30 Mar 2026
ESTeam CEO Jochen Hummel participated as a panelist at JIAMCATT 2026 in Brussels, which brings together leading language professionals from the European Commission, the United Nations, NATO, and other major international organisations to shape the future of language technology in institutional settings.
This year’s vision panel — “Language Intelligence for Citizen-Centred Public Administration” — set the agenda for how AI-powered language services can transform the way governments interact with citizens. The panel was framed around a position paper by LT-Innovate. The paper identifies five concrete ways language intelligence can serve the public sector: understanding citizens; ensuring multilingual equity; simplifying bureaucratic language; enabling proactive service delivery; and personalising communication. All five capabilities share a common prerequisite — curated, trustworthy multilingual knowledge and data at the foundation.
Jochen’s contribution introduced the central paradigm shift. Today, government language departments are ensuring that official content reaches citizens in all their languages. Valuable work, but mono-directional. GenAI changes the equation fundamentally. As translation becomes increasingly automated, language professionals have an opportunity to take on a new strategic role — enabling governments to understand citizens when they speak back, in queries, service requests, and dialogue with AI-powered public services. This shift, from pages to knowledge, means language departments evolve into stewards of a language foundation rather than processors of documents.
The key enabler is LangOps: Language Operations, is a crucial intersection of multilingual communication and artificial intelligence (AI), ensuring businesses communicate effectively with their customers across global markets. This is als true for governments, who need a language infrastructure to serve and understand their citizens accurately and equitably across all languages.
ESTeam’s LangOps Core provides the framework and tooling to make this transition practical — from inventorying linguistic assets to structuring them as multilingual knowledge graphs and connecting them to AI stacks via APIs and MCP interfaces.
2 Mar 2026
ESTeam AB has signed a partnership agreement with the Merantix AI Campus in Berlin, joining Europe’s largest AI ecosystem to advance multilingual AI innovation and strengthen collaboration between AI-first companies, corporate leaders, and the broader European AI community.
Since 2016, Merantix has established and scaled Europe’s largest AI ecosystem with its Merantix AI Campus in Berlin and the London AI Hub in the UK, hosting over 100 AI teams and attracting 100,000 visitors annually. With 300+ events per year, the Merantix AI Campus brings together bright minds — from cutting-edge startups to research institutions, investors, regulators, and technology leaders — to shape the future of AI.
As AI agents and autonomous systems become central to enterprise operations, the challenge is no longer just deploying models, it is providing them with the right multilingual context. This is where LangOps becomes a critical strategy. By bringing LangOps into the Merantix AI Campus community, ESTeam will actively drive the multilingual AI conversation within Europe’s most vibrant AI ecosystem. ESTeam aims to connect with other corporate leaders for peer-to-peer exchange on their AI innovation journeys. By leveraging the Campus’s high-quality ecosystem and community visibility, ESTeam strategically solidifies its brand as a credible thought leader and proactive partner in driving AI innovation.
Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam AB, comments: “AI is transforming every industry, but true global impact requires multilingual capabilities from day one. Our partnership with the Merantix AI Campus positions ESTeam at the center of Europe’s AI community, where we can demonstrate that LangOps is an essential infrastructure for any AI project with international ambitions.”
11 Mar 2025
ESTeam proudly announces the launch of LangOps Core, the groundbreaking application layer for multilingual AI at scale. As enterprises face growing demands to communicate with all their customers seamlessly across languages, LangOps Core stands as the pioneering LangOps platform, capable of supporting any multilingual AI initiative across departments.
LangOps Core is built on three foundational pillars:
- Knowledge (Coreon): At the heart of LangOps Core is Coreon, an advanced multilingual knowledge graph solution. Coreon structures domain knowledge into a comprehensive, centralized resource, allowing organizations to unify and manage concepts and taxonomies seamlessly across languages.
- Data (Content Repository): Moving beyond traditional translation memory systems, LangOps Core features a multilingual content repository that captures and retains entire documents, preserving vital structural and contextual information. Enabling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), this repository ensures high-quality multilingual content is continuously improved and contextually reused.
- Large Language Models (LLMs): LangOps Core incorporates state-of-the-art Large Language Models fine-tuned specifically with organizational data and lingo. Fine-tuning leverages curated data, ensuring accurate, context-aware, and culturally nuanced AI outputs that significantly reduce the risk of inaccuracies or “hallucinations.”
