Schedule Overview | WSDM 2016. San Francisco, USA. Feb 22-25, 2016.

The 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

San Francisco, California, USA. February 22-25, 2016.

Schedule Overview

WSDM 2016 has an exciting program with 3 keynotes, 4 invited talks for Practice & Experience Track, paper presentations, 5 workshops, 3 tutorials, a doctoral consortium, and a VC/Industry Day.

Mon - Thu registration desk hours: 8:30am - 5:30pm

Mon, 2/22
Workshops, Tutorials, VC/Industry Day, Doctoral Consortium

	Monday, February 22
	Robertson 1	Robertson 2	Conf Room 1	Robertson 3	Conf Room 2	Conf Room 3	Conf Room 4
9am	VC & Industry Day Keynote Ron Conway (SVAngel) Founders Panel 1 The role of data science in startups	Workshop Query Understanding for Search on All Devices Organizers:	Workshop Ethics of Online Experimentation Organizers:	Tutorial Understanding Offline Political Systems by Mining Online Political Data Oren Tsur, David Lazer and Tina Eliassi-Rad	Workshop SEXI - Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information Organizers:	Doctoral Consortium Student presentations 1	Doctoral Consortium Break-out Meetings
10:30am	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
11am	VC & Industry Day Keynote Qi Lu (Microsoft)	Workshop Query Understanding for Search on All Devices Organizers:	Workshop Ethics of Online Experimentation Organizers:	Tutorial Understanding Offline Political Systems by Mining Online Political Data Oren Tsur, David Lazer and Tina Eliassi-Rad	Workshop SEXI - Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information Organizers:	Doctoral Consortium Poster/discussion 1 (Fisher Banquet Room) Student presentations 2
12pm	VC & Industry Day Poster Session, Company Expo (Fisher Banquet Room)
12:30pm		Lunch (12:30-2pm) Fisher Banquet Room
1:30pm		Lunch (12:30-2pm) Fisher Banquet Room		Workshop TargetAd: Ad Targeting at Scale Organizers:
2pm	VC & Industry Day Invited Talk Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate) Panel 2 How to transform business with data science	Tutorial Click Models for Web Search and their Applications to IR Ilya Markov, Maarten de Rijke and Aleksandr Chuklin	Workshop Ethics of Online Experimentation Organizers:	Workshop TargetAd: Ad Targeting at Scale Organizers:	Workshop WSDM Cup: Entity Ranking Organizers:	Doctoral Consortium Poster/discussion 1 (Fisher Banquet Room) Mentor 1-1 meetings A	Tutorial Large Scale Distributed Data Science using Apache Spark James Shanahan and Liang Dai
3:30pm	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
4pm	VC & Industry Day Invited Talk Ronny Lempel (OutBrain) Panel 3 Data Science and Machine Learning in the Sharing Economy	Tutorial Click Models for Web Search and their Applications to IR Ilya Markov, Maarten de Rijke and Aleksandr Chuklin	Workshop Ethics of Online Experimentation Organizers:	Workshop TargetAd: Ad Targeting at Scale Organizers:	Workshop WSDM Cup: Entity Ranking Organizers:	Doctoral Consortium Mentor 1-1 meetings B Panel discussion	Tutorial Large Scale Distributed Data Science using Apache Spark James Shanahan and Liang Dai
5pm				Workshop TargetAd: Ad Targeting at Scale Organizers:	Workshop WSDM Cup: Entity Ranking Organizers:	Doctoral Consortium Mentor 1-1 meetings B Panel discussion
5:30pm
6pm	Industry Day Reception - Sponsored by Adobe Fisher Banquet Room (6-9pm)
9pm

Tue, 2/23 - Thu, 2/25
Main Conference

	Tuesday, February 23	Wednesday, February 24	Thursday, February 25
	Robertson Auditorium	Robertson Auditorium	Robertson Auditorium
9am	Keynote Jeff Dean Google Research	Keynote Yiling Chen Harvard University	Keynote Foster Provost New York University
10am	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
10:30am	Paper Presentations Communities and Social Interaction	Paper Presentations Leveraging Users	Paper Presentations Social Networks
12pm	Poster Session 1 & Lunch (Posters will comprise all papers scheduled for presentation on Tue and Thurs AM) Room: Fisher Banquet Room	Poster Session 2 & Lunch (Posters will comprise all papers scheduled for presentation on Wed and Thurs PM) Room: Fisher Banquet Room	Business Lunch
1:30pm			WSDM Cup Winner
			Paper Presentations Entities and Structure
2pm	Paper Presentations Search and Semantics	Paper Presentations Big Data Algorithms	Paper Presentations Entities and Structure
	Paper Presentations Search and Semantics	Paper Presentations Big Data Algorithms	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
3:30pm	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room		Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room
3:40pm	Coffee Break Fisher Banquet Room		Invited Talk: Practice & Experience Mor Naaman Cornell Tech / Seen.co
4pm	Invited Talk: Practice & Experience Yoelle Maarek Yahoo	Invited Talk: Practice & Experience Jie Tang Tsinghua University
	Invited Talk: Practice & Experience Yoelle Maarek Yahoo		Paper Presentations Social Events
	Paper Presentations Observing Users	Invited Talk: Practice & Experience Lars Backstrom Facebook	Paper Presentations Social Events
5:05pm	Paper Presentations Observing Users		Conference Close
5:30pm
6:30pm		Conference Banquet Hyatt Regency Embarcadero (Grand Ballroom A) 6:30-9:30pm
9:30pm