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Localization Industry Events -

NATALIA SIEGMUNDLocalization Project Manager

GLOW Workshop @ Goodgames Studios

November 29th, 2019

Hamburg

• Key facts

• Experience sharing

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L10N events

Social media & business

networks

International

game industry events

Organizations

Focus

Organizer

Attendees

Locations

Costs

Highlights

What are the main

Localization industry events?

globalization

1st LocWorld: Oct 2003 in Seattle,

Washington, followed 2004 by the 1st

European LocWorld in Bonn, Germany

Asia, Europe, North America

Last LocWorld#41: Nov, 6-8, 2019

Silicon Valley

founded in 1996 by Ulrich Henes

based in Madison, Wisconsin, USA

also owns MultiLingual Magazine, based in USA

At no charge on Nov, 7: access to exhibitors’ area

(LSPs and tech vendors) + one free final session

(choose from 5), registration required

1 pre-conference day: workshops & round-tables

+ 2 main days: talks & networking

$1200 (1 day) - $1850 (2 days)

buyers & service providers

e.g. 600 in 2014 in Dublin

“Leading conference for international business, localization and global website

management.

Especially valuable for companies that want to venture into new international markets”

Next LocWorld:

Multiple Conference Tracks for better orientation

+ another 13 tracks

+ event app from Pathable.com

* Multilingual December issue logo version

video games globalization:

functional & localization testing

localization

LocWorld

Track sessions & round tables

Events so far:

1. Warsaw 2018, 5-6 June

2. Tokyo 2018, September 19

3. Seattle 2019, October 16 - 17

4. Lisbon 2019, June 18 - 19

5. Silicon Valley 2019, November 5-6

Before 2018 known as:

Game Localization Round Table

on the LocWorld pre-conference day

2 days

$750 (1 day) - $1400 (2 days),

+ 10% discount to the following LocWorld

senior L10N professionals, academics,

publishers, devs, buyer side

between 50 and 200

from 2012 to 2018 known as

founded in 2012 by a group of people passionate

about games headed by Arran Oakes, Gaming IQ (a

division of IQPC)

games QA, localization

+ customer support (added 2018)

IQPC Ltd, London

International Quality

and Productivity Center

Global B2B event company:

• Founded in 1976

• Over 1500 events annually

• Offices in major cities across six

continents including: Berlin,

Dubai, London, New York,

Singapore and Sydney

1st event: London 2012 as Game QA&Loc,

Berlin, 2018 as Game Forum

same European city 2 years in a row

3 days (1 pre-conf + 2 main)

€970 (2 days) - €1380 (3 days)

buyers & service providers

180 in London, 2014

Next GQFG:

23 - 25 June, 2020

Amsterdam

Translation Technology Round Table

translation technology solutions for

buyers, suppliers, and every-day

hands-on users

1st European event: September 2019,

Heidelberg, Germany

USA +Europe

28

2 days

?

Translation Technology Round Table

1 session each day reserved for vendors

to give informal product demos

focus on translation technology

+ technology marketing

(for technology providers)

discussion of translation tool prices and

details of vendor contracts is not

permitted

Translation Technology Round Table

Event page: https://www.xing.com/events/

translation-technology-round-table-2129761

localization

1st event: March 2008, Silicon Valley

1st German event: June 18-19, 2015, Munich

Last event: 17-18 September 2019, Munich

(Google offices)

North America +Europe

Unconferences (aka barcamps) are all about peer-to-peer learning and

collaboration

Since 2008 an annual event in Silicon Valley

+offshoots in Canada, Germany, Ukraine and

Ireland

Since 2012 one unconference day at each

US LocWorld

2 days

free of charge

Optional:

39€ - networking dinner

• Day 1: translatathon & hackathon

(programming)

• Day 2: actual unconference

• Participant-driven

• No power-point presentations

• No sales pitches

• No agenda, only topics the group votes on

translation, transcreation, language

technology, document outsourcing,

crowdsourcing, MT

1 day

Language Industry Intelligence

headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland

+ offices in Singapore, Bangkok,

Manila, and London

1st event:

2016, Zurich

Last event (annual):

