We’re adjusting to a new reality and we’ll have to find solutions in order to support each other. UTIConnect online meetings is one such solution to keep our connections live.

Our guests Leonid Glazychev, Konstantin Dranch and Sabina Jasinska will discuss how to adapt to the changes in the most effective way and how to act to minimise losses in this situation.

About the speakers

Leonid Glazychev (CEO at Logrus IT)

Leonid graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), specializing in plasma physics and computer simulation. He started working as an engineer at the Moscow Radiotechnical Institute (MRTI).

In 1991, he joined one of the first ever software localization projects, which turned out to be a life-changer. In 1993, he co-founded Logrus and has served as the company’s CEO since then. He has been CEO of Logrus IT since 2016.

True to his scientific background, Leonid is continuing to research and publish papers on issues such as Language Quality Assurance methodology, process and metrics, client and project management, industry revelations and myths. His goal is to bring a hard-core, fundamental, objective and unbiased scientific approach and knowledge to areas traditionally occupied by project managers and linguists. Leonid is relentlessly challenging common knowledge, traditional ways and widespread prejudice, and enjoys working with people who demonstrate creative thinking.

Sabina Jasinska

Sabina is an international marketing leader with experience in managing global marketing and operations teams and activities for top LSPs: Donnelley Language Solutions, SDL and Welocalize. Her specialization is driving year-on-year, double-digit growth in the rapidly evolving translations industry by capitalizing on regulatory changes and marketing trends. She’s currently lecturing marketing strategy at the MBA Program at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland.

One of Sabina's passions is building communities - that's why she dedicated her time as a member of the Board of Directors of GALA, Translation Commons and the advisory board of the Localization Institute. She is also an active member of the largest grassroots movement in Poland, campaigning for the preservation of parks and historical monuments.

Konstantin Dranch (Localization industry researcher)

A specialist market researcher in the localization since 2010, Konstantin is the person with figures and measures for the industry. He can provide a neutral and informed outlook at the trends in business and technology and go beyond the hype and marketing messages of numerous providers in this area. A linguist by education and a business journalist by first profession, he worked as a strategist in a language technology company, and he helped create two national translation and interpreting conferences.

Working with national associations of translation companies, he delivered reports on regional markets in the UK, France, Finland, Portugal, the Baltics and now in the US, and, of course, global market research with Nimdzi Insights.

In these turbulent times we are surrounded by all sorts of news. So how about sharing the good news?

We invite friends of UTICamp to come together online for an informal meeting. In a cozy atmosphere amongst old acquaintances we will have the opportunity to say hello to one another, to share our plans and exchange messages of support.

Nigel Saych from the Netherlands, Inga Michaeli from Israel, Alessandra Martelli from Italy, Tetyana Struk and Anna Ivanchenko from Ukraine will run this meeting with us. Let’s all meet up on Thursday, March 26, at 16:00. Register to the webinar and join the conversation!

We are at the knee of the curve in the development of artificial intelligence and machine solutions that are likely to deeply change the way we go about our work as translators and interpreters.

This talk will touch upon some of the ways the new technologies will impact upon the day to day work of the jobbing translator and interpreter while highlighting those areas of value that only the humans can bring in to the mix.

The translators and interpreters of the future will need convincing argumentation if they are to convince clients of the worth of their work. This talk will provide ideas on how professional associations can curate these ideas for their members, reinforcing the profession to survive and thrive in the age of the machine.

About the speaker

Sarah Bawa Mason is a freelance translator and editor, a senior lecturer in translation studies at the University of Portsmouth and was, until last year, Chair of the 3,000 member Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) in the UK. She was made a Fellow of the Institute for her sustained contribution to the profession in August 2019.

Technology is a large part of the translation and localization business. From simple extraction of text to neural machine translation — all of this requires a fair amount of technical and linguistic expertise. Oksana will talk about all the small and big ways in which language service providers can use technology to make the translation process better for everybody.

About the speaker

Oksana studied linguistics and worked as a translator and localization specialist at Linguistic Centre and BlaBlaCar. During this time, she shared her experiences in the localization industry as a speaker at the European Commission's Translating Europe Forum and UTICamp 2016. She later went on to study Data Science and Computational Linguistics, and worked as a data scientist before moving on to start her own company called Metamova.

