Thursday, June 11, 2026, 09:00–15:00
EITB Headquarters – Bizkaia, Basque Country
Organizers:
Euskorpora
Location:
EITB Headquarters, Bizkaia
Multibox Room, main floor
About the Event
The Euskorpora Annual Event is designed to become a European reference space in the field of artificial intelligence and language technologies, with a special focus on low-resourced languages and placing the strategic value of the Basque language at the center of AI development.
The event presentations will be delivered in English, Basque and Spanish, and simultaneous interpretation will be available at all times between the three languages.
The growing importance of AI in this field raises key challenges around data, governance, and the development of language models, especially for less-resourced languages. This event brings together European and Basque ecosystem stakeholders —companies, institutions, and the academic community— to analyze the current state of the sector, share experiences, and generate new collaboration opportunities.
The program is structured around two main blocks:
European perspective: policies, strategies, legal framework, market, and company/country cases
Local ecosystem: capabilities, needs, and real applications related to the Basque language
The event aims to strengthen Euskorpora’s role as a connection point between these areas, enabling knowledge transfer and generating real impact in the development of AI for the Basque language.
The event is aimed at professionals in AI and language technologies, institutional representatives, companies, researchers, and ecosystem stakeholders.
Registration
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required.
Registration form:
https://forms.gle/7FrFMBAw3HiXNop2A
Registration deadlines: June 8, 2026, until 11:59 PM
Programme
08:30 Registration
09:00 Welcome
09:10 – 09:20 Institutional Opening – Basque Government
9:20 – 9:35 An Evolution with Impact and a Future
Leire Barañano – General Director, Euskorpora
09:40 – 10:00 Perspectives on AI and Language Technologies in the European context
Georg Rehm – Principal Researcher and Research Fellow at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
10:05 – 10:25 Legal perspective on data management and governance
Khalid Choukri – CEO of ELDA and Secretary General of ELRA, specialized in language resources for language technologies and AI evaluation
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
EUROPE BLOCK – Cases (11:00 – 12:15)
European companies:
- Andrejs Vasiljevs – CEO of Tilde
European countries – Small countries in the AI era:
- Krister Lindén – Research Director, Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki (Finland)
- Steinþór Steingrímsson – Research Assistant Professor, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (Iceland)
BASQUE COUNTRY BLOCK – Local Ecosystem (12:15 – 13:30)
Leire Barañano – General Director, Euskorpora
- Andres Urrutia – President of Euskaltzaindia & Miriam Urkia – Research Director and Gipuzkoa representative
- Jon Telletxea – Director of Data, AI and Innovation at EITB
- Iñaki Gorostidi – General Director of Logikaline
- Mikel Echebarria – Head of AI and digital transformation in the workplace at Laboral Kutxa
13:40 – 14:00 Closing and conclusions
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch & Networking
15:00 – 15:30 Optional visit to EITB
