| 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: IT’S THE ECONOMY – STUPID!
Session chair: Liz Robertson, Chair ATC
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| 10.05 -10.30 |
| Open forum panel – CRUNCH TIME! 2009 is coming, how are LSPs preparing for it?
Led by Keith Laska, Vice-President, SDL Trados Technology with other leading players to be announced
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| 10.30 -10.50 |
| Inflation everywhere – except in our pricing. Does it matter and
what can we do about it?
Doug Lawrence, Amicus TransTec, the
ATC’s preferred training provider
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| 10.50 -11.15 |
| Translator's price and training: quality indicators?
Giselle
Sanchez, Managing Director, Media Langues, Paris
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| 11.15 - 11.25 |
| Panel discussion and questions
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| 11.25 -11.45 |
| Mid morning coffee break / Exhibition & Translators' Wall
of Fame and networking
Session 2: IT’S STILL THE ECONOMY – STUPID!
Session chair: Henry Clough, Vice-chairman ATC
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| 11.45 - 12.10 |
| Reducing the cost and pain of paying translators
Joe Patterson
and Stuart Perry, Baydonhill, the ATC’s preferred Foreign
Exchange advisors
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| 12.10 - 12.35 |
| Managing growth in a translation business
Shawn Khorassani,
Sales and Business Development Director, Prestige Network for
Translation
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| 12.35 - 1.00 |
| Selling a translation business – the do’s and don’ts
Dave Rebbettes,
Sales Director, BCMS Corporate
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| 1.00 – 1.10 |
| Panel discussion
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| 1.10 - 2.15 |
| Lunch, Exhibition and Translators' Wall of Fame and
networking
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| 2.15 – 3.00 |
| WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Workshop 1 Designers v Translators – marriages made in heaven or
recipe for divorce?
Bernard Silver, Chairman & CEO, UPS Translations
Workshop 2 Web site clinic – diagnosing for success
Nigel T Packer, MD, Business for Business
Workshop 3 Project management – 10 things you need to know
Levent Yildizgoren, MD TTC Language Services
Workshop 4 Face the future confidently with LTC Worx
Adriane Rinsche, Managing Director, LTC
Workshop 5 SDL LSP Partner Programme – how it can help you
Keith Laska, Vice-President, SDL Trados Technology
Workshop 6 XTRF Management System for translation companies integrated
with a CAT tool - how to work more efficiently and in conformity
with ISO 9001 and EN15038
Andrzej Nedoma, Director Lido-Lang Technical Translations
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| 3.00 - 3.15 |
| Tea break/Exhibition and Translators' Wall of Fame and
networking
Session 3: MARKETING TRANSLATIONS – DIFFERENT
APPROACHES
Session chair: Doug Lawrence, MD, Amicus TransTec, the ATC’s
preferred training provider
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| 3.15 - 3.40 |
| Getting your web site to work for you - selling more translations
Nigel T Packer, MD, Business for Business
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| 3.40 - 4.05 |
| Networking to market translations
Heather White, Partner,
Magic of Networking
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| 4.05 - 4.10 |
| Panel discussion and questions
Session 4: INDUSTRY AND UNIVERSITIES WORKING FOR
FUTURE PROSPERITY
Session chair: Lord Dearing, Government Advisor
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| 4.10 - 4.35 |
| National Network for Translation
Professor Christina
Schaeffner, Professor of Translation Studies, Aston University and
Anne Marie Graham, CILT the National Centre for Languages
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| 4.35- 4.40 |
| Panel discussion and questions
Session 5: PUBLIC SECTOR OPPORTUNITIES AND SUPPORT
Session chair: Liz Robertson, Chairman ATC
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| 4.40 - 5.05 |
| What the UK government is doing for to help generate demand
for professionally produced translations
Joanne Alexander-
Sefre, Consultant, UK Trade & Investment Export Communications
Review
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| 5.05 - 5.30 |
| Tendering for EC projects – making sense of the process
Klaus Arhend, Directorate General for Translation, European
Commission
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| 5.30 - 5.40 |
| Questions
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| 5.40 - 5.45 |
| Round up from the day and conclusion
Liz Robertson, Chairman, Association of Translation Companies
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The Association of Translation Companies is grateful for the support of its main sponsors: 
