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Monday 6th July
| 09:00 – 12:00 | Brave Conversations |
| 14:00 – 18:00 | PhD Symposium |
Tuesday 7th July
| 08:00 – 16:00 | Workshop: W1 Digital (In)Equality, Digital Inclusion, Digital Humanism |
| 09:00 – 13:00 | Workshops: W5 Socio-technical AI systems for defence, cybercrime and cybersecurity (STAIDCC20) |
| 10:00 – 12:30 | Workshop: W6 The Secret Life of Immortal Data |
| 10:00 – 16:45 | Workshop: W2 Using AI for Good: The Ethical and Societal Implications of using AI in Scientific Discovery |
| 14:00 – 17:00 | Workshop: W7 Evolutionary thinking for the Web |
| 14:00 – 17:30 | Workshop: W3 Personalisation and Community: User Modelling and Social Connections in Web Science, Healthcare and Education |
| 14:00 – 18:00 | Workshop: W4 Explanations for AI: Computable or Not? |
| 20:30 – 21:00 | Special Public Panel: BBC Digital Planet: What is Web Science and why does it matter? Chaired by Gareth Mitchell and features Vint Cerf, Bill Thompson, Wendy Hall, Carly Kind, JP Rangaswami |
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Wednesday 8th July
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Opening Ceremony: Welcome by ACM President, Gabriele Kotsis In conversation with Ruby Wax, Chancellor of the University of Southampton and Wendy Hall, on “Frazzled Cafes” Conference Overview and Guidelines, Pauline Leonard |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Keynote Talk: Whose Web? A call to action for doing web science in uncertain times Gina Neff |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Break: With the following entertainment: Music from The Southampton Ukulele Jam (starring some of the Web Science Institute staff), Hampshire Music Service ensemble members present ‘This Is Me’ from The Greatest Showman, Future Worlds talk with Anne Boden of Starling Bank or Virtual Brown Bag (join us at the Gather Town beach location, where you can find other delegates and chat over coffee) |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Spotlight Panel 1: Web Science – now more than ever Rennie Fritchie (Chair), Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Daniel Weitzner, Noshir Contractor, Tim Berners-Lee |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Break: With the following entertainment: Web Science Trust “Untangling the Web” Podcast: Susan Halford or Virtual Water Cooler (join us at the Gather Town conference location, where you can find other delegates and chat over coffee) |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Paper Session 1: Identity and Privacy Session Chair: Steffen Staab |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Break |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Paper Session 2: Web Infrastructure – Bias, Use, and Manipulation Session Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Break |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Meet the Author: Sasha Costanza-Chock, author of “Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need” |
Thursday 9th July
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Spotlight Panel 2: Policy and Practices Anni Rowland-Campbell (Chair), Adrian Lovett, David Birch, Harriet Rees, Jie Tang |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Paper Session 3: Networks Session Chair: Stuart Middleton |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Break: With the following entertainment: Jazz is Data: Listen to Tom Irvine’s selection of his favourite jazz tunes or Virtual Brown Bag (join us at the Gather Town beach location, where you can find other delegates and chat over coffee) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Keynote Talk: The Future of the Web James Hendler |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Break |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Paper Session 4: AI – History and Trust Session Chair: Anita Lavorgna |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Paper Session 5: Politics Session Chair: Clare Hooper |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Spotlight Panel 3: Research Roadmap Steffen Staab (Chair), Noshir Contractor, Fabien Gandon, Bettina Berendt, Carolyn Nguyen |
| 18:00 – 18:15 | Break |
| 18:15 – 19:15 | Meet the Author: Philip Howard, author of “Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives” |
Friday 10th July
(Chair), Tabitha Goldstaub, JP Rangaswami, Philip Tetlow, Doc Searls, Pauline Leonard
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Paper Session 6: Text: Topics, and Trends Session Chair: David De Roure |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break: With the following entertainment: His Edinburgh fringe show may have been cancelled this year, but we booked him instead. Les Carr shares his comedy with Web Science 2020, or you can see him performing with a live audience, David De Roure: Jazz music 2 Footprints, 5 Juno or Virtual Water Cooler (join us at the Gather Town beach location, where you can find other delegates and chat over coffee) |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Paper Session 7: Bias and Fairness Session Chair: Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Paper Session 8: NLP+CSS Session Chair: Clare Walsh |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Break: With the following entertainment: Virtual Student Gallery (we couldn’t arrange a poster session but come and find out what PhD students are researching, at our virtual Bar) |
| 14:00 – 15:15 | Paper Session 9: Hate Speech and Propaganda Session Chair: Andrea Tagarelli |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Talk by Chair of Web Science Trust: Web Science in the age of Covid-19 JP Rangaswami Awards: Sponsored by The Web Science Trust |
| 16:15 – 17:45 | Spotlight Panel 4: The future of Web Science Bill Thompson (Chair), Tabitha Goldstaub, JP Rangaswami, Philip Tetlow, Doc Searls, Pauline Leonard |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Closing Ceremony and Conference Highlights |
| 18:30 – 19:30 | LIVE SHOW: “Frazzled in the Time of Corona” with Ruby Wax This hour-long show will combine mindfulness, comedy, and insights into why we all became frazzled in the first place and what we can do to de-frazzle ourselves. Book Tickets. ** All proceeds will go to the Frazzled Cafe charity to support their ongoing provision of free peer support meetings for all who need them ** |
Link for access to recorded sessions – requires password
All times shown are GMT+1/UTC+1 (British Summer Time)