Steven Loomis, a member of IBM’s Global Foundations Technology Team for nearly 20 years, is the technical lead for the International Components for Unicode for C/C++, IBM’s primary representative to Unicode Technical Committee and the chair of the ULI Technical Committee. He was a cofounder of the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository project, and develops and maintains its survey tool data collection application. Past speaking engagements include NodeSummit, JavaOne, the IUC conferences, the International Mac Users Group, the Localization Certification Program of CSU Chico, as well as internal IBM events. Steven’s hobbies include Maltese language advocacy.