At the heart of LangOps Core is the innovative Language Factory, an intelligent orchestration layer that automates multilingual content production, streamlines workflows, and maintains consistent, brand-aligned translations. By seamlessly integrating with various AI technologies and content systems, the Language Factory ensures all linguistic assets remain synchronized and continuously refines LLM performance based on real-world feedback.
Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam, highlights the transformative potential of the platform: “ESTeam’s LangOps Core significantly boosts efficiency in content creation and translation processes while serving as the indispensable hub for all multilingual AI activities. The investment-friendly LangOps Core foundation layer gives enterprises a quick and easy entry into the rewarding world of multilingual AI. ”
LangOps Core uniquely harnesses linguistic data generated from content creation and translation processes, turning these into linguistic assets that become your enterprise’s centralized hub for multilingual AI. Designed specifically to address the needs of content and localization managers, AI project leads, and digital transformation departments, LangOps Core ensures your organization is ideally positioned to thrive in today’s global marketplace.
14 Feb 2025
ESTeam AB, in consortium with Semantix A/S, has been awarded a prestigious contract by the Publications Office of the European Union. The contract, with a maximum value of EUR 2,860,000, will cover editorial assistance for the production, translation, and maintenance of the Summaries of EU legislation.
The framework contract will span a duration of four years. ESTeam will lead the monitoring and delivery of high-quality summaries and translation of EU legislation. This essential resource is widely consulted across Europe as it provides citizens and businesses with short, easy-to-understand explanations of the main legal acts passed by the EU.
A key aspect of ESTeam’s approach will be the use of cutting-edge AI technology to streamline the production of legal summaries. ESTeam’s Language Operations (LangOps) platform, renowned for combining AI-powered content processing with domain-specific knowledge, will ensure the efficient summarization and translation of complex legislative texts into all EU languages.
ESTeam’s selection for this contract underscores its reputation as a leading provider of AI-powered content services, trusted by blue chip companies and international organizations. ESTeam’s LangOps solutions integrate advanced content repositories, knowledge graphs, and Large Language Models in an multilingual AI application layer. This innovative approach allows ESTeam to handle large-scale content projects with unmatched efficiency, quality, and speed.
“We look forward to a successful collaboration with the Publications Office and Semantix A/S, using our LangOps platform for delivering excellence in AI-powered editorial, translation, and legal content services!” says Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam AB.
1 Mar 2024
In a significant advancement within the public sector, ESTeam AB, in consortium with Semantix A/S, has been awarded three major lots in a recent European Commission call for tender, underscoring their prowess in delivering top-notch language and technological solutions.
The awarded contract, set to span until 2026 with potential extensions for two more years, is poised to significantly augment the consortium’s engagement with the DGT, marking a new era of growth and partnership. “Securing these lots is a testament to our consortium’s dedication to excellence, innovation, and our ability to meet the intricate needs of the public sector,” remarked Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam AB. With this win, the companies have affirmed their positions as leading entities capable of handling large-scale, complex projects with stringent quality and deadline requirements.
The DGT, with its expansive operations in Brussels and Luxembourg, stands as the world’s largest translation service, tasked with a vast array of linguistic duties that support the European Commission’s mission. The success of ESTeam AB and Semantix A/S in this tender not only underscores their expertise in linguistic and technological solutions but also their unwavering commitment to serving the needs of the European community at large.
6 Sep 2023
Listen to and meet our CEO Jochen Hummel at several important conferences this fall. He starts on Sep 12 by giving the keynote at the plusmeta Knowledge Days (plusmeta got recently aquired by Quanos, his topic of Generative AI is crucial for all stakeholders in Tech Doc). The following week on Sep 22 Jochen talks about “LangOps in Industries” in the Language Intelligence track of Semantics/LTI Leipzig.
Jumping from Germany to California, Jochen joins on Oct 10 industry experts in a Localization Institute round table discussing how language factories drive LLM deployment. Two days later Jochen moderates the LocWorld50 keynote panel on the threat, innovation, or myth of ChatGPT replacing us all.
30 Mar 2023
The twelve principles of LangOps have drawn quite some attention. Is LangOps only a new buzzword or does it move language from the fringes to the center of enterprises data processing? For us LangOps is a success strategy for customer-caring enterprises and a career path for aspiring language professionals. LangOps is not just about technology. It’s a set of philosophies, practices, and tools that increase a company’s ability to communicate with its global customer base.
