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.

#I0		Room 1		Room 2

9:00	Welcome Toral Cowieson Unicode
	Welcome Toral Cowieson Unicode

	Introduction to Internationalization and Unicode Internationalization Technologies Joel Sahleen Tutorial Internationalization	Demystifying Unicode Text Display: From Unicode Code Points to Positioned Glyphs Peter Constable Tutorial Scripts & Encoding Fonts


10:00





11:00	Morning Break	Morning Break
	Morning Break	Morning Break
	Putting ICU to Work Elango Cheran, Markus Scherer Tutorial Internationalization ICU/CLDR	Making Fonts for Unicode: Tools, Workflows, and Quality Assurance Glenda Bellarosa Tutorial Fonts



12:00





13:00	Lunch	Lunch





14:00	Getting Started with ICU4X Zibi Braniecki Tutorial Internationalization ICU/CLDR	Bidirectional Text and UI: A Tutorial Adil Allawi Tutorial Internationalization





15:00

#I0		Room 1		Room 2		Room 3

9:00	Welcome Toral Cowieson Unicode
	From Clay to Code: The Story of Encoding Marc Weber Keynote Unicode




10:00
	Speed Networking Networking




11:00	Morning Break
	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 ICU/CLDR Localization




	UnicodeMath on the Web Murray Sargent III Internationalization Scripts & Encoding Fonts	Experiences and Challenges in Migrating Academic Documents and Dictionaries to Unicode Stephen Morey, Craig Cornelius Scripts & Encoding	Quechua and Community-Led Transcreation Mathias Becerra-Sanchez Digitally Disadvantaged Languages
14:00


	Afternoon Break	Afternoon Break	Afternoon Break
	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

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

#I0		Room 1		Room 2		Room 3

9:00	Automated I18n Quality for Enterprise Platforms Yaniv Zimet, Mike McKenna Testing & Quality AI/ML Internationalization Localization	CLDR Has a Home for Keyboards Andrew Glass Keyboards ICU/CLDR




	Why Did We Build Our Own Cross-Platform I18n SDKs for TikTok? Zhongjun Ge, Phil Song, Frank Yao Internationalization	Reducing Barriers for CLDR Contributors: Introducing Homescreen and MokBlok Tyler Abernethy, Alyssa Hoang, Neev Seedani Internationalization Digitially Disadvantaged Languages
10:00


	Morning Break	Morning Break
	Morning Break	Morning Break
	Unicode AMA: Specs, Data, and Code for Characters and Text, Languages and Locales Mark Davis ICU/CLDR Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Internationalization Scripts & Encoding Emoji Fonts	Understanding the Language Data Landscape to Make Informed Decisions Conrad Nied ICU/CLDR Digitally Disadvantaged Languages
11:00



	AI-Powered Globalization: Streamlining Global Product Expansion with Globalization-Compliant Development Ritika Mathur, Mario Juarros, Nitin Choweth Vijayakumar Testing & Quality AI/ML Localization	The Shape of Feeling: Designing Emoji for Everyone Jennifer Daniel Emoji

12:00

	Lunch	Lunch



13:00

	Unconference Voting	Unconference Voting	Unconference Voting

	Unconference	Unconference	Unconference

14:00

	Afternoon Break	Afternoon Break	Afternoon Break
	Afternoon Break	Afternoon Break	Afternoon Break
	Unconference	Unconference	Unconference

15:00


	Ask Unicode Anything Toral Cowieson, Mark Davis Unicode


16:00
	Lightning Talks Lightning Talks



	Workshop Wrapup Unicode

Caption

Unicode

Scripts & Encoding

Fonts

Emoji

Digitally Disadvantaged Languages

Localization

Internationalization

ICU/CLDR

Keyboards

Testing & Quality

Keynote

Unconference

Tutorial

Lightning Talks

Networking

Food

Break