Sponsorship program

The 25th International World Wide Web ConferenceApril 11 to 15, 2016, Montreal

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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 25th International World Wide Web

Conference (WWW 2016) which will be held from April 11 to 15, 2016 in Montreal, Canada.

The World Wide Web Conference is an annual international confer-ence on current events and future directions of the World Wide Web. The Conference is an outstanding international forum to present and discuss progress in research, devel-opment, standards, and applications of the topics related to the Web. WWW2016 will offer high-quality events including research sessions, poster sessions, workshops, and tuto-

rials. Tracks and special programs will also include: the research track, the poster track, the demonstration track, the developers track, the industry track, the Ph.D. symposium track, the web science track, the W3C track, as well as panels, tutorials, and workshops. Several co-located and special events will also be part of the general program.

Attending WWW 2016 means you also will experience Montreal, a beautiful city renowned for its international flavour and inspiring diversity. Located on an island in the St. Lawrence River, it is home to approximately 1.6. residents, and it is the largest French-speaking

city outside of France - a perfect blend of European charm and North American hospitality. One of the world’s top convention cities, there’s something for everyone here. You’ll find a friendly population, world-famous gastronomy , and an atmosphere of celebration.

WWW 2016 will be an exceptional conference for sharing the latest academic insights as well as expe-riencing the unique culture of Montreal.

We thank you for your participation and look forward to seeing you in Montreal, Canada.

Sincerely,

Local Organizing CommitteeWWW 2016

Welcome letter

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Conference OverviewThe World Wide Web was first conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The first conference of the series, WWW1, was held at CERN in 1994 and organized by Robert Cailliau. For more than two decades, the International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web.

Title: The 25th International World Wide Web Conference.

Date: April 11 – 15, 2016

Venue: Palais des congrès, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Official language: English

Organizers: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) The International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2)

MAIN TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE

WWW conferences key information

World Wide Event outstanding ranking A+

Conference Attendees up to 1 000 (40 % from companies)

Keynotes and invited speakers up to 8

Workshops up to 20

Tutorials up to 6

Submitted papers more than 1 000

Actual acceptance rate 12 % to 13 %

Co-located events up to 8

Total delegates / all events up to 1 600

WWW general scientific topics

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization

Content Analysis

Crowdsourcing Systems and Social Media

Economics and Markets

Mobility

Security and Privacy

Semantics and Big Data

Social Networks and Graph Analysis

Web Mining

Web Science

Web Search Systems and Applications

Co-located events

13th Web for All Conference (W4A 2016)

6th International Conference on Digital Health

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

BIG 2016

Open Data Festival Summit

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We would like to understand the meaning of content on the web. But where should that meaning come from? From markup language created by the authors of the content? Crowdsourced from readers of the content? Automatically extracted by machine learning algorithms?

This talk investigates the possibilities.

Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Google's core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames's Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA's senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He was co-teacher of an Artifical Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to

kick off the current round of massive open online classes. His publications include the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world's longest palindromic sentence. He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, California Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

WWW2016The main conference program of WWW 2016 will have 11 areas (or tracks) for refereed paper presentations, and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting, new breakthrough work to the relevant area. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2016 will also have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speeches, tutorials, panels, a developer track, and poster and demo sessions. The theme of the Conference is OUVERT (OPEN in french), which stands for: Open, Ubiquitous, Versatile, Education, GoveRnment, HealTh.

Keynote speakers

La Sécurité Ouverte - How we doing so far?

Open has meant a lot of things in the web thus far. The openness of the web has had profound implications for web security, from the beginning through to today. Each time the underlying web technology changes, we do a reset on the security it provides. Patterns and differences emerge in each round of security responses and challenges. What has that brought us as web users,

technologists, researchers, and as a global community? What can we expect going forward? And what should we work towards as web technologists and caretakers?

Mary Ellen Zurko is a member of the Office of the CTO, Security Business Group, at Cisco Systems, and a Principal Engineer on the Next Generation Firewall team there. Mez is a seminal member of the National Academies of Sciences Forum on Cyber Resilience. She was security architect of one of IBM's earliest clouds; SaaS for business collaboration. She defined the field of User-Centered Security in 1996. As a senior research fellow at the Open Group Research Institute, she led several innovative security initiatives

in authorization policies, languages, and mechanisms that incorporate user-centered design elements. She started her security career at DEC working on a high assurance A1 Virtual Machine Monitor. She has written on security and the web, public key infrastructures, distributed authorization, active content security, and user-centered security. She is a contributor to the O'Reilly book "Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use." She is on the steering committees of New Security Paradigms Workshop and Symposium on Useable Privacy and Security. Mez received S.B and S.M. degrees in computer science from MIT.

