SlatorCon
San Francisco 2019
September 12
Wed | Sep 11
18:30 PM - 21:00 PM
Welcome Networking Dinner
Private Members Club, Nob Hill

Andrew Smart
Slator
Thank you to the first 40 delegates who registered for the Welcome Dinner. Registration for the Welcome Dinner is now closed with no walk-ins allowed. Thank you for your support and please register for the conference on Thursday, September 12th.
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Thu | Sep 12
12:45 PM - 13:30 PM
Registration & Networking
Social Terrace, W Hotel

Andrew Smart
Slator
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13:30 PM - 13:55 PM
Presentation | Loc 2020

Florian Faes
Co-Founder, Slator
How the Language Industry is Retooling for the Next Decade
- Key 2019 trends and stories that will shape 2020 (M&A, Big Tech, NMT, NLP, and more)
- Who wins and who loses as NLP and MT research translates to product
- Startup watch
13:55 PM - 14:20 PM
Presentation | Cloudflare

Claire Tsai
Head of Globalization, Cloudflare
Globalizing for Growth
- Vision – where are we headed and why
- Iterative expansion – testing, learning, *and breaking loudly
- Growth – going far by bringing others alongÂ
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14:20 PM - 14:45 PM
Presentation | TransPerfect

Phil Shawe
CEO, TransPerfect
Managing Complexity at Scale
- Transparency
- Choice of Facility for Execution
- Broken Window Theory
- Perception is Reality
14:45 PM - 15:15 PM
Panel Discussion | Institutional Investors

Tomasz Tunguz
Partner and Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures

SRI CHANDRASEKAR
PARTNER, POINT72 VENTURES

Charles Stubbs
PARTNER, MSouth Equity Partners
Achieving Scale
- Buy and Build: Getting the balance right
- Can new translation AI Agencies break free from the linear relationship between revenue and people
- Opportunities and Threats: how investors view the language industry’s future market potential
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15:15 PM - 16:00 PM
Networking Break
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Andrew Smart
Slator
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16:00 PM - 16:05 PM
Slator Research

Esther Bond
Research Director, Slator
- The Latest Research Reports
- Upcoming report for the remainder of 2019
- Launch of the Corporate Research subscription
16:05 PM 16:30 PM
Presentation | NVIDIA

Chip Huyen
Senior Deep Learning Engineer, NVIDIA
- Progress in machine translation
- Evaluation and quality estimations for neural machine translation
- What’s next for machine translation in the industry
16:30 PM - 16:55 PM
Presentation | Appen

Mark Brayan
CEO, Appen
- Why high-quality language data is critical to solution performance
- Â Real world use cases
- Â The importance of experienced linguists in solution development
16:55 PM - 17:20 PM
Presentation | Parkland Hospital

Meredith Stegall
Director of Language Services, Parkland Hospital
- Navigating changing regulations
- Managing Costs
- Opportunities in innovation
17:20 PM - 17:45 PM
Lead Partner Presentation丨Smartling

Jack Welde
CEO, Smartling
- Reaching consumers anywhere today is the result of three things: foundational technology, robust analytics, and dedicated people
- They are co-dependent on one another, and each is designed to amplify the success of localization
- In an age of machine learning, how can you combine the best of technology, analytics, and services to enable the consumer’s journey in any language?
17:45 PM - 17:55 PM
Closing Remarks

Andrew Smart
Co-Founder, Slator
- Key takeaways of SlatorCon San Francisco
- Recent changes to Slator’s service model and new subscriptions
- Launch of SlatorCon 2020 events calendar
20:00 PM
Ends

Florian Faes
Slator
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Sponsors | SlatorCon

Lead Partner
Smartling is the leading translation management platform and language service provider to localize content across devices and platforms.

Panel Partner
Big Language Solutions (backed by MSouth) is assembling a portfolio of high-performing and complementary language service providers, adding value and leveraging synergies for the collective benefit of its companies and customers.

Welcome Reception
Cyracom is the leading provider of interpretation services. The Company trains and employs thousands of interpreters, who work in its extensive network of large-scale US-based interpreter contact centers.

Networking Partner
memoQ is a translation technology company that helps more than 25,000 organizations and individuals manage their translation related work.​