W3C-AB workshop in Hangzhou 2018-03-13

The world wide Web consortium (W3C), founded in 1994, is a global Web technology standardization organization, developing Web technology standards, including HTML, CSS, XML and related APIs.

W3C AB (Advisory Board) provides ongoing guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. AB also serves the Members by tracking issues raised between Advisory Committee meetings, soliciting Member comments on such issues, and proposing actions to resolve these issues, and AB manages the evolution of the Process Document.

This time, the W3C AB will gather in Hangzhou to share the cutting-edge trends of HTML5, CSS, mobile payment, security, IoT and accessibility with Alibaba Group.

Bio

Jeff Jaffe(W3C)

Dr. Jeff Jaffe is Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Consortium. Jeff was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Presidential Commission for Critical Infrastructure Protection. He has also chaired the Chief Technology Officer group of the Computer Systems Policy Project, and has served on the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. He is a Fellow of ACM and the IEEE.

David Singer (Apple)

David Singer is the manager for standards activities in the software engineering group at Apple, with more than 15 years of experience in standards and the governance of standards bodies including W3C MPEG (ISO), and Blu-Ray (Director), among others.

Michael Champion (Microsoft)

Michael Champion has served on the Advisory Board since 2010, as Microsoft's representative on the Advisory Committee since 2007, and as a participant, editor, and co-chair in various working groups starting in 1997.

Natasha Rooney (GSMA)

Natasha Rooney has been working with the W3C since 2012 across various groups, chairing the Web and Mobile Interest Group. During this time she has also been an active participant at IETF; as well as managing her role as the Internet and Web Director at GSMA.

Judy Zhu (Alibaba)

Judy is the head of Alibaba Standardization department. She has achieved multiple international standards, put forward over 300 standard proposal or papers, and hold more than 30 domestic and international patents. She also takes the leadership in W3C, ISO/TC 154, ONF, FIDO, etc.

Jay (Junichi) Kishigami（NTT）

Jay was formerly Executive Director of NTT Cyber Solution Laboratories. He has been involved in a very wide range of technologies as a researcher　at NTT, including work on innovative technologies for high-capacity　information storage, IPTV, RFID(IOT), and interdisciplinary regions between privacy or security issues, business issues, and technology.

Charles McCathie Nevile (Yandex)

Charles co-chairs the Web Platform Working Group that is now delivering regular updates for HTML, DOM, and a variety of APIs and other specs, and co-chaired its previous versions, the Web Apps and Web APIs working groups over the last 10-odd years.

Léonie Watson (The Paciello Group)

Léonie have been cheerfully contributing to W3C activities for several years. Initially an invited expert to PF (now known as APA WG), she was responsible for Nomensa joining the W3C, and represented them on the AC until 2013. Now the first AC rep for The Paciello Group (TPG), she is also co-chair of the Web Platform WG, and an active participant in the ARIA, APA and SVG WGs.

Tantek Çelik (Mozilla)

Tantek Çelik is Mozilla's web standards lead, has been on the Advisory Board since July 2013, co-chair of the Social Web Working Group since 2014, and an 18 year participant and editor in various other W3C working groups, contributing to producing several key Recommendations for the open web platform including: CSS 2.1, Selectors, and CSS3 Color.