Conference history

The World Wide Web was first conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The first conference of the series, WWW1, was held at CERN in 1994 and organized by Robert Cailliau. The IW3C2 was founded by Joseph Hardin and Robert Cailliau later in 1994 and has been responsible for the conference series ever since. Except for 1994 and 1995 when two conferences were held each year, WWW became an annual event held in late April or early May. The location of the conference rotates among America, Europe, and Asia. In 2001 the conference designator changed from a number (1 through 10) to the year it is held; i.e., WWW11 became known as WWW2002, and so on.

The WWW Conference series aims to provide the world with a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conferences bring together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures – indeed all who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer.

Until 2021, the conferences have been organized by the IW3C2 in collaboration with Local Organizing Committees and Technical Program Committees. The series provides an open forum in which all opinions can be presented, subject to a strict process of peer review.

WWW2021

April 19-23, 2021

Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Conference Chairs: Marko Grobelnik and Jure Leskovec
  • Program Chairs: Marc Najork, Jie Tang and Leila Zia

WWW2020

April 20-24, 2020

Taipei

  • Conference Chairs: Yennun Huang and Irwin King
  • Program Chairs: Tie-Yan Liu and Maarten van Steen

WWW2019

May 13-17 2019

San Francisco, California, USA

  • Conference Chairs: Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Leila Zia
  • Program Chairs: Ling Liu and Ryen White

WWW2018

April 23-27, 2018

Lyon, France

  • Conference Chairs: Pierre-Antoine Champin, Fabien Gandon and Lionel Médini
  • Program Chairs: Mounia Lalmas and Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
  • Host: Université de Lyon

WWW2017

April 3-7, 2017

Perth, Western Australia

  • Conference Chairs: Rick Barrett and Rick Cummings
  • Program Chairs: Eugene Agichtein and Evgeniy Gabrilovich

WWW2016

April 11-15, 2016

Montreal, Canada

  • Conference Chairs: Jacqueline Bourdeau, Jim A. Hendler and Roger Nkambou
  • Program Chairs: Ian Horrocks and Ben Y. Zhao
  • Host: Université du Québec à Montréal

WWW2015

May 18-22, 2015

Florence, Italy

  • Conference Chairs: Aldo Gangemi, Stefano Leonardi and Alessandro Panconesi
  • Program Chairs: Krishna Gummadi and Chengxiang Zhai

WWW2014

May 7-11, 2014

Seoul, South Korea

  • Conference Chair: Chin-Wan Chung
  • Conference Vice Chairs: Sung Joon Choi, Sang-goo Lee and Sue Moon
  • Program Chairs: Andrei Broder, Kyuseok Shim and Torsten Suel
  • Hosts: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Korean Agency for Technology and Standards

WWW2013

May 13-17, 2013

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Conference Chairs: Virgilio Almeida, Hartmut Glaser and Daniel Schwabe
  • Program Chairs: Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Sue Moon
  • Hosts: Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, and Brazilian Network Information Center

WWW2012

April 16-20, 2012

Lyon, France

  • Conference Chairs: A. Mille, Fabien Gandon and Jacques Misselis
  • Program Chairs: Michael Rabinovich and Steffen Staab
  • Host: Université de Lyon

WWW2011

March 28-April 1, 2011

Hyderabad, India

  • Conference Chairs: S. Sadgopan and Krithi Ramamritham
  • Program Chairs: Elisa Bertino and Ravi Kumar
  • Host: International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

WWW2010

April 26-30, 2010

Raleigh, NC (USA)

  • Conference Chairs: Michael Rappa and Paul Jones
  • Program Chairs: Juliana Friere and Soumen Chakrabarti
  • Hosts: North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

WWW2009

April 20-24, 2009

Madrid, Spain

  • Conference Chairs: Juan Quemada and Gonzalo León
  • Program Chairs: Yoelle Maarek and Wolfgang Nejdl
  • Host: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

WWW2008

April 21-25, 2008

Beijing, China

  • Conference Chairs: Robin Chen and Jinpeng Huai
  • Program Chairs: Wei-Ying Ma, Andrew Tomkins and Xiaodong Zhang
  • Host: Beihang University

WWW007

May 8-12, 2007

Banff, Canada

  • Conference Chairs: Carey Williamson and Mary Ellen Zurko
  • Program Chairs: Peter Patel-Schneider and Prashant Shenoy
  • Host: University of Calgary

WWW2006

May 22-26, 2006

Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)

  • Conference Chairs: Leslie Carr, David De Roure and Arun Iyengar
  • Program Chairs: Carole Goble and Mike Dahlin
  • Host: University of Southampton

WWW2005

May 10-14, 2005

Chiba, Japan

  • Conference Chairs: Tatsuya Hagino and Allan Ellis
  • Program Chair: Fred Douglis and Prabhakar Raghavan
  • Host: Keio University

WWW2004

May 17-22, 2004

New York, NY (USA)

  • Conference Chairs: Stuart Feldman and Mike Uretsky
  • Program Chairs: Marc Najork and Craig Wills

WWW2003

May 20-24, 2003

Budapest, Hungary

  • Conference Chairs: Péter Bakonyi, Gusztáv Hencsey and Bebo White
  • Program Chairs: László Kovács, Steve Lawrence and Robin Chen
  • Host: Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

WWW2002

May 6-11, 2002

Honolulu, HI (USA)

  • Conference Chair: David Lassner
  • Program Chairs: Dave De Roure and Arun Iyengar
  • Hosts: University of Hawaii, and the Pacific Telecom Council (PTC)

WWW10

May 1-5, 2001

Hong Kong, China

  • Conference Chairs: Nabuo Saito and Vincent Shen
  • Program Chairs: Michael Lyu and Mary Ellen Zurko
  • Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, et al.

WWW9

May 15-19, 2000

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Conference Chairs: Ivan Herman and Albert Vezza
  • Program Chair: Dick Bulterman
  • Host: National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science

WWW8

May 11-14, 1999

Toronto, Canada

  • Conference Chairs: Albert Vezza, Murray Maloney and Robert Cailliau
  • Program Chair: Alberto Mendelzon

WWW7

April 14-18, 1998

Brisbane, Australia

  • Conference Chair: Allan Ellis
  • Program Chairs: Helen Ashman and Paul Thistlewaite
  • Host: Charles Sturt University, the Distributed Systems Technology Centre, the Prentice Centre, the Information Industries Branch (Queensland) and Southern Cross University

WWW6

April 7-11, 1997

Santa Clara, CA (USA)

  • Conference Chairs: Christine Quinn and Bebo White
  • Program Chairs: Michael Genesereth and Anna Patterson
  • Hosts: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Stanford University

WWW5

May 6-10, 1996

Paris, France

  • Conference Chair: Jean-François Abramatic
  • Program Chair: Bob Hopgood

Host: Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

WWW4

December 11-14, 1995

Boston, MA (USA)

  • Conference Chairs: Ira Goldstein and Albert Vezza
  • Program Chair: Tim Berners-Lee
  • Host: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

WWW3

April 10-14, 1995

Darmstadt, Germany

  • Conference Chair: Detlef Krömker
  • Program Chairs: Tim Berners-Lee and Detlef Krömker
  • Hosts: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft/Institute for Graphic Design (FhG/IGD), Technical University of Darmstadt

WWW2

October 17-20, 1994

Chicago, IL (USA)

  • Conference Chairs: Robert Cailliau, Ira Goldstein and Joseph Hardin
  • Host: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

WWW1

May 25-27, 1994

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Conference Chair: Robert Cailliau
  • Program Chair: Oscar Nierstrasz
  • Host: Centre Universitaire d’Informatique