Rihards Kalniņš is a business development manager at Tilde, a leading European language technology company specializing in custom machine translation. In 2015, he managed the development of a multilingual communication tool and large-scale machine translation service for the EU Presidency. Rihards serves in an active role in the European Language Resource Coordination project and organized the European Association of Machine Translation annual conference in spring 2016. A former Fulbright scholar, Rihards holds a BA in philosophy and has written articles on language technology for various publications, including The Guardian and EurActiv.com.