Program

#I0		Creativity Station (Room 109)		Marie Curie (Room 101)		Dorothy Vaughan (Room 112)		Breakout Room

9:00	Light Breakfast at Station A building, K-Hub 9:00 - 10:00





10:00	Beyond Meters and Miles: Mastering Measurement Unit Internationalization with CLDR and ICU Younies Mahmoud 10:00 - 10:45 Tutorial Internationalization ICU/CLDR	Modern Variable Fonts: Maximum Unicodes, Minimum Font File Sizes Marianna Paszkowska 10:00 - 11:30 Tutorial Fonts	Practical I18n: An Introduction to Software Internationalization as a Discipline Joel Sahleen 10:00 - 11:30 Tutorial Internationalization	Breakout Room 10:00 - 11:30 Break



	Office Hours with the Script Encoding Initiative Anushah Hossain, Debbie Anderson, Helena Kansa, Kyra Ann Dawkins 10:45 - 11:30 Tutorial Scripts & Encoding Digital Humanities

11:00


	Morning Break at Station A building, K-Hub 11:30 - 12:00


12:00	Preparing Next Gen Developers to Enable a Multilingual Internet: The Journey to Integrate the Universal Acceptance Curriculum Geraldo Ferreira 12:00 - 12:45 Tutorial Internationalization Localization	Rendering the Unencoded: A Digital Typeface for Book Pahlavi Amir Moslehi 12:00 - 12:45 Tutorial Scripts & Encoding Fonts	Times are changing: how CLDR handles time zone updates Robert Bastian 12:00 - 12:45 Tutorial ICU/CLDR Internationalization	Breakout Room 12:00 - 12:45 Break



	Lunch at Ensad Nancy, 3rd floor 12:45 - 14:00

13:00





14:00	Paths to Proliferation Neil Patel, Mark Jamra, Morgane Pierson 14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fonts Scripts & Encoding Digital Humanities	The Parametric Power of Roboto Delta Marianna Paszkowska 14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial Fonts	Putting ICU to Work Elango Cheran, Markus Scherer 14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial ICU/CLDR Internationalization	Breakout Room 14:00 - 15:30 Break





15:00





16:00	Guided visits of Ensad and Type workshop demonstration 16:00 - 17:00 General	Guided visits of Ensad and Type workshop demonstration 16:00 - 17:00 General	Guided visits of Ensad and Type workshop demonstration 16:00 - 17:00 General





17:00





18:00	Missing Scripts Exhibition Opening, Ensad Nancy 18:00 - 19:00 General	Missing Scripts Exhibition Opening, Ensad Nancy 18:00 - 19:00 General	Missing Scripts Exhibition Opening, Ensad Nancy 18:00 - 19:00 General

#I0		Creativity Station (Room 109)		Marie Curie (Room 101)		Dorothy Vaughan (Room 112)		Breakout Room

9:00	Light Breakfast at Station A building, K-Hub 9:00 - 9:30


	How to build a LDML-format keyboard Marc Durdin, Andrew Glass 9:30 - 11:00 Tutorial Keyboards ICU/CLDR	Intro to Type Design: What's new in Glyphs 4 Georg Seifert, Florian Pircher 9:30 - 11:00 Tutorial Fonts	ICU4X in Practice: Lightweight and Portable i18n Shane Carr 9:30 - 11:00 Tutorial ICU/CLDR Internationalization	Breakout Room 9:30 - 11:00 Break


10:00





11:00	Morning Break at Station A building, K-Hub 11:00 - 11:30


	How to build a LDML-format keyboard Marc Durdin, Andrew Glass 11:30 - 13:00 Tutorial Keyboards ICU/CLDR	Intro to Type Design: Latin, Georgian Mkhedruli, Southern Sumatran scripts Yaprak Buse Çağlar, Ana Sanikidze, Ariq Syauqi 11:30 - 13:00 Tutorial Fonts Digitally Disadvantaged Languages	Writing Systems of the World Conrad Nied 11:30 - 12:15 Tutorial Scripts & Encoding	Breakout Room 11:30 - 13:00 Break


12:00
			Macrolanguages, the Challenges of Language Categorization Conrad Nied 12:15 - 13:00 Tutorial Internationalization ICU/CLDR




13:00	Lunch at Ensad Nancy, 3rd floor 13:00 - 14:00





14:00	Making the old new: converting hacked encodings to Unicode Craig Cornelius 14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial Internationalization Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Scripts & Encoding	Intro to Type Design: Latin extended, Arabic, Bengali Yaprak Buse Çağlar, Sina Fakour, Arnab Chakraborty 14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial Fonts	Demystifying Unicode Text Display: From Unicode Code Points to Positioned Glyphs Peter Constable, Ned Holbrook 14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial Fonts	Breakout Room 14:00 - 15:30 Break





15:00





16:00


	Art Nouveau Walk 16:30 - 19:00 General


17:00





18:00

#I0		Amphi Mines 200		Amphi Mines 100		Creativity Station (Room 109)		Breakout Room

	Light Breakfast 8:30 - 9:30	Light Breakfast 8:30 - 9:30


9:00


	Opening Session: Digital Inclusion for All Languages: UNESCO’s Commitment to Multilingual Futures Xianhong Hu 9:30 - 10:15 Digitally Disadvantaged Languages General			Breakout Room 9:30 - 11:30 Break


10:00
	Unicode in the World: Telling the Story, Today and Ahead Toral Cowieson, Peter Constable, Priscilla Colón, Nova Patch, Cathy Wissink 10:15 - 11:30 Plenary General




11:00


	Morning Break 11:30 - 11:50	Morning Break 11:30 - 11:50
	Morning Break 11:30 - 11:50	Morning Break 11:30 - 11:50
	Speed Networking 11:50 - 12:45 Networking	Speed Networking 11:50 - 12:45 Networking
12:00



