About Us

Chairs

Prof. Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos is full Professor in e-Business, Director of the Smart City Research Institute, the University of Thessaly and Greece Director of the MSc in Agile Management. During his professional and academic careers (of more than 20 years) he was responsible for planning and management of various complex ICT projects, while he is currently involved in various smart city research activities. His research interests concern, among others, Smart City, e-government, Enterprise Architecture, web technologies etc. Some of his publications can be found in ACM Computing Surveys, Government Information Quarterly, Cities, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Sustainable Cities and Society, IEEE Computer, and Information Polity. He is a member of the United for Smart and Sustainable Cities (U4SSC), co-rapporteur of ITU SG20 Q7 and SG5 Q13, Head of the Greek standards’ working group on smart and sustainable cities and an Associate Editor of IET Smart Cities and the IJPADA. More info:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonidasanthopoulos/

Prof . dr.ir. Marijn Janssen is full Professor in “ICT and Governance” and head of the ICT research group of the Technology, Policy and Management Faculty of Delft University of Technology. He is member of the editorial board of Electronic Journal of eGovernment (EJEG), Electronic Commerce and Applications (ECRA) and associated editor of International Journal of E-business Research (IJEBR), international Journal of E-Government Research (IJEGR), Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) and co-editor in chief of Government Information Quarterly (GIQ). Currently he is conference chair of IFIP EGOV series. His research is focused on the design and service orchestration of public-private service networks. Public-private networks can be characterized by interacting public and private parties having different objectives and requirements, various degrees of technology-readiness, a plurifom systems landscape, path dependencies and the need to be compliant with the regulatory environment. He has published over 400 peer reviewed publications. More info: www.tbm.tudelft.nl/marijnj

Prof. Dr. Vishanth Weerakkody is a Professor of f Information Systems Management and Governance at the University of Bradford, UK. Prior to his academic career, Vishanth worked in a number of Multinational organisations, including IBM UK, in the area of software engineering, business systems design and process analysis. He is currently involved in several research projects which are funded by the European Commission and Qatar Foundation focusing on themes such as ICT enabled process transformation, social innovation and digital inclusion in the public sector. He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles, guest-edited special issues of leading journals and edited several books on these themes. Vishanth has many years of R&D experience in the field of digital governance and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Electronic Government Research. A Chartered IT professional and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, he combines over 25 years of practical industry-based knowhow with academic and teaching experience. Vishanth is also an elected member of the University Senate and Disciplinary Committee. More info: http://www.brad.ac.uk/management/about-the-school/academic-staff/weerakkody-vishanth.php

Important Dates

Submissions due: Jan., 13, 2026 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone)

Notification of Acceptance: Jan. 20, 2026

Camera-ready version due: Feb. 2, 2026

Workshop authors’ early registration: Feb. 13, 2026

Workshop day: April 13, 2026

Submission Guidelines

All submitted papers must be:

• written in English;
• contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
• be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
• be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size.
• occupy no more than 12 pages (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references)

Submission area: https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=webandthecity2026 selecting our workshop

Topics (but not limited to)

• Highlight data-driven and responsible intelligence viewpoints in cities and communities

Meet the intelligence and metaverse expectations for cities (human centricity and protection, new value creation, immersive experiences for users etc.)
• Apps and services that support community engagement in governance, circularity, climate change adaptation, mobility, sharing, crowd-sourcing etc.;
• Smart City platforms (e.g. consultation; openness; parking; traffic management; environment etc.);
• Smart and Self evolving services (e.g. self-threat analysis; self-responsive government services etc.);
• Practices of Web applications, Apps and AI in smart cities;
• Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards;
• Creative partnerships, creative industries and industry 4.0 in Smart City with a focus on application development and AI (Internet Economics and Monetization);
• Pervasive Web for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.)
• The role of city stakeholders for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data);
• Web Infrastructure and AI service standardization;
• The role of standards on smart city data mining;
• Smart city information quality and evolution in social content;
• Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Cities: the role of web applications and Apps.

Ito DARTON – AW4City 2019

Deputy Director of Innovation & Program Delivery at San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)

Toru ISHIDA – AW4City 2017

Professor, Department of Social Informatics Kyoto University

Cristina BUETI – AW4City2015

Counsellor at International Telecommunication Union

Panos FITSILIS – WebAndTheCity2021

Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece

Dr. Bharathan Balaji – WebAndTheCity 2023

Applied Scientist in Amazon

Pernilla BERGMARK – AW4City2018

Master Researcher in Sustainability for Ericsson Research

Beth COLEMAN- AW4City2016

Professor, University of Waterloo

Stephen COHEN – AW4City2019

Principle Architect, Microsoft Azure Global at Microsoft

Alois PAULIN – WebAndTheCity2021

Professor, University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany

Dr. Dr. Yujiao Wu (Olivia) – Web and the City 2025

CSIRO Environment