Journalists and Web developers are invited to attend this conference.

The International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2) is hosting the World Wide Web Conference on May 13 - 17 in Rio de Janeiro.

The conference aims to provide a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web. The key note speakers include Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium; crowdsourcing pioneer Luis Von Ahn; and Jon Kleinberg, professor at Cornell University.

The program also features hackathons and tutorials on topics such as video and multimedia on the Web; open data and data markets; Web analytics; and Social News On the Web (SNOW); as well as the first Worldwide Web workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2013).

The deadline for early registration is March 12. The registration fee starts at US$50 for students attending parallel activities. The one-day pass costs US$100 for students and US$250 for the general public.

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