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.

The Program Committee is soliciting proposals for presentations that describe cases studies, best practices, effective software design, innovative technology, or important standards. Tutorial presentations are also welcome. 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.
	Publishing and broadcasting for a global audience
	Internationalized Domain Names and other identifiers
	Security concerns and practices
	Voice to text, text to voice
	Machine translation
	Unicode, encodings, scripts, character properties, and algorithms

General Techniques

	Advances in technologies, algorithms or methodologies
	Using internationalization libraries and programming environments
	Handling bidirectional or other complex scripts
	HTML5 and HTML5-based applications
	Dealing with data formats: XML, JSON, HTML5, DITA, and upcoming standards
	Project management and methodologies for global development teams e.g. Agile
	Best practices in localization process and technology
	Best practices in world-ready development, test, and deployment
	Improving globalization capabilities within organizations
	Approaches for migrating legacy applications to global markets
	Font development and Typography

Culture and Technology

	Endangered Languages
	Unencoded Languages
	Case studies and research on cross-culture communication
	Digital Divide
	ISO language tag issues

Regional Considerations

	Languages of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
	Locales and the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)
	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, May 18th.

The Program Committee will notify authors by Friday, June 1st. Final presentation materials will be required from selected presenters by Friday, August 3.