About
The Event
The Web Conference (formerly known as WWW conference) is a yearly international conference on the topic of the World Wide Web
The conference began in 1994 at CERN and is organized each year by a local team of volunteers in different parts of the world who come together to organize the conference in collaboration with the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2). The Conference 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 conference brings together researchers, policy makers, developers, users and commercial ventures — indeed all those who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer.
In 2019, The Web Conference will be hosted in San Francisco, California, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Web. We come together on May 13-17, 2019 at a time when more than 50% of the world's population will have access to the Web via internet. We seek to seize these moments to reflect on the past 30 years of the Web and plan together for the future of it, to rethink a Web that is truly inclusive and open, a Web for Good.
Committees
![Ricardo Baeza](/www2019/media/profiles/ricardo-baeza-yates-low.jpg)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
General co-chair
NTENT & Northeastern University, SV Campus
![Leila Zia](/www2019/media/profiles/leila-zia-low.jpg)
Leila Zia
General co-chair
Wikimedia Foundation
![Ling Liu](/www2019/media/profiles/ling-liu-low.jpg)
Ling Liu
Program committee co-chair
Georgia Tech
![Ryen White](/www2019/media/profiles/ryen-white-low.jpg)
Ryen White
Program committee co-chair
Microsoft
![Chris Brooks](/www2019/media/profiles/chris-brooks-low.jpg)
Chris Brooks
Local organizing committee co-chair
University of San Francisco
![Regan Robertson](/www2019/media/profiles/regan-robertson-low.jpg)
Regan Robertson
Local organizing committee co-chair
Executivevents
![Bebo White](/www2019/media/profiles/bebo-white-low.jpg)
Bebo White
Local organizing committee co-chair
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
![Fabian Suchanek](/www2019/media/profiles/fabian-suchanek-low.jpg)
Fabian Suchanek
Treasurer
Télécom ParisTech University
![Ashish Goel](/www2019/media/profiles/profile_placeholder-low.png)
Ashish Goel
Tutorial chair
Stanford University
![Sihem Amer-Yahia](/www2019/media/profiles/sihem-amer-yahia-low.jpg)
Sihem Amer-Yahia
Workshop co-chair
CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes
![Mohammad Mahdian](/www2019/media/profiles/mohammad-mahdian-low.jpg)
Mohammad Mahdian
Workshop co-chair
![Amin Mantrach](/www2019/media/profiles/amin-mantrach-low.jpg)
Amin Mantrach
Demo co-chair
Criteo
![Amin Mantrach](/www2019/media/profiles/fabrizio-silvestri-low.jpg)
Fabrizio Silvestri
Demo co-chair
![Vanja Josifovski](/www2019/media/profiles/vanja-josifovski-low.jpg)
Vanja Josifovski
BIG co-chair
Airbnb
![Liane Lewin-Eytan](/www2019/media/profiles/liane-lewin-eytan-low.jpg)
Liane Lewin-Eytan
BIG co-chair
Amazon
![Evgeniy Gabrilovich](/www2019/media/profiles/evgeniy-gabrilovich-low.jpg)
Evgeniy Gabrilovich
The Web of Health co-chair
![Nigam H. Shah](/www2019/media/profiles/nigam-h-shah-low.jpg)
Nigam H. Shah
The Web of Health co-chair
Stanford University
![Stephen LaPorte](/www2019/media/profiles/stephen-laporte-low.jpg)
Stephen LaPorte
The Future of the Open Web co-chair
Wikimedia Foundation
![Robert West](/www2019/media/profiles/robert-west-low.jpg)
Robert West
The Future of the Open Web co-chair
EPFL
![Sharad Goel](/www2019/media/profiles/sharad-goel-low.jpg)
Sharad Goel
Designing an Ethical Web co-chair
Stanford University
![Deirdre Mulligan](/www2019/media/profiles/deirdre-mulligan-low.jpg)
Deirdre Mulligan
Designing an Ethical Web co-chair
UC Berkeley School of Information
![Nuria Oliver](/www2019/media/profiles/nuria-oliver-low.jpg)
Nuria Oliver
Sponsorship and Partnership co-chair
Vodafone Research and DataPop Alliance
![Jie Tang](/www2019/media/profiles/jie-tang-low.jpg)
Jie Tang
Sponsorship and Partnership co-chair
Tsinghua University
![Kuansan Wang](/www2019/media/profiles/kuansan-wang-low.jpg)
Kuansan Wang
Sponsorship and Partnership co-chair
Microsoft
![Ben Steichen](/www2019/media/profiles/ben-steichen-low.jpg)
Ben Steichen
Students relations chair
Cal Poly Pomona
![Lora Aroyo](/www2019/media/profiles/profile_placeholder-low.png)
Lora Aroyo
Student scholarship co-chair
VU Amsterdam
![Diego Sáez-Trumper](/www2019/media/profiles/diego-saez-trumper-low.jpg)
Diego Sáez-Trumper
Student scholarship co-chair
Wikimedia Foundation
![Geert-Jan Houben](/www2019/media/profiles/geert-jan-houben-low.jpg)
Geert-Jan Houben
PhD Symposium co-chair
TU Delft
![Kristina Lerman](/www2019/media/profiles/kristina-lerman-low.jpg)
Kristina Lerman
PhD Symposium co-chair
Information Sciences Institute
![Sébastien Forget](/www2019/media/profiles/sebastion-forget-low.jpg)
Sébastien Forget
Volunteer chair
TD Bank
![Dawn Anderson](/www2019/media/profiles/dawn-anderson-low.jpg)
Dawn Anderson
Communications co-chair
Move It Marketing
![Brent Hecht](/www2019/media/profiles/brent-hecht-low.jpg)
Brent Hecht
Communications co-chair
Northwestern University
![Xin Fu](/www2019/media/profiles/xin-fu.png)
Xin Fu
Communications co-chair
![Julian McAuley](/www2019/media/profiles/julian_mcauley-low.jpg)
Julian McAuley
Proceedings Chair
UCSD
![Ashton Anderson](/www2019/media/profiles/ashton-anderson-low.jpg)
Ashton Anderson
Poster co-chair
University of Toronto
![Joe DeBlasio](/www2019/media/profiles/profile_placeholder-low.png)
Joe DeBlasio
Poster co-chair
![Reza Zafarani](/www2019/media/profiles/reza-zafarani-low.jpg)