice in digital payment - Sijie Wu (Ant Group) [slides] [video]
  • Security and Privacy challenges of the Digital Credentials API - Simone Onofri (W3C) [slides] [video]
  • Tim Cappalli (Okta) (remote) [slides] [video]
14:40-15:20

Freshly baked in Community Groups - Lightning talks

  • ODRL - Renato Iannella (remote) [slides] [video]
  • Generative UI - Zuo Wang (Huawei) [slides] [video]
  • Cognitive AI - Dave Raggett (W3C) (remote) [slides] [video]
  • Knowledge Graph construction - David Chaves-Fraga (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Anastasia Dimou (KU Leuven) and Alessandro Negro (Graph Aware Limited) (remote) [slides] [video]
15:20-15:50Break
15:50-17:40

W3C@20 in China celebration

  • Opening - Seth Dobbs (W3C) (remote) (15:50-15:55)
  • Greetings from Beihang University - Prof. Weisheng ZHAO (Vice President of Beihang University) (15:55-16:00) [video]
  • Greetings from China Internet Network Information Center - Hongtao LI (Chief Scientist of CNNIC) (16:00-16:10) [video]
  • Greetings from Tim Berners-Lee [video] (16:10-16:15)
  • W3C China's Twenty Years of Endeavor – Ivan Herman (W3C) [slides] [video], Chunming HU (W3C/Beihang) [slides] [video] (16:15-16:35)

    Joint by:
  • Invited Talk: Agent Security and the Road to Web Standards - Judy Zhu (Alibaba) (16:35-16:50)
  • Invited Talk: Glory and Dreams: 25 Years of the Semantic Web and the Future of the Agentic Web  – Jie BAO (Memect) [slides] [video] (16:50-17:05)
  • Panel: Co-building a shared Future - moderated by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (W3C) (17:05-17:30)
    • Jun Murai（W3C/Keio）[video]
    • Judy Zhu (Alibaba)
    • Jie BAO (Memect)
    • Chunming HU (Beihang University)
    • Philippe Le Hégaret (W3C)
  • Acknowledgements & Closing [video, text description] (17:30-17:40)
19:00-21:00AC Dinner - Xin Xiang Ge (Breakfast area) - Building 1

Professional real-time captioning will be available in English for plenary sessions: Press the ‘CC’ (Closed Caption) button at the bottom of the Zoom window.

Tuesday 21 April

Calendar info (*) 

Join IRC

(*) including Zoom link for plenary and breakout rooms

Room: Xianzi Hall, Building 3

Time (UTC+8)Agenda topics – Day 2
08:00Registration opens
08:30-10:00

Where W3C is today

Reflecting with elected bodies (Board of Directors, Advisory Board, Technical Architecture Group) on W3C’s corporate structure. Each body will present for about 5mn and open the floor for a discussion with the audience. Elected body participants are invited to the stage to participate in the discussion.

  • CEO report - Seth Dobbs (W3C) (remote) [slides] [video] (08:30-08:45)
  • Board of Directors report - Leonie Watson (Tetralogical Services) [slides] [video] (08:45-09:10)
  • Advisory Board report - Dan Appelquist (Samsung), Angel Li (W3C) [slides] [video] + briefing from the Exploration IG - Heather Flanagan (Spherical Cow Consulting) [slides] [video] (09:10-09:35)
  • Technical Architecture Group - Xiaocheng Hu (Huawei) [slides] [video] (09:35-10:00) 
10:00-10:30Break
10:30-12:00

Where W3C needs to go [Breakout sessions]

Workshop - W3C's impact framework (related initiative: Measuring and enhancing W3C’s impact) - Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (W3C) [slides] [video], Simone Onofri (W3C) [slides] [video]

  • Long terms impacts
  • Measures: what is tracked directly, tracked indirectly, not tracked yet, not trackable, tracked elsewhere
  • Insights from known measures - success stories
12:00-13:30Lunch - Guixiang Yuan, Building 1
13:30-15:00

W3C in the ecosystem (related initiatives: Broaden our footprint, Diversify our support) [slides / Google / PDF]

  • Global presence & Outreach - Sylvia Cadena (W3C) (remote) [video]
  • Policy makers and regulatory landscape - Tara Whalen (W3C) [video]
  • Liaisons & joint work - Rigo Wenning (W3C) (remote) [video]
  • In conversation: Reinaldo Ferraz (NIC.br) and Dan Appelquist (Samsung) share perspectives about outreach and engagement
15:00-15:30Break
15:30-16:45

How W3C needs to change

Creating the right conditions to enhance W3C's impact (related initiative: Solidify our structure)

16:45-17:00Preparing breakout sessions

Additional breakout session based on discussions?
From 17:10Optional activity: Evening Tour at the Wensan Future Technology Experience Center - separate registration

Professional real-time captioning will be available in English for plenary sessions: Press the ‘CC’ (Closed Caption) button at the bottom of the Zoom window.

Wednesday 22 April - Morning

Time

(UTC+8)		Agenda topics – Day 3
08:00Registration opens
08:30-09:20

Breakouts 1

09:30-10:20

Breakouts 2

10:20-10:50Coffee break
10:50-11:40Breakouts 3 (if any proposed)
12:30-14:00Lunch - Guixiang Yuan, Building 1

Wednesday 22 April - Afternoon - Side meeting

Event: WebEvolve: 2026 W3C Open Day & International Web Standards Forum

Location: Hua Jia Shan Resort (AC meeting venue)

Time: 14:00-17:30 (UTC +8)

Speaking guidelines

W3C meetings operate under the W3C Code of Conduct and the W3C Antitrust and Competition Policy.

The W3C's global audience is thankful to participants and speakers for following these essential guidelines.

All attendees

  • Remote attendees must use high quality audio equipment as we are providing professional real-time captioning in English.
  • Speak directly into the microphone so that all attendees hear you and interpreters and captioners are able to understand you.
  • Speak clearly, at a rate that people can follow; use simple language, avoid jargon, expand acronyms.

Audience

  • Use ‘q+’ in IRC to record your question in advance.
  • State slowly and clearly your name and affiliation.
  • Be brief and concise.
  • Directly address the topic discussed; refrain from monologuing and broaching some tangential topic.

Presenter

Presentation (talk or panel)

  • State the objective of your presentation.
  • State each slide number as you advance through them.
  • State a conclusion or wrap up with proposed next steps.

You can find more recommendations on W3C's Speaker Resources public wiki.

Slides making

(*) Please, ask Bert for help, including putting your slides on the web.

Remote attendance

W3C meetings operate under the W3C Code of Conduct and the W3C Antitrust and Competition Policy.

The W3C's global audience is thankful to participants and speakers for following these essential guidelines.

  • Remote attendees must use high quality audio equipment as we are providing professional real-time captioning in English.
  • Speak directly into the microphone so that all attendees hear you and interpreters and captioners are able to understand you.
  • Speak clearly, at a rate that people can follow; use simple language, avoid jargon, expand acronyms.
  • Use ‘q+’ in IRC to record your question in advance.
  • State slowly and clearly your name and affiliation.
  • Be brief and concise.

If you wish to use a videoconferencing background image, you are welcome to use these:

  • Blue world map in Peters projection with the round W3C logo in the upper left corner. Available in SVG, WebP, AVIF and JPEG.

     
  • Tiled version with the blue world map and the round W3C logo. Available in SVG, WebP, AVIF and JPEG.