Acolad is the global leader in content and language solutions. Its mission is to support companies in every industry to scale across markets and enable growth through cutting-edge technology and localization expertise. Established in 1993, the group is present in 25 countries across Europe, North America and Asia, with over 2.500 employees supported by a network of +20.000 linguists around the world.

Common Sense Advisory (CSA Research) is an independent market research firm. We help companies profitably grow their international businesses and gain access to new markets and new customers.

LBS Suite is a powerful translation business management system (TBMS) that supports you from prospecting to chasing payments through managing projects, resources, schedules, quality, and invoicing. Using LBS Suite means processes automation and a personalized interface. LBS Suite is designed to adapt to the scale and specific needs of your business. You choose the modules you need and build your own system.

The Localization Institute offers instructor-led master classes and self-study certification courses as well as virtual round tables and conferences. Founded in 1996 by Ulrich Henes, and based in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, The Localization Institute’s mission is to bring the highest quality training and resources to the global business community, governments, and nongovernmental organizations.

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.

At Memsource, we help our customers go global. We provide a leading translation management system (Memsource) and software localization platform (Phrase), supporting over 500 languages, 50+ file types, and covering the full range of enterprise localization use cases. With a global team working from our offices or from home across Europe, the US, the UK, and Japan, we serve thousands of global customers, including leading brands such as Uber, Bosch, Lufthansa, Supercell, Vistaprint, and Zendesk.

At Mother Tongue, we help global brands speak their customers’ language. We are a global network of creatives, strategists, and linguists. United by a love of language, our account managers connect the best in-market talent with cutting-edge technology, to provide culturally relevant campaigns and original content that always cut through. Wherever they run worldwide.

The magazine MultiLingual (ISSN 1523-0309) originated as a buyer’s guide in 1987 and is distributed in print and digital format six times a year to 40,000 readers in 109 countries. It covers topics ranging from technical internationalization to project management to language histories in industries as varied as medical devices and games. It contains reviews of new products and books and gives you the latest news and opinions.

Nimdzi Insights is a market research and consulting firm focused on the language services industry, international market analysis, global business strategy, acquisitions and language technology. Nimdzi’s industry expertise helps companies ramp up their localization programs and address their specific and unique needs. Much of Nimdzi’s research is available for public viewing at www.nimdzi.com. Aside from research, Nimdzi hosts online trainings, webinars and custom on-site upswing programs.

Plunet is the translation project and business management software (TBMS) that helps translation agencies professionalize and scale their business so they can become the technology-enabled agency of the future. Plunet dynamically integrates all major TMS tools, such as memoQ, Trados, GroupShare, Phrase, and XTM, and offers a wide range of reports on productivity, sales, and profit margins, all while reducing cost and redundant tasks for your project managers. Learn more at www.plunet.com.

The Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) is a dynamic session to showcase process and technology innovations in our industry. Shortlisted innovators will pitch their creative ideas to the LocWorld audience. After a time-limited pitch, and with the clock still ticking, a panel of industry experts (aka the PIC Dragons) and the audience will challenge the candidates with tough questions. Dragons and attendees will then vote live for their favorite innovation and innovator to determine which innovations will go to the final round to find the PIC innovator of the year.

RWS Moravia is the first translation, localization and testing partner for the digital, multichannel, always-on world. We work with global companies to help them serve new markets with sharp, accurate and compelling content that understands local needs. We translate and localize content and products into over 250 languages using processes and technologies that are fit for the digital age. We’re a strategic partner for our customers, so you don’t just get great localized content and products — you also get advice, insight and value along the way.

SDL optimizes the content supply chain to help brands create, translate and deliver content. By making content smarter, more relevant and scalable using our unique combination of software, services and machine learning expertise, our customers can unlock the true power of content. SDL’s services in localization, translation management, machine translation, web content management, technical content management and translation productivity enable its customers to engage worldwide audiences through the power of content. We support the biggest community of translation professionals in the industry and are dedicated to developing translation productivity software, such as SDL Trados Studio, SDL Language Cloud and SDL Trados GroupShare.

SeproTec is a multilingual service provider ranked among the Top 30 language service providers in the world by CSA Research. With nearly 30 years’ experience in providing high-quality, cost-effective, tailor-made solutions for our clients in the localization industry, SeproTec distinguishes itself by utilizing the most advanced technology and translator management techniques, specifically designed to maximize client satisfaction. SeproTec’s added value is based on our experience and  knowledge of cultural adaptation processes.  We carefully manage every software, video game or website project to provide the right word choices and idioms, no matter the project’s target language or dialect.

Smartling’s LanguageAI platform is revolutionizing the translation of the world’s digital content. Named as the top translation management system by CSA Research and by users on G2, Smartling harnesses AI and machine learning to automate workflows, integrate with popular software, and improve translation quality at enterprise scale for a fraction of the cost of traditional translation.

