W3C Track Announced for WWW2007 Conference

Experts Present Vision of Seamless Web Experience

http://www.w3.org/ -- 17 April 2007 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) presents its recent achievements and future work plans through the W3C Track at the WWW2007 conference, to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 9 to 11 May 2007.

This year's nine sessions - 33 presentations in all - cover:

Making Mobile Browsing Better
Rich Web Applications
The Future of the Web Page
Advances in Semantic Web
Security and Usability on the Web
Web of Services for Enterprise Computing
A Multimodal Web to Expand Universal Access
Architectural Integration
Query, Interchange and Access with XML!

The W3C Track, a regular feature of the IW3C2 conference series, gives conference participants the opportunity to meet with W3C technical staff and Working Group Chairs, as well as learn about the latest developments in Web technologies.

In addition to the W3C Track, you can hear Tim Berners-Lee give the opening keynote entitled "The Two Magics of Web Science" on Wednesday 9 May. Tim Berners-Lee will also participate in the Web History sessions that day.

The W3C staff will also be available for discussions at the W3C booth (#7) in the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel exhibition area.

About the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France and Keio University in Japan, and has additional Offices worldwide. For more information see http://www.w3.org/

Contact Americas, Australia --: Janet Daly, <janet@w3.org>, +1.617.253.5884 or +1.617.253.2613
Contact Europe, Africa and the Middle East --: Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, +33.492.38.75.94 or +33 6 76 86 33 41
Contact Asia --: Yasuyuki Hirakawa <chibao@w3.org>, +81.466.49.1170