The Semantic Web and the Semantics of the Web: Where Does Meaning Come From?

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Committees

General chairs

General vice-chairs

Local organization committee

Co-Chairs Roger Nkambou - Université du Québec à Montréal, CanadaPetko Valtchev - Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Marketing Chair Esma Aïmeur - Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Proceedings and Metadata Chairs Volker Haarslev - Concordia University, Montréal, CanadaMichel Gagnon - École Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada

Sponsorship and Networking Chairs Jean-Charles Grégoire - INRS-TelecommunicationDiane Mercier - Open Knowledge Foundation

Registration Chair Bettina Kemme - McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Publicity Chairs Steven Harnad - Université du Québec à Montréal, CanadaJean-Marc Robert - ETS, Montreal, Canada

Exhibition Chair Hamadou Saliah-Hassane - TELUQ, Montreal, Canada

Co-located Events Chairs Isabelle Rouvellou - IBM, New York, USA

Financial Liaison Jean Talbot - HEC, Montréal, Canada

PCO OPC Events Montreal

IW3C2 Liaison Luc Mariaux - École Centrale de Lyon, France

Volunteers Co-Chairs Sébastien Forget - TD Bank, CanadaSasha Vorobyova - UQAM, CanadaKristine Gloria - RPI, NY USA

Jacqueline Bourdeau - Tele-university (TELUQ), Montreal, QC, CanadaJim A. Hendler - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USARoger Nkambou - Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

Christopher A. Welty - Senior Research Scientist, Google Inc., NY, USALora Aroyo - VU University, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsShibl Mourad - Montréal Site Director, Google Inc.

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Behavioral Analysis and Personalization Mounia Lalmas - Yahoo Labs, UKXavier Amatriain - Quora, USA

Content Analysis Rada Mihalcea - University of Michigan, USAVivi Nastase - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Crowdsourcing Systems and Social Media Daniel Quercia - University of Cambridge, UKChristo Wilson - Northeastern University, USAJeffrey P. Bigham - Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Economics and Markets Nicole Immorlica - Microsoft, USAPreston McAfee - Microsoft, USA

Mobility Cecilia Mascolo - University of Cambridge, UK

Security and Privacy Nikita Borisov - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USAMichael Bailey - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Semantics and Big Data Maria Esther Vidal - Universidad Simón Bolívar, VenezuelaMarkus Krötzsch - TU Dresden, Germany

Social Networks and Graph Analysis Aristides Gionis - Aalto University, FinlandAlessandra Sala - Bell Labs, USAHaewoon Kwak - Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

Web Mining Yizhou Sun - Northeastern University, ChinaYutaka Matsuo - University of Tokyo, Japan

Web Science Marta Sabou - Vienna University of Technology, AustriaDave De Roure - University of Oxford, UK

Web Search Systems and Applications Jimmy Huang - York University, CanadaDan Pelleg - Yahoo Labs, USA

Technical program committee

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Ian Horrocks - University of Oxford, UKBen Y. Zhao - University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA

AERA CHAIRS

WORKSHOP TRACK CHAIRS

Esma Aimeur - University of Montreal, CanadaMedha Atre - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

POSTER TRACK CHAIRS

Jeff Z. Pan - University of Aberdeen, UKGianluca Stringhini - University College London, UK

DEMO TRACK CHAIR

Alfred Cuzzocrea - University of Trieste, ItalyAbdulmotaleb El Saddik - University of Ottawa, Canada

INDUSTRY TRACK CHAIRAchille Fokoue - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR

Eyhab Al-Masri - University of Waterloo, Canada

TUTORIAL CHAIRS

Thanassis Tiropanis - University of Southampton, UKMatthew Weber - Rutgers University, USA

