Achim Ruopp has been involved in enabling computers to process different languages and the translation business since the mid-1990s. After pursuing a master’s in computational linguistics with a thesis focusing on mining parallel corpora from the web he participated in a wide range of projects improving machine translation from a research perspective, but also practically integrating machine translation in the human translation process. Achim is aiming to share his knowledge, experience and latest developments in the field of machine translation to break down barriers in cross-language communication.