The European Language Data Space is bringing together experts from the Romanian industry, public administration, and research to discuss the importance of language data for the development of language technologies and AI-based tools in Romania.
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- digital single market | artificial intelligence | large language model | natural language processing
- Thursday 17 September 2026, 09:00 - 17:00 (EEST)
- Bucharest, Romania
Programme
- 17 Sep 2026, 09:00 - 09:20 (EEST)Registration
- 09:20 - 09:30 (EEST)Welcome by the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
Florin Pop
UNSTPB - 09:30 - 09:40 (EEST)Welcome by the chairman of the National Research Authority
Andrei Alexandru
ANC - 09:40 - 09:50 (EEST)Welcome by the Authority for the Digitization of Romania
Răzvan Hoinaru
ADR - 09:50 - 10:00 (EEST)Welcome by Romanian Academy and Introduction
Dan Tufiș
ICIA, RACAI4Ro - 10:00 - 10:30 (EEST)Welcome by the European Commission: The Digital Europe Programme and the Common European Language Data Space
Philippe Gelin
DG CONNECT, European Commission - 10:30 - 11:00 (EEST)The Alliance for Language Technologies
Edouard Geoffrois
ALT-EDIC - 11:00 - 11:30 (EEST)Coffee Break
- 11:30 - 12:00 (EEST)European Language Data Space: developing a market for language data and services and benefitting from a joint European effort
Khalid Choukri
ELDA/LDS - 12:00 - 12:30 (EEST)Language Data and Language Technologies in Romania and for the Romanian Language - Panel session
Moderator: Verginica Barbu Mititelu, ICIA, RACAI4Ro
Ruxandra-Maria Caba, CrowdStrike
Mihai Dascălu, UNSTPB
Vasile Păiș, ADOBE, ICIA
Christian Schuster, UBB
George Suciu, BEIA Consulting
- 12:30 - 13:30 (EEST)Lunch break
- 13:30 - 14:00 (EEST)The importance of language data for the development of LT solutions - future steps
Radu Ion
ICIA, RACAI4Ro - 14:00 - 14:30 (EEST)Language data production, management, and market development: overcoming obstacles – Panel session
Moderator: Vasile Păiș
Adrian Bănărescu, Termene.ro
Bogdan Ciurezu, DATNGO
Eduard Dumitrașcu, ARSC
Augustin Jianu, CERTSign
Dănuț Maftei, DNSC
Traian Rebedea, NVIDIA, UNSTPB - 14:30 - 14:35 (EEST)Conclusions
Dan Tufiș
ICIA - 14:35 - 15:00 (EEST)Coffee break and networking
Practical information
- When
- Thursday 17 September 2026, 09:00 - 17:00 (EEST)
- Where
- PRECIS Center, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA BucharestBulevardul Iuliu Maniu, 6D, 061344 Bucharest, Romania
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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