Currently, Metamova is mainly working with Lionbridge to provide localization engineering and development services, but is also collaborating with other LSPs and companies looking to automate their processes and leverage their language data using Natural Language Processing, or to create NLP products like neural or statistical machine translation, chatbots, named entity recognition, relation extraction, sentiment analysis, and many others. Oksana and her team are passionate about the localization business and language technologies, and mean to prove that Data Science and NLP are not always just snake oil, but can actually be of great help to LSPs of any size if implemented correctly and realistically.

How to find reliable business partners? Where to focus to get a good enough website as quickly as possible? Our webinar with Sasha Terekhov ‘Present Yourself: What Bits are Important for MLVs Looking for Business Partners?’ is devoted entirely to these and similar issues. Join us to explore examples of fancy websites that find it hard to share the sales team email, and simple ones that work well for potential, new and current customers, as well as for vendors.

About the speaker

Sasha Terekhov has worked at InText for 7 years in various positions from assistant marketing manager assistant to head of the vendor management department. During his work with diverse businesses at ProZ.com over the past 2 years, he has conducted research into the best way for LSP to represent themselves to buyers and MLV vendor managers.

The most common and reliable method for converting PDF documents to an editable, translation-ready format is to use specialized PDF conversion software, the most popular of which is ABBYY Finereader. In most cases, automatic conversion is performed, producing quick results but also causing numerous difficulties during editing and translation of the converted document. These difficulties include unstable document layout which gets broken as soon as the text expands or contracts during translation, images that get recognized as text or vice versa, floating textboxes instead of regular flowing text, etc.

To make matters worse, when you produce a Word document and import it into your CAT tool, you will often encounter excessive tags, incorrect segmentation due to paragraph breaks or line breaks, and other issues. Finally, when you resolve all the above issues, the translated document may surprise you with partially invisible text or text that disappears when you or your customer update fields in the document.

During this webinar, you will learn how to use Finereader in order to create translation-friendly Word documents with a proper layout, and how to format them properly before translation in order to avoid excessive tags, incorrect segmentation, partially invisible text, and other issues. You will also learn how to do a quick pre-flight check of your document before it is submitted to the customer.

About the speaker

Stanislav Okhvat is a former technical translator specialized in oil/gas engineering and a DTP specialist with extensive experience of PDF document conversion and document formatting before/after translation. His work in technical translation and DTP led him to develop TransTools and TransTools+ – translation productivity software designed for processing Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents before and after translation, quality assurance, translation of AutoCAD and Visio drawings, and automation of other translation tasks. Besides TransTools and other translation productivity software, Stanislav also provides custom software development services and independent technical consulting services for LSPs and self-employed translators.

This presentation focuses on the ever-pressing question: “Why is it that we can create wonders, show heroism and do everything perfectly, yet the client is still not happy?”. During this webinar with Leonid Glazychev (CEO at Logrus IT Group), and Fedor Bezrukov (Director at Logrus IT Ukraine) we will discuss both strategic and tactical misconceptions and common mistakes that project managers make, including issues caused by incomplete cultural compatibility between a foreign or corporate client representative and your local PM. Solutions are suggested to help find a way out of the predicament caused by un- or underappreciated restrained heroism.

About the speakers

Leonid Glazychev graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), specializing in plasma physics and computer simulation. He started working as an engineer at the Moscow Radiotechnical Institute (MRTI), and two years after his graduation received a Ph.D. in physics and mathematics before becoming a senior research associate. In 1991, he joined one of the first ever software localization projects, which turned out to be a life-changer. In 1993, he co-founded Logrus and has served as the company’s CEO since then. He has been CEO of Logrus IT since 2016.

True to his scientific background, Leonid is continuing to research and publish papers on issues such as Language Quality Assurance methodology, process and metrics, client and project management, industry revelations and myths. His goal is to bring a hard-core, fundamental, objective and unbiased scientific approach and knowledge to areas traditionally occupied by project managers and linguists. Leonid is relentlessly challenging common knowledge, traditional ways and widespread prejudice, and enjoys working with people who demonstrate creative thinking.

Fedor Bezrukov graduated from the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University in 2001. Started as a freelance translator in 1998, joined Logrus International Corporation in 2006 as the Department Head. Managed localization of the biggest, most complex and visible projects from world leading publishers into Ukrainian language. Appointed the Executive Director of Logrus Ukraine in 2009. Localization professional with more than 15 years of experience, Fedor is a staunch evangelist of new localization technologies and solutions.

