UTW 2026

Amphi Mines 200

Rooms

Amphi Mines 100 is located in the Reception / Amphi Mines building.

For presenters

This big auditorium is equipped with two large screen projections that you will be able to see from the speakers’ place. The microphones will be available for your presentations and Q\&A part.

You can connect your laptop via HDMI cable. The adapters will be available on site.
Please contact the organisers in advance via email if you prefer to use the one from the site.

Recording will be managed by the personnel.

The maximum number of participants is 200.

Sessions in this room:
Thursday
 8:30

Light Breakfast

 9:30

Opening Session: Digital Inclusion for All Languages: UNESCO’s Commitment to Multilingual Futures

Xianhong Hu

 10:10

Unicode in the World: Telling the Story, Today and Ahead

Toral Cowieson, Peter Constable, Priscilla Colón, Nova Patch, Cathy Wissink

 11:30

Morning Break

 11:50

Speed Networking

 12:40

Lunch at Ensad Nancy, 3rd floor

 14:00

Unicode in Indigenous Language Revitalization: Lessons from the Taíno Community

Priscilla Colón

 14:40

Digital text, legacy tech and the many meanings of identity

Bríd-Áine Parnell

 15:30

Afternoon Break

 15:50

Encoding as an artistic practice: The ABCC of CACB

Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé

 16:50

From Unicode to Universal Acceptance: Empowering Amazigh Tifinagh for Full Digital Presence

Mohamed Souhassou

 18:00

Shuttle Bus to Place Stanislas

 19:00

Reception at Place Stanislas: Honouring the International Decade of Indigenous Languages

Friday
 8:10

Light Breakfast

 9:00

Developing Typefaces for the Internationalization of Brand Discourse

Bianca Berning, Chorong Kim, Mint Tantisuwanna, Liang Hai, Jérémie Hornus, Mark Jamra, Neil Patel

 10:10

The Web’s Missing Language Enablement Data: From Script Requirements to Browser Behavior

Fuqiao Xue

 10:50

Morning Break

 11:10

Hyperglot—automating detection of language support in fonts

David Březina

 12:00

Lunch at Ensad Nancy, 3rd floor

 13:10

Ahead of the Glyph: Predictive Intelligence for Multilingual Text Engines

Abhi Bhatnagar, Nisarg Shah

 14:00

Afternoon Break

 14:20

Unconference Voting

 14:30

Unconference

 15:10

Unconference

 16:10

Lightning Talks

 17:00

Ask Anything About Unicode in the World

Toral Cowieson, Anushah Hossain, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Johannes Bergerhausen