Localization World is supported by high profile professionals in the language business from various geographical and industrial markets. The following members have helped to build very successful conferences:

2012 Seattle Program Committee
Chair: Ulrich Henes, Localization World, Ltd.
Vice-Chair: Daniel Goldschmidt, Microsoft
Vice-Chair: Donna Parrish, Localization World, Ltd.
Chanin Balance, viaLanguage
Kate Edwards, Englobe Inc.
Richard Korn, St. Jude Medical
Teresa Marshall, Salesforce.com
Hajnalka Sarvari, Microsoft
Richard Sikes, MultiCorpora
Jaap van der Meer, TAUS
John Watkins, ENLASO
Sarah Zweir, Trek Bicycle

2012 Paris Program Committee
Chair: Ulrich Henes, Localization World, Ltd.
Vice-Chair: Daniel Goldschmidt, Microsoft
Vice-Chair: Donna Parrish, Localization World, Ltd.
Manal Amin, Arabize
Françoise Bajon, Version Internationale, ELIA
Jacques Barreau, Warner Bros.
Richard Ishida, W3C
Michael Oettli, nlg GmbH
Rashmi Schaefers, SAP AG
Alison Toon, Hewlett-Packard
Jaap van der Meer, TAUS

2012 Game Localization Advisory Board
Co-chair: Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Roehampton University
Co-chair: Simone Crosignani, Binari Sonori
Coordinator: Cristina Alvarez
Michaela Bartelt, Electronic Arts
Stephanie O'Malley Deming, XLOC
Laura van Nigtevegt, Spil Games  
Vanessa Wood, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

2012 Life Sciences Advisory Board
Co-chair: Richard Korn, St. Jude Medical
Co-chair: Clio Schils, Lionbridge Life Sciences
Simon Andriesen, MediLingua Medical Translations
Brigitte Herrmann, Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector
Sandra La Brasca, ForeignExchange Translations
Maarten Milder, Medtronic, Inc.

2012 Driving Global Growth Advisory Board
Co-chair: Mark Flanagan, VistaTEC
Co-chair: Ulrich Henes, Localization World, Ltd.
Kathleen Bostick, Lionbridge
Mark Flanagan, VistaTEC
Oliver Rosenthal, OgilvyOne GmbH
Rashmi Schaefers, SAP AG

Past Advisory Committee Members:
Dana Barras Franco, previously with Welocalize
Teddy Bengtsson, RoundTable Studio, Inc. (previously with Idea Factory Languages)
Renato Beninatto, Moravia Worldwide (previously with Milengo Ltd.)
Christiane Bernier, Lionbridge, GALA
Melissa Biggs, Oracle (previously with Sun Microsystems)
Kevin Bolen, Innosight (previously with Lionbridge)
Chris Boorman, Informatica (previously with SDL)
Kathleen Bostick, Lionbridge
Jonathan Bowring, Canon
Danica Brinton, Zynga, Inc. (previously with LocLabs)
Beat Buchmann, Credit Suisse AG
Barbara Burbach, NetApp (previously with Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard)
Matthias Caesar, Jonckers Translation & Engineering (previously with Locatech)
Rocío Cava, Argos Translations (previously with SeproTec)
Sung Cho, Jonckers Translation & Engineering
Karen Combe, PTC
Lou Cremers, Syn-Tactic (previously with Océ Technologies)
Arnaud Daix, Euroscript Luxembourg (previously with Hewlett-Packard)
Joseph Dengler, NetVenture Europe sarl (previously with LinguaNet)
Don DePalma, Common Sense Advisory
Vic Dickson, Translia and Acosys (previously with Transco)
Kristin Dittrich-Kahi, Roche Diagnostics Ltd.
Aaron Dun, Percussion Software (previously with Lionbridge)
Andreas Dürr, Brandmaker GmbH (previously with Across Systems GmbH)
Betsy Fallon, SDL
Thomas Fenrich, Salesforce.com (previously with Yahoo! Inc.)
Carrie Fischer, Oracle
Karen Fowlie, IBM Canada (previously with Cognos)
Roberto Ganzerli, Arancho Doc, ELIA
Inna Geller, Geller Translation, Lean Sigma Green Belt
Laurie Gerber, Syntes Language Group (previously with Language Weaver)
Daniel Gervais, MultiCorpora R&D Inc.
Salvatore Giammarresi, Yahoo! Inc.
Leonid Glazychev, Logrus International
James Grealis, Symantec
Martin Guttinger, Yahoo! Inc. (previously with Cisco Systems, Inc.)
Ghassan Haddad, Facebook
Allan Hall, SDL
Kim Harris, text & form GmbH, GALA
Thomas Hecht, Siemens Healthcare
Christina Helmke, Hewlett-Packard
Andres Heuberger, ForeignExchange Translations
Carolyn Hickman, Hewlett-Packard
Fred Hollowood, Symantec
Kaimeng Huang, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Jochen Hummel, ESTeam AB (previously with TRADOS)
Gordon Husbands, Wordbank
Sylvia Idström, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
Ulrike Irmler, Microsoft
Aki Ito, TOIN
Carsten Kneip, Microsoft (previously with Cisco Systems & Sinometrics)
Wei-Tai Kwok, Suntech America (previously with Molecular and Ion Global)
Terry Lawlor, SDL
Fred Leierzapf, Philips Healthcare
Rose Lockwood, LangTechNews (previously with TAUS)
Salome Lopez-Lavado, Sony Europe
Gráinne Maycock, Moravia Worldwide (previously with VistaTEC)
Nicholas McMahon, viaLanguage (previously with Jonckers Translation & Engineering)
Michael Metzger, Apple, Inc., Northern California Translators Association
Dirk Meyer, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Peijing Mo, Palm, Inc.
Göran Nordlund, previously with Maquet
Ultan Ó Broin, Oracle
Tony O'Dowd, Alchemy Software Development
Iris Orriss, Microsoft
Véronique Özkaya, Moravia Worldwide
John Papaioannou, Bentley Systems
Sergio Pelino, Google
Conrad Pokorny, previously with Semantix
André Purnot, Medtronic, Inc.
Chris Pyne, SAP
Arturo Quintero, Moravia Worldwide
Bettina Reichart, Oracle
Peter Reynolds, TM-Global/Kilgray, (previously with Idiom, Inc. and GALA)
Stephen Ryan, previously with Moravia Worldwide
Florian Sachse, SDL Passolo
René Savelsbergh, RSCS (previously with TOIN and Welocalize
Reinhard Schäler, The Rosetta Foundation (previously with LRC and TILP)
Paula Shannon, Lionbridge
Nitish Singh, Saint Louis University
Don Sirena, General Motors
Peter Smith, SDL
Bill Sullivan, IBM
Kirsten Sutton, SAP Labs Vancouver (previously with Business Objects)
Renée Sztabelski, previously with Hitext S.A. and GALA)
Lew Tarnopol, Intel Corporation
Lori Thicke, Lexcelera, Translators without Borders
Elisa Tormes, Practical Marketing (previously with Tek Translation)
Francis Tsang, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Dennis Waltman, Harley-Davidson
James Wei, Beijing EC Innovations, Inc.
Angelika Zerfaß, zaac
Jost Zetzsche, International Writers’ Group