| LISA Function / Session Topics |
| 08:00-09:00 |
Forum Registration, Morning Coffee & Product Exhibition |
| 09:00-09:05 |
Welcome and Introductions |
| 09:05-09:10 |
Program Overview & Day One Objectives |
| 09:10-09:50 |
KEYNOTE: Social Networking: Integrating the Customer into Content Creation and Localization • Stephen Brennan – Senior Vice President, Symantec Corporation |
| 09:50-10:30 |
Business Process Globalization
How Process Models Can Effectively Improve a Business Unit’s Operation• Steven Atkin – Chief Globalization Architect, Globalization Center of Competency, IBM |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Refreshment Break & Product Exhibition |
| 11:00-12:15 |
PANEL SESSION: Standards in Engineering - Evaluations, Project Structures and Technical Validation • Moderated by David Ruane – Director of WW Engineering, Tek Translation International
• Stephen Holmes – Independent Consultant
• Daniel McGowan – Technical Project Manager, Novell
• Peter Reynolds – Translation Management Consultant, Polish Association Of Translation Agencies
• Michael Doody – Director of Localization Engineering and Technology Services, Symantec Corporation |
| 12:15-13:30 |
Lunch & Product Exhibition |
| CONCURRENT SESSIONS – PLEASE NOTE TIMING |
| 13:30-15:30 |
Customer Requirements &
Creating Standards |
Standards, Initiatives &
Open-Source Challenges |
Resource Channel |
| 13:30-14:00 |
Driving Centers of Excellence ‘One Notch Higher’ • Surendra Saxena – Cisco Systems
• Vishal Gupta – Cisco Systems |
13:30-15:30 Point-Counterpoint on Standards:
Will We or Won’t We?After a short introduction detailing how language standards apply to the current business environment, customers, tools developers and standards experts will spar back and forth on-stage and with the audience about (1) why developers can't/won't support standards in their current form, (2) what customers are expecting in their products vis-à-vis standards, and (3) what all of us need to do to make this happen going forward. • Moderated by Dale Schultz and Kara Warburton – IBM and Arle Lommel – OSCAR, LISA
• Featuring input from the leading users, technology developers and services providers of global information management services worldwide. |
SDL Automated Translation Solutions™ - Communicate Like You've Never Communicated Before • David Marshall – SDL International |
| 14:00-14:30 |
‘Agile-ized Localization’ • Mika Pehkonen – F-Secure |
Localization Vendors: Helping Customers Negotiate the Localization Minefield - An Insiders' Look • David Sommer – Net-Translators |
| 14:30-15:00 |
MT Segments vs. TM Fuzzy Matching: Results of a Pilot Study on Productivity and Quality • Ana Guerberof – Logoscript |
Beyond TMS – Tek OneWorld Platform • Iñaki Hernandez-Lasa – Tek Translation International |
| 15:00-15:30 |
"The Naming of the Parts" - Can We Standardize the Globalization Industry's "Tower of Babel?" • Dale Schultz – IBM |
Innovating Localization QA for Agile Web Development • Gary Winterlich – Brandt |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Refreshment Break & Product Exhibition |
| 16:00-17:30 |
Learning How to Tango: What All of Us Need to Do to Make Open GIM a Reality • Moderated by Rebecca Ray – Managing Editor and Consulting Partner, LISA
• Team Leads: Alison Toon – Translation and Localization Manager, Content Management Services, Hewlett-Packard; Jason Arnsparger – Localization Project Manager, CaridianBCT; Jennifer Linton – XML/CMS Project Manager, CaridianBCT; Andrew Draheim – Founder and Principal, KIDD & DRAHEIM
• Other Participants: Interverbum Technology, Lionbridge, Localisation Research Centre, Moravia Worldwide, SDL International, Welocalize, XML-INTL |
| 17:30-19:00 |
Networking Reception • Hosted by ADAPT Localization Services |
