WebML WG/CG F2F Agenda - TPAC 2025 (Kobe, Japan) #35
Description
Working Group / Community Group F2F
10-11 November 2025 - 00:00-07:45 UTC / 09:00-16:45 JST
Logistics
- ✅ Registration: open until 3 November 2025
- See also: registration fee waivers
- 🏨 Venue: Kobe International Conference Center in-person & remote
- All WebML WG/CG participants and invited guests welcome!
- 📞 Remote joining instructions: see Invite > Joining Instructions (1 wk prior)
- ✍️ IRC web client: #webmachinelearning
- 🗓️ Invites: invite 10 November 2025, invite 11 November 2025
- ✍️ Minutes: minutes 10 November 2025, minutes 11 November 2025
[DRAFT] Agenda
This is a Living Agenda. Feedback welcome via comments for both
TBAtopics (To Be Announced) and timing to avoid scheduling conflicts.
10 November 2025: 🧠 Web Neural Network API
Important
Meeting schedule in Japan Standard Time (JST). Remote participants, please note the meeting may start on 9 November in your timezone.
See the timezone table ...
| San Francisco | Sun, 9 November 2025 | 16:00 |
| Boston | Sun, 9 November 2025 | 19:00 |
| London | Mon, 10 November 2025 | 00:00 |
| Berlin | Mon, 10 November 2025 | 01:00 |
| Helsinki | Mon, 10 November 2025 | 02:00 |
| Shanghai | Mon, 10 November 2025 | 08:00 |
| Kobe | Mon, 10 November 2025 | 09:00 |
| UTC | Mon, 10 November 2025 | 00:00 UTC |
See also: other locations
▶️ 09:00 (JST) Start
👋 Welcome
- Intros
- Agenda bashing
📘 Charter orientation
Tip
Working Group home | charter
Community Group home | charter
Web Machine Learning umbrella site | GH org
- WG and CG interplay
- Current scopes, future aspirations
- New deliverables
- Coordination with other groups
⏳ Spec orientation
Tip
WebNN API spec | explainer | open issues
- Triage pass through open issues (triage guidance):
- breaking changes
- priorities
- next steps for the key issues
- ...
⏸️ 10:30 (JST) Break
Drinks and snacks at Reception Hall, 3F, 4F, 5F.
▶️ 11:00 (JST) Resume
✨ New features
TBA 2-4 key new features for discussion, optional presentations. Possible topics: new ops (GQA), new data types, quantization, device selection, capability detection, core operator set, MLTensor, MLGraph cache, KV cache optimization, CPU-NPU-GPU interop, fusion, any LM-specific requirements ...
⏸️ 12:30 (JST) Lunch
Lunch at Portopia Hotel, South wing, Ohwada 2/3, 1F.
▶️ 13:30 (JST) Resume
📢 Customer feedback & collaborations
TBA Discuss customer feedback, including end-users, frameworks, independent software vendors.
🤝 Interop and technical cross-group coordination
Tip
WebNN implementation report | wpt test suite
- Web Platform Tests coverage, open issues.
TBAInterop issues arising from backend implementation differences that warrant WebNN spec changes.TBATechnical coordination topics with WebGPU, WebAssembly, WebRTC, other groups.
🚀 Implementation plans and trials
Tip
Next step for implementations, Origin Trial or equivalent, new requirements or feedback from updates in backends, frameworks. Possible topics:
TBABrowser vendors' trials- Backends: Windows ML, LiteRT, MLDrift, Core ML
- Frameworks: ONNX Runtime Web, Transformers.js, LiteRT.js
⏸️ 15:00 (JST) Break
Drinks and snacks at Reception Hall, 3F, 4F, 5F.
▶️ 15:30 (JST) Resume
Horizontals
Get to know experts behind horizontal groups.
😇 Ethics
- Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning as a joint deliverable with the Web & AI Interest Group @dontcallmedom
🌱 Sustainability
- Sustainable Web Interest Group collaboration @TzviyaSiegman
- Related: Evaluate sustainability impact webnn#861
🔍 Privacy
- From Privacy Interest Group to Privacy Working Group, what's new? @tjwhalen
- Review privacy mitigations with privacy experts
🔒 Security
- Threat modeling with the Security Interest Group: AI in the Browser @simoneonofri
- Review security mitigations with privacy experts
🫶 Wrap up
- Synthesis of key outcomes, next steps
⏹️ 16:45 (JST) End
- 🍱 Group dinner
11 November 2025: 🧪 Incubations: WebMCP, Built-in AI APIs
Meeting schedule in Japan Standard Time (JST). Remote participants, please note the meeting may start on 10 November in your timezone.
See the timezone table ...
| San Francisco | Mon, 10 November 2025 | 16:00 |
| Boston | Mon, 10 November 2025 | 19:00 |
| London | Tue, 11 November 2025 | 00:00 |
| Berlin | Tue, 11 November 2025 | 01:00 |
| Helsinki | Tue, 11 November 2025 | 02:00 |
| Shanghai | Tue, 11 November 2025 | 08:00 |
| Kobe | Tue, 11 November 2025 | 09:00 |
| UTC | Tue, 11 November 2025 | 00:00 UTC |
See also: other locations
▶️ 09:00 (JST) Start
👋 Welcome
- Intros
- Agenda bashing
🤖 WebMCP
- WebMCP intro & demo!
TBA3-4 key open issues
Tip
WebMCP main explainer | Service Workers explainer | early implementation experience
⏸️ 10:30 (JST) Break
Drinks and snacks at Reception Hall, 3F, 4F, 5F.
▶️ 11:00 (JST) Resume
🤖 WebMCP
TBA2-3 key open issues- WebMCP accessibility opportunity
- Threat modeling with the Security Interest Group: Agentic AI Web Browser @simoneonofri, Lethal trifecta @johannhof
⏸️ 12:30 (JST) Lunch
Lunch at Portopia Hotel, South wing, Ohwada 2/3, 1F.
▶️ 13:30 (JST) Resume
💬 Prompt API
TBA2-3 key open issues
✍️ Writing Assistance APIs
TBA2-3 key open issues
⏸️ 15:00 (JST) Break
Drinks and snacks at Reception Hall, 3F, 4F, 5F.
▶️ 15:30 (JST) Resume
🌍 Translator and Language Detector APIs
TBA2-3 key open issues
🔎 Proofreader API
Tip
Proofreader API explainer
TBA2-3 key open issues
🌱 Proposals for new incubations
- Review and discuss any new proposals
🫶 Wrap up
- Synthesis of key outcomes, next steps
⏹️ 16:45 (JST) End
- 🍣 Group dinner