Sydney hosts the world’s oldest web conference
Sydney hosted the oldest web conference in the world from 28 April to 2 May – the ACM Web Conference 2025. It was launched in 1994 under the name the International World Wide Web Conference, and is a yearly gathering to discuss the future of the World Wide Web.
The five-day event welcomed over 1,500 delegates from 50+ countries at the International Convention Centre Sydney. It was managed by ICMS Australasia.
The first conference of many was held and organized by Robert Cailliau in 1994 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Every year, people from across the world come together and submit their own research to be peer-reviewed by some of the World Wide Web community’s most prominent members.
World Wide Web Conference original logoThis year’s edition featured over 500 scientific posters, research sessions, workshops, tutorials and a PhD symposium. Sponsors included Meta, Huawei, Alibaba and Google.
Keynote speakers included Wen Gao, chairman of the China Computer Federation and AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber, described by The New York Times as “the dad of AI.”
“The level of sponsorship support from companies including Meta, Huawei, Alibaba and Google go a long way to demonstrating the quality of this conference,” said Emma Bowyer, CEO of ICMS Australasia. “We know our local hosts … are thrilled that there was such a strong international presence of attendees because it provided Australian delegates and organisations with an opportunity to develop deeper connections with their global peers.”
The conference ended with a gala at Watersedge in The Rocks, Sydney.
The 2019 edition of the conferenceMore at: https://www2025.thewebconf.org/
