Tracks (click icon for an overview):
Session Follows Conference Theme:
Recommended Experience Level: Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced | Everyone |
| Junior Ballroom | |
|---|---|
| 6:30pm – 8:30pm |
Tracks (click icon for an overview):
Advanced Localization Management
Content Management
Global Business
Keynote
Localization for Asia
TAUSSession Follows Conference Theme:
Recommended Experience Level: Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced | Everyone |
| Sabah | Penang | Kelantan | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00am – 9:45am | Multiple Career Paths for Localization and the Core Skill Sets to Fulfill Them | AL1 | Presenter: Celina Cao - Alibaba Group Host: Hui May Koh | Creating a Localization Center of Excellence in a Global Business Environment | GB1 | Presenters: Tom Raczka - InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) Amanda Ree - thebigword | Alite: Linguistic Testing and Resource Management Platform | TS1 | Presenter: Satyendra Sheel - Adobe Host: Anne-Maj van der Meer |
| 9:45am – 10:30am | Break | ||
| 10:30am – 12:00pm | Left open to allow attendance at concurrent sessions | Left open to allow attendance at concurrent sessions | |
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm | Lunch held in the Mezzanine, Level 1 | ||
| 1:30pm – 2:15pm | Breaking the Trend — Paying More for Translation | AL2 | Presenters: Youngmin Jeong - PayPal Björn Rettig - PayPal Host: Nicholas Goh | Empower Marketers to Maximize Multilingual Content ROI | CM2 | Presenters: Joy Chang - Alibaba Group Morgan Gallup Zhu - Nimdzi Insights Host: Scott Abel | Quality Estimation in the AI Era | TS2 | Presenter: Dalibor Frívaldský - Memsource Host: Anne-Maj van der Meer |
| 2:15pm – 2:45pm | Break | ||
| 2:45pm – 3:45pm | When Small Jobs Bring Big Pains: Localizing Content Updates in a Stress-free Way | AL3 | Presenters: Sergey Andreev - Smartcat Natalya Pavlikova - Xsolla Host: Katie Botkin | Indian Languages Market: The Complex Script | LA3 | Presenter: Senthil Nathan - Langscape Language Solutions Host: Mayank Dutt | Kató Speak: How Translators without Borders Is Using Technology to Reach the Most Vulnerable | TS3 | Presenter: Mirko Plitt - Translators without Borders Host: Anne-Maj van der Meer Speech Translation at Alibaba | TS3 | Presenter: Lidong Bing - Alibaba Group Host: Anne-Maj van der Meer |
| 3:45pm – 4:15pm | Break | ||
| 4:15pm – 5:00pm | What's in a Name | GB4 | Presenter: Manuela Noske - Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) Host: Takao Tanaka | A Case Study on How Neural MT Has Improved the Quality of MT Output | TS4 | Presenters: Michael Cárdenas - Local Concept Denis Gachot - SYSTRAN Software Host: Anne-Maj van der Meer | |
| 6:30pm – 9:30pm | Dinner – sponsored by RWS Moravia, followed by after-dinner drinks sponsored by Memsource | ||
Tracks (click icon for an overview):
Advanced Localization Management Content Management Global Business Keynote Localization for Asia
Technical
UnconferenceSession Follows Conference Theme:
Recommended Experience Level: Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced | Everyone |
| Sabah | Penang | Kelantan | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00am – 9:45am | Localization Services Research in Industry 4.0 for Southeast Asian Countries | LA5 | Presenters: Nam Hoang Hai - Expertrans Global Bui Trung Toan - Expertrans Global Host: Daniel Goldschmidt | Industry and University Join Hands in Technical Communications Education in China | CM5 | Presenter: May Li - Tongji University Host: Celina Cao | Shallow Translation via MT for Simplified Chinese <> Traditional Chinese | T5 | Presenters: York Jin - VMware Sarah Qiao - VMware Host: Gary Lefman |
| 9:45am – 10:15am | Break | ||
| 10:15am – 11:00am | User Experience Challenges for the Korean, Japanese and Indonesian Markets | AL6 | Presenters: Andy Andersen - Tinder Giuliano Octavianos - Tinder Host: Katie Botkin | The Rise of the Vernacular India | GB6 | Presenters: Anuradha Agarwal - Multibhashi Solutions Pradipta Sarkar - Pocket Aces Host: Anne-Marie Colliander Lind | Localization Friendly Automation Best Practices | T6 | Presenter: Satyendra Sheel - Adobe Host: Gary Lefman |
| 11:00am – 11:30am | Break | ||
| 11:30am – 12:45pm | Entering the ASEAN Market | K2 | Presenters: Nicholas Goh - Verztec Consulting Ade Indarta Michael Rosinski - Astoria Software Claire Tsai - Cloudflare Moderator: Scott Abel | Left open to allow attendance at concurrent sessions | Left open to allow attendance at concurrent sessions |
| 12:45pm – 2:15pm | Lunch held in the Mezzanine, Level 1 | ||
| 2:15pm – 3:15pm | How to Optimize Native-language Content Creation Teams in Asia | AL7 | Presenters: Celina Cao - Alibaba Group Joshua Hughman - CSOFT International Host: Scott Abel | MicroTalks - SpeeQual, memoQ | T7 | Presenters: Afrizal Luthfi - SpeeQual Andrzej Nedoma - XTRF Management Systems Peter Reynolds - memoQ Host: Gary Lefman | |
| 3:15pm – 3:45pm | Break | ||
| 3:45pm – 4:30pm | Leveraging the Strength of the Globe to Succeed in Global Markets | AL8 | Presenter: Ben Cornelius - Cornelius Communications Host: Morgan Gallup Zhu | ||
| 4:30pm – 4:45pm | Break | ||
| 4:45pm – 5:30pm | Left open to allow attendance at concurrent sessions | Left open to allow attendance at concurrent sessions | |
| 5:30pm – 7:30pm | Closing Reception at the Lemon Garden Terrace, sponsored by Smartcat | ||
