Raleigh hosts Web visionaries for week-long conference
Leaders in the Web are converging on Raleigh this week for the World Wide Web conference at the Raleigh Convention Center.
Posted — UpdatedKathy Green, the chief administrative officer and admissions coordinator for North Carolina State University’s Institute for Advanced Analytics, led a local group who convinced conference organizers to choose Raleigh as the location of the 19th annual conference, where visionaries often swap ideas about how to improve the Web.
“This is a big get. Last year’s conference was in Madrid. The one before that was in Beijing,” Green said Monday. “For Raleigh to be on that list, we consider it a real honor.”
The group approached conference officials a few years ago, touting the Triangle’s concentration of high-powered thinkers and high-tech companies. They also pointed out the new convention center.
“Usually you have to wait six moths to get a decision. They told us the next morning,” Green said.
Dame Wendy Hall is a professor at the University of Southampton in England and a founding director of the Web Science Trust, a group that studies how society can better use the Web. In town for the conference, Hall said on Monday that Raleigh was a good choice for this year's gathering.
“This is a fantastic conference venue. We are really, really happy with the facilities here,” she said.
More than a thousand people representing 42 countries are expected to attend this week’s conference. Events began on Monday and will run through Friday.
N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill are serving as hosts.
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