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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

Tommaso Rossi ≫


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

Roberto Ganzerli ≫


12:00 - 12:40 / Auditorium

Lunch
12:40 - 14:00

Continuous Localization – Leave It with the Vendors!

István Lengyel ≫


14:00 - 14:40 / Auditorium

How to Achieve a Sustainable Vendor Management System that Supports Your Growth

Marija Kozjak ≫


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

Jennifer Vela Valido ≫


14:50 - 15:30 / Auditorium

The Tail Wagging the Dog? An Insight into What Makes Freelance Language Professionals Tick


Gabriella Nagy  ≫


14:50 - 15:30 / Half Auditorium

Build Your Personal Brand to Elevate Your Business


Indre Lelevičienė ≫

14:50 - 15:30 / Room 101

Coffee Break 


15:30 - 16:00

Lessons Learned from Language Expansion at Skyscanner


Miguel Hernandez Garcia ≫ & Georgi Tsaklev ≫


16:00 - 16:40 / Auditorium

When Vendor Management Sits at the Table


Carmen Cisneros 

16:00 - 16:40 / Half Auditorium

Getting out of the VM's Comfort Zone: Recruiting and Coordinating a Team of Interpreters for a Long-Term Assignment Abroad


Noémi Barnaki-Párducz 


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


Margarida Fernandes ≫


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

Keynote Speech: Supporting Refugees in Hungary


rta Pardavi ≫


09:30 - 10:10 / Auditorium

Cultivating Expert Translators: Fostering Translator Excellence and Motivation in Brand Localization


Ágnes Gazsó ≫ & Ivana Đurić ≫


10:20 - 11:00 / Auditorium

From SLVs to Community-Based Localization: A Comprehensive Guide


Marina Pantcheva ≫

10:20 - 11:00 / Half Auditorium

Ukrainian Localisation: New Challenges in Recruiting Linguists


Oleg Semerikov ≫


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

What Business Are You Really in?

 


Nenad Andricsek ≫

 


11:40 - 12:20 / Half Auditorium

Lessons Learned While Building a Team of Linguistic Professionals Online and Striving to Maintain Team Spirit


Éva Farkas 

 

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


László Varga 


12:30 - 13:10 / Auditorium

How to Boost Translation Quality Efficiently and Sustainably


Nelli Harnos ≫


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


Danilo Monaco ≫


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:

  • Customers - logging new requests and performing customer reviews through the Customer Portal

  • Project managers - working mainly through the main web interface or managing projects via Trados Studio

  • Translators - accepting or rejecting tasks through the portal, completing translation and review tasks through Trados Studio and Online Editor

  • 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. 

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