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LDS Country Workshop in Croatia

The European Language Data Space, UniZg – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Croatian Language Technology Society are bringing together experts from the Croatian Industry, Public Administration and Research to discuss the importance of language data for the development of Language Technologies and AI-based tools in Croatia.

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  • digital single market | large language model | natural language processing | artificial intelligence
  • Friday 17 October 2025, 09:30 (CEST)
  • Zagreb, Croatia

Programme

  1. 17 Oct 2025, 09:00 - 09:30 (CEST)
    Registration
  2. 09:30 - 09:40 (CEST)
    Welcome and introduction

    Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Presenter)
    Miljenko Hajnić, Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and
    Digital Transformation (Opening)

  3. 09:40 - 10:10 (CEST)
    The Digital Europe Programme and the Common European Language Data Space

    Dhafer Lahbib, European Commission

  4. 10:10 - 10:40 (CEST)
    European Language Data Space: developing a market for language data and services and benefitting from a joint European effort

    Georg Rehm, DFKI and LDS Coordinator

  5. 10:40 - 11:00 (CEST)
    Croatia in the Digital Decade, the role of Language Data Space and future in ALT-EDIC

    Ivan Penava, Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Digital Transformation, Croatian representative at the Digital Decade Board

  6. 11:00 - 11:20 (CEST)
    Coffee break
  7. 11:20 - 12:20 (CEST)
    Language data production, management, and market development: overcoming obstacles – Panel session

    Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Moderator)

    Ivan Penava, Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Digital Transformation
    Ismena Meić, Zagreb City Libraries
    Mladen Stojak, Ciklopea Ltd.

  8. 12:20 - 12:40 (CEST)
    The importance of language data for the development of LT solutions: ALT-EDIC perspective

    Edouard Geoffrois, ALT-EDIC, director

  9. 12:40 - 13:30 (CEST)
    Lunch break
  10. 13:30 - 14:00 (CEST)
    New version of the National Language Technology Platform (NLTP)

    Didzis Kļaviņš, Tilde, Riga, Latvia

  11. 14:00 - 14:20 (CEST)
    The importance of language and speech data for speech applications: examples from Newton Technologies

    Luka Patarčić, Newton Technologies Adria

  12. 14:20 - 15:00 (CEST)
    The importance of developing LLMs for less-resourced languages and their industrial application – Panel session

    Daša Farkaš, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Moderator)

    Didzis Kļaviņš, Tilde, Riga, Latvia
    Mladen Fernežir, Velebit AI, Ltd.
    Gaurish Thakkar, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

  13. 15:00 - 15:30 (CEST)
    Conclusions – Language data requirements and offerings: Do They Converge? (Q/A)

    Daša Farkaš and Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Moderators)

  15. 15:30 - 16:00 (CEST)
    Coffee break and networking

Practical information

When
Friday 17 October 2025, 09:30 (CEST)
Where
House of Europe
Augusta Cesarca 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Who should attend
The workshop is open to everybody and is mainly addressed to data owners and data providers, LT developers and SMEs, as well as to public administration executives, officers and partners.
Languages
Croatian, English
Organisers
UniZg - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Croatian Language Technology Society | European Language Data Space
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Description

LDS Country Workshop Croatia
Picture: © Pixabay/Marko Tomic