[announce] Program Update: LISA Global Strategies Summit USA

[Alex Lam <alex@lisa.org>]

LISA Global Strategies Summit USA - March 3-7, 2003
UNDERSTANDING WHAT CUSTOMERS WANT TO ACHIEVE

Network with over 200 corporate and government professionals active in
today's global business environment!

* Keynotes * Strategic Industry Issues *

. "Defining global entrepreneurial leadership"
What have we learned about executing global business?  
Jean Louis Gassee - Allegis Capital [Former President of Apple Products
Division]

. "Homeland Security and Language Technologies"
Homeland security and its need for language technologies and services
Moderator - Lyra Spratt-Manning, CEO of the RWS Group 
Panelists:
- Phillip R. Herr, Assistant Director, International Affairs and Trade
US General Accounting Office (GAO) 
- Richard Brecht, Director of the National Foreign Language Center
(NFLC) 
- Margaret R. Gulotta, FBI Language Services Deployment 
- Joel Ross, Basis Technology, VP Defense & Intelligence Services

. "Globalization: Resistance is Futile"
Good business adapts to different cultures; not force cultures to be
homogenized!
- Mark Davis, Chief Globalization Architect at IBM [President of
UNICODE]

. "Post 9/11 -- LISA's LANGTECH MEDIA PANEL"
Changes in how the media perceive and handle language technology and
cultural issues.

UPDATED AGENDA : http://www.lisa.org/events/2003usa/agenda.html
REGISTRATION   : http://www.lisa.org/events/2003usa/registration.html
WORKSHOPS      : http://www.lisa.org/events/2003usa/workshops/

// Conference hotel discount ends February 14th! Book now //

**LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND LOCALIZATION SERVICES EXHIBITION** 
The industry's leading technology developers for automated language
processing systems, global web-services, internationalization,
translation and localization suppliers will demonstrate their products
and services.

**EXHIBITORS**
* Isogen International * STAR Technology & Solutions * Connect Global
Solutions * TRADOS  * Telelingua Software * empolis NA * Sunflare
Company * Sandhills Software * Greater Zurich Area *  SDL International
* iLanguage, Inc *


**LISA GLOBAL STRATEGIES SUMMIT USA HOSTS AND SPONSORS**
* ISOGEN International - a division of Innodata Corporation * 
* STAR Technology & Solutions * Cisco Systems * RWS Group * 
* IBM * Hewlett-Packard * Basis Technology *
* SDForum * SMP Marketing * 

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- Notices -
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LISA is the premier organization providing the mechanisms, services and
networking for professionals interested in sharing information on the
development of globalization and localization processes, tools, web
services and international business models. Formed in 1990, today LISA
members comprise 220 companies employing over 400,000 people in 65
countries.
* We apologize if you received duplicates of this announcement.
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