About ND 2021

Welcome Cocktail

Join us to meet your fellow Networking Days attendees and get familiar with the event platform, Remo.

Event Opening

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Welcome to change! A new paradigm for work… and for life!

Thinking about the concept of change: how does it affect us and how can we make it work to our benefit?

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M&A and me: Transactions in LSP-land

Roberto shares with us his findings for today’s environment Show more...based on hisextensive experience as a dealmaker and as a trusted advisor...

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Speed networking

Innovate your translation business with Plunet 8.5

The newest Plunet version 8.5 offers LSPs and translation departments Show more...the most powerful, scalable, and user-friendly business and translation management system. In our exclusive ELIA ND tool demo, you will find out how to manage your translation projects and company processes with Plunet. Every workflow step will be covered, including the hottest recently released features for example new vendor search, assignment method "Top Ranked", automatic and cascading job rounds, and more. Learn how to handle a project from client request to quote, order, job and invoice management. Join our demo and discover the potential of smart business and translation management.

Among all participants of this Plunet session, we will raffle a super cool JBL Pulse 4 speaker

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Introducing Trados Business Manager version 6

Trados Business Manager can simplify and speed up the day-to-day Show more...tasks that go into running your business. It provides you with the ability to quickly and effectively manage vendors and customers, organize projects, take care of accounting tasks, and report on your business performance.

Join this session to learn about the new release of Trados Business Manager. It is now built on state-of-the-art technology for a completely refreshed user experience, faster performance, and improved scalability. You can also benefit from a more flexible integration with Trados Studio, Trados Live Team integration and a new Trados Business Manager API.

There are many more improvements in the latest version, including:
· Enhanced customer and vendor portals
· Real-time notifications
· New and improved customization options
· Multitenancy support
· Version control for files.

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How to predict your business with LBS Suite

LBS Suite goes beyond the typical Translation Business Management System. Show more... It doesn’t help you only in handling your clients, your projects or track quality.
You will have a set of in-depth statistics that analyse the activities of your project managers, your sales teams, your vendors, keep you up-to-date with Quality performance (punctuality, margins, negative and positive feedback, etc.), tell you about internal production, volumes, margins, and much more.
Thanks to the KPI module in LBS Suite, you will be able to track every month the real-time situation of your company, at a glance!
The KPI Module is also a customised accounting dashboard where you can examine your costs, payroll, taxes and of course your sales, purchases, etc. With this you will know everything you need to know about your company!
Come and see how LBS Suite and its KPI module can help you to identify your strong points and areas to improve…so you can make the right decisions in your business!

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Using New Video Localization Technologies to Grow Your Business

Using video to reach a wider audience for marketing, training, Show more...and e-learning purposes is more necessary than ever before as many employees around the world are working from home due the pandemic. Interest in video localization has seen a surge, however, traditional methods of localizing videos into multiple languages takes time and money. We have to look to new technology to expedite this process and to grow the industry. In this demo session, we’ll show you how new technologies can help expand your business and bring more revenue to LSPs. There will be examples of the latest AI-generated voices, automation of AV integration, and a re-thinking of how to leverage these new technologies in expanding your business offerings.

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Translation and Automation: 3 aspects - Linguistic automation

Automation is thé buzzword of the past few years. Through a Show more...series of different panels, we have a close look at linguistic automation, process automation and transaction automation. What, how and why me?

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Translation and Automation: 3 aspects - Process automation

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Translation and Automation: 3 aspects - Transaction automation

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Topic based networking hour

Powering Growth: Revenue acceleration – Strategy, execution and measurement for sellers and managers in the L10n Space

Hands-on advice from the front line. How to organise ourselves Show more...and our companies for sustained revenue growth.

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Negotiating for value in a new world

As the cards are re-shuffled during this time, we need to reassess Show more...our strengths and weaknesses, and think how to interact for optimum results.

Free networking hour

Topic based networking hour

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Translation Economics of the 2020s

What every professional in the translation field and their customers Show more...should know about AI-enabled translation
The long-expected technical revolution is here. Automatic translation is no longer just a freebie on the internet. It is now entering the ‘real’ economy of the translation sector and it changes everything. The fundamental economic laws of intellectual property and scarcity, for instance, do not apply in a world in which machines autonomously generate an abundance of translation. Translation as a social good, not owned by anyone and free to the user, exists alongside translations owned and paid for by governments and corporations.
In this discourse for the Elia Networking Day on 12 May 2021 Jaap van der Meer, Director of TAUS, reviews the translation economics of the 2020s in ten concise sections, each with its own take-aways and questions for the professionals and their customers.
1. How did we get this far and how close are we to ‘human parity’?
2. How does the free model work economically?
3. Cannibalization or polarization? Will free and paid-for translation continue to co-exist?
4. How does AI-enabled translation work technically?
5. What is the state-of-the-art in MT?
6. Where do the data come in? The data gap.
7. Data control, best practices and regulations.
8. About value, cost, skills and scarcity in AI-enabled translation.
9. Recognizing the new roles of data seekers, data keepers and gatekeepers.
10. Monetizing and trading data on the Data Marketplace.

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Stepstones for accelerated growth in a post-COVID world

How will our business be structured tomorrow? New needs, new Show more...markets, obsolete models, skills required. What are the points of reference in this new environment.

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