Malmö Global Toolbox Sessions

Tuesday June 6, 2023

The Localization Institute is thrilled to resume offering in person seminars and round tables. These sessions will each take place at the Clarion Hotel & Congress Malmö Live. As a co-organizer of LocWorld Conference, the Localization Institute offers these seminars and round tables as separate, stand-alone events. You do not need to be registered for LocWorld49 Conference in order to sign up for these offerings. If you would like to register for the main conference of LocWorld49, please visit the LocWorld website.

Please Note: Global Toolbox sessions have a 24-person limit that cannot be exceeded – register now to reserve your seat!

Multilingual AI Roundtable

Tuesday, June 6 from 8:30am – 4:30pm 

The Multilingual AI Roundtable, formerly known as MT/AI Roundtable, aims to bring together the localization community who are interested in leveraging AI technologies, including machine translation, continuous localization and generative AI. Since the launch of ChatGPT and the rise of pre-trained large language models (LLMs), localization professionals have to embrace both challenges and opportunities. The roundtable provides you with an ideal platform to explore new alternatives when revolutionizing the language industry with multilingual AI, together with AI experts and thought leaders.

AM Modules

Module 1: ChatGPT vs. conventional multilingual AI technologies: technological evolution in MT and CAT, use cases and deployment
Module 2: Keeping AI under control – intelligent quality evaluation, edit distance, quality estimation, alignment (intention and results)

PM Modules

Module 1: Adjusting to the new roles created by AI: how humans work with AI, new job opportunities, human-computer interaction
Module 2: Data privacy and confidentiality: protect client’s data while embracing ChatGPT and other MT/AI technologies

Roundtable moderator/organizer: 

Peng Wang, The Localization Institute

Advisory board members:

  • Olga Beregovaya, Welocalize
  • Alon Lavie, Unbabel/CMU
  • Michal Antczak, Paypal

Registration Fee: €750 + 25% VAT – full day price (lunch included).  

By joining this round table, you will:

  • Connect the dots between your industry practices and multilingual AI knowledge
  • Develop actionable ideas for deploying ChatGPT and other MT/AI solutions
  • Discuss industry best practices to manage people and AI technologies
  • Discover innovative strategies to open new service lines opportunities
  • Learn about new frontiers in the AI space
  • Make valuable connections with industry peers

This round table is for:

  • Decision-makers who aim to leverage multilingual but don’t want to dig into technical details
  • Buyers who want to implement multilingual AI
  • Project Managers tasked with implementing an MT/AI solution
  • Vendors who want to leverage MT/AI to meet their clients’ needs
  • IT professionals involved in MT/AI implementation
  • Content Managers responsible for global content

Round Table Agenda/Topics:

Roundtable morning session: Asking the experts

  • Time: 8:30 – 11:30 am, June 6, 2023; 3.5 hours long, including 2 modules ( 1.5 hours each) and one coffee break (30 minutes)
  • Format: in-person discussions, use cases, and interactive business game
  • Modules
    • Module 1: ChatGPT vs. conventional multilingual AI technologies: technological evolution in MT and CAT, use cases and deployment
    • Module 2: Keeping AI under control – intelligent quality evaluation, edit distance, quality estimation, alignment (intention and results)

Lunch break (11:30 am – 1:00 pm, June 6, 2023)

Roundtable afternoon session: Working with experts

  • Time: 1:00 – 4:30 pm, June 6, 2023; 3.5 hours long, including 2 modules and one coffee break (30 minutes)
  • Format: in-person discussions, use cases, and interactive business game
  • Modules:
    • Module 1: Adjusting to the new roles created by AI: how humans work with AI, new job opportunities, human-computer interaction
    • Module 2: Data privacy and confidentiality: protect client’s data while embracing ChatGPT and other MT/AI technologies

Please note: 

The Round Table’s success depends on people being willing to share information and experiences freely. To encourage that, the sessions are not recorded or republished and no formal minutes or records are kept. Attendees are free to keep their own notes.

Localization Institute Global ToolBox – Malmö 2023

Dr. Peng Wang has taught, researched and practiced translation and localization on three continents. She is the convener for EDUinLOC, the chair of the automation/AI track for LocWorld conferences and a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. Previously, she was the CAT Tools Coordinator at the University of Maryland.

Dr. Wang has rich research experience on NLP AI, having worked as a linguistic researcher at the Corpus Research Lab at Northern Arizona University, a domain expert for data mining projects at the University of Maryland and an honorary research fellow on automatic discourse analysis tools at the University of Liverpool. Her current research and practice focus on human learning vs. machine learning, machine translation, terminology and multilingual corpus analysis.

