Updated on 19 October 1996 by ausweb96@scu.edu.au
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AusWeb96 - Second Australian World Wide Web Conference
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Welcome to AusWeb96
Welcome to AusWeb96, the Second Australian World Wide Web conference. It
will be hosted by Southern Cross University
from Sunday 7 July (2:00pm) to Tuesday 9 July 1996 (5:30pm) at Conrad
Jupiters Hotel on Queensland's Gold Coast.
If you've been to this page previously you might want to check out the Latest
News for recent developments (last updated on 24 June).
AusWeb96 is proudly sponsored by Sun
Microsystems, Microsoft
and Nornet, Internet Service
Provider and content publisher. It is also supported by Cisco,
Telstra and Cabletron.
There is an array of activities at AusWeb96 - nine
keynote speakers from the USA, Europe and Australia representing
the best of Web and Internet technology and applications from around the
world. A total of 102 (!!) papers and posters will be presented in
technical, business,
education and media and
community themes. Sixteen workshops
on all aspects of the Web - from searching the Web through Advanced Java.
A free developers program for Web software
and content developers. A full physical and virtual conference
exhibition. Six free Special Interest
Group meetings on a range of issues from marketing on the Web to
Graphics.
And then there are our AusWeb96 add-ons .. A full social
programme. A special programme for Kids
at AusWeb96. Our "Walk on the Beach with
a Keynote Speaker" programme.
All of this at a very reasonable cost which
includes conference proceedings, conference bag, conference dinner on the
Sunday night, morning and afternoon teas and lunches. Registration includes
access to all Special Interest Group meetings, developer sessions, walk
on the beach with a keynote. The most cost effective registration option
includes two nights accommodation at Conrad Jupiters hotel. So why not go
straight to our secure server to
register right now?
AusWeb96 from different perspectives
We know that people will be coming to AusWeb96 from very different perspectives.
We have assembled overviews of AusWeb96 keynotes, papers, posters, workshops,
developer sessions and exhibitions from a number of different perspectives:
Business person - I've read
about the Web but I want an overview of what it is going to mean for my
business
Administrator - I know the
Web will be important for our operation. Tell me what is happening with
Intranets and the like.
IS Manager - I would like to
know how to go about setting up Internet/Intranets. Tell me about Java,
security and all the hot button items.
Software Developer - I'm getting
in to the Internet business. Put me in touch with the latest research and
gen from the major Internet companies.
Educator - I want to use the Web
to teach and have my students learn.
Everthing you need to know about AusWeb96
Here are snapshots about AusWeb96 with pointers to much more information
in each section.
There is a snapshot program with links to each supporting element
of the program.
AusWeb96 features a team of nine world class
keynote speakers. At the keynote speakers page we've got full details on
each of the speakers and their topics ... but very briefly, we're proud
to say that Bill Arms of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives
in Washington DC will be speaking on digital libraries and information provision;
Nick Arnett of Verity Corporation in California on Massively Parallel
Wetware; Evan Arthur of DEETYA in Canberra will provide an update
on the EDNA network; Earl Hinson of IBM Corporation on
Organising Corporate Networks; Hermann Maurer of Graz University
will talk about second generation Web systems; Jim Miller of MIT
and the W3 Consortium will give us an insight into the work of the Consortium;
Nancy Rhine, Director of Womens Programming at America OnLine and
founder of Women's Wire will discuss Building Communities of Women on
the Web and Arie Segev of the Walter A Haas School of Business
at the University of California at Berkeley will address issues of electronic
commerce. David Spenhoff, Director of Product Marketing for JavaSoft
will talk about Java. Danny Shader of Netscape
Corporation will discuss The Internet and the Intranet - A Netscape
Perspective.
We believe that this is the a group of keynote speakers unmatched at any
Web conference in the Asia-Pacific region in '96!
The AusWeb96 team will be designing the conference program to ensure that
conference participants have the maximum opportunity to interact with the
keynote speakers in small groups and at the various social occasions. We
believe that we've catered for most of the interest groups in the wider
Web community.
The Business Opportunities Update
will provide an introduction and survey of the business implications of
the Internet/Intranet market. The update will be chaired by our Business
Theme editors Adrian Vanzyl and Peter Gilmour. Adrian and Peter will provide
an opening overview of Business on the Web.
The presentations include John Wood from Microsoft
on A Strategy Update on the Internet and Intranets and Defining
the Value Proposition of Your Intranet from Lori O'Callaghan from Sequent
Computing's head office in Oregon.
As a service to the developer community and with the co-operation
of Microsoft and Netscape we are providing two Developers
Forums.
AusWeb96 has sixteen pre-conference workshops brought
to you by the best presenters in the Web world in Australia and overseas.
We don't have space here to tell you about all the workshops ... you'll
need to check out the workshop page. But just some of the issues you can
learn about at an AusWeb96 workshop include copyright, web page design,
VRML, the Web and K12 education, interfacing databases with the Web .. and
our friends at Bond University will
be presenting hands-on workshops on Netscape, Java (both Java workshops
are sold out, but we have put on a second introductory Java workshop), CGI
Programming and Web page publishing. Workshops are held on the Saturday
and Sunday prior to the commencement of the conference. Some are full day
on the Saturday and some are of half day duration.
You do not have to attend the AusWeb96 conference itself to come to a workshop.
The workshops have been very attractively priced.
