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:

2010 Seattle Program Committee
Chair: Ulrich Henes, The Localization Institute
Vice Chair: Daniel Goldschmidt, RIGI Localization Solutions
Vice Chair: Donna Parrish, MultiLingual Computing, Inc.
Teddy Bengtsson, Idea Factory
Danica Brinton, LocLabs  
Christina Helmke, Hewlett-Packard  
Andres Heuberger, ForeignExchange Translations  
Iris Orriss, Microsoft Corporation  
Nitish Singh, Saint Louis University  
Peter Smith, SDL  
Francis Tsang, Adobe Systems Incorporated  
Jaap van der Meer, TAUS  
Dennis Waltman, Harley-Davidson

2010 Game Localization Program Committee
Michaela Bartelt, Electron Arts
Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Roehampton University
Will Bright, Lionhead-Microsoft
Solja Kuningas, Babal Media Ltd
Fabio Minazzi, Binari Sonori
Janaina Wittner, whp
Vanessa Wood, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

2010 Life Sciences Program Committee
Simon Andriesen, MediLingua
Jason Arnsparger, CaridianBCT
Brigitte Herrmann, Siemens AG
Richard Korn, St. Jude Medical
Sandra La Brasca, ForeignExchange Translations
Jennifer Perkins, Lionbridge
Clio Schils, Lionbridge

Past Advisory Committee Members:
Dana Barras Franco, Welocalize
Renato Beninatto, Milengo Ltd. (previously with Common Sense Advisory)
Christiane Bernier, Lionbridge, GALA
Melissa Biggs, Oracle America (previously with Sun Microsystems)
Kevin Bolen, Lionbridge
Chris Boorman, SDL
Kathleen Bostick, Lionbridge
Jonathan Bowring, Canon
Barbara Burbach, Cisco Systems (previously with Hewlett-Packard)
Matthias Caesar, Locatech, GALA
Sung Cho, Jonckers Translation & Engineering
Karen Combe, PTC
Lou Cremers, Syn-Tactic (previously with Océ Technologies)
Arnaud Daix, Hewlett-Packard
Joseph Dengler, LinguaNet
Don DePalma, Common Sense Advisory
Vic Dickson, Transco
Aaron Dun, Lionbridge
Andreas Dürr, Across Systems GmbH
Thomas Fenrich, Yahoo! Inc.
Karen Fowlie, Cognos
Roberto Ganzerli, Arancho/ELIA
Inna Geller, Lean Sigma Green Belt
Laurie Gerber, Language Weaver
Daniel Gervais, MultiCorpora
Leonid Glazychev, Logrus International
Martin Guttinger, Cisco Systems
Ghassan Haddad, Facebook
Kim Harris, text & form GmbH, GALA
Thomas Hecht, Siemens
Carolyn Hickman, Hewlett-Packard
Fred Hollowood, Symantec
Kaimeng Huang, Adobe Systems Inc.
Jochen Hummel, previously with TRADOS
Gordon Husbands, Wordbank
Sylvia Idström, Sony Ericsson
Ulrike Irmler, Microsoft
Aki Ito, TOIN (previously with Prisma International)
Carsten Kneip, Microsoft (previously with Cisco Systems & Sinometrics)
Wei-Tai Kwok, Molecular (formerly Ion Global)
Terry Lawlor, SDL
Fred Leierzapf, Philips
Rose Lockwood, consultant (previously with TAUS)
Nicholas McMahon, Jonckers Translation & Engineering
Michael Metzger, Northern California Translators Association
Peijing Mo, Palm, Inc.
Göran Nordlund, (previously with Maquet)
Ultan Ó Broin, Oracle
Tony O'Dowd, Alchemy Software Development
Véronique Özkaya, Moravia Worldwide
John Papaioannou, Bentley Systems
Conrad Pokorny, Semantix
André Purnot, Medtronic, Inc.
Chris Pyne, SAP
Arturo Quintero, Moravia Worldwide
Bettina Reichart, Oracle
Peter Reynolds, TM-Global/Kilgray, GALA (previously with Idiom, Inc.)
Stephen Ryan, Moravia Worldwide
Florian Sachse, SDL Passolo
René Savelsbergh, Welocalize (previously with TOIN)
Reinhard Schäler, Localisation Research Centre, TILP
Paula Shannon, Lionbridge
Don Sirena, General Motors
Kirsten Sutton, Business Objects
Renée Sztabelski, GALA (previously with Hitext S.A. & Localization World)
Lew Tarnopol, Intel
Lori Thicke, Lexcelera
Elisa Tormes, Tek Translation
James Wei, Beijing E-C Translation
Angelika Zerfaß, zaac
Jost Zetzsche, TM Marketplace