Andrejs Vasiļjevs is the co-founder and executive chairman of a leading European language technology and localization company Tilde. He drives innovation and fosters large scale industry and academia collaboration to advance multilingual solutions for digital Europe. He serves as a board member of the BDVA and deputy chair of Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance META-NET. Andrejs has received a PhD degree in computer sciences from the University of Latvia and is an Honorary Doctor of the Academy of Sciences of Latvia.