Therefore, LangOps Pioneers get together on March 30 in Berlin’s stunning AXICA Sky Lobby to continue their work on the LangOps Manifesto and to shape the future of multilingual AI. In an unconference style the pioneers give their interpretation of LangOps in elevator pitches, share their thoughts about the future of LangOps, and provide concrete use cases and experiences deploying LangOps.
2 Nov 2022
Unbabel’s Vasco Pedro and João Garcia, Semantix’ Britta Aagaard, and ESTeam/Coreon’s Jochen Hummel presented at LangOps Universe in Lisbon their first draft of the LangOps Manifesto. While it still fits on one page it already lists the twelve core principles of LangOps:
I Understand all customers — II Support all customer facing functions — III Embrace data-centric AI — IV Try AI first — V Respect the human-in-the-loop — VI Expect transparency, control and scalability — VII Process data in real time — VIII Build language-agnostic — IX Promote interdisciplinary knowledge — X Leverage available data and tech — XI Assess quality of AI — XII Be at the forefront!
14-15 Sep 2022
ESTeam CEO Jochen Hummel will head a panel on multilingual AI at this year’s LANGUAGE INTELLIGENCE@WORK in Vienna Sep 14-15. He will discuss with Dr. Jan Oevermann (CEO of plusmeta) and Dr. Thomas Lindemann (CEO of Fyrfeed) how to architecture AI applications so that multilingual does not become an expensive (or impossible) afterthought. Jochen also joins Semantix’ Britta Aagaard and Unbabel’s CTO João Garcia to set forth the future of LangOps.
At the same time and place, the SEMANTiCS conference will enable attendees to learn about the latest trends and application scenarios in the fields of machine learning, data science, linked data and natural language processing. For example, Coreon‘s Michael Wetzel will present together with Georg Sedlbauer and Kerstin Hubmer from the Vienna Business Agency how to Smartening Up Chatbots with Language-Agnostic Knowledge Graphs.
25 Apr 2022
Semantix’ Britta Aagaard and ESTeam’s CEO Jochen Hummel present at the GALA conference in San Diego on how a multidisciplinary approach will revolutionize the language industry’s outdated business model. They talk about how LangOps constitutes a new industry paradigm and brings the real disruptive benefits of AI and machine learning into the localization ecosystem.
They explain what actually makes AI enabled solutions and NMT disruptive. Building on three equally important elements – bleeding-edge LangOps, automated workflow, and reliable resource management – it is possible to deliver unprecedented advantages in faster turn-around, lower costs, and consistent quality for the largest and most demanding customers in the world. Britta and Jochen are eager to move translation into the 21st century, where linguistic assets become differentiators to position localization on a completely new strategic level.
28 Jan 2021
Semantix and its long-term partner ESTeam have been awarded the EU Commission’s call for tender GROW/2020/OP/0002. The service contract represents a total value of 34 MEUR and is one of the largest in Europe. Semantix is the leading language company in the Nordics, currently ranking #13 worldwide. ESTeam is a tech company known for innovative NLP, knowledge management, and multilingual data solutions. Another significant partner in the collaboration will be Summa Linguae.
The contract is for translation services associated with the technical regulations and rules on information society services laid down in Directive (EU) 2015/1535. Also called the “Single Market Transparency Directive, SMTD”, this procedure is a preventive monitoring instrument managed by the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SME’s for the whole Commission to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market.
The contract was won in competition with Europe’s most experienced services providers. It marks a breakthrough in offering an AI-driven solution for translation services that adds unified human and linguistic asset classification, content recycling, Coreon’s knowledge-based terminology recognition, and semantic quality assessment to the process.
Britta Aagaard, Chief Business Officer at Semantix states: ”The award of this major contract and the innovative solution proposed will further position Semantix as industry leading language technology company for multilingual services”, and she continues, “For many years, ESTeam and Semantix have successfully collaborated on highly complex large-scale projects combining multilingual processing with a semantic information infrastructure and a powerful services organisation.”
Jochen Hummel, CEO of ESTeam, said: “In spite of the breath-taking progress of AI, customers of LSPs haven’t enjoyed much innovation since the rollout of CAT in the 1990s. We are thrilled that in partnership with proactive Semantix we are now delivering the game-changing benefits of state-of-the-art translation solutions to important customers.”