Additional Meetings and Activities

Localization World is pleased to advise you of these additional events and meetings that are taking place in Seattle prior to the Localization World Conference.

Negotiating to Close Workshop
Sharpen your negotiation skills!

GALA will host an all-day workshop on advanced negotiation skills for language technology and service providers on October 15 in Seattle. This workshop provides a strategic framework for you to identify and understand negotiating challenges. The topics covered will help you to strengthen your position to create favorable outcomes for you, the customer and your company. This workshop will be taught by Jeff Sauer, an instructor through the University of Texas at Austin Continuing Education program. The workshop agenda includes:

• Negotiation tactics and counter-tactics
• Common negotiation mistakes made by the sales professional
• Obstacles faced by the sales professional in negotiation
• Customer decision elements

When: October 15, 2007; 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Where: Seattle World Trade Center; 2200 Alaskan Way, #410; Seattle, WA USA

Who Should Attend: Business owners, sales professionals, sales managers, procurement personnel, project managers, and non-sales professionals who need to understand the sales process.

For details and registration, please click here. Non-GALA members are welcome to register for this event. Space is limited.

Find Out Why Machine Translation is Making a Comeback

This complimentary one-day event will highlight the advantages of implementing statistical machine translation into a translation workflow and how to leverage translation memory and existing legacy documents to quickly create high-quality translation systems. The focus will be on requirements for a successful customization and achieving a return on investment based on a company’s cost and throughput. In addition, Language Weaver partners who have integrated Language Weaver software into translation management applications to improve translation productivity will present their solutions.

When: Monday, October 15; 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The Edgewater Hotel, 2411 Alaskan Way, Pier 67, Seattle, WA 98121

Attendees Will Learn:

• Why SMT is a significant departure from rule-based MT
• How SMT learns from a company’s existing TM and legacy translations to produce high quality translations
• Requirements for a successful customization
• How to calculate ROI for Language Weaver SMT
• How Language Weaver SMT has been successfully integrated by our partners into workflow applications to improve translation productivity. Partner presentations from across Systems, Clay Tablet Technologies, Idiom Technologies.

• Translation and language service providers
• Companies with high volume translation needs
• Technology providers interested in integration