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Outgoing Board member, Christiane Bernier (L), receives a gift from GALA's Association Development Manager, Laura Brandon.  Board member Arancha Caballero looks on.

2007 Localization World Seattle: Outgoing Board member, Christiane Bernier (L), receives a gift from GALA's Association Development Manager, Laura Brandon. Board member Arancha Caballero looks on.

Recordings of Past Webinars


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Expert Presentations

XLIFF in a Controlled Ecosystem
Paul Leahy of Oracle (14 February 2012)
   
Premium Webinar: Implementing Core Localization Standards *
Andrzej Zydron of XTM Intl and GALA Standards Coordinator Arle Lommel (06 December 2011)
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Family Therapy in an Agile Environment
Marie Salet of Autodesk, Megan Leney of Symantec and Kåre Lindahl of Venga Corp. (01 December 2011)
   
The Model Service Elements Project
GALA Standards Coordinator Arle Lommel (06 October 2011)
   
Procurement of Language Services by the European Commission
Anders Corneliusson of the European Commission (22 September 2011)
   
Government Procurement of Language Services by U.S. Federal, State & Local Agencies
Robert Dorff of The Greenstreet Group (20 September 2011)
   
A Fresh Look: Why second hand words could be worth more than gold!
Kåre Lindahl of Venga Corporation and Val Swisher of Content Rules (15 September 2011)
   
Standards Initiative Update 
GALA Standards Coordinator Arle Lommel with Michael Read of The Level and John Watkins of ENLASO Corporation (08 September 2011)
   
Multilingual SEO Opportunities for LSPs
Gustavo Lucardi of Trusted Translations (01 September 2011)
   
The Remote Office: Cultivating a Performance-Driven Sales Team from Afar
Jenny Grajpel of text & form GmbH and Jessica Rathke of L10N Sales & Marketing (14 July 2011)
   
The Wild Wiki: Localization Challenges and Triumphs of Help 2.0 in an Agile Environment
Kåre Lindahl of Venga Corporation and Stanislav Kalianov of Schneider Electric IT (30 June 2011)
   
Making Community Translation Work
Janice Campbell of Adobe (23 June 2011)
   
Update on GALA Standards Initiative
Arle Lommel of GALA (21 June 2011)
   
MT on a Shoestring
Mike Dillinger of Translation Optimization Partners (09 June 2011)
   
How to Talk Technology with Your Vendor
Andrew Lawless of Dig-IT! Globalization Consultants and Youngjoo Lee of Waters Technology (26 May 2011)
   
Fix It Once: How Consistent Text Strings Inside Your Source Code Save You Time and Money in an Agile Environment
Kåre Lindahl of Venga Corporation and David Canek of MemSource Technologies (10 May 2011)
   
Sometimes Drinking Beer Is Better: How to Make the Most of a Humble Marketing Budget
Gary Muddyman of Conversis (05 May 2011)
   
GALA Standards Discussion
Arle Lommel of GALA (20 April 2011)
   
The Art of Selecting the Right LSP for your Business: Tools, Tips and Tricks of the Trade
Silvia Avary-Silveira of Symantec Corporation (14 April 2011)
   
Finding the Balance: Shifting Stress from People to Systems
Michel Lopez of e2f translations, inc. (17 March 2011)
   
Building MT Into Your Business Strategy
Kirti Vashee of Asia Online (Thursday, 03 February 2011)
   
Translation Automation On A Budget
Andrew Lawless of Dig-IT! and Debra Lewis of OCLC (27 January 2011)
   
GALA 2011 Sneak Preview Webinar
Hans Fenstermacher of Translations.com and Robert Etches of EICOM (20 January 2011)
   
Internationalization Basics for Non-Engineers
Adam Asnes of Lingoport (09 December 2010)
   
What Technology Vendors Won't Tell You (& Why)
Bob Donaldson of Carson Strategy Group (09 November 2010)
   
Localization for Rich Media, Websites & Interactive Content: Expert Tips and Best Practices
John Assalian of Viewstream (02 November 2010)
   
Structured content in DITA/XML: Challenge or opportunity for the localization/translation community?
Anna van Raaphorst and Dick Johnson of VR Communications, Inc. (22 September 2010)
   
High Quality Translations: Myth or Reality? An SLV Perspective
Olga Fomenko of Intext Translation (19 August 2010)
   
Terminology Mangement: Neglect it at Your Own Peril
Uwe Muegge of CSOFT International (12 August 2010)
   
"Next Level" Localization
Shelly Orr Priebe of Priebe & Associates (05 August 2010)
   
Moravia’s Million Mistakes - An Expert’s Opinion
Arturo Quintero of Moravia Worldwide (15 July 2010)
   
What's All a'Twitter About Facebook? Effective Use of Social Media for Language Service Providers
Rebecca Petras of GALA (24 June 2010)
   
Effective Localization Workforce Management
John Watkins of ENLASO Corporation (22 April 2010)
   
Taking Stock of Your Business
Sneak preview of GALA 2010 session "Not Your Same Old Differentiators: How LSPs Can REALLY Stand Out," by Aki Ito of TOIN Corporation, Gordon Husbands of Wordbank and Hans Fenstermacher of TransPerfect/Translations.com (8 April 2010)
   