With content volumes and customers’ aspirations to go global growing at an unprecedented pace, translation and localization are becoming increasingly “multiplayer” endeavors. This requires LSPs to manage their translators and project managers in the most streamlined and efficient way. In this webinar, we’ll show how Smartcat perfectly fits this task by providing a free and unlimited workspace for the whole team and allowing you to pay all your freelancers in one click.

About the speakers

Artur Davidenko is a product marketing manager with broad experience in eCommerce and video game projects. In Smartcat, Artur leads the positioning of the company’s various products and services.

Max Morkovkin is an experienced translator, blogger and public speaker. He has been involved with Chinese-Russian and Chinese-English translation since 2010 and has lived and worked in China for seven years. Max previously worked at Wuhan Optics Valley BeiDou Holding Group Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Kingnet Technologies Co., Ltd. He has published articles, taught classes and spoken at conferences. Maxim has a BS degree in Chinese language and an MS degree in business administration from Central China Normal University. He is also active in the field of translation automation tools and is focused on building relationships between Smartcat and customers in Asia. In his free time, Max travels and enjoys playing basketball and climbing. His life motto is: “Don’t be afraid to fail, be afraid not to try.

Tetyana shares her experience of reshaping the academic course in Translation Technology into a dynamic structure that enhances skills in translation, localization, terminology management, post-editing machine translation, audiovisual translation, quality assurance, and project management. This adaptive approach not only equips the translators with the skills and knowledge required by the modern industry, but also helps to develop the necessary understanding of the profession and its tools, and the ability to adapt quickly to changes and overcome the fear of new tasks, based on current industry requirements a responsible attitude towards operations.

The webinar provides a roadmap for university lecturers in translation who seek to prepare their students for the challenges of the real-life industry.

About the speaker

Tetyana Struk is a founder and CEO of Linguistic Centre® Translation and Localization Company (Lviv, Ukraine), a lecturer and a translation technology consultant for academia, an author of books on translation, and an advocate for professional growth in the translation and localization industry. A pioneer of Ukrainian localization, Tetyana brought change to the Ukrainian academic landscape by introducing the first Localization and Translation Technologies programs in 2006, and she continues making transformational changes in the academic training of translators to this day. She is a regular speaker at various international and local conferences.

Tetyana is the author and co-author of the projects Everything is Ahead and The Translator’s Patchwork Quilt and is an organizer of conferences and numerous online events aimed at promoting and developing the profession. Member of the American Translators' Association, the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) and the European Language Industry Association (ELIA). Author of university course books Introduction to Industry-Specific Translation and Everything is Ahead: Listen to Our Success Story Today, as well as a book of interviews with Ukrainian translators entitled Tell Your Success Story Tomorrow. Co-author of the Translator’s Patchwork collection of translators' stories.

Active sales and account management are growth catalysts for any company, be it an MLV with a complex sales and marketing structure and matrix management, or a small agency where sales are a part-time responsibility of 1 or 2 people. At the same time, a lot of players in our industry struggle when trying to build efficient sales teams, which includes marketing integration, hiring and selection processes, and drafting incentive programmes.

What should you do to be able to hire motivated, loyal, and result-oriented sales people? How can you provide them with practical tools to help them achieve their goals? Ilya Mishchenko and Dmitriy Pavlov will cover these and other topics during the webinar. In their presentation, Ilya and Dmitriy will talk about creating a sales team at Literra Translation Company, a language service provider headquartered in St Petersburg and working on the Russian, Western and Central European, and Chinese markets.

About the speakers

Ilya Mishchenko

Ilya runs Literra’s sales in Europe, the USA, and China. He has been in the industry for over 10 years, during 7 of which he has held management positions at various language service providers. Apart from the position of Managing Director at Literra Translation Company (St Petersburg, Russia), he is also involved with several public initiatives, serving as Chairman of St Petersburg branch of the Translators Union of Russia (UTR), sitting on the UTR Board, and functioning as Co-Chairman of FIT ISO Standing Committee. Ilya is also co-organiser of the St Petersburg Translation Club, a member of the Association of Translation Teachers, and one of the authors of Principles for Translation and Transliteration of St Petersburg Toponyms into English. Spheres of interest: Simplified Technical English, standardisation in translation and localisation, translation of toponyms.

