[GALA INNOVATES] Unhyped and Empowered - Getting Real Value and Direction From the Latest Wave of Innovation
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According to Cisco’s AI Readiness Index for 2023, only 14% of organizations worldwide are ready for the new wave of innovation.
● Most stakeholders struggle to identify true innovation.
● Many solutions are labeled as innovative, but not all of them truly are.
● The majority of hyped innovation is technological: Companies are increasingly being attracted by shiny objects in technology, rather than by its most profitable use.
The foundation for strategic innovation is creating a dynamic environment where the three pillars are people, processes and tools. In that order.
That's why we have developed GALA Innovates, a program of events to support decision-makers in change and innovation management.
Join your peers for the first interactive session of GALA Innovates, where three experts will help us tackle the challenges and opportunities facing the localization industry.
We'll discuss practical steps your organization can take now and in the coming years to transform innovation into a powerful driver of success.
Program
During the first session, our 3 experts will cover:
● Embracing Change: The first step to innovation is to understand that change is here to stay and should be a key part of your organizational habits.
● Optimizing Process Dynamics: Learn to design and implement dynamic processes for your organization that empower your people to perform at their best in an ever-changing environment.
● Navigating the Tech Landscape: Understand some of the latest innovative technologies impacting localization and how to leverage them to improve your workflow.
Host organization: Globalization and Localization Association
Event Speakers
Andrea Ballista
VOISEED SRL
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
XTM International
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.
Paul Doherty
Strategy Management Consultants
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 is a Director at Strategy Management Consultants Ltd, helping business owners to deliver the value of company mergers in year 1, without losing key customers and employees. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-doherty-42ab39/
Jane Nemcova
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.
Andrzej Zydron
XTM International
Andrzej Zydroń has worked in IT since 1976 and has been responsible for major successful projects at Xerox, SDL, Oxford University Press, Ford of Europe, DocZone and Lingo24. He is extremely involved in a wide variety of standards projects and open standard technical committees. He is currently head of the OASIS OAXAL (Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization) technical committee.
Yuka Kurihara
Scaled Agile, Inc.
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Rafał Jaworski
XTM International
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.