Dr. Wang has published about 30 articles and two books. She is an expert in approaching technology in the context of culture and humanities. She embraces linguistic and cultural diversity in her classrooms, with students aged from 18 to over 70, in over 10 language combinations, coming from UAE, China, Italy, Spain, Germany, Morocco, Colombia, Mexico, and Haiti, to name just a few.

Localization Institute Global ToolBox – Malmö 2023

Olga Beregovaya has over 20 years of experience in Language Technology, NLP, Machine Learning, Global Content Transformation and AI Data development and is passionate about growing businesses through driving change and innovation. Olga started her career in language technology building lexicons and rules for Rule-based machine translation, gradually expanding her expertise into other broader applications of NLP and Machine Learning to enterprise translation workflows. Olga has also served as President of AMTA, currently serves as a Board member of Women in Localization and as an Advisor for Engineering Leadership at California State University, Chico. Olga received her MA, Linguistics/Germanic Studies at UC- Berkeley and MA/BA in Linguistics from St. Petersburg State University.

Localization Institute Global ToolBox – Malmö 2023

Alon Lavie is the VP of Language Technologies at Unbabel, where he leads and manages Unbabel’s US AI lab based in Pittsburgh, and provides strategic leadership for the AI R&D teams company-wide. Concurrently, Alon is an adjunct Consulting Professor at the Language Technologies Institute at CMU, where he has been a member of the faculty for 26 years. Prior to Unbabel, he was a senior manager at Amazon, where he led and managed the Amazon Machine Translation R&D group in Pittsburgh. Prior to that, Alon was the co-founder, President and CTO of “Safaba Translation Solutions”, an enterprise MT solutions technology startup, acquired by Amazon. Alon is a well-known expert in MT and translation evaluation, and spearheaded the development of the METEOR and COMET metrics. Other research interests and activities include MT adaptation approaches with and without human feedback, translation Quality Estimation, and methods for multi-engine MT system combination.

Alon served as the President of the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) (2013-2015). Prior to that, he was president of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) (2008-2012), and was General Chair of the AMTA 2010 and 2012 conferences. He is also a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), where he was president of SIGParse – ACL’s special interest group on parsing (2008-2013). In August 2021, at the 18th biennial Machine Translation Summit conference, Alon was honored to be awarded with the 2021 Makoto Nagao IAMT Award of Honour for his contributions to the field of Machine Translation.

Connect with Alon on LinkedIn.

Michal Antczak, Paypal

Bigger, Better, Faster: Taking Your Company Global
Transformation and Managing Change

Tuesday, June 6 from 9:00am – 5:00pm 

Recession brought many changes to all kinds of industries. It changed in various ways how global organizations do business, and how they plan for the future, both in the short and long term. How do leaders on the buyer side re-plan their future, ruthlessly prioritize, and make new rules, given all the changes we experienced? How are service and technology partners vendors adapting to the new pace?

In the workshop, we will focus on the necessary ingredients of taking a business global. The speakers and attendees will also share recent experiences and future plans in the context of transformation and managing change as they globalize their businesses and products. We will discuss subjects such as changing their teams’ structure, reporting lines, or scope, or even finding the right application of the recent advancements in artificial intelligence technology, specifically in the context of automating localization management, or amplifying underutilized aspects of original content creation and machine translation.

Roundtable moderator/organizer: 

Daniel Goldschmidt

Advisory board members:

  • Christiane Bark (Busuu)
  • Maria Kania (Translations.com)
  • Tarja Karjalainen (OURA)
  • Oleksandr Pysaryuk (Shopify)
  • Antoine Rey (Argos Multilingual)
  • Giulia Tarditi (Qualtrics)

Registration Fee: €600 25% VAT – full day price (lunch included). 

Takeaways: Attendees will interact with localization leaders of various organizations, learn how to approach managing change, building for the long term, choosing the right lessons to learn from, hear how they plan,structure their teams, prioritize directions,build the pitch to the executive suite, align team’s initiatives to their companies’ big bets, and report and earn from big wins for maximum impact.

Target Audience: Everyone

A minimum of 15 attendees is needed to run this session.

Please note: 

The Round Table’s success depends on people being willing to share information and experiences freely. To encourage that, the sessions are not recorded or republished and no formal minutes or records are kept. Attendees are free to keep their own notes.