SlatorCon Remote June 2023

Andrew is the Commercial Director at Slator responsible for product development and pricing, online ad and research sales, and event sponsorships.

Prior to co-founding Slator, Andrew has worked in the media, internet and finance industries including managing media businesses for Thomson Reuters, Fairfax Media and The Economist Group. He has an MBA in Finance and Investments from The George Washington University in Washington DC and has been based in Asia for over 25 years.

Florian is the Managing Director of Slator and host of the SlatorPod podcast. Based in Zurich, Florian Faes spent almost a decade in Asia before launching Slator in 2015. Slator is the most up-to-date source of news and analysis covering language services and technology and works as a distributed team based in Asia, Europe, and the US.

Marco Assis is a technology entrepreneur with extensive experience in building high performing organizations and teams. He currently leads Propio Language Services, a U.S. based language solutions company specializing in leveraging innovative technology to connect people anywhere and at any time. Since becoming CEO and Partner of Propio in 2019, the company has delivered 10x revenue growth in less than 3 years.

Marco was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil, where he studied at the Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro before moving to the United States for his Executive MBA at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Marco also holds an Executive Leadership diploma from Harvard Business School.

Prior to joining Propio Language Services, he held senior Treasury, Strategic Planning and M&A roles with Shell Oil Company and Puma Energy.

Subhabrata has been building products in the AI space for the last 8 years with NeuralGarage being the second he is co-founding. The last company he co-founded was VisageMap Inc, where they built a surveillance based Facial Recognition system applied on the video feed of CCTV camera. The company was acquired in about a year by a US based company called FaceFirst where he later joined as a Research scientist and developed the entire research along with his co-founders from VisageMap.

In 2021, Subhabrata co-founded NeuralGarage along with Mandar, Anjan, and Subhashish raising 1,45 million USD backed by Exfinity Ventures and angels. Today he is the CTO of the company and deeply involved in the research and development that drives this technology.

The space that NeuralGarage is working on is visual dubbing which is essentially used AI to transform lips and jaw movements of any person using any audio. Applications of the technology ranges from syncing lip movements of actors in dubbed content for advertisements, OTTs, and various media houses to content repurposing and personalized targeting for Martech companies and video platforms.

NeuralGarage will keep building products in the generative AI space which makes content creation easy and content consumption seamless. You can find out more here.

Richard got an undergraduate degree in math and physics from the University of Toronto.
He was working with Professor Kristen Menou during his degree, doing research in Machine Learning Domain Adaptation for Astronomy applications.
Right after the University of Toronto, he co-founder Blanc Technologies with Anton Bashkirov and have been working on it for the last 3 years.

Anna is a language services industry professional with expertise in project management, management and quality systems, and a special interest in the life sciences sector. Starting her career in data annotation in Sydney, she then gained 10 years’ experience in London and Madrid with major LSPs before joining Slator as a research contributor. Anna is today Slator’s Head of Research. She holds a B.A. (Hons) in Linguistics from the University of Sydney.

Engineering Manager with 10+ years of experience in ML Engineering, and strong technical background in NLP, backend and mobile development. Passionate about building successful teams and helping people grow, Anton loves making impactful products that make users happy. He is also a WMT Organizing Committee Member.

Genevieve with 15+ years in localization and passion for supporting globalization efforts through intentional partnerships, manages a global team and the operations supporting a large, international client portfolio. She also supports a global project management team and account sales directors, leveraging deep functional and account knowledge to drive forward internal and client strategies as aligned with global business objectives.

Aki is the Senior Manager of the Globalization PMO at Dell Technologies. She leads the team of program managers and oversees the globalization aspect of Dell’s strategic programs including Marketing, Digital, and Events to help enhance the global business landscape and customer journey in the fast-paced technology industry. Aki is based in Boston, MA, and with Dell since 2008.

With nearly 20 years professional experience (over 10 years specialising in ServiceNow Solution Design and Architecture), Alex is a self-motivated and experienced IT professional with proven knowledge over an expansive career.

Recognized for Design, Architecture and Custom Build solutions for a portfolio of Clients maximizing their ServiceNow investments, a leader in global consultation, coordinating international teams and global ServiceNow projects, Alex has established a vast amount of experience in multiple industry verticals.

Built on a background in Technical knowledge, Service Delivery and an experienced Service Management consultant with most recent position being that of Director of Globalization Deployment. Currently focusing on sharing this knowledge and experiences to empower our Customers and Implementation Partners with their multi-lingual / multi-national and non-English Solution Designs and Implementations as the leading SME in this area of the platform.

Céline is VP of Success at DeepL, a German AI company on a mission to enable frictionless communication through best-in-class AI-powered translation and writing assistance. She is responsible for helping customers see the value in their investment with DeepL.

She has spent the last decade in London, England, and San Francisco, California building and leading commercial teams at early-stage tech startups and public companies.

Wilma has been working for FIFA for 19 years, starting in the Legal Division where she worked for more than 15 years before being offered the opportunity to lead the Language Centre in 2019.

The Language Centre is an internal service that provides editing, translation, interpretation, video subtitling, voiceover and editorial design services to FIFA.

Wilma is also a qualified lawyer.

Marco has been in the localisation industry for eight years, starting his career at an international LSP based in Zurich before moving to the internal language service of the Swiss Federal Railways and then transferring to FIFA in 2020.

At FIFA, Marco has been leading the technical implementation of three new corporate language solutions while supporting the Language Centre team as a project manager and German translator. He holds a Bachelor in Translation.

Olga Hergül is an experienced localization professional with over 17 years of expertise. Throughout her career, she has held various localization-related positions in the education, event management, banking, and manufacturing sectors, gaining extensive knowledge of cross-cultural business integration. In 2019, she founded a localization function from the ground up at Şişecam, a leading global manufacturer. She continues to lead and develop the enterprise localization program there.

Andrew is the Commercial Director at Slator responsible for product development and pricing, online ad and research sales, and event sponsorships.

Prior to co-founding Slator, Andrew has worked in the media, internet and finance industries including managing media businesses for Thomson Reuters, Fairfax Media and The Economist Group. He has an MBA in Finance and Investments from The George Washington University in Washington DC and has been based in Asia for over 25 years.