SlatorCon Remote enables you to experience the high impact agenda previously only available to senior language executives at SlatorCon’s exclusive in-person conferences.
Packed full of strategic insights and actionable ideas, presentations are delivered by leading industry experts in highly focused, 15-minute TED-style presentations.
Each presentation is followed by an opportunity for you to engage these thought leaders with your questions, providing you with unparalleled access not possible in the current travel lockdown.
Register for SlatorCon Remote for USD 25.00 to join language industry executives, technologists and end-clients from around the world and take away the critical market knowledge to help your business compete and grow.
Thur | July 9
15:00 PM - 15:05 PM CEST (09:00 AM EST)
Welcome Remarks
Andrew Smart
Co-Founder, Slator
Welcome and Opening Remarks
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15:05 PM - 15:25 PM CEST (09:05 AM EST)
What a Year: The Language Industry in 2020
Florian Faes
Co-Founder, Slator
What a Year: The Language Industry in 2020
- How Covid-19 is Reshuffling the Deck
- Emerging Loc and MT Tech Trends in 2020
- Green Shoots in Language Industry as Lockdowns Ease
15:25 PM - 15:45 PM CEST (09:25 AM EST)
Delivering Business Continuity for OTT Localisation with Cloud Dubbing
Stuart Green
CEO, ZOO Digital
Delivering Business Continuity for OTT Localisation with Cloud Dubbing
- How Cloud Dubbing is Becoming a ‘New Normal’ for the Entertainment Industry
- The Challenges of Adapting during the Global Crisis
- Business Continuity and Safeguarding for the Future
15:45 PM - 16:05 PM CEST (09:45 AM EST)
Panel Discussion: Current Trends & What’s Next for Game Localization
Cristina Anselmi
Machine Translation Lead, Electronic Arts
Tamara Tirják
Senior Localisation Manager, Frontier Developments
Moderator: Daniel Finck
Solutions Architect, Loquatics
Collaborating asynchronously with remote teams around the globe, supporting simship products with massive language bodies and continuous translation needs, accounting for projects with ever-shifting scope and due dates – making localization for modern game products seems be as overwhelmingly demanding as it is cross-functionally diverse.
The panelists of this session will offer insight on what practices have emerged in the metric-driven environment of game publishing, discuss the role of process automation and machine translation, and share their expectations on what the future of game localization will look like.
Local at A Global Scale – Beyond Localization
- What do all products need? Customers.
- What do customers want? Products that are relevant to them and easy to use.
This talk will explore what it really takes to scale and succeed globally.
16:05 PM - 16:25 PM CEST (10:05 AM EST)
Language Industry, a Honeypot for Private Equity
Piotr Misztal
Partner, Value4Capital (V4C)
Language Industry, a Honeypot for Private Equity
A Fantastic Journey from Translation Service Provider to Globalization Consultant or How we Learn to Fly.
- A Fantastic Journey from Translation Service Provider to Globalization Consultant or How we Learn to Fly
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16:25 PM - 16:30 PM CEST (10:25 AM EST)
Short Break
Language Industry, a Honeypot for Private Equity
16:30 PM - 16:50 PM CEST (10:30 AM EST)
Multi-language Content Production and Transcreation in eCommerce
Ed Bussey
Founder & CEO, Quill
Multi-language Content Production and Transcreation in eCommerce
In this session Quill, the global leader in multi-language content production for eCommerce, will cover:
- The imperative of having high quality, international eCommerce content to thrive and indeed survive in the current economic climate
- The role of translation versions localisation and transcreation of eCommerce content
- The challenges that every eCommerce company and their agencies face in attempting to scale high quality content production
- How these challenges can be overcome with a completely new approach to creating high-quality content at unparalleled speed, scale and cost-efficiency – utilising a powerful combination of technology and talent
- What a ‘humans in the loop’ approach to content production entails, examining the role of AI versus talent in content production
16:50 PM - 17:10 PM CEST (10:50 AM EST)
Valuing the Human Factor in Localisation
Ann Carlisle
CEO, Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL)
Language Industry, a Honeypot for Private Equity
As technology continues to pervade every aspect of the localisation process, the human touch has not yet been superseded and there will always be a need for skilled linguists, working in tandem with technology. Professional linguists remain at the core of the process but roles are evolving. Ann will look at why linguists remain crucial, how to help stakeholders understand this, and how organisations can seek out the very best professionals for themselves. She will set out:
- The skills evolution of language professionals
- The value of professional linguists
- Identifying talent for the future
17:10 PM - 17:30 PM CEST (11:10 AM EST)
Continuous Website Translation Delivery
Balázs Benedek
Co-Founder & CTO, Easyling.com
Continuous Website Translation Delivery
- Translation Proxy & Global Translation Delivery Network
- JavaScript Translation Delivery
- Region specific content authoring – CMS functionality
17:30 PM - 17:50 PM CEST (11:30 AM EST)
Building a Localization Process at Pipedrive
David Edwards
Localization Lead, Pipedrive
Building a Localization Process at Pipedrive
- Getting started: Considering the ”What” and ”How” of Localization
- Building a team: Finding a Language Service Provider and Translation Management Platform
- Creating a process: Automating and Scaling for Success
- Managing translations: Communication, Feedback and Building Trust
- Expanding your output
17:50 PM - 18:00 PM CEST (11:50 AM EST)
Closing Remarks
Andrew Smart
Co-Founder, Slator
SlatorCon Amsterdam and Beyond
- Key takeaways of SlatorCon Amsterdam
- Slator’s 2020 client service and subscription model
- SlatorCon 2020 events calendar
Register now for SlatorCon Remote for USD 25.00 to join language industry executives, technologists and end-clients from around the world and take away the critical market knowledge to help your business compete and grow.
Partners | SlatorCon Remote July 2020
Diamond Partner
ZOO Digital provides media localization and distribution services to major Hollywood studios, leading streaming platforms and global content owners, using its own proprietary production and management platforms.
Gold Partner
Website translation solutions for LSPs from easyling support you from acquiring to delivering your projects. CMS-independent, turnkey solutions, providing wordcount, content extraction, white-labeled Translation Proxy and Javascript-based translation.
Partner
The Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) is the pre-eminent UK-based professional membership body for language practitioners. It aims to enhance the recognition and promote the value of languages and language skills in the public interest. Founded in 1910, CIOL has over 7,000 members.
Partner
SyncWords is the leading provider of captioning and subtitling technologies and services for both live and on-demand media. Established in 2000, our automation and tools are used by thousands of businesses and major broadcast networks to generate closed captions and subtitles. Our on-demand professional captioning platform leverages AI based automation, best-of-breed ASR and includes our cloud-based Pro Caption Editor and Sync Editor. Our live offerings include Recapd for real time captioning of online meetings and LanguageSync for translating captions to subtitles in 100+ languages for live news and sports on OTT and broadcast.
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