A total of 102 refereed papers and posters
on all aspects of the Web will be presented at the four theme tracks at
AusWeb96. Full details of papers and the background to many of the papers
are now available:
As with the papers
at AusWeb95, all papers are available prior to the conference on the
Web; in paper format for attendees at the conference and, subsequent to
the conference, on CD-ROM. The presentation of papers at AusWeb96 is designed
to maximise interaction between presenter and attendees. We aim to maximise
the amount of time for questions and answers and discussion.
To allow greater interaction between presenters and the conference attendees,
we also have scheduled times when the conference presenters will be available
for small group discussions.
A special interest group meeting is a meeting of AusWeb96 conference
attendees who have a common interest in a particular area. The SIGs Developing
and managing interactive exhibitions, tours and seminars on the Web
, Marketing on the Web and http://www.hold.the.front.page
which is about journalism and the Web. In addition we have a SIG on Graphics
Professionals and the Web and a SIG on gender issues entitled "Maidens
of the Universe" - A 'Women and the Internet' Special Interest Group
.
The principal sponsors of AusWeb96 are network computing specialist Sun
Microsystems, Microsoft Australia
and Internet Content Provider, Nornet.
AusWeb96 is also supported by Telstra
by the provision of communications services and by the Learning
and Information Centre of Southern Cross University for IT and A/V facilities.
AusWeb96 has lots of competitions and prizes. The first competition,
which closed on 1 April was to guess the number of fully paid registrations
at AusWeb96. The person who has the best guess will win a bottle of Penfolds
Grange Hermitage .. the best wine in the World. There are also prizes for
the best paper and poster at the Conference and for the Best Australian
Web site.
A full conference exhibition will be held in conjunction with
AusWeb96. It'll be at Conrad Jupiters from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday 6
July and from 10am to 6pm on Sunday 7 July. It is organised by Jackie Gomi
at Exhibition & Event ManagementPhone: +61 (07) 38786 315 Fax: +61 (07)
38786 317 Or you can email Jackie at jgomi@nor.com.au
Running in parallel with the physical exhibition will be a Virtual Exhibition
.. so for those of you who can't make AusWeb96, you can still look at the
products and services being displayed at the conference.
Keng Chua, Head of the Centre for Media Communications at SCU
and her team of students will bring us the Virtual Edition, a journal of
the conference .. just as they so successfully did with the AusWeb95
Virtual Edition.
Conrad Jupiters is a five star hotel and casino, just a few
metres from the magnificent Gold Coast beach. We've chosen Jupiters not
only for the quality of the accommodation but also for the excellent conference
facilities. All conference venues and the conference exhibition are in the
one discrete area in the hotel .. none of this business of trying to find
the AlphaBetaGamma room on Floor T.2 that you face at other venues .. all
of the conference rooms at Conrad Jupiters are within a one minute walk
of each other. And there is no need to walk into the main body of the hotel
as the conference and exhibition area is self-contained.
There will a full social program for conference attendees and
for accompanying persons of all ages including particularly children.
The Gold Coast is the holiday playground of South East Queensland.
The kilometres of beaches (temperatures in July are typically 20C with bright
sunny days so swimming is definitely on!), shopping, dining at any one of
hundreds of restaurants, the tropical rainforests of the hinterland (within
easy distance of the hotel) and cultural events at the City's Cultural Centre.
Plan on taking your holiday on the Gold Coast or come south to visit us
in Lismore or Byron
Bay.
We've organised special deals for travel with Ansett, for intra-Australian
travel, and with United for travel from the USA.
We've set the conference fees at what we believe are very reasonable
levels. Including accommodation at Conrad Jupiters, the conference dinner,
conference papers and lunches the registration is A$1,050 ( presenters rate
is $850). If you'd like a package without accommodation, that is A$800 (presenters
rate is $600). Check out the conference cost page for full details and for
details on workshop costs. As well, there are details on our cancellation
policy.
There are also daily attendance and student rates.
Late registrations will be accepted at Conrad Jupiters on Sunday 7 July. On-line and phone and fax registrations are now closed.
We archive our newsletters which go out twice a month to our
conference mailing list, AusWeb-L. If you'd like to receive
the newsletter email to listproc@scu.edu.au
with the text of your message, subscribe ausweb-l firstname lastname.
Last update 3 July.
We have collected some questions (and our answers) that pop
up from our potential attendees. Here is a list.
AusWeb96 comes after the highly successful AusWeb95
conference which was held in May 1995 and which was sponsored by Apple
Computer Australia, Cisco Systems
and UnixPac Pty Ltd. Indeed you
can still experience AusWeb95 by reading the more than fifty
papers presented at the conference or experience the conference through
AusWeb95 Virtual
Edition, where you can see and hear conference events, read indepth
interviews with conference presenters and read about all the conference
events. Or you can order
the whole of AusWeb95 on CD-ROM or the conference proceedings in a paper
based format.
Maintained by ausweb96@scu.edu.au
(AusWeb96 Administration)
AusWeb96 - The Second Australian World Wide Web Conference, 7th
to 9th of July 1996, at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel, Gold Coast, Australia.
Contact: Ms Julie Burton, Norsearch Conference Services at Southern Cross
University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia. Phone (066) 20 3000
(From outside Australia +61 66 20 3000) Fax: (066) 22 1954 (From outside
Australia +61 66 22 1954). Email: ausweb96@scu.edu.au.
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