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Schedule
A digital version of the printed program may be downloaded here. (31 MB PDF file)
| SUNDAY 17 March | |
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| 08:00 | Pre-conference activities begin |
| 12:00 | Registration will be open 12:00 - 17:30 |
| 17:00 | Speakers meeting 17:00 - 17:30 |
| 17:15 | Meet & Greet for New Members and First Timers 17:15 - 17:45 |
| 18:00 | |
| GALA Welcome Reception 18:00 |
| MONDAY 18 March | |||||
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| 09:00 | Conference Welcome and Keynote Address Human–Machine Coevolution: How to Thrive in an Era of Accelerating Technological Change David Orban (Dotsub, Singularity University) 09:00 - 10:30 |
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| 10:30 | Refreshment Break 10:30 - 11:00 Exhibits open 10:30 - 17:30 |
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| 11:00 |
What's Next? Moving at the Speed of Change Stefan Gentz (TRACOM) 11:00 - 11:40 |
Localization 2020: Making Content Reactive, Reflective, and Personal Paraic Sheridan (CNGL) 11:00 - 11:40 |
The Hidden Dynamics for Success in Latin America Neal Goodman (Global Dynamics) 11:00 - 11:40 |
Vendor Demo Plunet 11:00 - 11:40 |
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| 11:50 | An MT Case Study: Breaking into Latin American Markets on a Small Budget María Azqueta (SeproTec), Diego Bartolomé (tauyou) 11:50 - 12:30 |
Survive and Thrive with Multiple Deliverables: How Project Output to Mobile and Tablets via HTML5 Can Grow Your Business Maxwell Hoffmann (Adobe) 11:50 - 12:30 |
Trends, Customization, and Compliance for the Chinese Marketplace Mitch Donaldson (Interpro) 11:50 - 12:30 |
Red T: Protecting Translators and Interpreters Worldwide Maya Hess (Red T) 11:50 - 12:30 |
Vendor Demo Smartling 11:50 - 12:30 |
| 12:30 | Lunch 12:30 - 14:00 | ||||
| 14:00 |
Transcreation: Building a Global Brand Meritxell Guitart & Miguel Martinez (Hogarth) 14:00 - 15:30 |
Invasion of the Client Snatchers Terena Bell (In Every Language), Aki Ito (LocalizationGuy), Andrew Lawless (Rockant), Kathleen Diamond (consultant) 14:00 - 14:40 |
Spanish Search Engine Optimization and Online Marketing for the Hispanic Market Gustavo Lucardi & Richard Estevez (Trusted Translations) 14:00 - 15:30 |
Agile: Building a Cost-effective Quality Strategy #1 14:00 - 14:40 |
Vendor Demo GeoWorkz 14:00 - 14:40 |
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Understanding Localization Standards (and Actually Using Them) John Watkins (ENLASO) 14:50 - 15:30 |
Agile: Building a Cost-effective Quality Strategy #2 14:50 - 15:30 |
Vendor Demo Projetex 14:50 - 15:30 |
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| 15:30 | Refreshment Break 15:30 - 16:00 | ||||
| 16:00 |
A New Approach to Analyzing and Evaluating Terminologies Horst Liebscher (text & form) 16:00 - 16:40 |
Tools of the Trade: Making Vendor Management an Asset, not a Liability Cecilia Irós (suma) 16:00 - 16:40 |
The Quality-Price Conundrum Don DePalma (Common Sense Advisory) 16:00 - 16:40 |
Agile: Building a Cost-effective Quality Strategy #3 16:00 - 16:40 |
Vendor Demo XTRF 16:00 - 16:40 |
| 16:50 |
Speed Networking Please sign up when you register for the conference 16:50 - 18:20 |
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| 19:00 | GALA Dinner | ||||
| TUESDAY 19 March |
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| 08:30 | Exhibits open 08:30 - 17:30 | ||||
| 09:00 | GALA Film Fest and Day Two Plenary: Escaping the Localization Ghetto David Ashton 09:00 - 10:30 |
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| 10:30 | Refreshment Break 10:30 - 11:00 | ||||
| 11:00 |
