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
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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
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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
Ferose V R, Head of Globalization at SAP, on the challenges and opportunities to be found in multilingual countries and longtail languages, and why translation has a bright future in AI / human interaction. Continue reading
Mark Howorth, CEO of the largest media localizer globally, SDI Media, lifts the lid on a booming media localization industry and discusses the turbulence caused by Netflix, talent shortage, increasing procurement visibility and more. Continue reading
Hot take on SlatorCon San Francisco 2018. A rundown of main themes and speakers from Slator’s one-day flagship event for the language industry including photo gallery. Continue reading
Slator readers give their opinion on public sector demand for language services and technology, the impact of startups on the industry in the next three years, the highest potential growth regions, and how neural machine translation should be evaluated. Continue reading
Why content effectiveness is key and translation quality does not happen by default at Indeed.com and how Academia will need to adapt in training future linguists. Continue reading
How many translation startups are still active? How many have shut down? Where are they located and what are the common startup ideas? Here’s a look at the translation startup ecosystem in the language services market according to AngelList. Continue reading
Incumbent LSPs are optimistic about their own H2 2018 business outlook, but doubtful about the staying power of the new UK language companies. How is NMT filtering through the supply chain and is Google’s MT customization a big deal? Continue reading
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