09.30 -

10.00

Registration and coffee

10.00 -

10.05

Chairman's introduction
Roy Allkin, Chairman Association of Translation Companies

10.05 -

10.25

The Art Of Change
Joy Ogeh-Hutfield, Lamajo Consultancy

10.25 -

10.45

So you want to build your business?
Robert Ashton, Author and Business sector broadcaster

10.45 -

11.10

You've built your translation business and now you want to sell
Malcolm Murray, BCMS Corporate

11.10 -

11.15

Panel discussion

11.15 -

11.30

Mid morning coffee break/ coffee and networking

11.30 -

11.50

Working together to make the UK the centre of worldwide telephone interpreting
Marcus Vaigncourt-Strallen, Director, Interpreters-on-Call

11.50 -

11.55

Questions

11.55 -

12.15

Commodities, differentiators and all that jazz – a quick-take of what’s worrying translation business owners and managers
Gordon Husbands, GALA

12.15 -

12.35

Multilingual content on the Web: Making the world’s information universally accessible
Patricia Gómez Jurado, Google Localization Language Specialist

12.35 -

12.55

Trends impacting language and global business
Alan Sloan, CEO, SDL Trados

12.55 -

13.00

Questions

13.00 -

14.15

Lunch

14.15 -

14.55

Workshops sessions

WORKSHOP 1:

Guide to SDL Trados Studio 2009 migration – best practices and LSP Partner case study

Aaron Caruso, SDL Language Technologies

Mark Robinson, Alexika Ltd

WORKSHOP 2:

Transit NXT: A professional and efficient tool for the translation industry - an alternative approach to TM

Judith Klein, Star UK

WORKSHOP 3:

Close symbiosis with your clients and suppliers with the LTC

Worx business management platform

Ashley Maroney LTC

WORKSHOP 4:

Profiting from a language partner in India - expectations and reality

Sandeep Nulkar Chairman and Managing Director, BITS Private Limited andKajal Ambedkar Director, BITS Private Limited

WORKSHOP 5:

A vendor-neutral platform for telephone interpreting - Interpreters on Call

Don Ferguson who is the Services Delivery Manager for Interpreters-on-Call

WORKSHOP 6:

LIVE XTRF-TM Presentation - The First Completeley Web Based Total Translation Solution! LIDO-LANG

Tomasz Mroz and Andrzej Nedoma, XTRF

WORKSHOP 7:

Translation Process & Business Management with Plunet

Bastian Enners, European Sales Director/Head of New Business Development, Plunet

14.55 -

15.15

Afternoon tea/ exhibition and networking

15.15 -

15.35

How translation professionals can make the choice on investing in an MT software or system solution
Jeff Allen, SAP Laboratories

15.35 -

15.55

Start planning your MT adoption for success
Elia Yuste, PangeaMT

15.55 -

16.15

Business as usual? A way out of the technology maze
Gabor Farago, Translation Technology Architect, espell group

16.15 -

16.35

Growing new business with technology while avoiding technology pitfalls
Elliot Neadas, XTM International

16.35 -

16.55

Panel discussion

16.55 -

17.00

Summing up the day
Roy Allkin, Chairman, Association of Translation Companies