Dmitriy Pavlov

Dmitriy is the Sales Director at Literra Translation Company and has 10 years of B2B sales on the Russian and European markets under his belt. He has been involved with the translation and localisation industry for over 5 years, managing to build a successful sales team in one of the largest language service providers in the CIS, and then considerably growing direct sales at Literra while streamlining its language and translators training business. Dmitriy is an advocate of a combining classical sales methodology and cutting-edge techniques for prospecting and attracting new customers. He devotes much attention to a project-based approach when tackling clients from major verticals. Spheres of interest: sales techniques, specialised software for automating sales processes, management, building successful sales and account management teams.

The sharing economy is a hot topic, but how does this socio-economic system apply to the language industry? Is the gig economy just another buzzword? Or is it the genuine article? In this webinar, Jeannette Stewart will share her insights on how the language industry is using the sharing economy model. Find out what works and what doesn't in our industry.

Learn about some new ways to enhance our chances of success by leveraging collaboration across this globally-networked world.

About the speaker

Jeannette Stewart is a cofounder of Translation Commons, an online volunteer-based public charity aiming to offer and share tools and resources and to facilitate community initiatives. She is the former CEO of CommuniCare, a life sciences translation company with offices in London, Paris, Athens, Budapest and Los Angeles.

Jeannette has been involved in high-profile projects such as the Genome Project and prototyping the online Unified Submission Process for the European Medicine Agency. She writes a column in MultiLingual Magazine on community initiatives. Jeannette has founded, served on the board of directors, moderated and volunteered in various educational and health charities.

With challenging projects and a high-end clientele, transcreation is a sought-after specialization. Neophytes often see it as the perfect way to capitalize on the wild and visionary side of a linguist’s brain whilst showcasing their wit and originality. But there’s more to it than meets the eye. As a transcreation specialist, creativity is just one of the skills and abilities you need to provide top-notch adaptations that drive leads and sales. What about the other pillars? How can you build, develop and refine essential transcreation-related skills?

Join us on this free webinar to find out more about:

- the perils of relying on creativity alone

- the key competencies transcreators need to succeed

- practical ways to hone your skills over time.

Is this webinar right for you?

This is an introductory-level session, so no previous knowledge or experience is required. By the end of the webinar, you will have a clear overview of the skills you need to carry out transcreation tasks successfully. You will also walk away with ideas and precious hints on how to nurture such skills so that you can improve your overall expertise.

Got questions? There will be a Q&A portion towards the end of the webinar to dispel your doubts and sate your curiosity.

About the speaker

Alessandra Martelli (AITI) is a copywriter and translator based in Turin, Italy. She creates and translates marketing copy for online and offline promotion, materials for the travel and tourism industry, and medical content with a focus on medical technology.

Alessandra is also a trainer with a qualification in teaching, and the author of 21 Free Tools for Translators. She’s an avid reader, an enthusiastic traveller and a lifelong learner with a keen interest in etymology, linguistics and all things communication.

Website: alessandramartelli.com

Twitter: @aless_writes

This webinar is dedicated to interpreting at inclusive events. It will be a summary of new developments in the global environment in relation to the roles and needs of people with disabilities/impairments, changes to the concept of disability as such, and lessons to be learned by language service providers/event organizers on any scale if we are to make various activities truly inclusive and diverse.

Elena Chudnovskaya will share her views on such matters as accessibility, universal design, and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. She will give some examples of best practices and challenges throughout the world and present some highlights from her own experience as an “inclusive language professional”.

About the speaker

Since 2003, Elena Chudnovskaya has been working as a simultaneous and consecutive interpreter, in addition to performing written translation. She has provided interpretation in such varied locations as the inside of a furnace used for cement firing (after the furnace had cooled, obviously), aboard a high-speed train (as it was moving), industrial expositions and art exhibitions, conferences (for medical personnel and others), and even the great outdoors (for tourists). Having originally studied to become a teacher, Elena spent a number of years in a “previous life” teaching English and a bit of German at a polytechnic institute and on private courses. A few years ago, she developed a training course for simultaneous interpreters, and currently teaches part-time in the department of simultaneous interpreting at the Business Bureau of the Association of Interpreters in Yekaterinburg, where she gladly acts as a mentor for her junior colleagues.