Smartling is the platform of choice for hundreds of B2B and B2C brands, including IHG Hotels & Resorts, Shopify, Pinterest, State Farm, British Airways, and Lyft. Smartling is a global team headquartered in New York City with an office in Dublin.

With over 55 years of machine translation expertise, SYSTRAN NMT excels in enhancing multi-language communication across various industries and applications. SYSTRAN is a leading choice for corporations, defense, security organizations, and language service providers, offering highly secure, customized communication solutions in 150+ language combinations. Since January 2024 SYSTRAN is part of ChapsVision.

Founded in 2004, TAUS began as an industry think tank focused on accelerating automation and innovation in the global translation industry. Over the past two decades, TAUS has established itself as a trusted voice and data steward, building the foundation for its transition into an AI-driven SaaS provider.

Today, TAUS is a leading provider of Quality Estimation and Automatic Post-Editing. We help enterprises and LSPs streamline translation workflows, improve quality, and reduce costs through our product EPIC. Powered by the largest in-house language data repository and developed by a team of expert NLP engineers, EPIC is backed by two decades of experience and innovation. Our multicultural team remains committed to advancing translation technology and enabling better communication across borders.

Tilde drives innovation in European language technologies. To support languages in the digital age and enable multilingual communication for global customers, Tilde develops custom machine translation systems, online terminology services, intelligent virtual assistants and automated speech recognition, among other solutions. Since 1991, Tilde has provided translation and localization services to all global-leading manufacturing, technology, IT, telecommunication and automotive companies and governmental institutions. With offices in three Baltic countries and partners across the globe, Tilde combines the talents and skills of over 150 computational linguists, professional translators, editors, software engineers and language technology and AI researchers. Tilde brings together a team of passionate researchers and developers that stays ahead of the market trends.

Translated is a leading company in AI-enabled translation services. We are on a mission to allow everyone to understand and be understood in their own language. Our success stems from a unique blend of the world’s #1 adaptive neural machine translation technology (IDC MarketScape 2022), the largest network of vetted, native-speaking professional translators, and top-ranked AI-enabled text, audio, and video translation tools (Gartner, 2022). By leveraging a seamless symbiosis of artificial intelligence and human creativity, we design custom localization projects that were previously unthinkable, helping more than 360,000 clients grow their businesses worldwide.

Translation Commons is our own self-managed volunteer community where we can share ideas, resources and work together for the common good. We are a nonprofit online community of volunteer language professionals including: linguists, translators, interpreters, terminologists, localization engineers, students, language service managers, academics and more. Our mission is to offer access to open source tools and resources, to facilitate community-driven initiatives, to empower linguists and to share educational and language assets powered by translators. We facilitate cross-functional collaboration among the diverse sectors and stakeholders within the language industry and instigate transparency, trust and free knowledge. We believe sharing is growing.

Translators without Borders (TWB) believes that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity and raise awareness of language barriers. Originally founded in 1993 in France (as Traducteurs sans Frontières), TWB translates millions of words of lifesaving and life-changing information a year.

Welocalize offers innovative language services to help global brands reach audiences around the world in more than 250 languages. We provide translation and localization services, linguistic talent management, language tools, automation, technology, quality, and program management. Our range of managed language services includes machine translation, digital marketing, validation and testing, interpreting, multilingual data training, and enterprise translation management technologies.

Women in Localization is the leading professional organization for women and their allies in the localization industry with thousands of members globally. Started in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008, Women in Localization provides opportunities for networking, education, career advancement, mentoring and recognition for their accomplishments through its global chapters. Our aim is to foster a global community that inspires professional equality in the localization industry and supports women through all phases of their careers.

Wordbee is one of the most advanced cloud-based translation management systems (TMSs) on the market and we deliver one of the most extensive sets of features in the localization industry. Together with our Beebox, a smart middleware solution that can automatically identify and extract translatable content from cloud-based repositories and facilitate the handoff to a TMS, and our revolutionary string-based Flex API that integrates your content management systems, GIT repositories, databases, and other content sources with Wordbee Translator, we offer a comprehensive solution for all your localization needs.

XTM International empowers enterprises to expand into global markets faster by streamlining and fully automating localization processes through its suite of AI-powered solutions: XTM Cloud TMS, XTRF Translation Business Management, Rigi Software Localization and Visual Preview, and TransifexTMS. The combination of these solutions provides a fully integrated and comprehensive Translation Platform which allows global businesses to reach customers more quickly and effectively while boosting the bottom line. Powered by cutting-edge technology, supporting 585 languages, and offering 50+ integrations, the XTM Translation Platform delivers the future of localization to 20,000 unique active users worldwide.