UTW 2026

Program

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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 

Introduction to I18n

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 - 14:45

Tutorial Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fonts Scripts & Encoding 

The Parametric Power of Roboto Delta

Dave Crossland

14:00 - 15:30

Tutorial Fonts 

Coming Soon

14:00 - 15:30

Coming Soon 

After the Encoding: the Digital Development of Garay

14:45 - 15:30

Tutorial Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fonts Keyboards Scripts & Encoding 

15:00
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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 

Intro to Type Design: Glyphs font editor

Georg Seifet

9:30 - 11:00

Tutorial Fonts 

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 

Intro to Type Design: Latin, Dives Akuru, Sumatran scripts

Yaprak Buse Çağlar, Fernando Caro, Ariq Syauqi

11:30 - 13:00

Tutorial Fonts Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

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
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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

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

Coming Soon

13:45 - 14:30

Coming Soon 

Coming Soon

13:45 - 14:30

Coming Soon 

Thirty years of line breaking

Robin Leroy

13:45 - 14:30

Internationalization 

14:00

Coming Soon

14:30 - 15:15

Coming Soon 

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

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 

Coming Soon

16:35 - 17:20

Coming Soon 

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
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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, Mint Tantisuwana, 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, Mint Tantisuwana, 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, Mint Tantisuwana, 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 

Coming Soon

10:10 - 10:55

Coming Soon 

Coming Soon

10:10 - 10:55

Coming Soon 

Morning Break

10:55 - 11:15

Morning Break

10:55 - 11:15

Morning Break

10:55 - 11:15

11:00

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 

Coming Soon

11:15 - 12:00

Coming Soon 

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

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