Andrea has been working in the game industry for more than 25 years. Starting from the passion of music, songwriting and singing, he holds a Computer Music graduation. After having co-founded Binari Sonori in 1994, he has been Audio Director for Keywords Studios from 2015 until the end of 2019. In 2020 he has co-founded Voiseed to proceed into research and development of deep learning based emotional virtual voices.

Dave Ruane started his 25-year localization industry journey in technology and solutions roles, followed by operations management, consultancy and then designed globalization business solutions for enterprises. He currently manages digital content and partner strategies at XTM International. Dave is a moderator and speaker at industry events, and runs the Process Innovation Challenge. He is a self-confessed techie, based in coastal Spain and more often than not can be found near fly fishing water.

During his career, Paul Doherty has set up two language service companies: The Language Technology Centre, which became a $25M business merged into Xerox Language Services, and Multilingual Technology Ltd, which he sold to Berlitz during the .com era. Since then, Paul has been Managing Director of UK, German, Polish and Slovakian companies for Berlitz, Bowne and Lionbridge. He has led European sales for Lionbridge and SDL and has worked as a strategic consultant to Moravia. Paul set up Strategy Management Consultants Ltd six years ago and developed his Company Merger Protocol to help business owners make their M&A integration a success. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-doherty-integration-expert/

Recently served as Managing Director of Lionbridge AI until May 2020 (Lionbridge AI was acquired in 2020 for $935M) . Currently developing an AI startup, serving as COO, as well as advising AI data companies, and creating a new AI curriculum for language translation graduate students. Expert in Artificial Intelligence, Language and Data Support operations and successful strategies for enhancing global social impact strategies in the area of text, speech, imaging, geo and search.

Yuka Kurihara is Senior Director of Globalization Services at Scaled Agile, Inc. She has been driving international expansion strategies, leading localization technology platforms, and organizing globalization operations in enterprises of all sizes. Yuka has in-depth knowledge of localizing enterprise software and hardware products. Her expertise includes marketing, training, legal, and HR content localization in up to 128 language pairs. In 2020, Yuka joined the Scaled Agile team to lead its globalization strategy and localization efforts. She holds several SAFe certifications, including SAFe® Practice Consultant, Agile Product Manager, and Lean Portfolio Manager. https://www.linkedin.com/in/yukakurihara

Rafał Jaworski, PhD, is an academic lecturer and scientist specializing in natural language processing techniques. His alma mater is Adam University in Poznań, Poland where he works at the Department of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Rafał’s scientific work concentrates around developing robust AI algorithms for the needs of computer-assisted translation. These include automatic lookup of linguistic resources and computer-assisted post editing. Apart from the research and teaching, he works as a linguistic AI expert at XTM International leading a team of young and talented developers who put his visions and ideas into practice.