The Web Conference — 2026
June 29, 2026 - July 3, 2026
InterContinental Dubai Festival City by IHGDubai, UAE
Important Dates
| Submission deadline | October 7, 2025 |
| Notification of acceptance | January 13, 2026 |
The Web Conference, formerly known as the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), is the flagship annual academic event on the science, engineering, and society of the World Wide Web. Organized by the IW3C2 and co-sponsored by ACM, it brings together researchers, engineers, industry practitioners, and policymakers to advance Web technologies, data, and applications. The technical program spans tracks including information retrieval, knowledge graphs, social networks, security, fairness, and human-computer interaction, alongside an industry track and co-located workshops. The conference has been held since 1994 and is one of the most selective and widely cited venues in computing.
Venue
InterContinental Dubai Festival City by IHG
Dubai Festival City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Applied AI and Multimodal Visualization Technologies
Explores the intersection of applied AI and multimodal visualization, bringing together researchers working on combining vision, language, and interactive data...
Adverse Impacts and Collateral Effects of AI Technologies
Examines unintended harms from AI deployment on the web, including algorithmic bias, privacy erosion, misinformation amplification, and socioeconomic side effects....
Augmented Intelligence in Technology-Assisted Review
Focuses on AI-assisted document review workflows in legal, medical, and scientific domains, covering active learning, human-in-the-loop systems, and evaluation methodologies....
Computational Methods for Online Discourse Analysis
Investigates computational approaches to analysing online discourse, argumentation, stance detection, and the spread of claims across social media and news...
Diffusion of Harmful Content and Countering Misinformation
Addresses how harmful content and misinformation spread online and how large language models both contribute to and can help counter...
Federated Foundation Models for the Web
Explores training and fine-tuning foundation models in federated settings, covering privacy-preserving learning, communication efficiency, and heterogeneous web data.
Future of Information Integrity Research
Brings together researchers working on fact-checking, provenance, trust signals, and the long-term challenges of maintaining information integrity on the web....
Graph-enhanced LLMs for Trustworthy Web Data Management
Combines graph neural networks with large language models for knowledge graph construction, entity resolution, and trustworthy reasoning over web-scale structured...
Human-Centered Recommender Systems
Focuses on designing recommendation systems that centre user agency, transparency, fairness, and long-term satisfaction over engagement optimisation.
LLM and Agents for Recommendation Systems
Investigates how large language models and autonomous agents can improve recommendation quality, explanation, and personalisation across web platforms.
Multimodal Content Analysis for Social Good
Applies multimodal AI to socially beneficial problems including crisis response, health communication, accessibility, and combating online hate speech.
Prompt Engineering for Pre-Trained Language Models
Advances the science of prompting, covering chain-of-thought, few-shot learning, instruction tuning, and systematic prompt optimisation for web-scale language models.
Social Science Meets Web Data
Bridges computational methods and social science methodology for analysing web data, covering causal inference, survey integration, and reproducibility of web-based...
AI and Semantic Technologies for the Scientific and Legal Web
Applies semantic web technologies and AI to scientific publishing, patent analysis, legal document processing, and knowledge extraction from technical corpora....
Temporal Web Analytics
Studies the web as a temporal artifact, covering web archiving, link rot, temporal information retrieval, and evolution of web content...
Transformative Insights in Multi-faceted Evaluation
Explores new evaluation paradigms for web and AI systems, covering multi-dimensional metrics, human evaluation, and the limitations of single-metric benchmarking....
Trustworthy Foundation Models for Web Intelligence
Addresses trustworthiness of foundation models deployed on the web through causal reasoning, robustness, fairness, and interpretability research.
Trustworthy Multimodal Learning for Social Media Analysis
Combines multimodal learning with trustworthiness requirements for social media tasks including rumour detection, sentiment analysis, and cross-platform content moderation.
Data-Driven Smart Cities
Brings together researchers and practitioners applying web and data technologies to urban mobility, smart infrastructure, city-scale sensing, and citizen engagement....
Spatio-Temporal Data Mining from the Web
Advances methods for mining location- and time-stamped data from social media, mobility platforms, and the web, with applications in urban...
Zero-knowledge Proof and Blockchain for Web 4.0
Explores cryptographic primitives and blockchain architectures enabling privacy-preserving, decentralised, and verifiable applications for the next generation of the web.
Our picks for The Web Conference attendees
A curated selection of hotels chosen for location, value, and fit for conference travellers.
Crowne Plaza Dubai Festival City by IHG
Dubai Festival City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A polished five-star business hotel within the Festival City complex, featuring a rooftop pool with skyline views and a full spa. A...
Holiday Inn and Suites Dubai Festival City by IHG
Gateway Avenue, Dubai Festival City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A well-equipped four-star hotel in the same Festival City complex as the venue, with suites featuring kitchenettes at a lower price point...
InterContinental Dubai Festival City by IHG
Dubai Festival City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The conference host hotel on Dubai Creek with a large event centre, multiple dining venues, and a full spa. Best for attendees...
InterContinental Residence Suites Dubai Festival City
Dubai Festival City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
An all-suite property offering studio through four-bedroom configurations with full kitchens. Best suited for attendees on extended stays, those traveling with family,...