ICWE 2026– AT A GLANCE

The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) is the premier annual conference on Web Engineering and associated technologies. It covers different aspects of Web Engineering, including the design, creation, maintenance, operation, and usage of Web applications. 

ICWE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines in academia and industry to tackle the emerging challenges in the engineering of Web applications, the problems and opportunities of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. 

Following the ongoing discussion about the role of artificial intelligence in all aspects of computer science, this year we invite the ICWE community to reflect and submit their work on the following theme:

Agentic & Autonomous Web: Design, Trust, Accessibility, Sustainability, and Performance

We solicit submissions showing how to design web systems not just for humans but for and in collaboration with autonomous agents. We encourage the discussion on how to balance trust and security, as well as vision and ideas on how agents can make web engineering more sustainable and accessible. For instance, submissions may address the environmental impact of web technologies and discuss how emerging AI-assisted coding paradigms (i.e., vibe coding) may open to a less technical audience. Last but not least, we welcome works discussing the support of AI to web engineering in performance-critical environments (e.g., edge-cloud continuum).

Accepted contributions will be included in the ICWE 2026 Springer LNCS proceedings. The best papers will be selected to be proposed, in extended form, as part of a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering.