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Class Room to the Board Room
What is KantanMT.com?
Statistical MT Platform
Cloud-based
Highly scalable for high volume
Fully-automated translations
Fusion of TM & MT & rules
High speed, high quality translations
Our Vision
To put Machine Translation Customization
Improvement
Deployment
into your hands
Active KantanMT Engines
8,739 Training Words Uploaded
323,179,753,587
Member Words Translated
6,042,269,925
www.kantanMT.com
Navigating DCU – it’s a big place
Navigating DCU – it’s a big place
Built Original Prototype
INVENT Concept Space
Com-Fund Application
School of Computing
Software License
INVENT Tech-Transfer
INVENT Concept Space
4th Floor INVENT Building Open-plan office
Incubation of ideas
Shared with other early start-ups
Super fast Internet (really fast)
Tech-Venture Programme 12 week intensive business start-up programme
Novation Programme 6 Month business start-up programme
Built Original Prototype
INVENT Concept Space
Com-Fund Application
School of Computing
School of Computing
CNGL HQ Centre of Next Generation Localisation
Felt more intelligent just by being there!
Tuned into latest developments in MT
Google Hadoop Hackathon Won it in 2012
Joint Commercial Fund Managed by INVENT, KantanMT and CNGL
Supported by Enterprise Ireland
€170k Funded 100%
Software License
INVENT Tech-Transfer
Back to INVENT
Class room to Board room
Tech-Transfer office license
MT technologies from Com-Fund
VC 1st round was closed
$1.2m in the bank
INVENT Office Space
2nd Floor – space for 6 developers
Galway office (NUIG) – space for 2 engineers
Standing out from the crowd…
Built Original Prototype
INVENT Concept Space
Com-Fund Application
School of Computing
Software License
INVENT Tech-Transfer
Our Journey…
Kantan BuildAnalytics: Helping engineers build
better MT
Kantan Analytics: 1st Predictive Quality
Estimation Technology
Massive Adoption: 879m translated and 100b training
words uploaded
Q2 2013 Q3 2013 Q3 2014 Q1 2013 Q1 2014 Q1 2015 Q4 2015 Q3 2014
Adoption: Uploaded 10b training words and 200m words
translated. KantanAPI launched
www.kantanmt.com:
1st SMT Cloud Based Platform (TotalRecall)
KantanAutoScale: Using the power of the cloud to maximise performance
Confirmed Scale: 6 Billion words translated. 300+ billion words uploaded
The KantanMT Community
Some clients un-named for maintenance of confidentiality
So what did I learn?
#1: Take Risks
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new “
Albert Einstein
#2: Make Prototypes
#2: Make Prototypes
#2: Make Prototypes
#2: Make Prototypes
5 Things to remember
Do rough prototypes
Do be quick, dirty and early
Don’t be slow, perfect and late
Do use just enough technology to get going
Don’t hesitate to throw away prototypes
#3: Define Values (and live by them)
Customer Obsession
Be courageous and take risks
Seize opportunities and deliver
Simplify and improve
Quality in everything we do
Fail fast and recover even faster!
Transparency and openness
Scale everything
Be agile and responsive
#3: Define Values (and live by them)
Develop your culture
Value-centric
Performance-driven
#4: Recruit Teamers
The Team with the best players always wins!
#5: The Idea Factory
#5: The Idea Factory
“Innovation is a team sport that requires extraordinary collaboration”
Tom Peters, The Circle of Innovation
#5: The Idea Factory
“I am looking for a lot of people who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done”
Henry Ford
#5: The Idea Factory
Don’t Forget : It’s a game of big numbers…
Lessons Learnt…
#1 : Take Risks
#2 : Make Prototypes
#3 : Define Values
#4 : Recruit Teamers
#5 : The Idea Factory
One more thing…
Never EVER give up trying!
