The conference will focus on substantial contributions in the form of original research results and ideas, striking new software, innovative applications, and scholarly critique and/or analysis.  

The WWW7 Awards Committee will be giving awards for : 

• the Best Paper,
• the Best Poster,
• the IBM Java Brainwave Prize

Because posters are inherently a presentation medium, we want you to vote which one you think is the best presented, using the voting slips we will provide. 

The awards will all be announced in the closing ceremony of the conference, just before we hand over the baton to WWW8! 

The following Keynote Speakers (in alphabetical order) have confirmed for WWW7:
Frans De Bruine,  Director of Information Market Policies, European Commission	Keynote title :Europe's way to the Information Society
Tim Berners-Lee,  Director, W3C	Keynote Title : Evolvability: a dream which the community committed to and desperately needs.
James Gosling,  Vice President, Sun Microsystems	Keynote Title :The Future of Web Development and Java
Barry Jones,   National President of the Australian Labor Party	Keynote Title : Technology and the Future of Work
Xing Li,  Deputy Director, China Education and Research Network	Keynote Title :The Web in China: Past, Present and Future.
Cathy Marshall,  Principal Engineer, Xerox Parc	Keynote Title : A reader's-eye view of the Web: hypertext, annotation, collaboration, and the real world.
John Patrick,  VP of Internet Technology, IBM	Keynote Title :Unleashing e-business....Defining the Potential
Paul Saffo,  Director, Institute for the Future	Keynote Title : Disinter-remediation: The surprising nature of business on the web

  

8-4-98	Your conference and programme chairs are happy  to announce that we will be holding a very special  Birds of a Feather session at WWW7. This will be the World Wide Web Winetasting BOF !  Bring a bottle of wine and a ticket ($20 for food) to  join this internationally- flavoured BOF session! See  the BOF page for details.
6-4-98	Media & Press Accreditation
6-4-98	Tutorials Day room allocation
3-4-98	James Gosling's keynote title & abstract
2-4-98	Brisbane Weather
1-4-98	Official hire car company
1-4-98	The WWW7 Awards Committee will be giving awards for :  the Best Paper, the Best Poster, the IBM Java Brainwave Prize While the Best Paper and Java Brainwave Awards are determined by the Committee, the Best poster award is decided by *you* the delegate.  Because posters are inherently a presentation medium, we want you to vote which one you think is the best presented, using the voting slips we will provide.  The awards will all be announced in the closing ceremony of the conference, just before we hand over the baton to WWW8!
31-3-98	Frans De Bruine - Business Day Opening Keynote Speaker
27-3-98	Sponsors - Queensland Government
27-3-98	Business Day Programme
27-3-98	Papers are now online!
25-3-98	Developers Day-tracks
23-3-98	Volunteers
19-3-98	ACS members offer
18-3-98	SIGS
16-3-98	Birds of a Feather session
11-3-98	The WWW7 Awards Subcommittee have secured the  following award for the best  Java-related idea at  WWW7:  The IBM Java Brainwave Prize  A trip to California for lunch and advice from Ted  Schlein, the partner who runs the Java Fund at  Silicon  Valley's leading Ventrue Capital Firm, Kleiner Perkins  Caulfield & Byers
11-3-98	Birds of a Feather session
9-3-98	Volunteers
5-3-98	John Patrick's keynote title & abstract
5-3-98	SIG Session 2
4-3-98	Paul Saffo's keynote title & abstract
3-3-98	Full programme
3-3-98	Xing Li's keynote title & abstract
3-3-98	Tim Berners-Lee's keynote title & abstract
2-3-98	Birds of a Feather Session
27-2-98	Detailed programme
20-2-98	Outline Programme
20-2-98	Sponsors - The Austrlian Computer Society
19-2-98	Tutorial Selection
19-2-98	Some W3C Tracks finalised
19-2-98	Workshop Selection
18-2-98	Culture Track
17-2-98	LAW SIG
12-2-98	The International Program Office for Web Accessibility  (http://www.w3.org/wai/) has released new guidelines for  web authors.WWW7 is a major event at which many of  those concerned with the development of these guidelines  will be present. How to use them, the advantages of  complying and the disadvantages of not complying,  both from a personal and a commercial prespective will  be presented at WWW7.  Look for tutorial sessions,  papers and presentations from W3C (/program.html)
10-2-98	Workshop
30-1-98	W3C Track
30-1-98	Doctoral Consortium
30-1-98	Developers Day
29-1-98	Tutorials Day
29-1-98	Workshop
19-1-98	Draft Developers Day Program
14-1-98	Draft Program Timetable

Business Stream 

Designed for business people, the program will be tailored around the topics and issues which Australian chief executive officers and chief financial officers recently identified as their most important business objectives. 

For more information, email: businessday@www7.conf.au