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1© Travel Alberta
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Conference Location• Banff, Alberta, Canada• Banff National Park (Canada’s first, 1885)• Spectacular mountain scenery• International tourist destination• Year-round recreational opportunities
• Travel details:– Fly to Calgary International Airport (YYC)– 90-min travel time from Calgary Airport to
Banff by bus or rental car
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Conference Hotel
• Banff Springs Hotel• “Castle in the Rockies”• Scottish baronial
architecture (1888)• Internationally-known
tourist destination• World-class
conference centre
8© Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
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10© Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
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Key Personnel• General Chairs:
– Carey Williamson, U. of Calgary– Mary Ellen Zurko, IBM
• Program Chairs:– Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research– Prashant Shenoy, U. Massachusetts
• PCO: EventPlan, Calgary– Unni Soelberg-Claridge, CMP, CMM– Maura Duncan and others
• Conference Mascot: Megabite the Beaver• Sponsorship Program: Quest Media Ltd (UK)
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Conference Structure
• 5-day format• Tuesday, May 8 to Saturday, May 12• Tutorials, workshops, refereed papers, plenary
talks, panels, posters, invited speakers, ...• Lunch and AM/PM coffee breaks each day
• Evening events:– Welcome reception: Wednesday, May 9– Conference social event: Thursday, May 10
(Brewster’s MountView Barbecue)
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Proposed Tracks• Browsers and
User Interfaces• Data Mining• E* Applications• Industrial P&E• Performance and
Scalability• Pervasive Web and
Mobility• Search
• Security, Privacy, Reliability and Ethics
• Semantic Web• Technology for
Developing Regions• Web Engineering• Web Services• XML and Data
Languages• Web Standards Issues
Possible Themes: Pervasive Web; Search; Web Security
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Related Events and Activities
• W3C Advisory Committee Meeting– Sunday, May 6 to Tuesday, May 8
• Web History Day (tentative)– See http://webhistory.org
• Students– Travel subsidy program planned– Outings and excursions (hiking, skiing, GPS)
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Key Dates
• Workshop Proposals:– October 20, 2006
• Paper Submissions:– November 20, 2006 (NO EXTENSIONS!!!)
• Posters: February 12, 2007 (tentative)
• Early Registration: March 5, 2007• Hotel Reservation: March 15, 2007• Conference: May 8-12, 2007