Sylvia Herlein Leite who will not be able to join as a speaker for health reasons and will be replaced by Harold Arcos.
Ilona Stadnik will replace Natalia Filina as remote moderator.
Both additional participants belong to the same stakeholder groups and geopolitical areas of the original participants.
The scheduled speakers are:
John Klensin has a wide technical background that includes contributions to the protocols for internationalized domain names and email addresses.
He will provide an overview of the most important issues that are barriers to entry for new people or greater use - local languages, difficulties of translation, writing systems including insufficient rendering of text, difference in culture, etc.
Abdalmonem Tharwat Galila has the experience of Government, working for the Telecom Regulatory Authority in Egypt.
He will speak about Universal Acceptance of Internationalized Domain Names and Internationalized Email Addresses, touching also on the additional problems related to a the right-to-left writing system.
Maria Kolesnikova has the experience of ccTLDs, including that is in non-Latin script, and of an Eastern European country..
She will speak about the user experience in different contexts, for instance about the possible differences between the ASCII .ru and the Cyrillic .рф, but also in relation to social media.
Harold Arcos is the president of an Internet users association in Venezuela.
He will speak about the use of local languages on the Internet and in particular about indigenous languages in Latin America.