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2. 2 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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7. 7 Conference Hotel Banff Springs Hotel “Castle in the Rockies” Scottish baronial architecture (1888) Internationally-known tourist destination World-class conference centre

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11. 11 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)

12. 12 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)

13. 13 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

14. 14 Related Events and Activities W3C Advisory Committee Meeting –Sunday, May 6 to Tuesday, May 8 Web History Day (tentative) –See http://webhistory.orghttp://webhistory.org Students –Travel subsidy program planned –Outings and excursions (hiking, skiing, GPS)

15. 15 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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