LocWorld48 Silicon Valley Speakers

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Knowledgeable and experienced presenters, delivering highly valuable sessions.

Hameed Afssari

Head of Globalization
Uber

Sara Basile

Product Manager
XTM International

Jeff Beatty

Executive Director of Product Globalization
The Walt Disney Company

Edith Bendermacher

Director, Globalization Strategy and Localization Operations
NetApp

Olga Beregovaya

Vice President of AI and Machine Translation
Smartling

Alex Bernet

Co-producer of PIC
LocWorld

Anna Berns

International Program Manager
Khan Academy

Matthew Biant

Product Owner, Translation Platform
Autodesk

Melissa Biggs

Partner, Consultant
Locale Solutions

Alessandra Binazzi

Principal Consultant
Global Sights

Inge Boonen

Chief Growth Officer
Nimdzi Insights

Kathleen Bostick

Senior Consultant

Louise Callcott-Stevens

CEO
EarCandy

Gaia Celeste

Translated

Zhenhui Chao

Director
VMware

Colin Coleman

Partner
Partridge Snow & Hahn

Anne-Marie Colliander Lind

Marketing Director
LocWorld

Karen Combe

Consultant
Localization Institute

Ben Cornelius

Global Consultant
Cornelius Communications

Lara Daly

CRO
Akorbi

Christopher Dell

Founder & CEO
Locale

Ivy Diaz

Program Manager III
Health Net

Yoko Drain

Senior Director, Product Globalization
Zendesk

Emily Du

Lead Localization Program Manager
Meta

Georg Ell

CEO
Phrase

Jordan Evans

CEO
Language Network

Tomas Franc

Lead Sales Solutions Architect
Lokalise

Diana Georgieva

Senior Localization Manager
Pleo

Salvo Giammarresi

Head of Localization
Airbnb

Lennart Gijsen

Lokalise

Daniel Goldschmidt

Collaborator
LocWorld

Siobhan Hanna

Managing Director, Artificial Intelligence
TELUS International

Rolf Hecken

Manager Outreach Stakeholder Engagement
Translation Bureau of Canada

Melanie Heighway

Product Localization Senior Team Lead
Atlassian

Ulrich Henes

Principal
LocWorld

Belinda Hilbert

Strategic Account Manager
United Language Group

Mimi Hills

Principal
Hillstra Associates

Tuyen Ho

Global Head of Corporate Development
Welocalize

Paula Hunter

Senior Manager, Localization & Tech Documentation
Motorola Solutions

Katell Jentreau

Krzysztof Jozefowicz

R&D Director - European Localization Center
SAS Institute

Ricky Kalu

Managing Director
Kalu Media

Georg Kirchner

Globalization Technology Manager
Dell Technologies

Eva Klaudinyova

Assistant Professor
Middlebury Institute of International Studies

Michael Klinger

CEO
Language Transactions

Michael Kriz

President
Acclaro

Yuka Kurihara

Director of Globalization Services
Scaled Agile, Inc.

Taki Kurisawa

Managing Director
Crestec USA

Hinde Lamrani

Digital Marketing Services Director
Acolad

Rain Lau

Language Services Manager
Workday

Gary Lefman

Internationalization Architect
Cisco

Yanming Li

Senior Manager, Localization
Amazon

Olivier Libouban

VP Product Development
Lingoport

Teresa Marshall

Vice President, Globalization & Localization
Salesforce.com

Peiying Mo

Senior Localization Program Manager
Mozilla

Mimi Moore

Freelance Consultant

Maria Gabriela Morales

Director
Rosario Traducciones y Servicios S.A.

CatherineRose Mountain

Senior Internationalization Program Manager
Pinterest

Doug Mueller

Program Director, IoT Offerings and Strategy
IBM

Julian Muller

Director, Localization
Meta

Alesia Nikalaichyk

Lead Customer Success Manager
Lokalise

David Orban

Lead Localization Program Manager
Meta

Donna Parrish

Principal
LocWorld

Sabine Peng

Staff Technical Program Manager
VMware

Mariëtte Pepping

Director, Marketing Localization
ServiceNow

Luz Pineda

Technical Project Manager, Localization
Motorola Solutions

Oleksandr Pysaryuk

Localization Leader

Antoine Rey

SVP, Customer Development
Argos Multilingual

Vera Richards

Vice President of Localization
Akorbi

Dave Ruane

Digital Content & Partnership Manager
XTM International

Iti Sahai

Product Leader

Carolina Salazar

Localization Program Manager
Khan Academy

Sarah Sanders

International Business Strategist
TechSmith

Konstantin Savenkov

CEO & Cofounder
Intento

Scott Schwalbach

Global Program and Release Manager
Amazon Web Services

William Schwartz

Director Business North America
Alpha CRC

Loy Searle

Senior Director of Localization & Information Development
Workday

Tyson Shelley

Manager, Localization
Zoom

Hongmei Shi

Senior Localization Program Manager
VMware

Jun Shim

Principal International Product Manager
Adobe

Eric Silberstein

Sales Engineer
Lokalise

Brian Solis

VP, Global Innovation
Salesforce.com

Lyena Solomon

Director, Globalization and Accessibility
ServiceNow

David Sowerby

Straker Translations

Jeannette Stewart

Founder/President
Translation Commons

Daniel Sullivan

Director, Globalization and Localization
GitLab

Akira Takabayashi

President
Crestec

Karen Tkaczyk

Director, Life Sciences Solutions
MasterWord

Ana Trejo

Jorrit van der Moolen

Product Localization Manager
Atlassian

Erji Wang

Senior Localization Program Manager
VMware

Jack Welde

President & Cofounder
Smartling

Magdalena Wójcik

Data Science Team Lead
Argos Multilingual