Conference Program Outline

* WSDM22 is a virtual conference (see these instructions to access the online platforms — Whova, Zoom, and Gather).

* The timetable for the events is based on MST(Mountain Standard Time)

	Mon (Feb. 21)	Tue (Feb. 22)	Wed (Feb. 23)	Thu (Feb. 24)	Fri (Feb. 25)
7:30 am		Opening 7:30 am - 8:00 am Session chairs: Huan Liu and Jia Zou
7:45 am
8:00 am		Keynote #1 8:00 am - 9:00 am George Karypis: "Graph Neural Network Research at AWS AI". Session chair: Luna Dong	WSDM Test of Time Award 8:00 am - 9:30 am Session chair: Kristina Lerman	Best Papers Session 8:00 am - 9:00 am Best Papers Session (2 papers). Session chair: Chengxiang Zhai Best of WSDM 2022 8:00 am - 9:00 am
8:15 am
8:30 am
8:45 am
9:00 am	Industry Day, Doctoral Forum, and Tutorials 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Session chairs: Industrial Day (Shaili Jain, Sofus Macskassy, Lei Tang), Doctoral Forum (Tyler Derr, Meng Jiang), Tutorials (Presenters)	WSDM Business ⇲ 9:00 am - 9:15 am Live: WSDM Steering Committee Chair Andrew Tomkins Presentation. Session chair: Huan Liu		WSDM Business ⇲ 9:00 am - 9:15 am Replay: WSDM Steering Committee Chair Andrew Tomkins Presentation.	WSDM Cup, Smart City Day, and Workshops (*please check individual events for their specific starting times) 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Session chairs: WSDM Cup (Neil Shah), Smart City Day (Hua Wei, Beibei Li, Dragan Boscovic), Workshop #1 (Bo Liu, Dongjin Song, Fabio Pinelli, Fabrizio Silvestri, Fenglong Ma, Gabriele Tolomei, Heng Huang), Workshop #2 (Sudarshan Lamkhede, Anlei Dong, Moumita Bhattacharya, Hongning Wang), Workshop #3 ( Lluis Garcia-Pueyo, Panayiotis Tsaparas, Anand Bhaskar, Prathyusha Senthil Kumar, Roelof van Zwol, Timos Sellis, Anthony McCosker, Paolo Papotti). Workshop #4 (Yixing Fan, Xiaohui Xie, Dehong Ma, Shuaiqiang Wang, Jiafeng Guo, Yiqun Liu). Workshop #8 (Tyler Derr, Yao Ma, Lingfei Wu, Feng Shi, Victor Lee)
9:15 am		Paper Session #1 9:15 am - 11:15 am Knowledge Graph (8 papers, 15 mins each). Session chair: Wenqi Fan		Paper Session #6 9:15 am - 11:15 am Recommendation (8 papers, 15 mins each). Session chair: Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke
9:30 am			WSDM Business ⇲ 9:30 am - 9:45 am Replay: WSDM Steering Committee Chair Andrew Tomkins Presentation.
9:45 am			Paper Session #4 9:45 am - 11:45 am Web Search (8 papers, 15 mins each). Session chair: Matteo Riondato
10:00 am
10:15 am
10:30 am
10:45 am
11:00 am
11:15 am		Sponsor Talk 11:15 am - 11:45 am Amazon. Session chair: Jade DuBois		Sponsor Talk 11:15 am - 11:45 am Microsoft. Session chair: Brittney Muller
11:30 am
11:45 am			Sponsor Talk 11:45 am - 12:15 pm Google. Session chair: Ying Sheng
12:00 pm		Paper Session #2 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Web Mining (8 papers, 15 mins each). Session chair: Bryan Hooi Kuen-Yew		Keynote #3 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Ricardo Baeza-Yates: "Ethics Challenges in AI". Session chair: Jiliang Tang
12:15 pm
12:30 pm			Keynote #2 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Yejin Choi: "Knowledge is Power: Symbolic Knowledge Distillation, Morality, and Multimodal Script Knowledge". Session chair: Leman Akoglu
12:45 pm
1:00 pm	Industry Day, Doctoral Forum, and Tutorials 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Session chairs: Industrial Day (Shaili Jain, Sofus Macskassy, Lei Tang), Doctoral Forum (Tyler Derr, Meng Jiang), Tutorials (Presenters)			Huawei promo 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm Session chair: Bo Chen	WSDM Cup, Smart City Day, and Workshops (*please check individual events for their specific starting times) 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Session chairs: WSDM Cup ( Neil Shah), Smart City Day (Hua Wei, Beibei Li, Dragan Boscovic), Workshop #5 ( Liangjie Hong, Mohammed Korayem, Haiyan Luo), Workshop #6 ( Da Xu, Jianpeng Xu, Jiliang Tang, Min Liu, Tobias Schnabel), Workshop #7 (Vachik Dave, Linsey Pang, Xiquan Cui, Lingfei Wu, Hamed Zamani, George Karypis), Workshop #8 (Tyler Derr, Yao Ma, Lingfei Wu, Feng Shi, Victor Lee)
1:15 pm				Paper Session #7 1:15 pm - 3:45 pm Intelligent Assistants / Web of Things (10 papers, 15 mins each). Session chair: Joemon Jose
1:30 pm			Bloomberg promo 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm Session chair: Ian Au
1:45 pm			Paper Session #5 1:45 pm - 4:15 pm Social Network (10 papers, 15 mins each). Session chair: Vagelis Papalexakis
2:00 pm		Baidu promo 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Session chair: Qianwei Cai
2:15 pm		Paper Session #3 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm Social Networks / Privacy (8 papers, 15 mins each). Session chair: Mark Sanderson
2:30 pm
2:45 pm
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
3:30 pm
3:45 pm				Sponsor Talk 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm Snap Inc. Session chair: Rachel Greenfield
4:00 pm
4:15 pm		Sponsor Talk 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm ByteDance. Session chair: Alexander Lindblom	Sponsor Talk 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm Megagon Labs. Session chair: Estevam Hruschka	Sponsor Talk 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm The Home Depot. Session chair: Sydney Webb
4:30 pm
4:45 pm
5:00 pm		Demo #1 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Demo #2 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
5:15 pm
5:30 pm
5:45 pm
6:30 pm		Poster Session #1 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (parallel sessions)	Poster Session #2 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (parallel session)	Poster Session #3 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (parallel session)
6:45 pm
7:00 pm
7:15 pm
7:30 pm
7:45 pm
8:00 pm
8:15 pm
8:30 pm		Replay of Day's Keynote 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Session chair: Jia Zou	Replay of Day's Keynote 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Session chair: Jia Zou	Replay of Day's Keynote 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Session chair: Jia Zou
8:45 pm
9:00 pm
9:15 pm

