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.
Investment bank Raymond James’s Dominic Emery advises language service provider at SlatorCon Zurich 2018 on how to get the most out of a sale or buy process and why preparing for a deal is crucial in a very active language industry M&A environment.
France-headquartered language service provider, Acolad Group, buys leading local rival, Ubiqus, a specialist in transcription services and machine translation technology.
France-based language service provider Ubiqus has acquired boutique local rival Gedev, a specialist in aerospace and defense translation.
Ubiqus CEO Vincent Nguyen walked SlatorCon participants through Ubiqus’ one-and-a-half year journey towards implementing neural machine translation in production and how they are encouraging internal and external stakeholders to get onboard.
Ubiqus bolts on two boutique language service providers to diversify customer mix in core geographies of France and Benelux.
The Slator 2019 Language Service Provider Index features the largest LSPs in a Leaders Index and the midfield in a Challengers Index.
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.
Through five case studies and nearly 30 commentaries from the buy (enterprise, government, and more)- and sell-side (LSPs), this report shines a light on the sentiment of industry practitioners towards current-state NMT technology.
France’s Ubiqus expands its footprint in Canada and buys Montreal-headquartered Textualis. Acquisition diversifies Ubiqus’ client portfolio away from government buyers into the private sector.
Ubiqus goes shopping in Spain, acquiring life sciences boutique LSP Celer Soluciones and buying the remaining 40% in Traducciones Poliglota it didn’t already own. Ubiqus President Vincent Nguyen says both companies will be integrated by 2018.
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