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          <p align="left"> For those who may not have heard... The
            early-bird sign-up special for IUC45 ends this Friday!</p>
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                      alt="Internationalization & Unicode Conference
                      45. October 13-15, 2021 - Santa Clara, CA U.S.A."
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                  <h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Keynote
                      Speaker</strong><br>
                    <strong>Gretchen McCulloch (Linguist,
                      Podcaster & Author)</strong></h3>
                   
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                                    style="color:#000000;">Join us at
                                    IUC 45 as keynote speaker Gretchen
                                    McCulloch (WIRED Resident Linguist,
                                    Lingthusiasm podcast co-creator
                                    & <em>Because Internet: New
                                      Rules of Language</em>
                                    author) presents <em>"Taking
                                      Playfulness Seriously - When
                                      Character Sets Are Used in
                                      Unexpected Ways</em>."<br>
                                    <br>
                                    For over 30 years the IUC has been
                                    the preeminent event highlighting
                                    the latest innovations and best
                                    practices of global and multilingual
                                    software providers. We invite you to
                                    join us in Santa Clara, CA to
                                    promote your ideas and experiences
                                    working with natural languages,
                                    multicultural user interfaces,
                                    producing and supporting
                                    multinational and multilingual
                                    products, linguistic algorithms,
                                    applying internationalization across
                                    mobile and social media platforms,
                                    or advancements in relevant
                                    standards. <br>
                                    <br>
                                    Trained, Tested, Trusted: Understand
                                    best practices in process and among
                                    teams reliably delivering
                                    high-quality global products.
                                    Examine how developers build,
                                    test and deploy great global
                                    products. Explore technologies for
                                    design, localization, multilingual
                                    testing, workflow management, and
                                    content management.<br>
                                    <br>
                                    Expert practitioners and industry
                                    leaders present detailed
                                    recommendations for businesses
                                    looking to expand to new
                                    international markets and those
                                    seeking to improve time to market
                                    and cost-efficiency in supporting
                                    existing markets. Recent conferences
                                    have provided specific advice on
                                    designing software for European
                                    countries, Latin America, China,
                                    India, Japan, Korea, the Middle
                                    East and emerging markets.</span></span></span></p>
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                                  style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">​​​As
                                  we continue to navigate our way
                                  through COVID-19 protocols, we are
                                  starting to finally see some light at
                                  the end of the tunnel! With
                                  ever-increasing awareness, better
                                  understanding, more established
                                  community policies, as well as
                                  accelerating vaccination efforts,
                                  companies are starting to once again
                                  plan for 2021 face-to-face events. IUC
                                  45 will be no different. We will
                                  continue to monitor the severity of
                                  the COVID crisis moving forward and
                                  shift to alternate planning if
                                  necessary. As for now, the goal is to
                                  see everyone face to face in Santa
                                  Clara, CA! Please join us October
                                  13-15, 2021 to celebrate 30 years of
                                  the Unicode Conference.</span></span><br>
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                                      style="color:black">Track and
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                                        style="color:#549bde">Architecture</span></span></span></span></li>
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                  <font size="1"><b>About The Unicode Consortium</b><br>
                    The Unicode®Consortium is a non-profit organization
                    founded to develop, extend and promote use of the
                    Unicode Standard and related globalization
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                      Apple, Google, Government of Bangladesh,
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                      California (Berkeley), The University of
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