Setting up Localization Collaboration in a Global Market
Sneak preview of GALA 2010 workshop by Jean-Luc Mazet (4 March 2010)
   
Buying Localization Services: What to Consider
Jean-Luc Mazet of HP (23 November 2009)
   
Saving Time and Money in Multilingual DTP
Fabian Chol of LinguaGraphics (12 November 2009)
   
An Introduction to Okapi Tools
Yves Savourel of ENLASO Corporation (29 October 2009)
   
From Cloudsourcing to Managed Crowdsourcing
Shelly Priebe of McElroy Translation (15 October 2009)
   
The Technological Vice-Grip? The Present and Future of Translation Technology 
Jost Zetzsche (05 August 2009)
   
A Guide to Open Standards and Open Source 
David Filip of Moravia Worldwide and Angelika Zerfass of zaac (13 August 2009)
   
Introduction to Globalization Testing 
Jon Ritzdorf (04 June 2009)
   
Garbage in, Garbage Out: Is it Possible to Automate Vendor Selection?  
Patricia Bown of McElroy Translation (14 May 2009)
   
Working with GALA on PR and Marketing Activities 
Rebecca Petras (26 February 2009)
   
Effective PR on a Shoestring Budget (Recording, Slides) 
Rebecca Petras (12 February 2009)
   
Recognizing and Capitalizing on i18n Opportunities 
Adam Asnes (11 September 2008)
   

Term Extraction Methods & Algorithms 
Follow Up Presentation by Balázs Kis (28 August 2008)
Expert Presentation by Balázs Kis (05 May 2008)

   
Topics in Vendor Management 
Renato Beninatto (08 May 2008)
   
Understanding ITS 
Yves Savourel (03 April 2008)

Tools Demonstrations and Trainings

The Benefits of a Cloud based SaaS solution for Localization Service Providers 
Andrzej Zydroń & Agata Śliwińska of XTM International (09 February 2012)
   
Multilingual Terminology Management Made Easy with TermWiki Pro 
Uwe Muegge of CSOFT International (19 January 2012)
   
Going Global at a Web 2.0 Pace with Smartling 
Matt DeLoca of Smartling (08 December 2011)
   
Easy and Effective Translation Management with memoQ 5.0  
István Lengyel of Kilgray Translation Technologies (17 November 2011)
   
SDL Trados 2011 Studio Training  
Ziad Chama (10 November 2011)
   
Cloud-based translation memory from Wordfast (Training Session)
Yves Champollion of Wordfast and Jamie Lucero of Morning Star Translations (03 November 2011)
   
Discover The New MultiTrans Prism Complete TMS
Benoit Desjardins and Martin Auger of MultiCorpora (02 June 2011)
   
PROMT DeepHybrid in Action: Case Studies 
Alex Yanishevsky of PROMT (12 May 2011)
   
Advanced SDL Trados 2009 Studio Training 
Ziad Chama (28 April 2011)
   
Introduction to Translation Workspace
Bill Willette and Peter Basile of Lionbridge (17 February 2011)  
   
PROMT Enterprise-scale MT server: An Integral Part of the Globalization Workflow
Join Alex Yanishevsky and Olga Beregovaya of PROMT (02 December 2010)
 
   
Introducing the new complete TMS – MultiTrans Flow MMX
Benoit Desjardins and Martin Auger of MultiCorpora (30 November 2010)
 
   
Getting the best results with your MT engine: PROMT Language Service Provider customization training
Alex Yanishevsky and Olga Beregovaya of PROMT
(28 October 2010)
 
   
Close symbiosis with your clients and suppliers with the LTC Worx business management platform
Ashley Maroney of LTC (21 October 2010)
   
Discover SDL Trados Studio 2009: Translate faster and easier with the latest translation memory software from SDL
Mike Somerville of SDL (23 September 2010)
   
Something for Everyone: The Multiple Faces of the Flow MMX Workflow System
Benoit Desjardins of Beetext (28 June 2010)
   
ontram+ Overview and Demonstration
Annika Neumann of Andrä AG (17 June 2010)
   
PROMT LSP 9.0 – Machine translation application for professional translator community
Alex Yanishevsky of PROMT (3 June 2010)
   
GlobalSight Overview and Demonstration
Steve Billings of Welocalize (15 April 2010)
   
Managing Artwork Localization and Versioning of Language by Artwork
Luke Alexandre of StorePOINT International (25 March 2010)
   
Easy Translation Management with memoQ 4.0
István Lengyel of Kilgray Translation Technologies (11 March 2010)
   
YOOtranslate: A Project-Based MT Service 
Nathalie De Sutter of Cross Language NV (19 November 2009)
   
MemoQ 
Kilgray Translation Technologies (15 May 2008)
   
QuickTerm: Integrating MultiTerm Termbases into a Corporate Environment 
Klaus Fleischmann of Kaleidoscope GesmbH (30 April 2009)
   
Website Localization with ShadoCMS and Across 
Grant Straker and Jim Freville (19 March 2009)
   
The SDL LSP Partner Program: An LSP Partner's Perspective 
PROMT (11 March 2009)
   
Rule Based Quality Assurance with CLAT Integration
Philipp Baur and Susanne Preuß (19 February 2009)
   
Across Language Server 
Jim Freville (29 January 2009)
   
SDL Trados 
SDL Trados Technologies (26 June 2008)