Language Technology Landscape Conference

18 June 2024
Online

The Language Technology Landscape Conference disseminates the findings from the first year of the Market Study conducted by Nimdzi Insights.

About

Nimdzi Insights and its partners are conducting a comprehensive Market Study on Language Technologies for the European Commission to assess the development, quality, and global impact of language technologies globally and in Europe. The Language Technology Landscape Conference will provide the study's interim results, including the trends in the language technology market, focusing on foundational, text-based, and speech-based language technologies. This all-day online event will be hosted on WebEx, with keynote speakers from the European Commission and Nimdzi Insights, and guest appearances from both the buyer and technology provider sides.

Who Should Attend

The conference is intended to disseminate the interim results of the Market Study. As such, all actors in the language technology space are invited to attend: developers, buyers, and users of language technologies in the private and public sector all over the world and in Europe.

The conference will be hosted on WebEx in collaboration with the European Commission’s CONNECT University. The conference will be recorded, and the recordings will be published on the European Commission’s channels. All times indicated are in CEST time zone.

Program

Time	Presentation
10:00-10:30	Welcome & Keynotes Hosts: June Lowery-Kingston, Laszlo K. Varga Keynotes: Renate Nikolay, Renato Beninatto Welcome address and introduction to the conference theme & agenda Keynote from the European Commission: Commitment to advancing language technologies and multilingualism Keynote from Nimdzi Insights: Navigating language tech horizons
10:30-11:00	The Landscape of Language Technology Speakers: Laszlo K. Varga Key insights presented from the first year of the Market Study on Language Technologies. Untangling the web of interconnected language technologies. Market segments, money making models, facts and predictions. The role of (Gen)AI and the role of Big Tech companies. How data, talent, and computing power drive the development of language technologies.
11:10-12:00	Multilingualism of European Websites and the Technology Solutions Supporting It Speakers: Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Aivars Berzins Insights from a market research regarding the multilingualism of websites in Europe, exploring the aspects of: How multilingual are European websites? Which technology capabilities enable this level of multilingualism? How are CMS, TMS, MT, and plugin solutions orchestrated to support multilingual websites? What are the user preferences for automated translation solutions for websites in Europe?
	Lunch Break
13:30-14:20	Large Language Models and Foundational Language Technologies Speakers: Laszlo K. Varga, Nadezda Jakubkova LLMs in Europe and around the globe. Overview of the market and key actors by categories. Recent developments and innovations. Future outlook.
14:25-15:15	Text-based Language Technologies Speakers: Laszlo K. Varga, Jourik Ciesielski Machine translation, content generation, OCR, and alternative inputs. Overview of the market and key actors by categories. Recent developments and innovations. Future outlook.
	Break
15:35-16:25	Speech-Based Language Technologies Speakers: Laszlo K. Varga, Igor Szoke, Radim Kudla Speech-to-text and back to speech. Chatbots, machine interpreting, voice cloning. Overview of the market and key actors by categories. Recent developments and innovations. Future outlook.
16:30-17:00	Closing Speakers: Laszlo K. Varga, June Lowery-Kingston What's next for language technologies and the 2nd year of the Market Study.

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

	Renate Nikolay Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), European Commission
	Renato Beninatto Co-Founder, Advisor, Nimdzi Insight

Hosts and speakers

	June Lowery-Kingston Head of Unit "Accessibility, Multilingualism & Safer Internet", Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), European Commission
	Laszlo K. Varga Lead Researcher and Analyst, Nimdzi Insights
	Andrejs Vasiljevs Co-Founder and Executive Board Member, Tilde
	Aivars Berzins Project Director, Tilde
	Igor Szoke Post-doc Researcher, Brno University of Technology
	Radim Kudla Technology Transfer Manager, Brno University of Technology