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Subject: Final Program - LISA Forum USA - Washington DC
The LISA Forum USA ACCELERATING GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING Through best practice - Services - Language Technology and Open Standards December 8-11, 2003 * Washington D.C. - Learn how companies are increasing their margins on global products - Cutting localization and translation costs - Reducing testing and i18n costs through streamlined operations - Tools Benchmarking by comparing the best technologies - Expanding into new market segment opportunities - Developing new vertical business applications - Implementing effective and profitable GILT models - Fueling international market growth - Web Services in practice AGENDA http://www.lisa.org/events/2003dc/agenda.html REGISTER http://www.lisa.org/events/2003dc/registration.html LISA WORKSHOPS http://www.lisa.org/events/2003dc/workshops/ PARTICIPANTS http://www.lisa.org/events/2003dc/participants_list.html SPECIAL PROGRAMS -- Monday, December 8th -- Global Content Management Seminar sponsored by Hewlett-Packard http://www.lisa.org/events/2003dc/seminar/ Machine Translation Seminar - Can MT work for you? Applications, Technology and Implementation Planning http://www.lisa.org/events/2003dc/mtseminar/ * LISA WORKSHOPS - All About Arabic - Defining Globalization Requirements - Internationalization and Localization Testing - Creating Multilingual Websites - Automating Localization Workflow - XML and Localization - Managing Localization Projects _________________________________________________ 2003 LISA FORUM USA FINAL PROGRAM DEC. 9-10, 2003 Tuesday, December 9 Chair, Bill Sullivan - Chief Strategist LISA Executive Board INTRO * Understanding Best Practices in Selecting the Best Solutions: A Management Perspective Alan Guibord - Chairman, CEO and Founder, The Advisory Council KEYNOTE * A Review of the Industry's Progress - Has Globalization Finally Come to the Localization and Translation Industry? Rory Cowan - CEO, LionBridge Technologies * Meeting the Internet Challenge - Delivering Customized Content and Technology John McGeehan - Senior Partner, Director of Engineering, OgilvyInteractive * "Find Out What Your Global Customer Base Thinks..." Brooke Watts, System Project Manager - Satmetrix Systems Liesl Leary, Senior Globalization Consultant - RWS Group, LLC PANEL SESSION * Defining Customer Requirements for Language Processing: The Similarities and Differences Between the US Government and the Commercial Sector Kathleen Egan - Technical Director, National Virtual Translation Center Eric Leach - Program Manager for the FBI's Language Automation Program BEST PRACTICE * Process and Security in Today's Language Services Industry Tony Clarke - Chief Information Officer, CLS Communication * Industry Ethics: Professionalism in the GILT Community Arle Lommel, Publications Manager - LISA SME BUSINESS FOCUS * Consolidating and Integrating for Growth - How Localization Service Providers Can Profit from a Maturing Market Kim Harris - Managing Director, Text & Form Software-Lokalisierung GmbH Donald Barabй - Director, Business Development, Canadian Translation Bureau * Enterprise Technology: A Holistic Approach to the Health of Your Business! Kara Warburton - Terminologist, IBM Canada * Enterprise Technology: Optimizing MT Through Analysis, Customization and Terminology Kara Warburton - Terminologist, IBM Canada Mary Flanagan - Executive Vice President, CTO, Multilingual Media * Standards and Language Technology Jennifer DeCamp - Mitre Gerhard Budin - University of Vienna Sue Ellen Wright - Kent State University Institute PANEL SESSION * Filling the Global Communications Gap - Enterprise Voice Ashish Vora - Senior Speech Applications Engineer, Oracle Corporation Igor Jablokov - IBM Corporation Marcus Graham - GM Voices B. Balentine - Enterprise Integration Group Kris Hopkins - CEO, Newfound Communications Dr. Amy Neustein - President and Founder, Linguistic Technology Systems OPERATIONS REVIEW * The World Bank Group Translation Management System Implementation Project Kannan Srinivasan, Senior Information