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Richard Sikes has been immersed in technical translation and localization for over 30 years. During his long career, he has gained extensive experience on the client side, the vendor side, and the technology side of the translation industry. He is passionate about linguistic technologies of all kinds. He is closely associated with Content Rules as a senior linguistic consultant specializing in Acrolinx deployments and global content quality. Richard contributes frequently to MultiLingual magazine, and he is well-known as a speaker at translation industry events. He holds a BA in fine arts from the University of California, Diplom Betriebswirt (FH) from the Fachhochschule Heidelberg and an MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Sabina Jasinska is the Senior Director – Global Marketing at Welocalize, responsible for the marketing activities for the company and its 18 brands. She is also a Member of the Board of Directors for Translation Commons since 2019 and was a Member of the Gala Board of Directors for 2017-2018. Her focus is on capitalizing on new trends and regulations to develop high impact growth strategies, building diverse global teams and supporting mergers and acquisitions. Educated in Poland, France, the UK and the US, Sabina holds an MBA and master’s degrees in French and Polish law, romance philology and history.

As principal internationalization and localization consultant, Henk Boxma provides solutions to his clientele to solve problems that are related to documentation and localization of their products. Henk is hands-on and works together with people in various roles within an organization. One of his specialties is (visual) software localization. Many blue chip companies use his Rigi localization management platform to streamline overall localization processes.

Angelika has been an independent trainer and consultant for translation tools since the year 2000. She earned her degree in translation (Chinese/Japanese, Computational Linguistics) in 1995 at the University of Bonn, Germany. After that she worked for the Japanese Embassy in Germany before she joined Trados, where she relocated to Japan and the US, supporting Microsoft’s localization projects using Trados tools. She has been a frequent speaker at industry-related events like LocWorld, tekom, DTT and Translation Technology Summer School.

Sufian Reiter is Head of Operations at Plunet in Berlin. His main responsibilities are the creation and optimization of internal processes. He also supports the Product Management team with his industry and IT expertise regarding the API and workflow automization. With his focus on internal operations, Sufian sets the course for the future development of the company – because a company needs to work well internally in order to play a leading role in the market. Sufian knows this market and its needs like the back of his hand. He started at Plunet in 2008 and contributed significantly to the establishment of the Plunet business overseas as Head of Sales for the American market. In this role, Sufian advised hundreds of LSPs, corporates, and institutions on process optimization. Prior to this, the business graduate and father of two gained experience in Marketing and Sales at various international companies.

In her role as service owner for the onboarding service (mergers and acquisitions) at SAP, one of the world’s leading business software enterprises, Kerstin Bier is responsible for supporting SAP’s mergers and acquisitions in setting up and managing efficient localization processes and projects in the post-merger integration phase and beyond. Coming from an acquisition herself to SAP in 2012, Kerstin leads a team of account and delivery managers, project managers and a localization engineer, and puts a strong focus on establishing strong working relationships with the goal to set up efficient and scalable processes that help all sides. In her previous role at Sybase, acquired by SAP in 2010, Kerstin was responsible for managing European localization projects. She initiated and drove the introduction of statistical machine translation for one of their product areas and presented challenges and lessons learned at various conferences.

Marie has found her way into the world of translation in 2009 and soon discovered the power of CAT tools. Originally being a mathematician, she has a thing for algorithms – so in the past years, one of her responsibilities was setting up complex workflows, link tools and find ways to automate steps.

After joining kothes GmbH in 2015, Marie has become the key figure when it comes to setting up translation processes maximising the productivity and the quality of clients’ translation output.

Aida Martirosyan is Managing Director of Haymillian, a media localization company with operation teams in 20 countries, working in 64 languages. She has a major in Hotel Services and International Tourism Management, and minor in English Linguistics. She commenced her career as a translator and Quality Assurance specialist before moving to business development roles.

In 2007, she established Haymillian (formerly XLence), a company specializing in hospitality and audiovisual translation. She has spearheaded the company’s journey for the last 12 years, growing it from a small translation agency to a global company with two distinct specialized units of technical & hospitality translation and media localization. The media localization department which was added in 2010 specializes in subtitling, closed captioning and dubbing services.

It is headquartered in London, UK, and has an 800-strong growing team of translators and subtitlers, while other offices include Athens, Greece for Eastern Europe and Middle East, Montevideo, Uruguay and Cuernavaca, Mexico for Latin America and Johannesburg, South Africa for Africa

María Ramos Merino is a freelance localization manager and consultant, offering expertise in translation tools, process, and workflows. She currently acts as Localization Manager at Beabloo and supports LocWorld and the Localization Institute on various projects, including the Game Global events. Previously, María worked as Production Manager at Version internationale, a French translation provider. She has performed several positions on the vendor side and has extensive knowledge of the industry. Technology savvy, María holds a Master’s degree in Translation Technologies from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Florian Sachse is the production manager for Kilgray, where he controls product planning, development, quality assurance, release and documentation. He has been working for Kilgray since 2013 and previously managed its software development team. One of his first development projects dating more than 30 years back was to get the German umlaut into an English word processor application. In 1998, Florian started working with language technology when PASS Engineering introduced the leading software localization solution PASSOLO to the market. As managing director of PASS Engineering, the initial focus was the development of mission-critical software for clinical analyzers.

Erik Vogt heads-up technology partnerships and custom solution development at RWS Moravia. Erik has worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and innovative technology customers in the world since 1998. His focus is on management and in developing data-driven solutions that solve real business problems in language services. With a passion for metrics, people and lateral thinking, Erik enjoys helping frame problems and quantitatively evaluate and implement unique win-win solutions.

Kevin Schmid is a hands-on user of translation technology. He serves as Head of Operations for MPÜ Translations, an LSP specializing in medical and pharmacological translation. In his day-to-day role, Kevin frequently interacts with customers who submit problematic file formats or who have drunk the NMP Kool-Aid and think that it is the only solution for them. Kevin believes that frequently less is more, and he struggles with explaining that concept to customers. Kevin attended the Translation Technology Round Table in Boulder, Colorado, in January, and was specially recruited to participate on the Advisory Board to help plan the Heidelberg event.