In 2013 and 2014, Elena served as a senior interpreter at several language industry conferences, including UTIC. At UTICamp-2016, she was an expert on the “The Art of Translation” track.

As a coach Elena has designed and taught an introductory course for interpreters and a voice development workshop. In September 2017, she successfully organized language support at a unique event – the First World Congress for Persons with Disabilities in Ekaterinburg, and continues to support international projects with the aim of making the world more comfortable for people with all kinds of abilities and needs. She has also spoken at several international conferences, including bp16 in Prague, the ITA Conference in Jerusalem, and ELIA Together in Berlin.

Do you love translating but have little interest in marketing, especially creating a strategic marketing plan to reach your target customers and target income? Then the webinar on “How to create an easy-to-follow marketing plan in one hour” is for you.

Tess Whitty will present some easy steps to follow on how to create a marketing plan for a freelance business. You will be given a template to create a short marketing plan and we will go through the plan step by step, giving you examples for your freelance business and a chance to fill in your own marketing plan. When finished, you will have an overview of your marketing situation and a to-do list to help acquire more or better clients and stand out among your competitors.

About the speaker

Tess Whitty is an English-Swedish freelance translator specializing in corporate communications, software and IT. Before she became a translator, she studied and worked in marketing, and now shares her experience as a speaker and trainer at conferences. She is the author of Marketing Cookbook for Translators, which offers easy-to-follow “recipes” for marketing your translation services. She has also produced the award winning podcast Marketing Tips for Translators and created the Complete Marketing Course for Translators. For more information, and to connect, go to www.marketingtipsfortranslators.com

The field of project management is constantly evolving. The Age of Automation has brought new challenges and we all have to cope with them.
Project managers fear that automation will ultimately make them redundant or (worse) turn them into soulless button pushers. However, the truth is that project management is more crucial now than ever, even though the required skillset is evolving.
How can project managers make themselves indispensable at a time when more and more work is being performed by machines? As project managers, we have a choice between progressing ourselves or being replaced by machines. In this webinar, participants will learn how to truly thrive in the Age of Automation.

About the speaker
Tucker Johnson is the author of The General Theory of the Translation Company and Managing Director of Nimdzi Insights, which specializes in vendor-side operations, project management, global team management, large program outsourcing and supply chain governance, Tucker eagerly shares his operational experience, whether it is through writing, speaking, teaching or consulting clients.

Searching for clients is a matter of time and ability. But it is not so easy to find the right customer. In her presentation, Olga Melnikova will give some recommendations to freelance translators and translation agencies on how to increase chances of being onboarded by international clients based on her experience working with Moravia vendors.

Olga is a Localization Project Manager at Moravia, Inc. (US office) and an Adjunct Professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She teaches the “Introduction to CAT Tools” course. Olga worked as a freelance translator and interpreter for seven years before she got an MA degree in Translation and Localization Management. Olga is an Amateur winner of the LocJAM2 video game translation contest (2015) and a Pro winner of LocJAM3 (2016). She also volunteers as an admin of the frussie.com website and Facebook page (France), and as a localizer for Future Actually charity fund (Russia). You can find more info about Olga at https://olgamelnikoff.com/

In this webinar, seasoned conference interpreters Jonathan Downie, Alexander Drechsel and Alexander Gansmeier tackle the controversial topic of Machine Interpreting.
Revisiting the subject of their very first episode, the “Troublesome Terps” will fulfill their brief to cover the topics that keep interpreters up at night. With almost twenty episodes under their belt, the “Troublesome Terps” won the 2017 ProZ Community Choice Award for Best Interpreting Podcast.
“Universal translation” apps, gizmos and gadgets from small startups and even heavyweights like Google have been mushrooming recently. Many people in our industry are wondering whether it is only a matter of time before interpreters made of flesh and blood will be replaced by machines.
Jonathan and the two Alexanders will confront the ghosts of interpreting past, present and future and give their two cents (or pence, plus VAT) on how technological progress will impact professional interpreters.

