The main hallroom of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences served as a venue for the closing conference of the Platform, Language-mind-machine – New technologies in the information society, on October 7, 2010. The conference presented the result fromthe two years of the Platform, gave an overview of recent developments in the field,and discussed the leading role of Platform members in European projects. More then150 participants attended the conference, many from the media and policy makers,and also from partner platforms.The main focus of the conference was the Implementation Plan describing the researchefforts that need to be undertaken and the implementation that has to be putin place for the sector to maintain its leading role in national and European researchand development. After the opening speech of the president of the Platform outliningthe results from two years of operation, the main talk presented the ImplementationPlan. Further presentations described two major European projects coordinated bythe coordinating institute of the Platform, and gave an overview of speech technologyapplications. A usual demo session closed the conference which offered a handson experience for participants with current applications, and also the opportunity forpartner platforms to present their activities.The closing conference proved to be most successful both with respect to mediaresponse and as a basis for further activities outlined in the Implamentation Plan.