Gudrun Magnusdottir is Chief Strategy Officer and founder of ESTeam AB and Coreon GmbH. She has been instrumental in the efforts to bring about cross border interoperability in the trademark world. She has contributed to several EU projects the last ones being LISE (Legal Language Interoperability Services) and PLUTO (Patent Language Translations Online), both ICT PSP projects. Her academic and industrial background is in the field of Language Technology with a focus on data driven applications, knowledge management, semantic technologies, and multilingual issues.