Translating Europe Forum 2024

6–8 Nov 2024 | Brussels, Belgium

Andrejs Vasiljevs

Executive Chairman

Tilde

Riga, Latvia

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About

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.

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Speaker sessions (1)

Friday, 8 November 2024

11:55 - 13:00

The EU’s response to the rapid developments in Generative AI

Format:Live stream
Track:
Plenary session
  • 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?