Programme of the conference
Eventual programme changes may apply.
October 17 Tuesday
Jobs Fair
15:00 - 19:00
October 18 Wednesday
Registration
8:30
Welcome
09:15 - 09:40 / Auditorium
Keynote Speech: Give Change a Chance
09:40 - 10:20 / Auditorium
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Panel: The LSC CEO perspective: expectations, reality, and the future of vendor management
Danilo Monaco - General Manager, Nordtext / Rado Tihralik - Director, exe / Miklós Bán - CEO, Espell / Moderator: László Varga
10:50 - 11:50
From Linguist to Vendor Manager: Navigating the Mindset Shift
12:00 - 12:40 / Auditorium
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
How to Achieve a Sustainable Vendor Management System that Supports Your Growth
14:00 - 14:40 / Half Auditorium
Do You Need to Vent? Be My Guest! Strong Emotions in the Workplace
Aleksandra Drotlef-Pastuszka ≫ & Dominika Olszewska ≫
14:00 - 14:40 / Room 101
The Future of Translation Quality Management: Meeting Client Demands for Scalable, User-centric and Data-driven Quality Strategies
14:50 - 15:30 / Auditorium
The Tail Wagging the Dog? An Insight into What Makes Freelance Language Professionals Tick
14:50 - 15:30 / Half Auditorium
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Lessons Learned from Language Expansion at Skyscanner
Miguel Hernandez Garcia ≫ & Georgi Tsaklev ≫
16:00 - 16:40 / Auditorium
Getting out of the VM's Comfort Zone: Recruiting and Coordinating a Team of Interpreters for a Long-Term Assignment Abroad
16:00 - 16:40 / Room 101
Panel: Buy-side perspective - the clients' voice
Participants: Jennifer Vela-Valido - Localisation Manager, Spotify / Ketty Tirrito - Localisation Manager, Zendesk / Ágnes Gazsó - Localization Project Manager, HBO Max EMEA / Anna Gillemot-Kemeny - Localisation Manager, Formlabs / Moderator: Giada Gerotto
16:50 - 17:30 / Auditorium
How Vendor Management and Business Development Go Hand in Hand
16:50 - 17:30 / Half Auditorium
Gala Dinner on the Danube River
20:00 - 23:00 Spoon The Boat
(registration starts at 19:30)
October 19 Thursday
Cultivating Expert Translators: Fostering Translator Excellence and Motivation in Brand Localization
10:20 - 11:00 / Auditorium
From SLVs to Community-Based Localization: A Comprehensive Guide
10:20 - 11:00 / Half Auditorium
Ukrainian Localisation: New Challenges in Recruiting Linguists
10:20 - 11:00 / Room 101
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Panel: How VM models scale - Tailoring Vendor Management Practices to Company Size and big companies
Participants: Marija Kozjak - Vendor Manager, Verba / Marina Pantcheva - Senior Group Manager, RWS / Nora Zilahy - Global business partner manager, Espell / Carmen Cisneros - Vendor Manager, Ultimate Languages / Moderator: Andrew Hickson
11:40 - 12:20 / Auditorium
Lessons Learned While Building a Team of Linguistic Professionals Online and Striving to Maintain Team Spirit
11:40 - 12:20 / Room 101
What Do the Buyers Have to Say? Data and Perspectives on How to Set up a Supply Chain Everyone Is Happy with
12:30 - 13:10 / Auditorium
How to Boost Translation Quality Efficiently and Sustainably
12:30 - 13:10 / Half Auditorium
Lunch
13:10 - 14:20
Panel: AI in the industry: LLMs and all that jazz
Participants: Gábor Faragó - Language Solutions Architect, Espell /
Giada Gerotto - Customer Excellence Champion / Balázs Kis - CEO, memoQ /
László Varga - Senior Consultant, Nimdzi / Moderator: Szabolcs Kincse, journalist
14:20 - 15:00 / Auditorium
All I Needed to Know Professionally I Learnt as a Vendor Manager
15:10 - 15:50 / Auditorium
Closing
16:00 - 16:30 / Auditorium
Tool demos
N15 Room 104
Globalese V5. The next generation of AI-boosted MT engines - Globalese tool demo
Oct 18 Wednesday 12:00 - 12:40
memoQ ♥️ AI, memoQ ♥️ humans - memoQ tool demo
Oct 18 Wednesday 16:00 - 16:45
Connecting the dots: Unifying stakeholders with end-to-end translation management- RWS tool demo
Oct 19 Thursday 12:30 - 13:10
Discover how Trados simplifies the translation process while keeping all stakeholders up to date:
Join Csaba Szekeres, Senior Partner Solutions Specialist at Trados, for a complete translation project demonstration, from the aspects of:
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Customers - logging new requests and performing customer reviews through the Customer Portal
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Project managers - working mainly through the main web interface or managing projects via Trados Studio
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Translators - accepting or rejecting tasks through the portal, completing translation and review tasks through Trados Studio and Online Editor
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Advantages of the extended capabilities of cloud-desktop hybrid working.
VENUE:
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
Address: 15 Nádor utca V. Budapest
Nádor utca 15 is the main entrance to the University and is home to the CEU Auditorium, the CEU Library, research centres, classrooms, and exhibition hall.