Speakers: | Jeff Allen — Moderator | Jeff Allen has 2 decades of experience in many areas across the entire business life cycle (marketing, pre-sales, sales, account management, project/program management, product management, development, custom development, QA testing, TEP production, release management, deployment, customer support, customer maintenance bug fixing, professional services & consulting,, partner/customer training, ISO9001 Quality Management, Executive Management, Advisory boards) at several language services /software companies (Translations.com/TransPerfect/AlchemySoftware, SYSTRAN, Softissimo, MIT2, ELDA, Language Technologies Institute) and other (non-translation) software and engineering companies (Caterpillar, Mycom Intl, SAP, Business Objects, Cartesis). He has been a member of the MultiLingual magazine advisory board and the LINGUIST-List industry advisory board over the past decade.
He is known for his work in controlled language writing for translation, Machine Translation dictionary building and post-editing, translation memory, website and software localization, translation workflow management systems, terminology management, speech technologies, and now has recent publications covering areas including ISO9001 certification, cross-team/project engineering tool integration, and cross-cultural team building and conflict management. | Kirti Vashee | Kirti Vashee is VP of Enterprise Translation sales for Asia Online. He is a seasoned IT sales and marketing executive and statistical machine translation (SMT) enthusiast who was previously responsible for the worldwide business development strategy at Language Weaver.
He has long-term software industry experience (EMC, Legato, Dow Jones, Lotus) and has been involved in building and managing sales and support operations in Europe and Asia for several software companies.
He is the moderator of the Automated Language Translation group with ovber 4,000 members in LinkedIn and is active on Twitter (@kvashee) and the blogosphere on MT (kv-emptypages.blogspot.com) and translation related issues. He received his formal education in South Africa, India and the United States. | Lori Thicke | Lori Thicke is the co-founder and CEO of the translation company Lexcelera as well as the co-founder and president of the non-profit association Translators without Borders. While Lexcelera exists to offer innovative translation services to corporate customers, Translators without Borders provides pro bono translation to humanitarian organizations. The world’s largest community of professional linguists, Translators without Borders supports aid groups with millions of words of free translations. This year, powered by ProZ.com, Translators without Borders will donate $500,000 worth of translations to NGOs such as Doctors without Borders, Action Against Hunger and Oxfam. For these and many other humanitarian groups, every dollar saved is another dollar they can spend caring for people in need. | Celia Rico | Celia Rico, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer at the Universidad Europea (Madrid, Spain), where she trains future translators on the fundamentals of CAT tools as well as on the principles of translation strategies. Dr. Rico's publications have concentrated on areas such as translation memory evaluation, machine translation and translator competence, and the impact of new technologies on the translation profession. | Martin Roberts | BSME CCNY 1954
MS (Mech Eng'g) MIT 1960
Co-Founder Lingusitic Systems, Inc. 1967
Currently President and Chairman, Linguistic Systems, Inc., Cambridge, MA | Jörgen Danielsen | After studying mathematics and physics, I founded a translation company and bought my first MT system in 1990. After selling the company INTL.com in 1998, I was appointed President Enterprise Solutions and became responsible for all ERP, CRM and related companies worldwide. When INTL.com was acquired by Lionbridge, I moved to the USA and became Vice President Process and Technology, working out of the Waltham, MA headquarters for 2 years. After three more years acting as Managing Director of Lionbridge Germany and of Logoport GmbH and Head of Sales Continental Europe at the same time, I decided it was time to implement my own ideas regarding customer-based services again. |
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