40th Internationalization and Unicode Conference

I'll start, and could almost end, my post with this tweet:

#IUC40 ended today. It was incredibly pleasing to see many old faces, and some new ones. Next up, #UTC149, next week. 🍷

— Ken Lunde (小林剣) (@ken_lunde) November 4, 2016

Yes, that exactly. November 1-3, 2016 was the 40^th Unicode conference. They used to be twice a year, in multiple locations, as in, outside of Santa Clara, California, USA.

Now that the conference is over, I’ll have to take some time to view slides from all of the other great presentations I missed while giving a personal record number of talks (long story), apart from the lightning talks which were apparently not recorded.

The conference, and Unicode in general, is about people. It is always great to see so many folks I've kept up with over the years… including of course my fellow IBMers from many time zones away.

Off the top of my head, the important technical (besides personal) conversations I've had include:

• our Globalization Pipeline service
• CLDR … ICU … ULI
• Keyboards
• Node.js
• Greek casing
• …and even a little emoji discussion

Next week : IBM is hosting UTC 149 !