Welcome to the Digital Language Sovereignty – Euskadi–Finland AI & Language workshop, which brings together researchers and experts from Finland and the Basque Country (Euskadi) to discuss current developments and future opportunities in artificial intelligence and language technologies.
The event is free of charge and will take place at the University of Helsinki, City Centre Campus, on 22 April 2026 from 9:00 to 16:00.

During the day, we will address topics including:

• digital language sovereignty

• low-resource languages

• language models, datasets, and research infrastructures

• industry perspectives and knowledge transfer

The workshop is aimed at researchers and doctoral students, language specialists, representatives of public administration, and professionals working with AI and language models.

Register by 14.4. via the event page: https://euskorpora.eus/en/evento/workshop-digital-language-sovereignty-euskadi-finland-ai-language-workshop/

Speakers:

• Krister Lindén – Kielipankki, The Language Bank of Finland

• Leire Barañano – Euskorpora

• Sampo Pyysalo – OpenEuroLLM & University of Turku

• Elaine Zosa – AMD Silo AI

• Jörg Tiedemann – University of Helsinki

• Mikko Kurimo – Aalto University

• Eneko Agirre – Hitz Center, University of the Basque Country

• Arantza del Pozo – Vicomtech

• Jussi Karlgren  & Maria Barret – AMD Silo AI

• Tiina Lindh-Knuutila – Lingsoft

• Xabier García de Kortazar – Trebe

• Xabier Sarasola – Elhuyar