Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

The airport can easily be reached by Airport Bus Shuttle, CAT (City Airport Train), train (S-Bahn) or taxi.

For further details please check our travel information.

Yes, there is one pharmacy near ISWC2017 venues: Rotunde Aphoteke.

It will be open 24 hours on Saturday, and from Monday till Wednesday, it will be open between 8am and 7pm.

Yes, there are at least two printing services close to the conference venue:

• Die Kopie is a printing service at walking distance from the conference venue (see location).
• Printshop Stadioncenter is one metro stop from Krieau, two stops from Messe ( see location).

In general it takes less than an hour to print a poster, but please contact the services directly if you need further information.

The ISWC 2017 will have two different locations, conveniently situated within a few minutes’ walking distance.

The ISWC main conference will be held in the Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Centre, whereas the workshops will be located in the WU campus.

Find further information in the venue information, as well as how to arrive in the travel information.

The hotels listed in our accommodation site have kindly reserved a number of rooms for ISWC attendees. In addition, you can optionally receive the registration package at your hotel. You can book these rooms by selecting a hotel and clicking "book here". However, we cannot guarantee that other rooms with different prices are also available. Please access the hotel websites or your preferred hotel booking system to access the complete room catalogue.

We will contact all attendees that booked the hotel with our booking system and we will ask whether you want to get the registration bag in your hotel or not.

We will also contact all other attendees (registered before Oct. 5th) to also ask for this possibility as soon as you are hosted in the same selected hotels. In that case, you should provide us your arrival date.

Registration for the main conference (at the student or any other rate) does not cover the workshop days. If you want to attend the workshops, tutorials or doctoral consortium you need the workshops and tutorials supplement. Alternatively, you can register for the Workshops and Tutorials only (2-Days).

Note that in case you are eligible, you can apply for a student travel grant until August 31, 2017.

Yes, student travel award recipients can still register at the early student rate, we will provide a special registration link for that.

Yes, we included this possibility in ISWC 2017. Check the fees for Workshops and Tutorials only (2-Days)

The main conference registration includes:

• Conference sessions
• Lunch and coffee breaks Mon. Oct. 23 to Wed., Oct. 25
• Welcome reception in Vienna City Hall on Sun., Oct. 22
• Conference Dinner on Tue., Oct. 24
• Semantic Web Business Treff (Mon, Oct. 23)

If you register for the main conference, you can add a supplement for 1-day or 2-days Workshops and Tutorials. You can also register for the 2-days workshops and tutorials only. In such case, the registration includes:

• Welcome reception in Vienna City Hall on Sun., Oct. 22

For any questions regarding your registration, please contact the University of Vienna event
management: phone: +43 1 4277 17677; email: congress@univie.ac.at

Please check all the information in our dedicated visa information. Contact iswc2017-sba@sba-research.ac.at if you have further questions.

If you are a speaker, please first check in which room you present in the ISWC program.

• Each lecture room has a laptop Windows (Powerpoint and Acrobat Reader installed) and a USB slot, if you prefer to bring your presentation on a USB stick. If you prefer to bring your own Laptop for presenting, please consider the max. resolution and specs mentioned below, and make sure your laptop has connectors for HDMI or VGA, otherwise please bring an adaptor if needed.
• Rooms Stolz 1, Stolz 2, and Lehar 4 in Messe (main conference) will have projectors with max. resolution 1.024 x 768.
• Room Lehar 1-3 (the plenary room) in Messe (main conference) will have projectors with max. resolution 1.920 x 1.080.
• The lecture rooms at WU (workshops and tutorials) have either of the following projectors:
  https://www.optoma.de/projectorproduct/zu510t or
  http://www.i3-learning.com/products/hardware/i3projector/i3projector-lampless
• In any case, make sure to be at the room in which you present ideally 15min before the session of your talk starts and contact your session chair or one of the student helpers (recognizable by the red ISWC T-Shirts), to check your presentation and equipment.
• Even if you intend to present with your own laptop, we strongly recommend you also bring your presentation to the session on a USB (you can of course use the conference USB stick in your bag for that), both for backup, in case of technical difficulties with your laptop and for handing the presentation slides over to video lectures.net, in case your presentation is being recorded.
• Side remark: In case your presentation is recorded (rooms Stolz 1, Stolz 2, Lehar 1-3 at the main conference) make sure to have a consent form signed and that you have given your slides (PDF, PPT, or PPTX) to the person from videolectures.net present in the room prior to the presentation.

We recommend to use your hotel if possible. We will have space for luggage but with limited capacity, particularly at the workshops and tutorials location. Please contact the on-site local staff to ask for this possibility in advance.