	Mon (Feb. 21)	Tue (Feb. 22)	Wed (Feb. 23)	Thu (Feb. 24)	Fri (Feb. 25)
9:00 am	Industry Day, Doctoral Forum, and Tutorials 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Session chairs: Industrial Day (Shaili Jain, Sofus Macskassy, Lei Tang), Doctoral Forum (Tyler Derr, Meng Jiang), Tutorials (Presenters)
9:15 am
9:30 am
9:45 am
10:00 am
10:15 am
10:30 am
10:45 am
11:00 am
11:15 am
11:30 am
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
12:30 pm
12:45 pm
1:00 pm	Industry Day, Doctoral Forum, and Tutorials 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Session chairs: Industrial Day (Shaili Jain, Sofus Macskassy, Lei Tang), Doctoral Forum (Tyler Derr, Meng Jiang), Tutorials (Presenters)
1:15 pm
1:30 pm
1:45 pm
2:00 pm
2:15 pm
2:30 pm
2:45 pm
3:00 pm
3:15 pm
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5:45 pm

	Mon (Feb. 21)	Tue (Feb. 22)	Wed (Feb. 23)	Thu (Feb. 24)	Fri (Feb. 25)
7:30 am		Opening 7:30 am - 8:00 am Session chairs: Huan Liu and Jia Zou
7:45 am

	Mon (Feb. 21)	Tue (Feb. 22)	Wed (Feb. 23)	Thu (Feb. 24)	Fri (Feb. 25)
8:00 am		Keynote #1 8:00 am - 9:00 am George Karypis: "Graph Neural Network Research at AWS AI". Session chair: Luna Dong
8:15 am
8:30 am
8:45 am

	Mon (Feb. 21)	Tue (Feb. 22)	Wed (Feb. 23)	Thu (Feb. 24)	Fri (Feb. 25)
9:00 am		WSDM Business ⇲ 9:00 am - 9:15 am Live: WSDM Steering Committee Chair Andrew Tomkins Presentation. Session chair: Huan Liu		WSDM Business ⇲ 9:00 am - 9:15 am Replay: WSDM Steering Committee Chair Andrew Tomkins Presentation.
9:30 am			WSDM Business ⇲ 9:30 am - 9:45 am Replay: WSDM Steering Committee Chair Andrew Tomkins Presentation.

	Mon (Feb. 21)	Tue (Feb. 22)	Wed (Feb. 23)	Thu (Feb. 24)	Fri (Feb. 25)
8:00 am				Best of WSDM 2022 8:00 am - 9:00 am
8:15 am
8:30 am
8:45 am

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