UTW 2024

Program

Subject to change

Check-in and Breakfast

9:00

Welcome

Unicode 

Breakout Room

Behind the Curtains: Unicode Technical Groups

Mark Davis

Unicode 

Solving Inflection

Nebojša Ćirić, George Rhoten

Localization Internationalization 

How Would You Like Your Text Today?

John Hudson

Fonts 

10:00

Morning Break

Volunteers for Keyboards for Indigenous Language Communities

Tex Texin

Digitization 

Optimizing Glyphs for Real-Time Vector Rendering

Eric Lengyel

Emoji Fonts 

Breakout Room

11:00

Speed Networking

Networking 

12:00

Lunch

13:00

The Long Road to Digitalization - Lessons From a Summer Internship With Silicon-Unicode

Samuel Minev-Benzecry, Maroua Bezzaoui

Digitization 

Indic Script Policy & Planning in the Digital Age

Karthik Malli

Digitization 

Breakout Room

Tracking Language Digitization in the UNESCO World Atlas

Jeannette Stewart, Tex Texin

Digitization 

How To Not Run Towards The Bear: Directionality & Emoji

Kamilé Demir, Ben Joeng (Yang)

Emoji Localization 

14:00

Afternoon Break

Date, Time and Timezone for Netflix Live Events

Shawn Xu, Chester Fung

Localization Internationalization 

Could You Give Me an Example? Simplifying the CLDR Survey Tool

Helena Aytenfisu, Emiyare Ikwut-Ukwa

Localization 

Breakout Room

15:00

What is a Valid Person Name?

Michael McKenna

Localization Internationalization 

Design Deep-Dive

Mark Davis

Localization 

16:00

A User-Centric Approach to a Bidi Text Interface

Adil Allawi

Internationalization 

New in CLDR/ICU and Ask Us Anything

Mark Davis, Markus Scherer, Annemarie Apple

Localization Internationalization 

17:00

Mix and Mingle

Networking 

18:00
Caption
Fonts
Digitization
Internationalization
Localization
Emoji
Unconference
Unicode
Food
Breakout
Networking