Taking your Emoji from Concept to Unicode

Speaker: Alolita Sharma, Unicode Consortium

Topic Description:

Anyone can submit a proposal for encoding an emoji character for the World to use. This talk will guide you through the process of submitting your emoji idea to Unicode for standardization. The talk will also reveal selection factors considered by Unicode technical reviewers as well as offer tips and examples to put together a great proposal.

No webcast/livestream or recording. Please join us in person!

Agenda

Networking 6:30 - 7:00 PM
Presentation 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Q&A, Networking 8:00 - 9:00 PM

Parking: In the building.

Speaker Bio:

Alolita wants to see core non-Latin languages fully represented on the Web. She believes the way forward depends on the adoption of open source and open standards like Unicode. Alolita is a board director of the Unicode Consortium which serves a vital role in language standardization and bridging the digital divide. She is also principal technologist enabling open source at Amazon Web Services. Previously, she headed internationalization, localization and NLP engineering teams at PayPal, Twitter, Wikipedia. She holds multiple degrees in Computer Science and mentors women engineers and advises startups.