TAUS Executive Forum
Copenhagen / May 19-21, 2010
In partnership with the Consortium for Service Innovation
| OVERVIEW | PROGRAM | VENUE |
Overview
Following the first TAUS Localization Business Innovation White Paper, May 2008, traditional translation business models have been under pressure to change. The changes we predicted, ranging from sharing translation memories to community translation to localization and support convergence and wider adoption of machine translation, have taken an irreversible foothold in the industry. Tools have been tested, the industry has been challenged, and lessons have been learned. Anno 2010 is a decisive year for many in the translation industry. What should stay and what must go? What do we still need to know?
At the TAUS Executive Forum in Copenhagen, decision makers from leading buyers and providers of translation services and technologies will seek to answer these questions and define the New Localization Business Innovation Roadmap. From all we have learned so far we will extract the formulas for dramatic increases in translation volumes and greater efficiency.
Following two decades of fierce competition, the leaders in the global translation industry want to open up, settle on common open platforms, share language resources and converge with other applications and industries. The New Innovation Roadmap is about reaching consensus, about shared industry opportunities.
The agenda is broken down in the following four blocks:
- Machine translation technologies
- Open translation platforms
- Localization convergence - multilingual and multimedia support
- Collective Intelligence - assessing the innovation agenda
Participants are buyers from both private and public sector and from technology and service providers.
Objectives
The objectives of this TAUS Executive Forum in Copenhagen are:
- To assess the industry’s innovation agenda
- To share insights and intelligence on latest developments in machine translation
- To advance the community in support of TAUS Data Association
Program Committee
The Program Committee for this TAUS Executive Forum consists of:
- Aiman Copty, Oracle
- Chris Wendt, Microsoft
- Francis Tsang, Adobe
- Fred Hollowood, Symantec
- Greg Oxton, Consortium for Service Innovation
- James Douglas, Microsoft
- Jessica Roland, EMC
- Karen Combe, PTC
- Melissa Biggs, Oracle
- Pablo Vazquez, Cisco
- Paul Walsh, McAfee
- Valàrie Gilbert, Cisco
- Will Burgett, Intel
