WWW 2017 - 26th World Wide Web Conference

The 26th International World Wide Web Conference promises delegates a sustainable, relevant, innovative and memorable program and is the centerpiece of Perth's ‘Festival of the Web’: eight days of social events from dawn to dark, focusing on four themes that address the significant challenges of our era and beyond.
The call for papers is now open and should relate to one of four themes:
1 Making decisions
The web is powerful, empowering and potentially dangerous. The momentum of ideas crossing borders at high speed challenges the way we govern and regulate our societies.
2 Rethinking place
Our place on Earth has been defined by geography, our connections and our access to information. Now travellers see and understand their destination before they arrive, and leave behind information trails about the places they’ve visited. We are increasingly mediating our relationships by overlaying virtual experiences onto physical spaces.
3 Living in the always on
Today, we are connected, we are revealed, and we are part of the solution. Our concept of data has grown to include our bodies, our relationships, and our virtual environment. Data-mining, sensors, pattern recognition and new attitudes to the sharing of data are reconstructing the way we analyse our surrounds. The presentation of data will undergo radical change by 2017 as information is delivered in more emotionally compelling and time-sensitive ways.
4 The balance between technology and culture
Technology has always influenced culture but the current intensity of that has no precedent. Let’s consider where this is heading. As brands move from advertiser to friend, and as computer hardware becomes an extension of self, questions are raised.