About the speakers
Dr Jonathan Downie
Jonathan is a French-English, English-French consultant conference interpreter, researcher, speaker and writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. A regular on the speaking circuit at translation and interpreting conferences and a familiar face at SME, export and events management conferences too, he loves to provide interpreting for clients for whom it is the difference between success and failure. His first book, Being a Successful Interpreter: Adding Value and Delivering Excellence, was published by Routledge in 2016. He can be found online at www.integritylanguages.co.uk and on twitter at @integlangsbiz.

Alexander Drechsel
Alexander is a staff interpreter at the European Commission, working from English, French and Romanian into his native German. He shares other people's opinions in the interpreting booth, and his own opinions on languages and technology on his website www.adrechsel.de or as @adrechsel on Twitter. He is a member of AIIC, the International Association of Conference Interpreters.

Alexander C. Gansmeier
Alexander is a freelance German-English consultant conference interpreter from Munich, Germany. He specializes in IT, automotive and medical interpreting and is a board member of the German Association of Conference Interpreters (VKD) and an active full member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC). For more, visit his website www.gansmeier.com or find him on Twitter as @acginterpret.

Renato is the founder of Nimdzi Insights, one of the language industry's leading analysts and consulting firms. He has over 30 years of executive-level experience in the localization industry.
He has served on executive teams for some of the industry’s most prominent companies.
Renato is known for creating innovative strategies that drive growth on a global scale. He is an Ambassador for Translators Without Borders and hosts the award-winning Globally Speaking podcast.
He is also the author of the book The General Theory of the Translation Company.

Let’s have a look at linguistics from a different point of view. We invite you to discover computational linguistics and take a glimpse under the hood of Grammarly. What magical spells does it use to detect all text errors and free mankind from grammar illiteracy? Who teaches it to find more and more lawbreaker mistakes?
All the secrets and magic will be revealed! We will talk about what NLP is, why and where we need it, and take a peek into the day of a Computational Linguist.

About the speaker:
After graduating from Lviv Polytechnic National University two years ago, Oksana joined Grammarly as a Computational Linguist. At Grammarly, she is working in the area of Natural Language Processing. Her current projects are focused on error correction and stylistics.
Oksana is also passionate about coding. She is one of the organizers of the DjangoGirls workshops that aim to teach women to code in Python.

For freelancers, living on a fluctuating income is tricky. While marketing is perceived as high-value activities (and thus pursued enthusiastically), cash flow control is often considered just a pain in the neck – and pushed aside until the next tax return. And yet, finances management is key to achieving long-term goals, and keeping your business safe when rainy days struck. If you’re looking for smarter ways to administer your hard-earned money, we got you covered. On March 23, translator and copywriter Alessandra Martelli will share best practices and resources that will help you:

• Minimise business risk and non-payment issues
• Manage a fluctuating income more easily
• Budget and allocate resources effectively
• Set sustainable rates and income targets.

Ready to fall back in love with the financial side of freelancing? Join the free webinar, and enjoy practical tips & strategies that will make your life easier! Alessandra Martelli is an Italian translator and copywriter, trading as MTM Translations. She writes and translates marketing and PR copy, tourism texts, and medical content for small businesses and large corporates alike. Alessandra is also a trainer with a background in teaching, and the author of 21 Free Tools for Translators. She launched her solo business in 2002, and still enjoys every minute of it.

Translation technology is becoming more and more reliant on large and diverse data assets (translation memories, corpora, language models). At the same time, more data does not always mean better quality. High-quality linguistic data can be a competitive advantage, but who has access to such data? Open Data can be useful for translation, but it is still not widely available in all languages. The presentation will outline the concepts of Big Data, Linked Data and Open Data and show how successful harnessing of these assets can result in better translations, user-friendly multilingual services and more streamlined business processes. Examples on relevant European projects and actions are presented.

Kimmo Rossi graduated 1989 from Helsinki University of Technology (physics, IT, economics). Until 1994 he was co-owner and board member responsible for technology, quality and contractual issues for a Finnish translation and localization company Trantex. In 1994 he joined the European Commission where he worked 5 years in the translation tools and terminology department. Since 2000 he has been managing science, technology and innovation programs in the fields of statistics, data&content management and language technologies. Currently, he leads the Research & Innovation sector of Data Value Chain Unit (CNECT.G.3) managing a portfolio of 150 technology projects.

