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Do you have knowledge or experience with creating global software that will benefit others? Join other experts and industry leaders and present your ideas at The Thirty-seventh Internationalization & Unicode® Conference (IUC 37), taking place in Santa Clara, Calif., USA; October 21-23, 2013. This is the premier conference on technologies and practices for the creation and management of global and multilingual software solutions. The Unicode Consortium hosts this event annually, and the conference is recognized for its excellent technical content, industry-tested recommendations and updates on the latest standards. Topics from previous conferences can be found on the IUC 37 website. Submit your proposals for presentations or tutorials regarding case studies, best practices, innovative technology, or evolving standards. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to: Application Areas • Designing software platforms, operating systems, software as a service (SAAS), or programming environments • Social networks • Search engines, SEO, discovery and navigation best practices • Websites and web services • Libraries and education • Mobile applications including iPhone, Android, iPad, Kindle, Windows Mobile, tablets, etc. • Game, Cable Boxes, and other platforms • Publishing and broadcasting for a global audience • Security concerns and practices • Voice to text, text to voice • Machine translation General Techniques • Advances in technologies, algorithms or methodologies • Using internationalization libraries and programming environments • Handling bidirectional or other complex scripts • Locales and the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) • Font development and Typography Managing Global Software Development and Geographically Distributed Teams • Project management and methodologies e.g. Agile • Best practices in localization process and technology • Best practices in world-ready development, testing, and deployment • Improving globalization capabilities within organizations • Approaches for migrating legacy applications to global markets Evolving Standards and Related Practices • Endangered or Unencoded Languages • Case studies and research on cross-culture communication • Internationalized Domain Names and other identifiers • Languages of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East • ISO language tag topics • HTML5, CSS3, and modern browser topics • Dealing with data formats: XML, JSON, HTML5, DITA, and upcoming standards • Unicode, encodings, scripts, character properties, and algorithms • Emoji support   Tutorial presenters receive complimentary conference registration, and two nights lodging. Session presenters receive a fifty percent conference discount and two nights lodging. To be considered as a presenter for the conference, please submit a brief abstract by the deadline of Friday, March 29th.  The Program Committee will notify authors by Friday, May 3rd. Final presentation materials will be required from selected presenters by Friday, July 20th.

IUC 37: Save The Date - Oct 21-23, 2013

The Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC) is the premier event covering the latest in industry standards and best practices for bringing software and Web applications to worldwide markets. This annual event focuses on software and Web globalization, bringing together internationalization experts, tools vendors, software implementers, and business and program managers from around the world.

Expert practitioners and industry leaders present detailed recommendations for businesses looking to expand to new international markets and those seeking to improve time to market and cost-efficiency of supporting existing markets. Recent conferences have provided specific advice on designing software for European countries, Latin America, China, India, Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and emerging markets.

This highly rated conference features excellent technical content, industry-tested recommendations and updates on the latest standards and technology. Subject areas include cloud computing, upgrading to HTML5, integrating with social networking software, and implementing mobile apps. This year's conference will also highlight new features in Unicode Version 6.1 and other relevant standards published this year.
Reasons to Attend Include:

• Tutorials and sessions for beginners, to train you and your staff on basic practices and implementation techniques for creating international software
• Learn recommended solutions to difficult problems or sophisticated requirements from industry leaders and experts in attendance
• Find help from tool and product vendors to get you to market quickly and cost-effectively