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LocWorld39 Main Conference Program

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Recommended Experience Level:   Beginner |   Intermediate |   Advanced |   Everyone |

Junior Ballroom
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Opening Reception | Junior Ballroom |

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Advanced Localization Management
Content Management
Global Business
Keynote
Localization for Asia
TAUS

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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
A Rapidly Changing World | K1 |
Presenter:
Fredrik Härén
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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 - RWS Moravia
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
Getting Your Localization Quality Right: Best Practices from the Netflix Indonesia Launch | AL4 |
Presenter:
Ade Indarta - Netflix
Host: Yueting (Claire) Tan
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
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
Unconference

Session 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 - Netflix 
Michael Rosinski - Astoria Software 
Claire Tsai - Cloudflare
Moderator: Scott Abel
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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
Unconference @ LocWorld | UN7 |
Moderators: Daniel Goldschmidt,
Hui May Koh
MicroTalks | 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
Remote Interpretation and AI-based Vendor Selection — Global Approach for Global Leaders | GB8 |
Presenter:
Andrey Moiseev
Host: Scott Abel
Unconference @ LocWorld | UN8 |
Moderators: Daniel Goldschmidt,
Hui May Koh
Leveraging the Strength of the Globe to Succeed in Global Markets | AL8 |
Presenter:
Ben Cornelius - Spartan Software Inc.
Host: Morgan Gallup Zhu
4:30pm – 4:45pm Break
4:45pm – 5:30pm
Closing / Prize Drawing | CL9 |
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5:30pm – 7:30pm Closing Reception at the Lemon Garden Terrace, sponsored by Smartcat

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LocWorld is the leading conference for international business, translation, localization and global website management. Attendees are the people responsible for communicating across the boundaries of language and culture in the global marketplace. With a specific emphasis on global business, the conference provides an opportunity for the exchange of high-value information in the language and translation services and technologies market.

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