About Focus PM 2023

Overview of Trados Language Technology Portfolio

Over the past 35 years, Trados has been at the forefront of the Show more...translation technology space, leading innovation and empowering the industry with our solutions.

In this session, Ian Parnell, Senior Product Manager, will provide an in-depth overview of the Trados portfolio, showcasing our full technology stack - from our CAT tool, Trados Studio, to our TMS, Trados Enterprise. We'll explain the differences between our offerings and how they piece together to offer secure, intelligent solutions that enable all industry stakeholders to translate everything.

Beginner: A Project Manager's guide to desktop working with Trados Studio

Join Daniel Brockmann, Principal Product Manager, for a walk-through Show more...of the Trados Studio desktop application. We’ll take things back to the basics and will share:

· Ways of working with Trados Studio
· A tour of the desktop environment
· How to create your first project
· How to share projects and resources through offline workflows
· How to handle mid-project updates
· How to run and read reports

You’ll soon be well-versed in all the essential functionality every project manager should be using in Trados Studio.

Coffee break

Intermediate: A PM’s guide to desktop working with Trados Studio

Join Daniel Brockmann, Principal Product Manager, for a walk-through Show more...of the Trados Studio desktop application. In this session we’ll assume you have a basic understanding of working in the desktop application and will aim to build on this knowledge by sharing how to:

· Fine-tune your project and file type settings
· Efficiently work with project templates
· Best work with different types of users, including translators & reviewers
· Customise your Studio environment to work more effectively
· Access the RWS Appstore to download helpful apps

With an in-depth knowledge of Trados Studio’s sophisticated features, you can maintain complete control over your translation processes.

How to efficiently manage projects in the cloud with Trados

Join Ian Parnell, Senior Product Manager, for a walkthrough of the Trados cloud platform. Show more... We'll cover the basics, best practices and key tips to allow you, as localisation project managers, to work as efficiently as possible.

Learn how to:
· Create projects​
· Share resources and assign translators​
· Monitor project progress ​
· Handle mid-project updates​
· Keep your and your client's data safe

Through automation, discover how the cloud can help you keep all your projects running smoothly, cut down on the volume of administrative tasks and accelerate your turnaround times.

Welcome drinks

Teatro Restaurant | venue (not a pre-paid service, pay at the bar only).

XTRF’s Tricks for Improved Work Efficiency – Advanced Training part I

- Reaching out to Vendors to ask about their availability for Show more...Jobs
- Automating the assignment process
- Making the selection process easier
- Strategies and rules for vendor assignment
- Minimizing attention needed to choose the best fit

XTRF’s Tricks for Improved Work Efficiency – Advanced Training part II

XTRF features you didn't realize you needed - with our extra Show more...features, you can flaunt your brand for all to see with XTRF Branding options. Monitor time spent on tasks with Smart User Work Log and Vendor Work Log; keep confidential client data secure with Client Data Access Limiting; and access history records quickly thanks to Project History.

Beginners: Work Smart with XTRF Smart Projects and Views

Showing that the power of XTRF lies, among others, in its simplicity. Show more... Creating a project with only a few simple steps that anyone can follow, repeat and build more complicated workflows on top of. All XTRF newcomers are welcome.

XTRF Email Assistant

Explore E-mail to Project, an innovative productivity tool that Show more...effortlessly transforms clients' email inquiries into translation projects in a snap. Introducing our AI-based connector for XTRF, which automates project creation using emails. It seamlessly integrates with your email client, revolutionising how you handle project initiation. By intelligently parsing incoming emails, it effortlessly extracts vital project details, including client names, project descriptions, languages, deadlines, and attachments. Thanks to its advanced natural language processing capabilities, this intelligent assistant understands the context and meaning behind your emails, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in project creation.
During the presentation, we will demonstrate how this cutting-edge solution smoothly processes incoming emails and turns relevant information from the emails into ready-to-use projects. Say goodbye to manual effort, streamline your workflow, and boost productivity.

Welcome drinks

Teatro Restaurant | venue (not a pre-paid service, pay at the bar only).

Open registration & welcome coffee

Event Opening

Is reputation overrated?

The human side of executive recruitment, AI impact on jobs or AI driven jobs. Show more..... all with a sprinkle of reputation. Curious to connect the dots? Join our keynote!

Coffee break

PM like an influencer

Part I: Introduction
In this two-part, highly interactive workshop, Show more...industry veterans and experts will be taking you on a journey to become great influencers, a skill that will become increasingly important in your role as a Project Manager. This is not all about social media and becoming a social media star. It is more about recognising and harnessing your power of influence within your organisation, team and especially with your clients.

Lunch

Better, faster, stronger

Presentation - Group A
The role of a project manager is constantly Show more...evolving, nowadays more than ever. On one side, project managers are expected to steadily improve performance and efficiency in their everyday work, on the other side LSPs set out to redefine the role making it future-proof to the changed requirements of the language industry. But what does it entail to get “faster, stronger, better”, how is it possible to live up to these expectations as a project manager and – most importantly - how do those developments change our work and what is in it for us?
In this session, we will look at these questions from different angles and elaborate on the most pressing with the help of practical examples.