DEVELOPERS TRACK

Andrei Sambra - MIT, USAOshani Seneviratne - Oracle, USALalana Kagal - MIT, USA

ENTREPRENEURS TRACK

Andrei Broder - Google, USAStefano Leonardi - Università di Roma La Sapienza, ItalyPaolo Merialdo - Università Roma Tre, Italy

W3C TRACK CHAIR

Marie-Claire Forgue - W3C, France

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Sponsorship Guideline

Benefits Gold Silver Bronze SpecialItems Details $50,000 USD $30,000 USD $20,000 USD $10,000 USD

Exhibition Exhibiting space 36 sqm 27 sqm 18 sqm 9 sqm

Registration Free registration (Full Pass) 5 4 3 2

Conference

Sponsor introduction at opening ceremony

Conference speaking opportunity (upon approval)

Access to VIP lounge

On-site visibility

Logo on banners

Logo on screen at Opening/Closing/Plenary

Promotional material inside conference bag

On-line visibility

Position of sponsor’s banner (with link) on conference website: main and sponsors page

First row Second row Third row Fourth row

Logo on official newsletters

Specific e-newsletter (document provided by the sponsor)

Visibility on WWW 2016 social media outlets

Press and social media release of sponsorphip

Logo on post-conference email reporting

Printed matters

Logo on official conference documents and pomotional material

Sponsor presentation page in the conference program

Logo in the conference program

Advertisement in the conference program

1 page (cover) 1 page 1/2 page 1/4 page

Sponsorship opportunities are available for companies seeking maximum exposure towards WWW2016’s participants.

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Option Description Price in USD

All sponsors and exhibitors will be listed and thanked in the sponsor section of the final program.

Exhibition space

Exhibition

Minimal rental space : 9 sqm (1 booth)Discounted prices will be applied to Publishers and Educational institutions.The price above includes floor space only. The rates do not include rental of booth, construction crew, shipping, storage, extra electricity or other complementary items, which must be ordered separately.Space assignment will be on a first-come-first-served basis with theexception of Gold, Silver and Bronze Sponsors.

$2,100 per booth

Symposia

Company Workshop

The scientific program offers opportunity for organizing Companyworkshops open to conference participants of 60 minutes durationeach at lunch time. All workshops are scheduled as an official part of the conference program. This will ensure a high level of attendance by participants. The full program of the workshop will be printed in the final program of the conference.

You will be offered a room of your choice if available, including standard audio-visual equipment, technical assistance, and one hostess. Preference in the choice of the day and room will be given to the Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsors.

The time slots are not exclusive, the Organising Committee will try to avoid subject overlaps as far as possible.Workshops can be reserved upon availability.

Depending on the

room size.From $5,000

to $10,000

Advertising

WWW Gala Dinner

Prominent promotion of your company throughout the evening: provides a unique forum for discussion and informal contact.Banners in the venue, logo on the event communication material, on the website and registration page (dinner registration), recognition on the conference program, logo on menus.

$10,000

Wifi

Wifi coverage for the conference.Logo on banners and information material, logo on the conference website, logo on the connecting page and recognition in the conference program.

$10,000

Branding of directional signage

Signage to be placed in the conference venue.Sponsor logo to be placed on all directional signs at the event venue.

$4,000

Conference bags

Distributed to all delegates upon arrival, the bags contain the conference material: program, floorplans, city guide, etc.Bags with logo provided by the sponsor. Exclusive sponsorship of conference bags.

$3,500

Coffee points Arranged within the exhibition area and served on buffet.Company logo will be displayed on each coffee station.

$3,000

Additional options for Sponsorship

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Option Description Price in USD

All sponsors and exhibitors will be listed and thanked in the sponsor section of the final program.

Exhibition space

Exhibition

Minimal rental space : 9 sqm (1 booth)Discounted prices will be applied to Publishers and Educational institutions.The price above includes floor space only. The rates do not include rental of booth, construction crew, shipping, storage, extra electricity or other complementary items, which must be ordered separately.Space assignment will be on a first-come-first-served basis with theexception of Gold, Silver and Bronze Sponsors.

$2,100 per booth

Symposia

Company Workshop

The scientific program offers opportunity for organizing Companyworkshops open to conference participants of 60 minutes durationeach at lunch time. All workshops are scheduled as an official part of the conference program. This will ensure a high level of attendance by participants. The full program of the workshop will be printed in the final program of the conference.

