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LISA Forum Asia Speaker Information
Benefits
Benefit in the following ways as a speaker at LISA’s LISA Forum Asia ...
Present your ideas to a targeted audience of executive, business and technical decisionmakers in charge of implementing globalization solutions for their company or their clients. LISA Members and invited guests represent the most active companies in the global information management sector today. They include the leading users and developers of automated language workflow solutions and multilingual communications technologies.
Specific benefits include:
- Recognition for you and your company on the LISA web site
- Your professional and company profiles featured on all LISA Forum Asia pages
- Your presentation published and distributed to all LISA Forum Asia Participants and LISA Corporate Members
- Speaker dinner and introductions to other key industry players
- Company literature for distribution to LISA Forum Asia Participants on the Registration Information Table
- Participation in the entire event at a minimal fee
- A one-year premium subscription to the Globalization Insider, LISA’s monthly publication
Location
Park Plaza Beijing Science Park
25 Zhi Chun Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100083,
China
Tel: +86 10 82356699
Fax: +86 10 82356688
Important Deadlines
November 20, 2006 Deadline: Topic Proposal Submit your topic proposal by filling out the speaker proposal form. December 15, 2006 Deadline: Topic Description Send your final topic description to events@lisa.org. February 8, 2007 Deadline: Presentations As soon as the Program Committee confirms your topic, send your final presentation slides (Microsoft Powerpoint or OpenOffice Impress format) to presentations@lisa.org or events@lisa.org, for inclusion in the Program Booklet. February 8, 2007 Deadline: Speaker and Company Profiles, Photo Send your personal and company profiles, along with your photo, to events@lisa.org for posting on our web site and inclusion in the printed agenda and final program.
Presentation Guidelines
Presentation slides should focus on the agreed topic and be more graphically than textually oriented.
Except when otherwise noted, you are limited to ONE introductory slide about your company or department organization (Case Study or Operations Review excluded). Absolutely no "selling" of products or services is permitted.
All presentations submitted for LISA Events are copyright the author and LISA. By submitting your presentation, you agree to allow LISA to make your presentation available from the LISA web site for download to the LISA membership and to the Event participants.
You are encouraged to place any published materials about your organization and its products/services on the Registration Information Table during the Event. Please bring at least 100 copies.
Speaker Testing & Briefing Meetings
- The speaker testing session & speaker buffet will follow the Welcome Cocktail reception from 20:00 - 21:30 on Monday, March 12, 2007.
- Please confirm your attendance via return mail to events@lisa.org. We would like you to attend this session as this gives all speakers and session moderators a chance to meet and also provides time to review introductions, presentations, panel strategies and testing all presentations on the AV equipment.
- Please bring a copy of your final presentation to the event on either a diskette, CD, USB Flash Drive or MemoryStick.
MURPHY's LAW: If possible, please bring your portable computer as back-up to our main system.- Your presentation will be made available on the LISA Website for members and all attendees. All rights are shared between the author and the LISA.
Requirements for Impress / PowerPoint files delivered by speakers at the LISA Forum Asia 2007
LISA would like to offer a bi-lingual presentation booklet to the participants of the LISA Forum Asia 2007.
Thus the respective English Impress / PowerPoint documents need to be localized into Chinese. Some of the Chinese speakers offered to create their own Chinese versions; this is very much welcomed and appreciated. For the non-Chinese speakers the localization will be handled by LISA.
In order to keep this localization part as simple and painless as possible, LISA collected a very small but nonetheless important set of rules for the creators of the English Impress / PowerPoint files to be localized. Please read the following carefully.
Information displayed in presentations is usually represented by:
- Text (in text boxes)
- embedded documents (like Word or Excel documents)
- graphics (photographs, screen shots, illustrations)
The localization of your presentations will be done in a Translation Memory system. These TM systems can only handle information that is contained in text boxes directly in the slides or in embedded Word or Excel documents. Text that is contained as graphics (so-called graphics text, as in screen shots) can not be used directly. This leads to the first rule:
1. All information that you want to have in Chinese should be placed in your presentation as 'text'. That is, graphics texts will not be localized.
It is common to embed Word or Excel documents in order to save time or represent information as tables or graphs.
In a PowerPoint presentation only one page of these embedded files is displayed, even if for example an Excel worksheet consists of a dozen pages. The TM system cannot distinguish between information displayed in a particular slide or information that is contained in one of the un-visible pages of an embedded Word or Excel file. Thus, even the contents not being displayed in the slides would be unnecessarily localized. So rule number two is:
2. Only embed the pages of Word or Excel files that are being displayed in a slide.
Some presentations feature a choice of unusual fonts. These might be fonts especially designed for your corporation or some other proprietary fonts you like personally.
Chances are that these fonts might not be available on any computers except yours. This might lead to unexpected results when creating PDF files from your presentation.
3. Use standard Windows fonts, if possible. Otherwise you might have to create the PDF files needed for the LISA Forum by yourself.
Audio Visual Support
Plenary Sessions:All other workgroup sessions:
- An LCD Projector for PC and Macintosh portables
- A portable running Windows
- Microphones and table microphones
- An LCD Projector for PC and Macintosh portables
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please specify any special requirements by contacting events@lisa.org.
Audience Profile
LISA Forum Asia attendees include Corporate Executives, International Managers, Enterprise Globalization Strategists, Company Directors, Knowledge Managers, Global Web Development Specialists, Project Managers, Localization Production Managers and Media Representatives seeking to learn more about how standards in technology and business processes are providing unprecedented ROI and strategic advantages in today's world.
The participants will be decisionmakers and key suppliers, responsible for global information management systems for software publishing companies, telecom and internet service providers, finance, government trade groups, automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical, management consulting, education, localization service companies and internationalization consulting groups.
Speaker Policy
LISA is a member-driven, non-profit association funded by its constituency and Event revenues. All commercial company representatives are asked to pay an event attendance fee. Speakers are offered a substantial discount due to their work and support of the event. In order for LISA to fulfill its mandate, we do make exceptions to this policy for non-profit and educational institutions, as well as for smaller organizations whose policies may not otherwise permit them to contribute.
Please contact events@lisa.org with any questions.