Big, bad AI coming for us

Presentation - Group B
AI is cool. It has style. It could write Show more...friendly emails on our behalf. It could give a human touch to your vendor relations. It could speed up quality checks. But AI is generic, at least when it comes to large language models. You can’t just invite in a stranger from the street and get them to do translation project management – you learned it for months until you became good. The AI race is on. As machine translation took a long time to go from rejection to majority, LLMs probably will take a while until they go mainstream. Today you can sell better with it, isn’t it a good enough justification to spend some time thinking?

Coffee break

Better, faster, stronger

Workshop - Group A
Based on the input we have given in the presentation Show more...on how to deal with the most pressing challenges in modern project management, we will have a closer look at specific scenarios in our everyday work. We will split into groups and discuss how to approach different situations, present ideas and see how to integrate them sustainably into your processes. We will focus on you as a project manager and how you can contribute immensely to your company’s requirements to meet the ever-increasing expectations to be faster, better, and stronger - without forgetting your personal (and team) well-being.

Big, bad AI coming for us

Workshop - Group B
In this workshop we’ll focus on scalability Show more...– not client relations, not vendor relations, not technology, not quality; scalability. We will assume that you want to grow with technology. We will assume that there can be measures that allow you to do more without compromising quality. We won’t fight AI, but at least 80% of what we’ll discuss are business practices that bring clarity to the business. We will dissect, discuss and scrutinise these. We will ask critical questions that PMs often don’t have the bandwidth to ask, and we will all go home with thoughts about what we can do to prepare our companies and teams for the weird times that the 2020s brought.

Networking dinner

Hanu' Berarilor
Casa Oprea Soare

The Show more...name of the inn comes from one of the wealthiest merchants of Little Paris, Dumitru Oprea Soare, who built the house on the land inherited from his father.

The charm of Casa Soare made Vintilă Brătianu say that it is one of the private buildings that has proven that “there can very well created civil architecture with national character”. The restaurant invites its guests in a gorgeous environment, with or without a high hat, canes and pocket watch with chain.

Morning coffee

Big, bad AI coming for us

Presentation - Group A
AI is cool. It has style. It could write Show more...friendly emails on our behalf. It could give a human touch to your vendor relations. It could speed up quality checks. But AI is generic, at least when it comes to large language models. You can’t just invite in a stranger from the street and get them to do translation project management – you learned it for months until you became good. The AI race is on. As machine translation took a long time to go from rejection to majority, LLMs probably will take a while until they go mainstream. Today you can sell better with it, isn’t it a good enough justification to spend some time thinking?

Better, faster, stronger

Presentation - Group B
The role of a project manager is constantly Show more...evolving, nowadays more than ever. On one side, project managers are expected to steadily improve performance and efficiency in their everyday work, on the other side LSPs set out to redefine the role making it future-proof to the changed requirements of the language industry. But what does it entail to get “faster, stronger, better”, how is it possible to live up to these expectations as a project manager and – most importantly - how do those developments change our work and what is in it for us?
In this session, we will look at these questions from different angles and elaborate on the most pressing with the help of practical examples.

Coffee break

Big, bad AI coming for us

Workshop - Group A
In this workshop we’ll focus on scalability Show more...– not client relations, not vendor relations, not technology, not quality; scalability. We will assume that you want to grow with technology. We will assume that there can be measures that allow you to do more without compromising quality. We won’t fight AI, but at least 80% of what we’ll discuss are business practices that bring clarity to the business. We will dissect, discuss and scrutinise these. We will ask critical questions that PMs often don’t have the bandwidth to ask, and we will all go home with thoughts about what we can do to prepare our companies and teams for the weird times that the 2020s brought.

Better, faster, stronger

Workshop - Group B
Based on the input we have given in the presentation Show more...on how to deal with the most pressing challenges in modern project management, we will have a closer look at specific scenarios in our everyday work. We will split into groups and discuss how to approach different situations, present ideas and see how to integrate them sustainably into your processes. We will focus on you as a project manager and how you can contribute immensely to your company’s requirements to meet the ever-increasing expectations to be faster, better, and stronger - without forgetting your personal (and team) well-being.

Lunch

PM like an influencer

Part II: Workshop
We’ll start by introducing what being an influencer is all about. Show more... We’ll then explain three top tools for influencing others. You will then work at a tactical level in interactive workshops with your peers to apply these tools and experience the power of influence first-hand. You will be able to immediately transfer these skills into your day-to-day professional life to improve your organisation and client relationships as a master influencer!

Coffee break

Humans are productive. What about AI?

Those of us who get up in the morning and go to work to do a Show more...good day's job have an inherent need to be productive, which is amplified by customer and corporate expectations. We employ tools and technologies to get things done better, faster, and cheaper. While these tools evolve, every change introduces a new level of complexity, and a new need to adapt, adapt and learn. Does AI change this paradigm in our industry? Large Language Models (LLMs) are general-purpose machines, not created for a specific purpose; many of their capabilities emerge unforeseen, and their output quality varies depending on the task. This is unlike the traditional tools we have come to love and use: purpose-built, well-controlled, with (largely) predictable outcomes and benefits. We'll dive into what this new AI paradigm entails for those of us in the language industry, including expectations around incremental or radical changes, efficiencies and pitfalls while staying human.

Event recap & closing