Private equity firm CataCap Partner and LanguageWire Deputy Chairman tells SlatorCon Zurich 2018 why CataCap invested in the Danish language service provider and decided to back its recent acquisition of Xplanation. Continue reading
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Pharma and biotech giant Roche’s Claudine Nick outlined the internal and external complexities of localizing for this highly regulated industry and highlighted the value-add of having an internal language services team. Continue reading
SlatorCon Zurich 2018 featured language industry experts from big tech, life sciences, language services, private equity and investment banking, hosting speakers from Google, Roche, Ubiqus, LanguageWire and Raymond James, as well as Slator’s own Florian Faes. Continue reading
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Shopify’s Content and Localization Manager, Giulia Greco, shares how the multi-channel ecommerce company will have localized six million words by the time 2018 ends, and why translation was the easy part. Continue reading
A lot of Slator’s readers think Europe is lagging behind the US and China in language tech, translation productivity tools are widely seen as over-engineered, M&A-driven consolidation is a net negative, and MT should stay off national security’s radar. Continue reading
The readers have spoken on topics ranging from governments supporting linguist training and education, post-editing machine translation, current demand for Asian languages, and the 2019 outlook Continue reading
Executives from Wordbee, GoPro, and Tencent discussed a number of key issues at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 during the Technology Panel, and one takeaway was the limitations of neural machine translation. Continue reading
The drivers of growth in Asia’s language industry came into focus as Slator hosted its inaugural SlatorMeet in Hong Kong on October 11th, 2018. Continue reading
The startup panel at SlatorCon San Francisco had CEOs and Co-Founders from Boostlingo, Cadence Translate, and Wovn sharing exclusive data points, unique experiences, and hard-learned lessons. Continue reading
US court rulings are ruffling feathers, content effectiveness might be a better yardstick over linguistic quality, talent acquisition has gotten harder over the past 12 months, and no, most have not considered investing in publicly listed LSPs. Continue reading
Cyracom Chairman and CEO Jeremy Woan talks at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 about how RFP due diligence is becoming ever more stringent, why video interpreting’s adoption is a conundrum, and how commoditization would affect the industry. Continue reading
SDL CEO Adolfo Hernandez told SlatorCon how the recent acquisition of Donnelley Language Solutions is SDL’s transparent play for premium industries such as finance, legal and life sciences and how those verticals are positioned for growth. Continue reading
Anna Schlegel, Head of Globalization at cloud storage company NetApp, spoke at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 about raising the profile of localization in the company and how the team used champions across the business to create 17 globalized products and 13 globalized departments. Continue reading
Real estate development in Thailand has taken on a new narrative. Beyond selling just properties, Siri Ventures has started to offer an IoT application with five language options, but it says that the next frontier is voice. Continue reading
We are going to have to attract and retain amazing talent to future proof the language industry’s workforce. Quora’s Lupe Gervas on how to take risks in hiring for localization teams able to cater to the next 1 billion users. Continue reading
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