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GALA Connected 2021
(R)evolutions Unfolding: How Digital Acceleration is Impacting the Global Language Industry
2020 encouraged us all to find new ways of working, socializing, and creating community. Despite the rapid change, GALA remains committed to serving the global language community in ways that suit these new needs. The online format of the GALA Connected conference allows for wider engagement with more industry players in an interactive and inclusive setting. Without the barriers of cost and travel, we can welcome a diverse audience and invite new perspectives. We have important topics to di...
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The Boardroom Beat #2 -- The Imposter Syndrome
Remember - The Boardroom Beat celebrates curiosity. The Monthly format is Q&A&Q:
• Question from a member or GALA staff
• Answer based on experience, case study, best practice, or innovation.
• Question(s) back to push customized thinking.
Question: The program for GALA Connected 2021 looks great. Why are you presenting on Imposter Syndrome, and why with the Knowledge Fest Format?
Answer: Imposter Syndrome is the biggest least talked about topic in leadership circles today. In American English it is “the elephant in...
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London Metropolitan University
Based in one of the world's most exciting capital cities, London Met is home to a diverse community of inspiring and determined learners, teachers and innovative thinkers. It is a member of CIUTI, the world’s oldest and most prestigious international association of universities with translation and interpretation programmes (only 50 members worldwide), as well as one of the earliest Higher Education Language Partners of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.
Our Translation MA is a high-quality postgraduate programme designed to help you start or advance a career in translation. It aims to m...
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GALA Connected 2021 Product Demo Day
Save the Date!
GALA Connected's Product Demo Day is your chance to learn about the latest and greatest products, technologies, and services from industry leaders. The best part? You do not have to register for the full conference to attend! Join us on Friday, 26 March.
Product Demo Day is free and open to all. Download the Product Demo Day schedule
Product Demo Day 2021 Schedule
06:00 - 07:00 PDT: A #DigitalFirst World Focuses on Customer Experience
Michael J. Asquith, Vistatec
Iti Sahai, Procore
Anna Golubeva, IKEA
Ines Rubio, NI
Jo...
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The Boardroom Beat #1
Real challenges, real solutions, real life; This monthly column will address questions that emerge from the Boardroom. GALA’s members lead organizations that lead other organizations to succeed globally. To do so, GALA leaders “learn, share, and inspire one another.” That requires stretching…. continually.
The Boardroom Beat is designed to celebrate curiosity.
The leadership learning “exercise” that we will do together will combine work on flexibility, strength, endurance, and rest. To this column I deliver an undying love affair with the G11n industry plus thou...
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Why translation is not enough to boost app revenue?
You spend a lot of time, money, and effort in translating your mobile/web app. You launch it, but surprise surprise, your users do not seem to be latching on. They may even have negative feedback! Wonder what went wrong? The translation is just one part of a bigger process called localization. In this webinar, we will talk about how you can completely localize your app and create a great user experience.
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#AskTheExperts – Terminology and Artificial Intelligence
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Today GALA launches a new series of blog posts, where we ask translation industry experts inside and outside the GALA community for their insights and advice on managing business processes and digital transformation. Do you have a burning or knotty question? Send it to us and we’ll ask our experts.
We kick off with a question on terminology and AI:
What will the impact of AI be on term mining and, more generally, on terminology management?
Given that artificial intelligence is permeating...
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MTPE Training SIG - February 2021 Meeting
February meeting details TBA
About the MTPE Training SIG
With a steering committee to keep things moving in the right direction and the GALA community to bring the knowledge and enthusiasm, the MTPE Training SIG will operate as a time-limited, collaborative community project. With monthly teleconferences and offline work, the SIG will develop a set of best practices for training professionals who will conduct post-editing activities. Once developed, GALA will disseminate and evangelize the recommendations and protocols.
We welcome and encourage participation of all GALA members,...
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Interpreting + Technologies SIG - February 2021 Meeting
February meeting details TBA
About the Interpreting + Technologies SIG
The importance of interpreting services and technologies in the offerings of GALA members has grown steadily since GALA first began addressing this market segment at its conferences several years ago. The time has come to take interpreting to the next level at GALA. This group will work to identify the unique needs and challenges in the interpreting + technologies segment and develop collaborative solutions to advance the interpreting sector as a whole. Interpreting service providers are welcomed; note that we an...
