The ACM Web Conference (formerly known as the International World Wide Web Conference, or WWW) is one of the oldest and most respected research conferences on the future of the web, held under ACM. The official site announces that the 2027 edition will take place in Dublin, Ireland, and the event calendar of SIGWEB (ACM's special interest group on the web) lists it for 10-14 May 2027. The specific venue has not been announced yet.
What is this event about?#
The conference covers everything built on the web and with web data: search and recommendation, social network analysis, graph learning, web mining, security and privacy, and these days, widely, large language models and intelligent agents on the web. According to the official site, the program includes:
- A research track (long and short papers) and an industry track.
- Posters and demonstrations.
- A PhD symposium, workshops and tutorials.
- Keynotes, panels and special tracks such as Web4All.
Who is it useful for?#
- Researchers in data mining, social networks, search and machine learning.
- PhD students (the PhD symposium is a good chance to get feedback).
- Industry engineers working with web data, online advertising or recommender systems.
How do you get the most out of it?#
- Pick workshops and tutorials to get into new topics.
- The industry track gives a good view of companies' real challenges.
- Papers are published in the ACM Digital Library and can be read without attending.
A note for Iranian readers#
Irish visa rules (separate from the Schengen visa), sanctions and international payments differ for each person; ask the official site and the Irish embassy. Nothing has been announced yet about online participation.
