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Monday, March 6, 2006

*TUTORIALS*	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3
Morning Sessions 09:00 – 10:30	Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 1 - Characters in Action (09:00 - 09:45) Asmus Freytag President ASMUS, Inc.	Internationalization: An Introduction Addison Phillips Internationalization Architect Yahoo!	Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices Tex Texin Internationalization Architect Yahoo!
10:30 - 10:45 Morning Refreshments
Morning Sessions 10:45 – 12:15	An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode (09:45 - 12:15) Richard Ishida Internationalization Activity lead W3C	Internationalization: An Introduction (Cont’d)	Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices (Cont’d)
12:30 - 13:15 Lunch
Afternoon Session 1 13:30 – 15:00	Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 2 - Fundamental Specifications Asmus Freytag President ASMUS, Inc.	The Dao of Unihan Deborah Goldsmith Sr. Software EngineerApple Computer, Inc.	Internationalization Features in XPath, XQuery and XSLT Frank Yung-Fong Tang Google Felix Sasaki & Liam Quin W3C
15:00 – 15:15 Afternoon Refreshments
Afternoon Session 2 15:15 – 17:00	Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 3 - Unicode Algorithms Asmus Freytag President ASMUS, Inc.	The Dao of Unihan (Cont’d)	Advanced ICU topics Steven R. Loomis Vladimir Weinstein Software Engineers IBM Corp.
Afternoon Session 3 17:00 – 18:00	Unicode 5.0 Tutorial: Part 3 - Unicode Algorithms Asmus Freytag President ASMUS, Inc.	Abridged Arabic Tutorial Thomas Milo Director, DecoType
*18:00 - 19:00 Welcome Reception* hosted by Google Sandpebble A, B & C, Lobby Level**
Birds of a Feather 19:30 -21:00	Language and Locale Identifiers Addison Phillips Internationalization Architect Yahoo!	Unicode Committee BOF Leader TBA	Design Principles for A Regional, Multilingual Keyboard Erkki I. Kolehmainen Coordinator, Cultural Diversity Issues in ICTResearch Institute for the Languages of Finland (RILF)

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

PRESENTATIONS	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3
09:00 - 9:15	Welcome & Opening Remarks Mark Davis - President, UNICODE Consortium
09:15 – 10:00	*Keynote Presentation:* Going Global with a Search Engine Tuoc Luong Executive Vice President, Engineering & Technology, Ask Jeeves, Inc.
10:00 - 20:00 EXHIBIT AREA OPEN
10:00 – 10:30 Morning Refreshments in Exhibit Area
10:30 – 11:20 Session 1	The Digitalization of Fraud Doug Barbin Director-Compliance Solutions VeriSign, Inc.	Editing and Display of Mathematical Text using Unicode Murray Sargent III Sr. Software Design Engineer Microsoft Corporation	Latest News in Globalization Mark Davis President, UNICODE Consortium
11:30 – 12:20 Session 2	Unicode Security Mark Davis President, UNICODE Consortium	Keyman: A New Way of Thinking about Keyboard Input Marc Durdin Director, Tavultesoft	Language Tags and Locale Identifiers Addison Phillips Internationalization Architect Yahoo!
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:20 Session 3	Unicode-enabling PHP Tex Texin Internationalization Architect Yahoo!	Windows Vista, An Ever Expanding View of Internationalization Russ Rolfe Lead Program Manager Microsoft Corporation	How to Express Information about Internationalization and Localization in XML Documents and Schemata Felix Sasaki Richard Ishida Internationalization Activity W3C
14:30 – 15:20 Session 4	New Internationalization Features of the Java Platform -- J2SE 6 Naoto Sato Sun Microsystems Craig R. Cummings Oracle Corporation	Microsoft Office 12 - Internationalization Expanded Marypat Meuli Lead Program Manager Microsoft Corporation	Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Overview John Emmons Globalization Architect IBM Corp.
15:20 – 16:00 Afternoon Refreshments in Exhibit Area
16:00 – 16:50 Session 5	International Features of Mac OS X Deborah Goldsmith Sr. Software Engineer Apple Computer, Inc.	Building Localized and Globalized Windows Applications with Visual Studio 2005 Marin Millar Globalization Manager Microsoft Corporation	A Case Study in Web Internationalization: Using the CLDR Online With PHP Mark Garrett Support Developer ModernGigabyte, LLC
17:00 – 17:50 Session 6	File Systems, Unicode, and Normalization David Robinson Ienup Sung Nicolas Williams Sun Microsystems, Inc.	IDN support in IE7 Michel Suignard Sr. Program Manager Microsoft Corporation	Client-Tier Globalization - The New Frontier Weiran Zhang Development Manager Oracle Corporation
18:00 - 20:00 Conference Reception in Exhibit Area

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

PRESENTATIONS	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3
09:00 – 09:45	*Keynote Presentation: UNICODE as a "Unifying Force" in Language Education* Colonel Daniel L. Scott Assistant Commandant Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
9:45 - 10:00 Morning Refreshments
10:00 – 10:50 Session 7	Globalization Gotchas: What to Watch Out For Mark Davis President, UNICODE Consortium	PANEL: Unicode and Academia Moderator: Debbie Anderson Researcher UC Berkeley Panelists: Johannes Bergerhausen University of Applied Sciences Mainz Charles Riley Yale University Richard Cook UC Berkeley John Hudson SBL/Tiro Typeworks	Unicode Processing - Regex Andrew Heninger Sr. Software Engineer IBM Corp.
11:00 – 11:50 Session 8	Migrating PayPal to Unicode: A Case Study Scott Atwood Staff Software Engineer June Wang Engineering Manager PayPal		Sorting It All Out: An Introduction to Collation Michael Kaplan Technical Lead Microsoft Corporation
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:45	*Keynote Presentation: The Effect of Unicode on Type Design* Charles Bigelow Vice President, Bigelow & Holmes Inc.
14:00 – 14:50 Session 9	Challenges of Searching the Global Internet Peter Linsley Sr. International Product Manager Ask Jeeves	ICU Overview: The Open-Source Unicode Library Markus Scherer ICU Team Manager/ Software Engineer IBM Corp.	Tales of Incorrect String Comparisons Michael Kaplan Technical Lead Microsoft Corporation
14:50 – 15:10 Afternoon Refreshments
15:10 – 16:00 Session 10	Unicode Spreading on the Web: A Case of Asian Domains Pavol Zavarsky Wunna Ko Ko Yoshiki Mikami Yew Choong Chew Nagaoka University of Technology Tatsuo Kobayashi Scholex Co., Ltd	Migrating C Language Applications to Unicode John Emmons Globalization Architect IBM Corp.	Character Encoding Detection Eric Mader Software Engineer IBM Corp.
16:10 – 17:00 Session 11	Large Corpus Construction for Chinese Lexicon Development John O'Neil Language Technology Architect Thomas Emerson Sr. Software Architect Basis Technology	ICU in Eclipse Doug Felt Technical Lead ICU for JAVA IBM Corp.	StringPrep: Unicode in Network Protocols Raghuram Viswanadha ICU Team IBM Corp.

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