Conference history – TheWebConf 2022

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.

	April 19-23, 2021 Ljubljana, Slovenia Conference Chairs: Marko Grobelnik and Jure Leskovec Program Chairs: Marc Najork, Jie Tang and Leila Zia
	April 20-24, 2020 Taipei Conference Chairs: Yennun Huang and Irwin King Program Chairs: Tie-Yan Liu and Maarten van Steen
	May 13-17 2019 San Francisco, California, USA Conference Chairs: Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Leila Zia Program Chairs: Ling Liu and Ryen White
	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
	April 3-7, 2017 Perth, Western Australia Conference Chairs: Rick Barrett and Rick Cummings Program Chairs: Eugene Agichtein and Evgeniy Gabrilovich
	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
	May 18-22, 2015 Florence, Italy Conference Chairs: Aldo Gangemi, Stefano Leonardi and Alessandro Panconesi Program Chairs: Krishna Gummadi and Chengxiang Zhai
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	May 10-14, 2005 Chiba, Japan Conference Chairs: Tatsuya Hagino and Allan Ellis Program Chair: Fred Douglis and Prabhakar Raghavan Host: Keio University
	May 17-22, 2004 New York, NY (USA) Conference Chairs: Stuart Feldman and Mike Uretsky Program Chairs: Marc Najork and Craig Wills
	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
	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)
	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.
	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
	May 11-14, 1999 Toronto, Canada Conference Chairs: Albert Vezza, Murray Maloney and Robert Cailliau Program Chair: Alberto Mendelzon
	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
	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
	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)
	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
	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
	October 17-20, 1994 Chicago, IL (USA) Conference Chairs: Robert Cailliau, Ira Goldstein and Joseph Hardin Host: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
	May 25-27, 1994 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Conference Chair: Robert Cailliau Program Chair: Oscar Nierstrasz Host: Centre Universitaire d’Informatique