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Client SIG - February 2021 Meeting
MT-Related Data Management
To customize or not to customize your MT models, that is the question. How can you tell? And if you do, where is the data and how do you prepare the data to customize MT models that outperform generic alternates?
About the Client SIG
This group connects professionals employed on internal corporate localization teams (ie "clients") to discuss the unique considerations of managing localization, globalization, internationalization, and translation departments within a larger organization. Discussion topics change monthly and may include: internal evan...
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Global Talent SIG - February 2021 Meeting
The Student Experience
This February, the Global Talent SIG is exploring The Student Experience. Join us on February 9th, where a panel of current students and recent graduates share their education programs, what they wish they learned in school, and work experience.
Thank you to our student panel:
Laura Linares (University College Cork, GALA Rising Star)
Rita Pang (University of Strasbourg, GALA Rising Star)
Caleb Thompson (Brigham Young University)
About the Global Talent SIG
GALA's Global Talent Initiative aims to be an international platform to bring together stakeholders i...
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Baltic Media Ltd
Nordic-Baltic online translation agency Baltic Media® Ltd is a leading provider of online translation services in Northern Europe specializing in Northern European (incl. Nordic, Baltic, Slavic) languages mostly in translation services from/into Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, German, English, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian.
Baltic Media® was founded in 1991 in Sweden.
As an ISO 9001:2015 certified language service provider, translation agency Baltic Media® Ltd offers human translation services for corporate, public and individual clients.
Baltic Media®...
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Aged Care Training
The Aged Care sector is one of the most in-demand and growing industries particularly in Australia and Melbourne is the hotspot for locals and international students alike who want to make a career out of it.
With Australia having impeccable strengths currently in the Aged care sector, aged care courses and training have become a sought-after one and we at Melbourne City College Australia provide our students with what it takes to rise above all in the crowd.
With every practical skill and knowledge one would need, Certificate III in Individual Support prepares the foundation for aged care w...
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Program Committee
Program Committee
GALA would like to thank the following individuals for their efforts in developing the educational program for the GALA Connected 2021 conference. As volunteers, the program committee members devote time and energy working together to create a program that is relevant and useful to the broad and diverse audience represented at GALA conferences. The committee is comprised of individuals representing various sectors of the industry.
Committee Members
Adam Wooten (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey)
Anu Carnegie-Brown (Sand...
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Ampere Translations
Ampere Translations is a language service provider that helps businesses improve their global impact through carefully localized communications and storytelling, adapting their content to local markets.
We offer translation, localization, copywriting, transcreation, interpreting, proofreading, editing and consultancy services....
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Professional Development
Articles and Videos
The leading resource for professional development in translation, localization and globalization
GALA Global professional development center has an extensive library of articles and recordings from webinars and conference sessions.
The breadth of expertise contained in GALA's Resource Center covers all aspects of language localization and globalization: from interpreting technology to machine translation, from globalization strategies to speech technology, and from terminology to natural language processing, MT post-editing, global content delivery, UX, a...
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Event Calendar
Event Calendar
Localization Training, Localization Webinars, Localization Networking Events, and more!
The global language industry loves events! Here you will find GALA events along with member and partner events. From large, annual localization conferences to very specific localization training sessions on topics like speech technology, MT post-editing, globalization industry standards, globalization strategies, and everything in between, you can find an event to further your localization training and professional development.
GALA events include our webinars, GALA Academy programs,...
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FAQ
FAQ
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Questions? Contact us at [email protected].
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IQVIA
IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry
IQVIA’s connected intelligence powers the future of healthcare across the globe.
Our language solutions have been designed by life science experts, for life science experts, to allow complex healthcare processes, data, knowledge and insights to scale and flow across language and cultural barriers seamlessly.
With a unique balance of clinical and linguistic experience, harnessed in innovative language technologies, IQVIA language solutions enables life...
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IKEA Retail (Ingka Group)
Ingka Group is the biggest franchisee of the IKEA brand with operations in 32 countries. We operate 385 stores in 30 of these countries.
Inter IKEA is the franchisor and Group Digital in Ingka Group manages the common localization solutions for IKEA....