Andrejs Vasiļjevs
Executive Chairman
Tilde
Riga, Latvia
About me
Andrejs Vasiļjevs is the co-founder and a board member of Tilde, a European language technology company renowned for its expertise in machine translation and other AI-based technologies for linguistically complex languages. His work involves fostering collaboration between industry and academia to advance multilingual solutions across Europe. He has led the creation of the terminology portal EuroTermBank and the machine translation platform LetsMT, and initiated the national language technology platform NLTP.
Andrejs serves on the boards of the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance (META-NET) and the European Big Data Value Association (BDVA), and he chairs the Knowledge Society Program Council of the Latvian National Commission for UNESCO. Andrejs earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Latvia and has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Academy of Sciences of Latvia. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 research papers on terminology management, machine translation, language data, and other developments in language technology.
My organisation
Tilde is one of the leading European language technology companies. With impactful solutions, innovative research, and passionate people, we’ve supported languages in the digital age and enabled multilingual communication since 1991.
Speaker sessions (1)
Friday, 8 November 2024
11:55 - 13:00
The EU and the rapid developments in Generative AI
- AI
- Technology
- genAI
What is the EU doing to Europe’s digital autonomy and technical sovereignty? What specifically is being done in the field of language technologies and what does this mean for the language industry?