Andris Bērziņš
Andris Bērziņš
President of Latvia
The Riga Summit on the Multilingual Digital Single Market will gather an impressive range of speakers from various sectors and industries, including EU public institutions, European business, key global media, and leading language service providers.
The speakers* at the Summit will share their own experiences in the fields of language technology, cross-border services, multilingual content, and EU innovation, as well as help to craft the agenda for creating a truly multilingual digital single market in Europe.
*List of speakers will be updated
Speakers
Agustín Da Fieno Delucchi
Agustín Da Fieno Delucchi
Microsoft, Senior PM Manager – Global Readiness
Aleksandra Wesolowska
Aleksandra Wesolowska
Project Officer, European Commission, DG Connect
Alexander Waibel
Alexander Waibel
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Professor of Computer Science
Algirdas Saudargas
Algirdas Saudargas
Member of European Parliament
Andreas Goerdeler
Andreas Goerdeler
Deputy Director General for “Information Society, Media,” German Federal Ministry of Economics
Andrejs Vasiļjevs
Andrejs Vasiļjevs
Tilde, CEO
Andrzej Zydroń
Andrzej Zydroń
XTM International, CTO
Anne-Marie Colliander Lind
Anne-Marie Colliander Lind
Inkrea.se, CEO
Antoine Isaac
Antoine Isaac
Europeana, R&D Director
António Branco
António Branco
University of Lisbon, professor
Arle Lommel
Arle Lommel
DFKI, Senior Consultant
Asunción Gómez-Pérez
Asunción Gómez-Pérez
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Professor
Ben Koeleman
Ben Koeleman
YAYANGO GmbH, CIO
Carsten Schmidt
Carsten Schmidt
project director, e-SENS
Christoph Prinz
Christoph Prinz
SAIL LABS Technology, Founder and Managing Director
Christophe Leclercq
Christophe Leclercq
EurActiv, Founder
Christopher Pyne
Christopher Pyne
SAP SE, Senior Manager, Partner Development
Dace Melbārde
Dace Melbārde
Minister of Culture, Republic of Latvia
Daiva Vaišnienė
Daiva Vaišnienė
Chairperson, State Commission of Lithuanian Language
David Filip
David Filip
University of Limerick, Research Fellow
David Lewis
David Lewis
Trinity College Dublin, Director of KDEG
Delyth Prys
Delyth Prys
Bangor University Wales, Head of Language Technologies
Dennis Tan
Dennis Tan
Verisign, Senior Product Manager
Edgars Rinkēvičs
Edgars Rinkēvičs
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Latvia
Felix Sasaki
Felix Sasaki
DFKI, Senior Researcher, W3C Fellow
Fernando Serván
Fernando Serván
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Internet and Internal Communications
Gatis Ozols
Gatis Ozols
Head of eServices Unit, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Latvia
Georg Rehm
Georg Rehm
DFKI, Senior Consultant, META-NET, Network Manager and CRACKER, Coordinator
Gudrún Magnúsdóttir
Gudrún Magnúsdóttir
CSO, ESTeam
Han-Teng Liao
Han-Teng Liao
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Hans Uszkoreit
Hans Uszkoreit
DFKI, Scientific Director, META-NET, Chair
Harolds Celms
Harolds Celms
Publications Office of the European Union, Director
Holly Young
Holly Young
The Guardian, journalist
Ilan Kernerman
Ilan Kernerman
K Dictionaries, CEO
Jan Hajič
Jan Hajič
Charles University in Prague, professor
Jan Nelson
Jan Nelson
Microsoft, Senior Program Manager
Jānis Kārkliņš
Jānis Kārkliņš
Internet Governance Forum, Chair of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group
Jānis Ziediņš
Jānis Ziediņš
Project manager, Culture Information Systems Centre
Jennifer Edmond
Jennifer Edmond
Trinity College Dublin, Director of Strategic Projects
Jochen Hummel
Jochen Hummel
ESTeam, CEO
John Judge
John Judge
Research Integration Coordinator, ADAPT Centre for Digital Content and Media Innovation
Josef van Genabith
Josef van Genabith
Scientific Director for Multilingual Technologies, DFKI
Juliane Stiller
Juliane Stiller
Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin Humboldt University
Kadri Vider
Kadri Vider
Executive Manager, Center of Estonian Language Resources
Kaspars Gerhards
Kaspars Gerhards
Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia
Khalid Choukri
Khalid Choukri
ELRA General Secretary & ELDA CEO
Laure Le Bars
Laure Le Bars
SAP Research Partners & Startups, Research project director
Leonid Glazychev
Leonid Glazychev
Logrus International Corp., CEO
Loic Dufresne de Virel
Loic Dufresne de Virel
Intel Corporation, Localization Strategist
Lolita Čigāne
Lolita Čigāne
Head of the Committee of European Affairs, Parliament of Latvia
Márta Nagy-Rothengass
Márta Nagy-Rothengass
European Commission, DG Connect
Matthias Heyn
Matthias Heyn
VP Global Solutions, SDL
Meirion Prys Jones
Meirion Prys Jones
European Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity, Chief Executive
Nicoletta Calzolari
Nicoletta Calzolari
President of European Language Resource Association (ELRA), Director of Research at ILC CNR
Paige Williams
Paige Williams
Microsoft, Director of Global Readiness
Peggy van der Kreeft
Peggy van der Kreeft
Deutsche Welle, Innovation Manager, New Media
Phil Ritchie
Phil Ritchie
Vistatec, Chief Technology Officer
Philipp Cimiano
Philipp Cimiano
CITEC Bielefeld University, Head of the Semantic Computing Group
Philippe Wacker
Philippe Wacker
LT-Innovate, Secretary General
Prodromos Tsiavos
Prodromos Tsiavos
London School of Economics
Rebecca Jonsson
Rebecca Jonsson
Artificial Solutions, Chief Researcher
Rebecca Petras
Rebecca Petras
Translators Without Borders, Program Director
Rickard Domeij
Rickard Domeij
Language Council of Sweden, Language planner with responsibility for language technology
Robert Dale
Robert Dale
ARRIA NLG, CTO
Robert Etches
Robert Etches
TextMinded, CIO
Robert Lane Greene
Robert Lane Greene
The Economist, journalist
Roberto Navigli
Roberto Navigli
Sapienza University of Rome, Professor
Rodolfo Maslias
Rodolfo Maslias
European Parliament, Head of Terminology Coordination
Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen
Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen
Danish Language Council, Director
Spyridon Pilos
Spyridon Pilos
European Commission, DG Translation, Head of Language Applications
Stelios Piperidis
Stelios Piperidis
Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Senior Researcher
Steve Renals
Steve Renals
University of Edinburgh, Professor
Steven Krauwer
Steven Krauwer
CLARIN ERIC, Executive Director
Tamás Váradi
Tamás Váradi
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, head of the Department of Language Technology and Applied Linguistics
Tatiana Gornostay
Tatiana Gornostay
Business Development Manager, Tilde
Thibault Grouas
Thibault Grouas
Ministry of Culture and Communication, General Delegation for French and the languages of France
Thibault Lesénécal
Thibault Lesénécal
European Parliament, Head of Web Communications Unit
