Heidi Depraetere has over 20 years’ experience in the localization and language technology industries. She is a founder and director of CrossLang, a privately owned consulting and systems integration company dedicated to translation automation technology. Heidi is familiar with the evolution of the industry from desktop computer-assisted translation tools to continuous translation, from commercial software deployment to open source solutions. User-centric machine translation evaluation is an area of active interest. She has created and worked with international teams throughout Europe and the United States. Heidi holds a degree in linguistics from the University of Leuven and is based in Gent, Belgium.