From the W3C

“Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web, opened the 3GSM World Congress on Monday 12 February in Barcelona, Spain with a keynote address at the Mobile Innovation Forum. Berners-Lee spoke on the role of innovation and openness in the Web’s success, and how the W3C Mobile Web Initiative brings mobile telephony into convergence with the Web and aids in bridging the digital divide.”

There could not have been a better way to open up this years event Tim did an excellent job, delivering his speech to a packed house.

This June 11-15 , the center of the Mac universe will be in downtown San Francisco, as developers from around the globe come together for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. At WWDC, you’ll work hands-on with the latest developer tools, learn best practices for choosing and using the latest APIs and make the most of the latest features and services in Mac OS X. And once you have registered for the event you get a Mac OS X Leapord Early Start Kit which includes

Pre Release Versions of Mac OS X Leapord and Xcode 3.0

Exclusive accesss to the Leapord Dev Center with documentation and code samples

WWDC 2006 videos, featuring Leapord sessions, through ADC and iTunes

The tickets are a bit expensive but if you get a five pack you get one free, which thanks to Margret Sloan is how I am attending this years event.

Do you think you’ve got what it takes to educate developers, device makers, business & marketing decision makers and IT Professionals on delivering compelling devices, experiences, and cool applications? Well, Microsofts Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference might be your chance to prove it. We’re looking for experienced conference presenters who have built and deployed mobile devices and applications to come and share their best practices and tips and tricks at MEDC 2007. For a look at last years event, visit http://www.medc2006.com/.

The MEDC 2007 US Event is scheduled for April 30-May 3 at the Venetian in Las Vegas, and will then hit the road for 8 more countries worldwide throughout May and June.

The Microsoft MEDC team invites you to submit proposals to speak in the conference breakout sessions. MEDC is one of Microsoft’s most important annual technical training events, and our speaker selection process is extremely rigorous to ensure that attendees experience outstanding quality technical training. Successful proposals will be technical presentations that target best practices and tips & tricks, delivered by experts with significant and highly-rated speaking experience. The number of sessions with external speakers will be limited to 30% of the total number of sessions.

W3C organized a free public seminar on Mobile Web in Paris on 16 November 2006. This half-day event focused on current results produced by W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative. Speakers included representatives of MWI sponsors, such as Bango, France Telecom, Jataayu Software, MobileAware, mTLD, Opera Software, and Vodafone.