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