Who should apply to speak at the workshop?
The goals of this workshop are:
- Identify stakeholders of Voice Agents standardization to drive the development of Web standards aligned with the real needs of Voice Agents
- Clarify reasonable applications for Voice Agents technologies we agree to build
And the possible topic areas for the workshop may include:
- Summary of the current status of Voice Agents
- Needs for Voice Agents of the stakeholders
- Cross-cutting issues for integration of multiple sub-systems
If you agree to work on the goals above and have experience and/or expertise in the topic areas above, please apply to the workshop.
Please see also the detailed topic list for the workshop.
How to apply to speak?
Please submit your proposal using the "Submit a talk proposal form" on this page before 27 November 2025. We will work with you in confirming and defining your proposed contribution. You may also contact the Program Committee by email directly at any time if you have any questions.
Why should I apply to speak?
Your audience, the workshop participants, will include various stakeholders of Voice Agents including users from various industries and communities, system developers, and experts on accessibility.
Bringing your perspective to this workshop provides a unique opportunity to have a global and lasting impact on the future standardization for even smarter Voice Agents.
This will also help you establish contacts with new communities and experts, expanding your network of experts and business relations.
Beyond the workshop itself, the record of the presentation will be available on the W3C site as part of the event record, and will serve as a point of reference and discussion for the years to come.
What should my talk cover?
The Program Committee will review proposed talks to assess whether they fit well with the call for participation, in particular the goals of the workshop and the list of possible topics.
Once selected, speakers should aim to provide a talk that:
- brings their specific perspective on the topic,
- identifies what barriers and gaps may need to be resolved to make the Web a promising platform for integrating various Voice Agent applications and services, in particular from the viewpoint of the goals and the topics of the workshop,
- sheds light on specific aspects or questions the Program Committee will have raised in their review process,
- raises questions of their own on which other Workshop participants may usefully provide input.
Talks are expected to be in the 5 to 10 minute time range, to ensure as many workshop participants as possible can watch all the submitted talks prior to the live discussions.
How will talks be recorded and presented?
Once approved by the Program Committee, talks are expected to be delivered as a combination of a slideset (in HTML or PDF) and a recorded audio or video of the speaker (without screen recording of the slides) before 23 January 2025.
These two elements will then be synchronized and combined to allow Workshop participants to watch presentations at their own pace - see an example of this synchronized presentation viewer for a previous W3C event.
You can find W3C guidance on tools and tips to record yourself. As an alternative, the Program Committee will offer to record speakers over a teleconferencing system (e.g. Zoom) both to help with technical matters and to provide an audience to the speaker, since we recognize that speaking alone in front of a camera is not necessarily an easy exercise.
W3C also provides more general guidance on how to present effectively and in a way that is accessible to people with disabilities.
Talks are expected to be delivered in English.
W3C will provide transcripts and captions for all the selected presentations and will ask speakers' help in reviewing these for accuracy.
What other commitments are expected from me if I give a talk?
After all the pre-recorded talks have been published on the W3C site, the Program Committee will set up a teleconference on 26 February 2026 where each of the workshop topics will get discussed, as informed by the submitted presentations.
Speakers are expected, to the best of their availability, to be on the call where the topic of their presentation is being discussed, to answer and raise questions with other workshop participants.
The Program Committee will also set up asynchronous communication mechanisms (email, GitHub issues, Slack, etc.) where speakers are cordially invited to participate and exchange with other speakers and workshop participants.