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Program

#I0		Track 1		Track 2		Track 3

9:00	Light Breakfast 9:00 - 10:00	Light Breakfast 9:00 - 10:00	Light Breakfast 9:00 - 10:00





10:00	Coming Soon 10:00 - 11:30 Coming Soon	Modern Variable Fonts: Maximum Unicodes, Minimum Font File Sizes Dave Crossland 10:00 - 11:30 Tutorial Fonts	Practical I18n: An Introduction to Software Internationalization as a Discipline Joel Sahleen 10:00 - 11:30 Tutorial Internationalization





11:00


	Morning Break 11:30 - 12:00	Morning Break 11:30 - 12:00	Morning Break 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		Times are changing: how CLDR handles time zone updates Robert Bastian 12:00 - 12:45 Tutorial ICU/CLDR Internationalization



	Lunch 12:45 - 14:00	Lunch 12:45 - 14:00	Lunch 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 Dave Crossland 14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial Fonts	Putting ICU to Work Elango Cheran, Markus Scherer 14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial ICU/CLDR Internationalization





15:00

#I0		Track 1		Track 2		Track 3

9:00	Light Breakfast 9:00 - 9:30	Light Breakfast 9:00 - 9:30	Light Breakfast 9:00 - 9:30


	How to build a LDML-format keyboard Marc Durdin, Andrew Glass 9:30 - 11:00 Tutorial Keyboards ICU/CLDR	Coming Soon 9:30 - 11:00 Coming Soon	ICU4X in Practice: Lightweight and Portable i18n Shane Carr 9:30 - 11:00 Tutorial ICU/CLDR Internationalization


10:00





11:00	Morning Break 11:00 - 11:30	Morning Break 11:00 - 11:30	Morning Break 11:00 - 11:30


	How to build a LDML-format keyboard Marc Durdin, Andrew Glass 11:30 - 13:00 Tutorial Keyboards ICU/CLDR	Coming Soon 11:30 - 13:00 Coming Soon	Macrolanguages, what is a language and not a language Conrad Nied 11:30 - 13:00 Tutorial Internationalization ICU/CLDR


12:00





13:00	Lunch 13:00 - 14:00	Lunch 13:00 - 14:00	Lunch 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 Chakraborti 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





15:00

#I0		Track 1		Track 2		Track 3

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


9:00


	Keynote: Digital Inclusion for All Languages: UNESCO’s Commitment to Multilingual Futures 9:30 - 10:15 Digitally Disadvantaged Languages General	Keynote: Digital Inclusion for All Languages: UNESCO’s Commitment to Multilingual Futures 9:30 - 10:15 Digitally Disadvantaged Languages General	Keynote: Digital Inclusion for All Languages: UNESCO’s Commitment to Multilingual Futures 9:30 - 10:15 Digitally Disadvantaged Languages General


10:00
	Unicode in the World: Telling the Story, Today and Ahead Toral Cowieson, Anushah Hossain, Cathy Wissink 10:15 - 11:30 Plenary General	Unicode in the World: Telling the Story, Today and Ahead Toral Cowieson, Anushah Hossain, Cathy Wissink 10:15 - 11:30 Plenary General	Unicode in the World: Telling the Story, Today and Ahead Toral Cowieson, Anushah Hossain, 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	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 12:45 - 13:45	Lunch 12:45 - 13:45	Lunch 12:45 - 13:45

13:00



	Unicode in Indigenous Language Revitalization: Lessons from the Taíno Community Priscilla Colón 13:45 - 14:30 Digital Humanities Digitally Disadvantaged Languages	Developing an Encoding for Maya Hieroglyphs Andrew Glass, Gabrielle Vail, Alexandre Bassi 13:45 - 14:30 Scripts & Encoding	Thirty years of line breaking Robin Leroy 13:45 - 14:30 Internationalization

14:00


	Digital text, legacy tech and the many meanings of identity Bríd-Áine Parnell 14:30 - 15:15 Scripts & Encoding Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Digital Humanities	Coming Soon 14:30 - 15:15 Coming Soon	The Tokenizer Comedy: A Catalog of Joyful Failures in LLM Unicode Processing Tiffa Foster 14:30 - 15:15 Testing & Quality AI/ML Internationalization


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


16:00


	Coming Soon 16:35 - 17:20 Coming Soon	Elamite Scripts: Philology, Typography, and Encoding Sina Fakour, Kaveh Ashourinia, François Desset 16:35 - 17:20 Scripts & Encoding Fonts	Breaking Borders, Not UI: Auditing Global UX with Pangæa Amine Elmouradi 16:35 - 17:20 Testing & Quality Localization Internationalization


17:00





18:00





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





20:00

#I0		Track 1		Track 2		Track 3

	Light Breakfast 8:15 - 9:00	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, , Liang Hai, Jérémie Hornus, Mark Jamra, Neil Patel 9:00 - 10:00 Localization Plenary Fonts	Developing Typefaces for the Internationalization of Brand Discourse Bianca Berning, Chorong Kim, , Liang Hai, Jérémie Hornus, Mark Jamra, Neil Patel 9:00 - 10:00 Localization Plenary Fonts	Developing Typefaces for the Internationalization of Brand Discourse Bianca Berning, Chorong Kim, , Liang Hai, Jérémie Hornus, Mark Jamra, Neil Patel 9:00 - 10:00 Localization Plenary Fonts





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	Linguistic Experiments And Emoji Interoperability Alexander Robertson 10:10 - 10:55 Emoji Digital Humanities AI/ML	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	Morning Break 10:55 - 11:15
11:00	Morning Break 10:55 - 11:15	Morning Break 10:55 - 11:15	Morning Break 10:55 - 11:15
	YouTube International Handles Michael Fleming 11:15 - 12:00 Testing & Quality Internationalization Localization	What’s not boring about the Boring Expansion of OpenType Dave Crossland 11:15 - 12:00 Fonts Digital Humanities	Ahead of the Glyph: Predictive Intelligence for Multilingual Text Engines Abhi Bhatnagar, Nisarg Shah 11:15 - 12:00 Internationalization AI/ML Fonts




12:00	Lunch 12:00 - 13:15	Lunch 12:00 - 13:15	Lunch 12:00 - 13:15





13:00
	Accessibility Encoded: A Survey of Scripts for Disability Inclusion in the Unicode Standard Kyra Ann Dawkins, Helena Kansa 13:15 - 14:00 Scripts & Encoding Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 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	Coming Soon 13:15 - 14:00 Coming Soon




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	Afternoon Break 14:00 - 14:20	Afternoon Break 14:00 - 14:20
	Unconference Voting 14:20 - 14:30	Unconference Voting 14:20 - 14:30	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	Lightning Talks 16:15 - 17:00 Lightning Talks	Lightning Talks 16:15 - 17:00 Lightning Talks




17:00	Ask Organizers Anything 17:00 - 18:00 General	Ask Organizers Anything 17:00 - 18:00 General	Ask Organizers Anything 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