Officer, World Bank Fred Cochard, Translator-Reviser/ MT Specialist, World Bank Barbara Jax, Project Manager, World Bank PANEL SESSION * Doing Business with the United States Government - Language and Technology Requirements Jennifer deCamp - Facilitator, Representing Government User Needs, MITRE Corporation Kathleen Egan - NVTC Glen Nordin - Assistant Director Language, Department of Defense __Wednesday, December 10 Chair, Lyra Spratt-Manning - CEO, RWS Group LLC, and LISA Executive Board * Streaming Content: A Model for the Efficient Localization of Content and Code Paula Shannon - Senior Vice President, Lionbridge Technologies Henri Broekmate - SVP of Worldwide Localization Operations, Lionbridge Technologies * Globalizing Enterprise Content: A Reference Model and Applicable Standards Pierre Cadieux - President, i18N Inc. * Managing Localization Quality Assurance Matta Saikali - Chief Testing Consultant, i18N Inc. CASE STUDY * Offshore Outsourcing - Legal Strategies for Your Business Plan Mark Traphagen - Partner in the Intellectual Property and International Trade & Customs Practices at Collier Shannon Scott Leslie Dutka - President, Echo International John Gloninger - Principal, Georgetown Economic Services * XML - Translation Memory Andrzej Zydron - Technical Director, XML-Intl. * Translation Web Services - Where it's Working and How? Stephen Flinter - Chief Technology Officer, Connect Global Solutions * Maintaining Global Context - Managing Content Across Borders Alison Toon - Translation and Localization Manager, Hewlett Packard Company Sean McNamara - Managing Director, FileNET Ireland Jessica Roland - Sr. Product Manager, Documentum International Product Operations, Documentum Inc. CASE STUDY * How Global Trade Negotiations Will Impact GILT Industry Robert Cassidy - Director, International Trade and Services, Collier Shannon Scott CASE STUDY * "Project Churn" Reality-based Project Management Kenneth (Sandy) McKethan, Globalization Project Manager - IBM/Tivoli Systems Inc. * From Code to XLIFF, Bridging the Chasm Stephen Flinter - Chief Technology Officer, Connect Global Solutions * Building Standards for Global Speech Applications Ashish Vora - Senior Speech Applications Engineer, Oracle Corporation Bruce Balentine - Vice President Of Speech Technologies , Enterprise Integration Group Kris Hopkins - CEO, Newfound Communications Dr. Amy Neustein - President and Founder, Linguistic Technology Systems * Using XML and Localization Yves Savourel - Localization Solutions Architect, RWS Group * The Semantic Web and Its Impact on the Localization Business Leo Obrst - Mitre Corporation * Foreign Policy and the GILT Industry - Are We Fooling Ourselves when We do Business Overseas and Forget the Political Aspects? Lyra Spratt-Manning - CEO, RWS Group Anthony Clarke - Managing Director, CLS Communication Inc. Bill Sullivan - Globalization Program Director, IBM =================================================== LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES EXHIBITION * CLS Communication * TRADOS * STIBO Catalogue * GlobalSight * SYSTRAN * Idiom Technologies * Lionbridge * RWS Group * Applications Technology, Inc. (AppTek) * JFA International * Venturi Technology Partners * 2003 LISA FORUM USA SPONSORS RWS Group * CLS Communication Inc. * IBM * Lionbridge Technologies * Welocalize * Echo International ====== NOTICE ====== Founded in 1990, LISA is the premier organization for the GILT (Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, and Translation) business community. Over 400 leading IT manufacturers and services providers, along with industry professionals and language-technology practitioners, have helped establish LISA's best practice guidelines and open standards for enterprise globalization. It's the organization to join when you're serious about international business. YOU ARE WELCOME TO RE-SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ANY NUMBER OF COLLEAGUES. Please cc: lisa@lisa.org * We apologize if you received duplicates of this announcement. =====================================================
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