SlatorCon tour took in four global cities across three continents in 2018 and featured a grand total of 35 speakers representing the full breadth of the language industry from startups, language technology and language service providers to the buy side, finance and academia.
Francesco Bombassei, Senior Technical Program Manager at Google, presented at SlatorCon and discussed AutoML Translate, how ever accelerating computing power impacts development, and the human and technological challenges in machine learning.
SDL CEO sees a future where the language services supply chain will become increasingly complex due to content and language fragmentation for global businesses. SDL is investing in re-engineering its organization to meet this future while trying to control costs.
Social media platforms are joining Internet VOD players like Netflix to create original programs. This presents growth opportunities for media localizers. Neural MT will affect subtitling but not dubbing in the medium term. Size and adaptation are key for media localizers.
Dr. Germán Basterra, Translation Manager, Nestlé GLOBE, says translation provides a strong business value for very large enterprises, but its cost must be understood from a much wider context than just cents per word.
At SlatorCon Zurich 2017, Dr Christoph Bieri, Managing Partner of the M&A firm that advised LUZ on its sale to RWS, shared his experience on choosing buyers, determining valuation and managing due diligence and explained why a medicine is a molecule connected to a huge amount of documentation.
Broad agreement among language industry leaders at SlatorCon Zurich that industry is at a turning point. Rapid advances in technology and emerging competitors will require a complete retooling across the language industry supply chain.
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