25 June 2015
MULTILINGUAL EUROPE: The Crowning Touch of the Digital Single Market

08.30 - 09.00

Registration

09.00 - 09.20

Welcome
Jochen Hummel, Chairman, LT-Innovate

Opening Keynote
Paul Rübig, Member of the European Parliament

09.20 - 10.00
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Infrastructures for Multilingual Europe
Jochen Hummel, CEO, ESTeam
Mirko Caspar, Misterspex
Andrejs Vasiljevs, CEO, Tilde
Khalid Choukri, CEO, ELDA/ELRA

10.00 - 10.30

Coffee Break

10.30 - 11.30

Keynote
Robert Madelin, Director General, European Commission, DG CONNECT

Update on European Commission Activities
Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Digital Value Chain Unit, European Commission, DG CONNECT
followed by a discussion on the involvement of industry in CEF.AT, the automated translation service for the Connecting Europe Facility

11.30 - 13.00
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Conversational Interaction Technologies for the Digital Single Market - Open Architectures and Community Building (ROOM C)

Moderator: Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh
PANEL:
Blaise Thomson, VocalIQ
Joakim Gustafson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh
Dietrich Klakow, University of the Saarland

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Language Resources: Foundations of the Multilingual Digital Single Market – Demand (ROOM B)

Moderator: Miguel Garcia, Zabala
PANEL:
Bente Maegaard, CLARIN ERIC
Aleksandra Wesolowska, EC, DG CNECT
Gilles Montier, SYSTRAN
Joachim Van den Bogaert, CrossLang
Gert van Assche, Datamundi
Serge Gladkoff, Logrus

Award Applicants:
Julio Prada López, Inbenta  
Mariana Damova, Mozaika  
Carmen Wiedenhoeft, digm
Balázs Benedek, Skawa
Andrzej Zydrón, XTM

Jury members:
Christian Kissig, Oracle Corporation UK (moderator)
Ekaterina Mihaylova, Maijo
Philippe Rousselot, Tech2Market
Arie Rosenfeld, Lenox Corporation
Gonzalo Tradacete, Faraday Venture Partners
Vadim Tarasov, Bright Capital

13.00 - 14.00

Walking Lunch

14.00 - 15.45

Conversational Interaction Technologies for the Digital Single Market – Highlight on Healthcare

Moderator: Hervé Bourlard, IDIAP
PANEL:
Phil Garner, IDIAP
Fabrice Malfrère, Acapela
Rebecca Bright, Therapy Box
Maurizio Omologo, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Language Resources: Foundations of the Multilingual Digital Single Market - Supply

Moderator: Andrew Joscelyne, LT-Innovate
PANEL:
Spyridon Pilos, EC, DGT
Steven Krauwer, CLARIN ERIC
Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA
Nuria Bel, UPF
Georg Rehm, DFKI

Award Applicants:
Ludovic Chevalier, Speaky
Jochen Steigner, SemVox 
Enrico Giannotti, Cedat 85  
David Imseng, recapp IT
Zsolt Robotka, Dolphio Technologies
Kevin Tillier, Clic2Speak

Jury members:
Tanja Rosendahl, NRW Bank (moderator)
Florence Beaujard, Airbus France
Katia Gaika, Skolkovo
Nils-Olof Forsgren, Uminova Innovation
Joshua Bower-Saul, HyBird Partners
James Digby, Seed Round Ventures
Guy Huylebroeck, Qbic

15.45 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 18.00

Conversational Interaction Technologies for the Digital Single Market - Technology Forecast

Moderator: Costis Kompis, Vodera
PANEL:
David Imseng, recapp IT
Zsolt Robotka, Dolphio Technologies
Xavier Anguera, Sinkronigo
Conor Mc Kenna, Vocavio
Florence Beaujard, Airbus France

Language Resources: Foundations of the Multilingual Digital Single Market - Matching Supply to Demand

Moderator: Margaretha Mazura, EMF
PANEL:
Andrzej Zydron, XTM
David Lewis, Trinity College Dublin
Asuncion Gómez-Pérez, UPM
Ioannis Iakovidis, Interverbum
Blanca Rodriguez, Zabala/FINODEX
Andrejs Vasiljevs, TILDE

Award Applicants:
Armin Hopp, Speexx
Judit Pancza, Clementine Consulting
Ed Kool, Lingvistica
Kim Ludvigsen, Interprefy  
Sergey Yuryev, iLangL

Jury members:
Siegfried Verstappen, Invest Hong Kong (moderator)
Gerhard Budin, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Vienna
Wolfgang Mackiewicz, Freie Universität Berlin
Filip Vandamme, Volta Ventures
Philip Vermeulen, Ventures4Growth
Simon McDermott, New Media Cloud

18.00 - 19.30

Drinks and Networking

19.30 - 20.30

LT-Innovate Award Ceremony

 
 

26 June 2015
LT CEO SUMMIT & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES:
Growing and Sustaining your Business through Language Technologies

08.30 - 09.00 Registration
09.00 - 09.45

Launching the LTI Cloud
Luc Meertens, CrossLang - Robert Etches, TextMinded - Jochen Hummel, ESTeam (presentation)
See call for collaboration

09.45 - 10.30

Challenge 1: Christian Dirschl, Chief Content Architect, Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH - Respondent: Enrico Giannotti, Cedat 85

10.30 - 11.15

Coffee Break

11.15 - 12.00

Challenge 2: Florence Beaujard, Head of Linguistics and Physiology for Cockpit Design, Airbus

12.00 - 13.30

Walking Lunch

13.30 - 14.15

Challenge 3: Armin Hopp, Founder, Speexx - Respondent: Joachim Van den Bogaert, CrossLang

14.15 - 15.00

Challenge 4: Christophe Leclercq, Founder, Euractiv & David Mekkaoui, Director, Foundation EurActiv - Respondents: Andrzej Zydrón, XTM & Rihards Kalnins, Tilde

15.00 - 15.30

Keynote
Alexander De Croo, Belgian Federal Vice-prime Minister and Minister for Development Cooperation, the Digital Agenda, Telecommunications and Post

15.45 - 17.00

LT-Innovate Ltd. Annual General Meeting (open only to LT-Innovate full members) - (ROOM B)

The LTI Cloud - How it Works in Practice: Robert Etches, Jochen Hummel & Luc Meertens

Approval of Accounts
Election / Confirmation of the Board of Directors
Approval of Officers

Philippe Wacker, Secretary General

17.00

End of Programme