Sessions

Unicode

• Ask Unicode Anything

  Toral Cowieson, Mark Davis

• Behind the Curtain: The Unicode Technical Committee

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

  Scripts & Encoding Fonts ICU/CLDR 

• Keynote

  Keynote 

• Welcome

  Toral Cowieson

• Workshop Wrapup

Scripts & Encoding

• An Accidental Map of the History of Writing

  Minh Nguyen

  Fonts 

• Assessing a Script's Unicode Readiness

  Anushah Hossain, Helena Kansa, Kyra Dawkins

• Behind the Curtain: The Unicode Technical Committee

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

  Unicode Fonts ICU/CLDR 

• Capturing Script Dynamism: The Indic Case

  Karthik Malli

• Demystifying Unicode Text Display: From Unicode Code Points to Positioned Glyphs

  Peter Constable, Ned Holbrook

  Fonts Tutorial 

• Experiences and Challenges in Migrating Academic Documents and Dictionaries to Unicode

  Stephen Morey, Craig Cornelius

• Guidelines for Handling Unstandardized and Undeciphered Scripts in Unicode

  Anshuman Pandey

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

• Unicode AMA: Specs, Data, and Code for Characters and Text, Languages and Locales

  Mark Davis

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages ICU/CLDR Internationalization Emoji Fonts 

• UnicodeMath on the Web

  Murray Sargent III

  Internationalization Fonts 

Fonts

• An Accidental Map of the History of Writing

  Minh Nguyen

  Scripts & Encoding 

• Behind the Curtain: The Unicode Technical Committee

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

  Unicode Scripts & Encoding ICU/CLDR 

• Demystifying Unicode Text Display: From Unicode Code Points to Positioned Glyphs

  Peter Constable, Ned Holbrook

  Scripts & Encoding Tutorial 

• Tools and Resources for Making and Testing Fonts

  Tutorial 

• Unicode AMA: Specs, Data, and Code for Characters and Text, Languages and Locales

  Mark Davis

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages ICU/CLDR Internationalization Scripts & Encoding Emoji 

• UnicodeMath on the Web

  Murray Sargent III

  Internationalization Scripts & Encoding 

Emoji

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

  Daniel Argento, Samantha Leventis, Diana Bernabe

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages ICU/CLDR 

• The Shape of Feeling: Designing Emoji for Everyone

  Jennifer Daniel

• Unicode AMA: Specs, Data, and Code for Characters and Text, Languages and Locales

  Mark Davis

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages ICU/CLDR Internationalization Scripts & Encoding Fonts 

Digitally Disadvantaged Languages

• Guidelines for Handling Unstandardized and Undeciphered Scripts in Unicode

  Anshuman Pandey

  Scripts & Encoding 

• Quechua and Community-Led Transcreation

  Mathias Becerra-Sanchez

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

  Daniel Argento, Samantha Leventis, Diana Bernabe

  ICU/CLDR Emoji 

• Understanding the Language Data Landscape to Make Informed Decisions

  Conrad Nied

  ICU/CLDR 

• Unicode AMA: Specs, Data, and Code for Characters and Text, Languages and Locales

  Mark Davis

  ICU/CLDR Internationalization Scripts & Encoding Emoji Fonts 

• Using AI to Create Keyboard Layouts

  Tex Texin, Tabea De Wille

  Keyboards AI/ML 

Localization

• AI-Powered Globalization: Streamlining Global Product Expansion with Globalization-Compliant Development

  Ritika Mathur, Mario Juarros, Nitin Choweth Vijayakumar

  Testing & Quality AI/ML 

• Automated I18n Quality for Enterprise Platforms

  Yaniv Zimet, Mike McKenna

  Testing & Quality AI/ML Internationalization 

• Contributing to CLDR: How You Can Make a Difference

  Mark Davis, Annemarie Apple, Ned Holbrook

  ICU/CLDR 

• Grammatical Agreement with Unicode Inflection

  Nebojša Ćirić, George Rhoten

  Internationalization 

Internationalization

• Advances in ICU4X: Now in Chrome and Android

  Shane Carr

  ICU/CLDR 

• Automated I18n Quality for Enterprise Platforms

  Yaniv Zimet, Mike McKenna

  Testing & Quality AI/ML Localization 

• Bidirectional Text and UI: A Tutorial

  Adil Allawi

  Tutorial 

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

  Shashank Oberoi

  ICU/CLDR 

• Getting Started with ICU4X

  Shane Carr

  ICU/CLDR Tutorial 

• Grammatical Agreement with Unicode Inflection

  Nebojša Ćirić, George Rhoten

  Localization 

• Internationalized Units: Formatting, Locale-Aware Representation, Conversion, and Grammatical Inflection

