UTW 2025

Program

Note: Tutorial Day (Tuesday, Nov. 11) is available only for those who are registered to attend the Tutorial Day. Attending UTW workshop sessions on Wednesday, Nov. 12 and Thursday, Nov. 13 also requires registration.

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9:00

Welcome

Toral Cowieson

Unicode 

Keynote

Keynote Unicode 

10:00

Speed Networking

Networking 

11:00

Morning Break

Advances in ICU4X: Now in Chrome and Android

Shane Carr

ICU/CLDR Internationalization 

Behind the Curtain: The Unicode Technical Committee

Debbie Anderson, Peter Constable, Jennifer Daniel, Ken Lunde, Markus Scherer

ICU/CLDR Unicode Scripts & Encoding Fonts 

Scaling Up Digital Inclusion: Summer 2025 Report from SILICON @ Stanford

Daniel Argento, Samantha Leventis, Diana Bernabe

ICU/CLDR Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Emoji 

12:00

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

13:00

Grammatical Agreement with Unicode Inflection

Nebojša Ćirić, George Rhoten

Internationalization Localization 

An Accidental Map of the History of Writing

Minh Nguyen

Fonts Scripts & Encoding 

Contributing to CLDR: How You Can Make a Difference

Mark Davis, Annemarie Apple, Ned Holbrook

ICU/CLDR Localization 

Breaking Text Barriers: Adobe's Unified Tokenization Engine for Web I18n

Shashank Oberoi

ICU/CLDR Internationalization 

Experiences and Challenges in Migrating Academic Documents and Dictionaries to Unicode

Stephen Morey, Craig Cornelius

Scripts & Encoding 

UnicodeMath on the Web

Murray Sargent III

Internationalization Scripts & Encoding Fonts 

14:00

Afternoon Break

Afternoon Break

Afternoon Break

No Spaces? No Problem! Segmenting Complex Scripts with Machine Learning

Shane Carr

ICU/CLDR Internationalization 

Guidelines for Handling Unstandardized and Undeciphered Scripts in Unicode

Anshuman Pandey

Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Scripts & Encoding 

Using AI to Create Keyboard Layouts

Tex Texin, Tabea De Wille

Keyboards AI/ML Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

15:00

Modernizing ICU for You

Markus Scherer

ICU/CLDR Internationalization 

Assessing a Script's Unicode Readiness

Anushah Hossain, Helena Kansa, Kyra Dawkins

Scripts & Encoding 

Quechua and Community-Led Transcreation

Mathias Becerra-Sanchez

Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

16:00

Links with Non-ASCII: Unicode Detection and Display

Mark Davis

ICU/CLDR Internationalization 

Capturing Script Dynamism: The Indic Case

Karthik Malli

Scripts & Encoding 

17:00

Mix and Mingle

Networking 

18:00
Caption
Unicode
Scripts & Encoding
Fonts
Emoji
Digitally Disadvantaged Languages
Localization
Internationalization
ICU/CLDR
Keyboards
Testing & Quality
Keynote
Unconference
Tutorial
Lightning Talks
Networking
Food
Break