THEWEBCONF

The Web Conference (WWW 2018), held on April 23-27 2018 in Lyon, France, is the 27th of a series of yearly international conferences on the future directions of the Web. The series began in 1994 at CERN and is organized by the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2). Each edition of the conference is a world premier forum for presenting and debating the evolutions of the Web and their impact on society. The conference brings together researchers, developers, industries, users and commercial ventures - indeed all those who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer now and in the future.

Starting with the 2018 edition, the conference series previously known as World Wide Web Conference (WWW) has been rebranded as The Web Conference. The IW3C2 took this decision to allow a better visibility of this event, especially on social networks. Previously, and with the change of hashtag every year, the communication underwent ruptures. The new single and unambiguous hashtag #TheWebConf will now persist for all future editions together with a graphic identity that will be declined for each annual edition.

This year's moto emphasizes the role the Web is playing in linking a huge variety of information and knowledge world-wide, making it available to people and machines alike. By linking all kinds of resources, the Web is helping us connect very different kinds of intelligence - including artificial intelligence and humans - to form hybrid societies. As can be seen from the program of the conference, this aspect of the Web is covered in many tracks as well as panels and keynotes.

To prepare the 2018 edition we relied on around 100 chairs, to organize 11 research tracks totalling 171 papers, and 15 alternate tracks totalling 251 accepted contributions, including 27 workshops, 19 tutorials, 61 posters and 30 demonstrations. We also host two collocated events.