Leveraging Language Technology to Build Your Post-Editing Practice Andy Reid & Riz Karim (SDL) 11:00 - 11:40 |
Business Intelligence Meets Globalization: Collaborative Metrics for the Future Emre Akkas (Globalme), Loïc Dufresne de Virel (Intel) 11:00 - 11:40 |
Applying ITS 2.0 to Online MT Systems in HTML5 Pedro Diez Orzas & Pablo Badía Mas (Linguaserve), Arle Lommel (DFKI), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy) 11:00 - 12:30 |
Agile: Translation Memory and Management Systems #1 11:00 - 11:40 |
Vendor Demo XTM Cloud 11:00 - 11:40 |
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Measuring and Managing Post-editing Productivity Gains at Welocalize Olga Beregovaya & Alex Yanishevsky (Welocalize) 11:50 - 12:30 |
Happy and Hot: New Opportunites to Make it Big in Localization Andrew Lawless (Rockant) 11:50 - 12:30 |
Agile: Translation Memory and Management Systems #2 11:50 - 12:30 |
Vendor Demo Smartling 11:50 - 12:30 |
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| 12:30 | Lunch 12:30 - 14:00 GALA group photo 13:30 | ||||
| 14:00 |
Commercialized Open Source SMT After Seven Years: A User's Perspective Tom Hoar (Precision Translation Tools) 14:00 - 15:30 |
How to Localize XML Documents: A Workshop on the Do's and Don'ts of XML Localization Andrzej Zydroń (XTM International) 14:00 - 14:40 |
Turning Knowledge into Business: How SAP Caused a Latin American Marketing Firm to Evolve Fernando D'Aloia (Latin-data) 14:00 - 14:40 |
Agile: Translation Memory and Management Systems #3 14:00 - 14:40 |
Vendor Demo Déjà Vu 14:00 - 14:40 |
| Client Education: Your Weapon Against Commoditization Christopher Carter (aLanguageBank) 14:50 - 15:30 |
Lessons Learned and Best Practices When Localizing Multilingual Agile Cloud-based Products Quynn Megan Le (Adobe) 14:50 - 15:30 |
Agile: Post-editing: Fundamentals, Infrastructure, and Resources #1 14:50 - 15:30 |
Vendor Demo SYSTRANLinks 14:50 - 15:30 |
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| 15:30 | Refreshment Break 15:30 - 16:00 | ||||
| 16:00 |
QTLaunchPad Workshop on Multidimensional Quality Metrics Stephen Doherty (DCU), Lucia Specia (Univ. of Sheffield), Arle Lommel (DFKI) 16:00 - 16:40 |
How to Create a Lean and Agile Global L10n Team for 59 Markets (in Two Years!) George Chew (Amway), Rebecca Metcalf (Rubric) 16:00 - 16:40 |
Are You Reaching 75% of the World Population? Why Mobile Matters, and How You Can Benefit Lori Thicke (Translators Without Borders) 16:00 - 16:40 |
Agile: Post-editing: Fundamentals, Infrastructure, and Resources #2 16:00 - 16:40 |
Vendor Demo iDISC 16:00 - 16:40 |
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Linport: Interoperable Translation and Localization Project Containers (A Progress Report) Jeremy Coombs (MultiLing), Alan Melby (BYU) 16:50 - 17:30 |
Quality: Doing Things Right or Doing the Right Things? Mohamed Hassan (Arabize) 16:50 - 17:30 |
Spotlight on Africa: Business Opportunities in the World's Fastest Growing Markets Reinhard Schäler (The Rosetta Foundation), Tunde Adegbola (ALTI), Dwayne Bailey (Translate House) 16:50 - 17:30 |
Agile: Post-editing: Fundamentals, Infrastructure, and Resources #3 16:50 - 17:30 |
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| 17:30 | Happy Hour 17:30 - 18:30 |
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| WEDNESDAY 20 March | |
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| 08:30 | Exhibits open 08:30 - 12:00 |
| 9:00 |
Knowledgefest Two sessions of one-hour roundtable discussions Refreshments provided 09:00 - 12:00 |
| 12:00 | Closing Session 12:00 - 12:30 |
| 12:30 |
GALA Member Meeting (GALA Members Only) 12:30 - 14:30 |
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