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

3© Travel Alberta 3

© Travel Alberta

4© Travel Alberta

5© Travel Alberta

6© Richard Brown, BLLTB

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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

9© Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel

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

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