November 28, 2019 in Amsterdam

680€

buyers and service providers

from workflow and productivity

tools to website translation

proxies and SaaS

from global marketing content to

technical documentation

weekly eNewsletter (free) – market

intelligence for language industry

stakeholders to make informed, time-

critical decisions: latest private equity &

venture capital investments, startup

launches, funding, technology disruption,

talent moves

+ (at extra cost) SlatorSweep, SlatorPro,

RFQ Center and in-depth research reports

Fun for All VI

International Conference on

Video Game Translation and

Accessibility

game localization & accessibility,

linguistic and cultural dimensions of

game localization

professionals, scholars, practitioners

and other interested parties

Barcelona

120€ (early bird) - 180€ (regular)

1st event: 2010 (every 2 years)

Next event: June, 15-16, 2020 (2

days)

audiovisual translation: dubbing, subtitling,

voice-over, etc.

media accessibility in various genres &

platforms

user testing and technological implementation

Fun for All VI

An interdisciplinary research group

created 2004

January: hard working

February: hard working

March: hard working

April: hard working

May: hard working

June:

July: hard working

August: hard working

September: hard working

October: hard working

November: hard working

December: hard working

2020 schedule

Fun for All VI

in Barcelona

rebranded

Founded by Daniel Finck in 2015,

held twice a year

Current trends

• free-of-charge monthly gathering of people interested in topics like I18n, L10n, G11n, global brand

management, marketing & translation software development

• around the 2nd Thursday of each month in a restaurant (worldwide)

• Extensive events spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1emR1YWsMzu0ptVFBahMJHjgMq_ZL8J2i0qCS5XcqAWU/edi

t#gid=233759339

Annual LocSig meet-up at GamesCom

in Malzmühle (LSPs?)

International Games Events

rebranded

„Deal making event“B2C + B2B

China Digital Entertainment Expo

US Game Developers Conference

B2B

European games industry

Europe’s biggest mobile B2B

event for the games industry

+B2B day

networking

meet-up

Key players

Goals

Gatherings

How are Localization

professionals organized globally

and in Europe?

global, non-profit trade association for the language industry

founded in 2002 by leaders of 15 companies

building professionalcommunities

sharing knowledge

advancing best practices in the globalization sector

+ LocSIG (localization special interest group on Facebook)

Informal gatherings of translation

and L10N industry professionals

at no charge (restaurants, pubs

or public places)

Cairo, Seattle, Munich, Dublin, Tokyo

Other GALA events:

• GALA Conference

• GALA Localization Forum @ tekom/tcworld

conference

LocSIG mission:

provide a focal point and nexus for the growing number of game localization professionals

build community, draw together best practices and processes

emphasize the international dimension of game content development

improving global game development processes and local end user experiences.

“The world’s largest nonprofit membership

organization serving all individuals who

create games”

• founded 1994

• LocSig founded 2007

Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008

German chapter opened in November 2014

Mission:

foster a global community for the advancement of women and the l10n industry through networking, education, career advancement, mentoring and recognition for women’s accomplishments

Regular round tables & chapter eventsEvent calendar:

https://womeninlocalization.com/future-events/

International Association for Advancement in Language Technology

ASLING (or AsLing) from French “Association internationale

pour la promotion des technologies Linguistiques”

Why French? ASLING is an international non-profit association

governed by Articles 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code, registered

in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

Conference:

1st event: 14th November, 1978, London

Last event: TC41, 21-22 November 2019, London

Groups of 5+ can enjoy discounts from 10 to 30%

EAMT is one of three regional associations of the

International Association for Machine

Translation (IAMT)

Sister organizations:

• Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

(AMTA)

• Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation

(AAMT)

• non-profit

• registered in Switzerland

• established in 1991

• the only organization of its kind in Europe

• organizes workshops and conferences:

bi-annual MT Summit (600-700€ per 1 day, non-members)

annual EAMT conferences or workhops (May-June)

IAMT also compiles listings of companies and products which

are distributed free or at nominal cost to its members.

maintains a mailing list, mt-list@eamt.org, as a public forum

for the discussion of translation technology

LSPs organizations

Most useful platforms?

Best communication channels?

Cool gatherings outside of established

events?

Any training/webinars,

industry reading recommendations?

L10N professionals in social

media and business

networks

Localization Project Manager

n.siegmund@bigpoint.net

NATALIA SIEGMUND

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