Olga holds an MA degree in Translation and Localization Management (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey) and two BAs (Creative Writing from Gorky Literature Institute and Teaching French and English from Kaluga State University). She worked as a freelance translator and interpreter for seven years. Now Olga is a Localization Project Coordinator at the translation and localization agency Venga Global, Inc. (the US office).
She also volunteers as an admin of the frussie.com website and Facebook page (France), and as a localizer for Future Actually charity fund (Russia). Olga is an Amateur winner of the LocJAM2 video game translation contest (2015). You can find more info about Olga at www.olgamelnikoff.com.
In her presentation, Olga will share the best practices of subtitles creation, speak about the subtitling software and file formats, including YouTube subtitles, and describe the workflow for subtitling projects they are managing at Venga Global. The fun part will include an overview of why subtitles have become so popular now, a process of how to create subtitles by yourself and a couple of videos that will make you smile.

Ольга получила степень магистра по специальности «Письменный перевод и менеджмент локализации» в Миддлберийском институте (Монтерей, США) и две степени бакалавра: по специальности «Литературное творчество» в Литературном институте имени А. М. Горького и «Преподаватель английского и французского языков» в Калужском государственном университете. Она семь лет работала устным и письменным переводчиком-фрилансером. Сейчас Ольга занимает должность координатора проектов по локализации в компании Venga Global, Inc. (США), которая работает в сфере переводов и локализации.
Она также является волонтером-администратором проекта frussie.com (Франция) и ведет его страницу на «Фейсбуке», а также помогает с локализацией благотворительному фонду «Настоящее будущее» (Россия). В 2015 году Ольга победила в конкурсе LocJAM2 на лучший перевод видеоигры в категории «Любитель». Больше информации об Ольге — на сайте www.olgamelnikoff.com.
В своей презентации Ольга даст рекомендации в области создания субтитров, расскажет о необходимом программном обеспечении и о форматах файлов, в том числе для YouTube, а также опишет процесс обработки проектов по созданию субтитров, используемый в Venga Global. Из вебинара вы узнаете, почему субтитры стали настолько популярными, как сделать субтитры самостоятельно, и даже посмотрите несколько видеороликов, которые заставят вас улыбнуться.

Valentyna provides us with details about translation projects quality management model that InText’s team has elaborated and implemented. This model became a base of incentive schemes for vendors and project managers. Such a detailed description of the model can be of a great use for both LSPs looking for ways to boost their projects quality and freelance translators who wants to understand business processes of a LSP better.

Ребекка имеет 20-летний опыт в сфере корпоративных и брендовых стратегических коммуникаций, особенно в технологическом, языковом и юридическом секторах. Прежде чем стать руководителем программы Translators without Borders в 2012 году, она специализировалась на создании программ рассылок, позиционирования и стратегического маркетинга для клиентов в США, Европе и Африке. В 2000 году она основала Petras Associates — организацию, которая обслуживала широкий круг клиентов, включая Globalization and Localization Association, Rubric, McElroy Translation, Axway, Radiant Logic, Venga, Metz Law и Outback Power. До создания Petras Associates она была вице-президентом Ketchum, удостоенного наград международного агентства по связям с общественностью. В настоящее время Ребекка является первым руководителем программ и первым штатным сотрудником проекта Translators without Borders. Ранее, в течение двух лет, она была членом правления Translators without Borders и выполняла обязанности главы исполнительного комитета по маркетингу.

Речь на вебинаре пойдет о том, как технологии повлияли на переводческий бизнес, образ мышления и работы профессионалов во всем мире, а также о будущем отрасли с этой точки зрения.

We will be talking about the changes that technology has brought into the business of translation over the years, the transformation of thinking and processes that have occurred and about the future of our industry from this perspective.

Вебинар ориентирован на руководителей и менеджеров по продажам в бюро переводов, а также на фрилансеров, желающих полнее разобраться в потребностях компаний, заказывающих перевод рекламных и маркетинговых материалов. Выступая для конечных заказчиков как консультант в области маркетинга, Гордон формирует и фиксирует потребность в локализации на самом раннем этапе, еще до того, как будет готова версия на языке-оригинале. Он расскажет о тенденциях в этой области.

The webinar is meant for translation companies’ executives and sales managers, and for the freelancers who wish to better understand the needs of the customers who provide advertising and marketing materials for translation. As a marketing consultant for end customers Gordon creates and captures the need for localization at a very early stage, even before original language versions are ready for release. He will tell about the trends in this area.