Web Audio Conference 2019

The fifth Web Audio Conference (WAC) will be held 4-6 December, 2019 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.

WAC is an international conference dedicated to web audio technologies and applications. The conference addresses academic research, artistic research, development, design, evaluation and standards concerned with emerging audio-related web technologies such as Web Audio API, Web RTC, WebSockets and Javascript. The conference welcomes web developers, music technologists, computer musicians, application designers, industry engineers, R&D scientists, academic researchers, artists, students and people interested in the fields of web development, music technology, computer music, audio applications and web standards. The previous Web Audio Conferences were held in 2015 at IRCAM and Mozilla in Paris, in 2016 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, in 2017 at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London in London, and in 2018 at TU Berlin in Berlin.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is the largest university in Norway today, with a history dating back to 1910, and a tradition going back to 1767 and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS). NTNU has a main profile in science and technology, a variety of programmes of professional study, and great academic breadth that also includes the humanities, social sciences, economics, medicine, health sciences, educational science, architecture, entrepreneurship, art disciplines and artistic activities. NTNU is headquartered in Trondheim, with campuses in Gjøvik and Ålesund. For this conference, we have joined forces from the Department of Music, the Department of Electronic Systems, and the Department of Computer Science.

Trondheim is the technology capital of Norway, which is well communicated locally, nationally, and internationally with daily direct flights from Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and many more! It is a lively, cosy and welcoming city, which offers great restaurants, performance venues, museums, and winter outdoor/indoor activities for the adventurous!

But will you be able to see Northern Lights in Trondheim during WAC 2019? We will try our best, but cannot confirm the percentage of success in hunting for the Northern Lights. Looking forward to meet you again or for the first time at our next WAC conference!

If you are interested in sponsoring the conference, please contact us at sponsor@wac2019.ntnu.no. More info about sponsorship opportunities can be found here.