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ProZ.com & TAUS present: The Great Translation Debate

Sep 29, 2011



Virtual conference speakers

Andrea Spila is a professional translator, online trainer and web consultant. He holds a degree in Philosophy and a PhD. in Experimental Pedagogy from the University of Rome. In 1989 he co-founded AlfaBeta, an Italian specialist provider of multilingual translation and communication services to busi... read more »
This speaker is also a ProZ.com professional trainer. See the training courses they offer »
Inger Larsen — Larsen Globalization Recruitment, UK Partner, Director Europe
Inger Larsen has degrees in English and American Linguistics, Literature and History; Technical Translations with International Studies; plus courses in IT and HR. Inger founded Larsen Globalization recruitment in 2000. Before this, Inger worked internationally in localization for 15 years. She sta... read more »
Michael Smolens — Founder & Chairman at dotSUB
A graduate from Carnegie Mellon University Michael is a founder and CEO of a number of successful companies: dotSUB, 3BillionBooks, Atlantic Trade Management, Danube Knitwear, Quality Manufacturing, Phoenix Group, Imex Industries.

Currently, having a deep understanding of web based vide... read more »
Mark Buffery — Quality Solutions Manager at ALS
Mark is Quality Solutions Manager at ALS. Prior to this he was a Service Delivery Manager liaising between clients and Projects staff to on-board clients and to establish and implement workflows as required. Mark has an MA in Translation, and worked for 4 years as an in-house technical translator wi... read more »
Catherine Way — Senior Lecturer in Translation at the University of Granada
Catherine Way is Senior Lecturer in Translation at the University of Granada and member of the AVANTI research group. She has published on legal translation, co-edited several books, is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Puentes and until recently the editor of The Interpreter and Transl... read more »
Istvan Lengyel — Chief Operating Officer of Kilgray Translation Technologies
István is the CEO of Kilgray, and thinks that there is nothing more important than channeling the customers’ business challenges to development and coming up with innovative yet easy-to-use solutions. He loves to work with customers who can articulate what they are looking for and believes that t... read more »
This speaker is also a ProZ.com professional trainer. See the training courses they offer »
Marco Trombetti — CEO at Translated
Started his career very young - at the age of 15 Marco delivered innovative technology and algorithms for PC CD players to the Fidonet BBS community (back when the Web was just a nagging thought in the back of Tim Berners-Lee's mind). During his studies in Physics Marco continued developing technica... read more »
Jaap van Der Meer — Founder and Director of TAUS
Jaap van der Meer is a language industry pioneer and visionary, who started his first translation company in The Netherlands in 1980. In 1987 his company INK published the first desktop term extraction and translation memory software. He inspired and funded the founding meetings of the LISA organiza... read more »
Andrew Joscelyne — Advisor on strategy and writer at TAUS
Andrew Joscelyne is a advisor on strategy and writer at TAUS. He has shaped the organizations growth since inception. Andrew has frequented the European language industry for over 15 years, working as a journalist, consultant, analyst and writer. He has helped coordinate awareness raising projects o... read more »
Henry Dotterer — ProZ.com founder and president
An MIT-engineer-turned-translator, Henry founded ProZ.com in 2000. He also coaches youth ice hockey. Henry lives in Syracuse, New York, USA.
Kirti Vashee — VP of Enterprise Translation sales for Asia Online
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 softw... read more »
Attila is an ATA-certified English to Hungarian translator, who holds a PhD in physics, and specializes in scientific and technical fields. He is a regular conference speaker who also mentors career-starting translators, putting special emphasis on the intelligent use of diverse tools.
This speaker is also a ProZ.com professional trainer. See the training courses they offer »
Mirko Plitt — Senior Manager, Language Technologies, Autodesk
Mirko Plitt is Senior Manager, Language Technologies, in the localization department of Autodesk, the leading maker of CAD software best known for its AutoCAD product family.

In 2001, Mirko led one of the industry’s first deployments of customer-facing raw machine translation, to transl... read more »
Donald A. DePalma — Chief Strategy Officer and Founder - Common Sense Advisory
Don DePalma has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of technology, language services, and market research. As the company’s original founder, he is responsible for launching and developing the preeminent market research firm in the language services sector. He initiated Common Sense Adv... read more »
Jiri Stejskal — President & CEO of CETRA Language Solutions
Dr. Jiri Stejskal is the President & CEO of CETRA Language Solutions. Headquartered in Philadelphia and with an office in Washington, CETRA serves the U.S. Federal Government and corporate clients around the world. Jiri is the immediate past President of the American Translators Association and the ... read more »
Smith Yewell — CEO of WeLocalize
Founded the company in 1997. Winner of Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Inc. 500/5000 multi-year winner. Deloitte & Touche's "Technology Fast 500" National Program multi-year winner. "Firm of the Year" winner awarded by the Tech Council of Maryland. Awarded US Army Bronze Star in Oper... read more »
Brian McConnell — Founder of Worldwide Lexicon Translation System
Brian is an inventor, author and entrepreneur. He has been building telecommunications systems and applications since the late 1980s. Since mid 1990s Brian has founded four companies in Silicon Valley PhoneZone, an online retailer of telecom products (acquired by Hello Direct, NASDAQ: HELO in 1999),... read more »
David Lewis — Research Lecturer in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin
David is a Research Lecturer in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, teaching Networked Applications on the MSc in Networks and Distributed Systems. Prior to that for 11 years he has been working in University College Lo... read more »
Arle Lommel — Standards Coordinator at Globalization and Localization Association
Arle Lommel is a recognized expert in the fields of localization and translation. Widely published in the field, he focuses on both the technical and business aspects of the industry and how they relate to each other. As director of standards at LISA, he was responsible for submission of the TBX sta... read more »