| 9.30 - 10.00
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| Registration and coffee
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| 10.00 - 10.05 |
| Introduction for the day
Liz Robertson, Chairman Association of Translation Companies
Session 1: SALES, MARKETING AND PEOPLE
Session chair: Liz Robertson, Chair ATC
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| 10.05 -10.35 |
| PR making a difference to the bottom line
Chris Durban, American Translators Association
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| 10.35 -11.00 |
| Easy sales difficult business - expanding your translation sales
horizons
Doug Lawrence, Amicus TransTec, the ATCs preferred
training provider
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| 11.00 -11.25 |
| Finding good people and keeping them to drive your
translation business forward
Inger Larsen, Founder Larsen
Globalisation
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| 11.25 - 11.35 |
| Panel discussion and questions
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| 11.35 -11.50 |
| Mid morning coffee break / Exhibition & Translators' Wall
of Fame and networking
Session 2: TRANSLATION AND SOCIETY
Session chair: Geoffrey Bowden, General Secretary ATC
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| 11.50 - 12.15 |
| Translating and interpreting for the public sector an aid or
hindrance to community cohesion
Richard Michie, Head of
Marketing & PR and
Claire Adams, Head of Projects, Applied Language Solutions
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| 12.15 - 12.20 |
| Questions
Session 3: EDUCATION AND FUTURE TRANSLATION
GENERATIONS
Session chair: Anne Marie Graham Skills and Qualifications
Adviser CILT the National Centre for Languages
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| 12.20 - 12.55 |
| How was it for you? Success or failure for the Graduate Work
Placement scheme perspectives from a student, a host
company and university
Chus Fernandez, Salford University,
Liz Athey, Operations Manager, Roevin Translation Services,
Natasha Williams, MA student in Translation
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| 12.55 - 1.10 |
| National network in translation
Christina Schaeffner, Aston University
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| 1.10 - 1.15 |
| Panel discussion
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| 1.15 - 2.15 |
| Lunch, Exhibition and Translators' Wall of Fame and
networking
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| 2.15 3.00 |
| WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Workshop 1 Sales Masterclass introduction
Doug Lawrence, Amicus TransTec, the ATCs preferred
training provider
Workshop 2 Getting to grips with EN15038 a practical approach to
implementation and certification
Jurek Nedoma and Gryegory Baster, EUTECert
Workshop 3 XTRF - complete management system for translation
companies
Andrzej Nedoma and Tomek Mroz, Lido-Lang Technical
Translations
Workshop 4 LTC Worx - The Next Generation Business System for the Language Industry
Dr Adriane Rinsche, Managing Director, LTC
Workshop 5 Increase revenue through software localisation
Aaron Caruso, Business Manager SDL Trados
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| 3.00 - 3.15 |
| Tea break/Exhibition and Translators' Wall of Fame and
networking
Session 4: TECHNOLOGY
Session chair: Henry Clough, Vice Chair, ATC
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| 3.15 - 3.40 |
| Taking control of technology
Peter Reynolds, Director, Idiom LSP Partner Program
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| 3.40 - 4.05 |
| Outsourcing is out / Collaboration is in - new approaches for
the delegation of translation projects
Urs Huechting, Across Systems GmbH
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| 4.05 - 4.15 |
| Questions
Session 5: MEETING THE QUALITY CHALLENGE
Session chair: Liz Robertson Chair, ATC
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| 4.15 - 4.30 |
| Using quality to influence the decision making of translation
purchasers
Jack Tsouramanis, Bureau Veritas
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| 4.30 -4.45 |
| Getting past the BS EN15038 finishing post ahead of the pack
Peter Bennett, CEO London Translations
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| 4.45 - 4.55 |
| Questions
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| 4.45 - 5.00 |
| Round up from the day and conclusion
Liz Robertson, Chairman, Association of Translation Companies
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