You will be offered a room of your choice if available, including standard audio-visual equipment, technical assistance, and one hostess. Preference in the choice of the day and room will be given to the Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsors.

The time slots are not exclusive, the Organising Committee will try to avoid subject overlaps as far as possible.Workshops can be reserved upon availability.

Depending on the

room size.From $5,000

to $10,000

Advertising

WWW Gala Dinner

Prominent promotion of your company throughout the evening: provides a unique forum for discussion and informal contact.Banners in the venue, logo on the event communication material, on the website and registration page (dinner registration), recognition on the conference program, logo on menus.

$10,000

Wifi

Wifi coverage for the conference.Logo on banners and information material, logo on the conference website, logo on the connecting page and recognition in the conference program.

$10,000

Branding of directional signage

Signage to be placed in the conference venue.Sponsor logo to be placed on all directional signs at the event venue.

$4,000

Conference bags

Distributed to all delegates upon arrival, the bags contain the conference material: program, floorplans, city guide, etc.Bags with logo provided by the sponsor. Exclusive sponsorship of conference bags.

$3,500

Coffee points Arranged within the exhibition area and served on buffet.Company logo will be displayed on each coffee station.

$3,000

Additional options for Sponsorship

Welcome cocktail

Promotion of your company throughout the event: provides a unique forum for discussion and informal contact.Banners in the venue, logo on the event communication material, recognition in the conference program.

$3,000

VIP Lounge

This area is open to organizers’ guests, speakers and major sponsors. They will be able to relax, exchange enjoying a quite environnement, coffee and refreshments.Banner in and outside the room, screen with institutional film, company logo on promotional printed matters and recognition on the conference program.

$3,000

Badge lanyards

Badge holder ribbons are given to every delegate and will be worn around the neck.Badge lanyards branded with the company logo. Badge lanyards provided by the sponsor.

$2,000

Notepads and pens

Notepads and pens are given to every delegate.Notepads and pens branded with the sponsor company logo. Notepads and pens provided by the sponsor.To be included in the conference bag.Exclusive sponsorship of notepads and pens.

$2,000

Pocket program

The pocket program is an abriged version of the full conference schedule, providing a succint summary of all key information and timings. It is given to each participant.Logo on the pocket program distributed with the conference bags to all participants and on request during the conference.

$2,000

Supporter Promotional item in the conference bag, logo on the conference website.

$2,000

Spots during sessions breaks

Logo projected in all meeting rooms during session breaks every day of the conference. (Not exclusive)

$1,500

Conference program Advertisement in the conference program (1 page). $1,500

Promotional item in the conference bags

Each item (subject to approval). $1,000

Job Fair

Exhibitor at the job Fair(1 day)

Minimal rental space : 9 sqmDiscounted prices will be applied to Publishers and Educational institutions.The price above includes floor space only. The rates do not include rental of booth, construction crew, shipping, storage, extra electricity or other complementary items, which must be ordered separately.Space assignment will be on a first-come-first-served basis with theexception of Gold, Silver and Bronze Sponsors.

$1,450

Job Fair sponsorBanner displayed in the Job fair section of the exhibition, banner displayed during the Job Fair cocktail, logo on the event communication material, recognition in the conference program.

$3,000

ABOUT MONTREAL

DESTINATION MONTRÉALRanked top convention city in America

Montréal is a beautiful city renowned for its international flavour and inspiring diversity. Located on an island in the St. Lawrence River, it is home to approximately 1.6 million residents and the largest bilingual workforce in Canada. It is the largest French-speaking city outside France and a perfect blend of European energy and North American efficiency. One of the world's top convention cities, there's something for everyone here. You'll find a friendly population, world-famous gastronomy , and an atmosphere of celebration !

VENUE

THE PALAIS DES CONGRÈSThe Palais des congrès has the right type of space for all events! Incredibly versatile, our different rooms cater to all activities. Eight levels can accommodate special events, receptions, congresses, conventions, exhibitions, and the list goes on.

For more details, feel free to contact:

Nathalie Emond McQuadeBusiness delegatenemond@cpsmedia.ca450 227-8414, ext. 303 • 1 866 227-8414www.cpsmedia.ca

The 25th InternationalWorld Wide Web Conference

April 11 to 15, 2016, Montreal