Theme: The Profit of Sharing
The TAUS mission is to increase the size and significance of the translation industry to help the world communicate better. The authoritative TAUS Community has learnt that the key word is 'sharing'. From genuinely sharing good practices and use cases TAUS has evolved to an industry platform for sharing of language data. These changes are fundamental. The results are already phenomenal. Boosting translation volumes and productivity help us all to reach new customers in new locales and innovate the business of translation like never before. The future of translation lies in 'sharing'. Join us at the TAUS User Conference 2009 to take the pulse on the future of translation.
Topics
The TAUS User Conference is open to all industry stakeholders to discuss topics, such as:
- Optimizing translation automation
- Innovating the cost and business model of translation
- Industry initiatives for sharing language data
- Open translation platforms
- Next generation localization: ‘personalization'
- Convergence of customer support and localization
- ‘Crowdsourcing' translation or community translation
- Shared investments in training domain-specific MT systems
- Streamlining industry terminology
- Defining new services for the TDA platform
Objectives
The objectives of the TAUS User Conference are:
- To stimulate collaboration in the global translation market and in vertical industry sectors and to grow the membership of the TAUS Data Association;
- To discover opportunities to translate more content into more languages for many more customers and citizens. (For corporate and institutional buyers of translation);
- To discover opportunities for new services and business growth. (For practitioners and technology providers).
Setting
The TAUS User Conference combines several meetings in a time span of three days:
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TDA Gold Founding Member Meeting |
October 27, 5.00 - 6.00 pm |
Gold Founding and Special Members |
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TAUS Executive Dinner |
October 27, 6.30 - 10.00 pm |
Invitation only |
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TDA General Meeting |
October 28, 9.00 - 12.00 pm |
TDA members |
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TAUS User Conference & Collaboration Pavilions |
October 28, 3.00 - 5.30 pm |
Discounted for members |
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TAUS User Conference & Collaboration Pavilions |
October 29, 8.30 am - 5.30 pm |
Discounted for members |
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TAUS User Conference & Collaboration Pavilions |
October 30, 8.30 am - 2.00 pm |
Discounted for members |
The TDA General Meeting is the annual meeting of the TDA members for a discussion and review of the financials, business plan and member regulations and for the election of the Supervisory Board.
The TAUS User Conference is open to all stakeholders in the global translation industry: members and non-members. Members of TAUS, TDA and the Consortium for Service Innovation receive 50% discount on the registration fees.
The events will take place at The Benson Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon.
Collaboration Pavilions
Every participating organization in the User Conference is offered a free booth in the Collaboration Pavilion. Content owners and buyers come to the Collaboration Pavilions to ‘sell' their needs and stimulate collaboration in their communities. Practitioners and technology providers come to the Pavilions to present and demonstrate their capabilities. The Collaboration Pavilions are laid out in squares. The middle of the square will be used for Pecha Kucha style presentations and open-space discussions. The 20x20 Pecha Kucha format (20 images, each shown for 20 seconds) will help to keep the presentations lively and to the point. They serve to inspire the audience and stimulate ideas for the subsequent open-space discussions.
Program Committee
The Program Committee for the User Conference consist of the members of the TDA Supervisory Board and the TAUS Advisory Board:
- Will Burgett, Intel
- Melissa Biggs, Sun Microsystems
- Jessica Roland, EMC
- Aiman Copty, Oracle
- Paul Walsh, McAfee
- Fred Hollowood, Symantec
- Valarie Gilbert, Cisco
- Chris Wendt, Microsoft
- Willem Stoeller
- James Douglas, Microsoft
- Pablo Vazquez, Cisco
- Gilles Martel
- Francis Tsang, Adobe
- Karen Combe, PTC
Registration
Capacity for the free booths at the Collaboration Pavilions will be limited. Interested participants are recommended to reserve a seat as early as possible by registering through the TAUS web site.
Costs of registration are:
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TDA General Meeting |
Free for TDA members |
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TDA Gold Founding Member Meeting |
Free for TDA Gold Founding Members |
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TAUS User Conference |
1,250 euros for members (2,500 euros for non-members) |
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Collaboration Pavilions |
Included in conference fees. Participation is on a FCFS (first-come first-served) basis. |
50% discounts on registration fees apply to employees from organizations that are members of TAUS, TDA and the Consortium for Service Innovation.
Registration fee includes lunches and refreshments breaks on Thursday and Friday, the reception and dinner on Wednesday, and the special dinner on Thursday (details to be announced).