	Lunch at Ensad Nancy, 3rd floor 12:45 - 14:00

13:00





14:00	Unicode in Indigenous Language Revitalization: Lessons from the Taíno Community Priscilla Colón 14:00 - 14:45 Digital Humanities Digitally Disadvantaged Languages	Developing an Encoding for Maya Hieroglyphs Andrew Glass, Gabrielle Vail, Alexandre Bassi 14:00 - 14:45 Scripts & Encoding	Thirty years of line breaking Robin Leroy 14:00 - 14:45 Internationalization	Breakout Room 14:00 - 15:30 Break



	Digital text, legacy tech and the many meanings of identity Bríd-Áine Parnell 14:45 - 15:30 Scripts & Encoding Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Digital Humanities	Rethinking Unicode for Non-Linear Writing: A Follow-up Case Study on Codex Mendoza and the Limits of Linear Character Encoding Nunzio Mazzaferro, Luciano Perondi, Daniele Capo, Antonio Perri 14:45 - 15:30 Scripts & Encoding Digital Humanities	The Tokenizer Comedy: A Catalog of Joyful Failures in LLM Unicode Processing Tiffa Foster 14:45 - 15:30 Testing & Quality AI/ML Internationalization

15:00


	Afternoon Break 15:30 - 15:50	Afternoon Break 15:30 - 15:50
	Afternoon Break 15:30 - 15:50	Afternoon Break 15:30 - 15:50
	Encoding as an artistic practice: The ABCC of CACB Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé 15:50 - 16:50 Scripts & Encoding Plenary General Fonts			Breakout Room 15:50 - 17:35 Break
16:00




	From Unicode to Universal Acceptance: Empowering Amazigh Tifinagh for Full Digital Presence Mohamed Souhassou 16:50 - 17:35 Internationalization Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Digital Humanities	Elamite Scripts: Philology, Typography, and Encoding Sina Fakour, Kaveh Ashourinia, François Desset 16:50 - 17:35 Scripts & Encoding Fonts	Breaking Borders, Not UI: Auditing Global UX with Pangæa Amine Elmouradi 16:50 - 17:35 Testing & Quality Localization Internationalization
17:00





18:00	Shuttle Bus to Place Stanislas 18:00 - 19:00 General





19:00	Reception at Place Stanislas: Honouring the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 19:00 - 21:00 General





20:00

#I0		Amphi Mines 200		Amphi Mines 100		Creativity Station (Room 109)		Breakout Room

	Light Breakfast 8:15 - 9:00	Light Breakfast 8:15 - 9:00




9:00	Developing Typefaces for the Internationalization of Brand Discourse Bianca Berning, Chorong Kim, Mint Tantisuwanna, Liang Hai, Jérémie Hornus, Mark Jamra, Neil Patel 9:00 - 10:00 Localization Plenary Fonts			Breakout Room 9:00 - 10:55 Break





10:00
	The Web’s Missing Language Enablement Data: From Script Requirements to Browser Behavior Fuqiao Xue 10:10 - 10:55 Internationalization Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fonts	The Next 4,000 Characters: What is the Future of Emoji? Jennifer Daniel 10:10 - 10:55 Emoji Digital Humanities General	State of the Regex 2026 Nova Patch 10:10 - 10:55 Testing & Quality Internationalization



	Morning Break 10:55 - 11:15	Morning Break 10:55 - 11:15
11:00	Morning Break 10:55 - 11:15	Morning Break 10:55 - 11:15
	Hyperglot—automating detection of language support in fonts David Březina 11:15 - 12:00 Scripts & Encoding ICU/CLDR	Linguistic Experiments And Emoji Interoperability Alexander Robertson 11:15 - 12:00 Emoji Digital Humanities AI/ML	Accessibility Encoded: A Survey of Scripts for Disability Inclusion in the Unicode Standard Kyra Ann Dawkins, Helena Kansa 11:15 - 12:00 Scripts & Encoding Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Digital Humanities	Breakout Room 11:15 - 12:00 Break




12:00	Lunch at Ensad Nancy, 3rd floor 12:00 - 13:15





13:00
	Ahead of the Glyph: Predictive Intelligence for Multilingual Text Engines Abhi Bhatnagar, Nisarg Shah 13:15 - 14:00 Internationalization AI/ML Fonts	What’s not boring about the Boring Expansion of OpenType Marianna Paszkowska 13:15 - 14:00 Fonts Digital Humanities	From Qalam to keyboard: Mapping Arabic Unicode and proposing a new input method for Arabic script Sina Fakour 13:15 - 14:00 Scripts & Encoding Keyboards	Breakout Room 13:15 - 14:00 Break




14:00	Afternoon Break 14:00 - 14:20	Afternoon Break 14:00 - 14:20
	Afternoon Break 14:00 - 14:20	Afternoon Break 14:00 - 14:20
	Unconference Voting 14:20 - 14:30
	Unconference 14:30 - 15:15	Unconference 14:30 - 15:15


15:00
	Unconference 15:15 - 16:00	Unconference 15:15 - 16:00




16:00
	Lightning Talks 16:15 - 17:00 Lightning Talks




17:00	Ask Anything About Unicode in the World Toral Cowieson, Anushah Hossain, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Johannes Bergerhausen 17:00 - 18:00 General

Caption

General

Plenary

AI/ML

Digitally Disadvantaged Languages

Digital Humanities

Emoji

Fonts

ICU/CLDR

Internationalization

Keyboards

Lightning Talks

Localization

Networking

Scripts & Encoding

Testing & Quality

Tutorial

Unconference

Coming Soon

Break

Food