  Younies Mahmoud

• Introduction to Internationalization and Unicode Internationalization Technologies

  Joel Sahleen

  Tutorial 

• Links with Non-ASCII: Unicode Detection and Display

  Mark Davis

  ICU/CLDR 

• Modernizing ICU for You

  Markus Scherer

  ICU/CLDR 

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

  Shane Carr

  ICU/CLDR 

• Putting ICU to Work

  Elango Cheran, Markus Scherer

  Tutorial ICU/CLDR 

• Unicode AMA: Specs, Data, and Code for Characters and Text, Languages and Locales

  Mark Davis

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages ICU/CLDR Scripts & Encoding Emoji Fonts 

• UnicodeMath on the Web

  Murray Sargent III

  Scripts & Encoding Fonts 

• Why Did We Build Our Own Cross-Platform I18n SDKs for TikTok?

  Zhongjun Ge, Phil Song, Frank Yao

ICU/CLDR

• Advances in ICU4X: Now in Chrome and Android

  Shane Carr

  Internationalization 

• Behind the Curtain: The Unicode Technical Committee

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

  Unicode Scripts & Encoding Fonts 

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

  Shashank Oberoi

  Internationalization 

• CLDR Has a Home for Keyboards

  Andrew Glass

  Keyboards 

• Contributing to CLDR: How You Can Make a Difference

  Mark Davis, Annemarie Apple, Ned Holbrook

  Localization 

• Getting Started with ICU4X

  Shane Carr

  Internationalization Tutorial 

• Links with Non-ASCII: Unicode Detection and Display

  Mark Davis

  Internationalization 

• Modernizing ICU for You

  Markus Scherer

  Internationalization 

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

  Shane Carr

  Internationalization 

• Putting ICU to Work

  Elango Cheran, Markus Scherer

  Tutorial Internationalization 

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

  Daniel Argento, Samantha Leventis, Diana Bernabe

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Emoji 

• Understanding the Language Data Landscape to Make Informed Decisions

  Conrad Nied

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

• Unicode AMA: Specs, Data, and Code for Characters and Text, Languages and Locales

  Mark Davis

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Internationalization Scripts & Encoding Emoji Fonts 

Keyboards

• CLDR Has a Home for Keyboards

  Andrew Glass

  ICU/CLDR 

• Using AI to Create Keyboard Layouts

  Tex Texin, Tabea De Wille

  AI/ML Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

Testing & Quality

• AI-Powered Globalization: Streamlining Global Product Expansion with Globalization-Compliant Development

  Ritika Mathur, Mario Juarros, Nitin Choweth Vijayakumar

  AI/ML Localization 

• Automated I18n Quality for Enterprise Platforms

  Yaniv Zimet, Mike McKenna

  AI/ML Internationalization Localization 

Keynote

• Keynote

  Unicode 

Unconference

• Unconference

• Unconference Voting

Tutorial

• Bidirectional Text and UI: A Tutorial

  Adil Allawi

  Internationalization 

• Demystifying Unicode Text Display: From Unicode Code Points to Positioned Glyphs

  Peter Constable, Ned Holbrook

  Scripts & Encoding Fonts 

• Getting Started with ICU4X

  Shane Carr

  Internationalization ICU/CLDR 

• Introduction to Internationalization and Unicode Internationalization Technologies

  Joel Sahleen

  Internationalization 

• Tools and Resources for Making and Testing Fonts

  Fonts 

• Putting ICU to Work

  Elango Cheran, Markus Scherer

  Internationalization ICU/CLDR 

Lightning Talks

• Lightning Talks

Networking

• Mix and Mingle

• Speed Networking

Food

• Afternoon Break

• Lunch

• Morning Break

Break