February 2, 7-9 PM, in San Francisco, CA

Twitter International Engineering Open House

Twitter welcomes you to an evening of technical discussions and networking. Learn more about how Twitter is scaling internationally via community localization, market-specific products and a strong internationalization foundation. Also, enjoy some food and drinks with some fellow technologists.

Topics:

• Challenges and Lessons from the International efforts at Twitter
• Community Localization
• Twitter: Experience, Engagement and Scalability.

Speakers:

• Nico Sallembien (i18n Team Tech Lead)
• Laura Gómez (Localization Manager)
• Yoshimasa Niwa (Japanese Mobile Team Lead)

Please contact Andrew Heywood or Lauren Tague to confirm your attendance and for further details.

 

March 5-6 in Santa Clara, CA

SDL Innovate 2012

Overview

The internet and social media have forever changed the way we engage with our customers. Having the right information at their fingertips, in their own language, regardless of device or media, is critical for improving the customer experience and gaining an edge over your competition.

Join other forward-looking companies at SDL Innovate 2012, where you'll learn how to leverage Global Information Management strategies to become a master at engaging and interacting with your customers in all languages and across all touch-points - from the start of the sales cycle to post-sales support - so you can stay competitive in the modern global business economy.

You'll learn how to:

• Respond to the demands of your expanding, multilingual customer base and improve customer engagement across all channels
• Provide personalized and persuasive information to your customers across multiple platforms and delivery channels
• Transform technical documentation into intelligent product content with DITA - for delivery anytime, anywhere, on any device
• Ensure global brand consistency in today's modern marketing world
• Drive top and bottom line growth to stay competitive in the global economy

For more information please visit http://www.sdl.com/en/sites/innovate2012/

 

March 14-15 in Santa Clara, CA

2012 Internationalization Conference

In the absence of a Worldware conference this year, Lingoport has taken the initiative and will be hosting a two-day internationalization and localization conference on March 14th and 15th in Santa Clara, CA.

The conference is open to customer and vendor-side industry professionals and has been priced for participation.

Training day: March 14th

The event starts with a stand-alone, full day of technical internationalization training, held on Wednesday, March 14th. In this intense i18n training class, attendees will build an understanding programming and practices for developing world-ready products. The class is led by Olivier Libouban, Lingoport's Globalization Lead. For additional information and to register, please visit: http://www.lingoport.com/2012-internationalization-training

Main conference: March 15th

The main conference is scheduled for Thursday, March 15th and features some of the best known internationalization and localization experts from industry leading companies such as Acrolinx, Adobe, Cisco, Intel, Lingoport, LocLabs, Moravia Worldwide, Rearden Commerce, Twitter, Yahoo!, and Zynga. More info and registration links for both days are here: http://www.lingoport.com/2012-i18n-conference

IMUG networking and discussion evening, March 15th 5:30-8:30 PM

2012 Internationalization Conference concludes with a networking and discussion evening with IMUG, the International Multlingual User Group. This event is free of charge and you do not need to register for the main conference to join us. Additional information is available at: http://events.imug.org/events/46973782/

Registration:

Don't miss this full day of internationalization and localization related presentations, panels and roundtable discussions. Registration and additional information are available at: http://www.lingoport.com/2012-i18n-conference

Also, make sure to take advantage of the early bird registration option which ends February 19th!

 

March 26-28 in Monaco: GALA 2012
August in the Bay Area: Local Networking Event

The Globalization and Localization Association

The annual GALA conference brings together suppliers, technology providers and consumers of translation and localization services to collaborate and discuss translation, localization and global content delivery. The three day event offers networking and education on building a global content strategy, running a language services company, and leveraging the latest language technologies and processes.

GALA also offers global webinars and local networking events. Members have hosted networking dinners and cocktail events in Amsterdam, Rosario, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Denver. For more information please visit http://www.gala-global.org

 

May 3-5 in Madrid, Spain

ELIA’s Networking Days Madrid

Join the twelfth annual Networking Days event organized by ELIA, which promises to be a great follow-up to the highly successful ND Athens. The program features a keynote address, a full-day workshop and sessions providing both the in-depth, applicable know-how of ELIA's characteristic full-day workshops and informative introductions to topics, products and services less familiar during the thought-provoking sessions.

The event will be held at the well-known Círculo de Bellas Artes (CBA), a major multidisciplinary cultural institution housed in a historic building in the city center.

For more information please visit www.networking-days.org

 

June 4-6 in Paris, France

Localization World

The Localization World conference is held two or three times a year in cities around the world. Past venues include California's Silicon Valley, Berlin, Madison, Shanghai, Montreal, Barcelona, San Francisco, Bonn and Seattle.

Localization World offers vendor-neutral sessions on new tools, methods and business practices in localization and internationalization. The conference is a production of The Localization Institute and MultiLingual Computing under the guidance of a committee of leading industry professionals. A recent US conference committee included Renato Beninatto and other IMUG members, who helped develop tracks on the following topics:

• Global Business Best Practices
• Localization Core Competencies
• Advanced Localization Management
• Managing Global Websites

 

For more information please visit http://www.localizationworld.com/

 

October in Santa Clara, CA

Internationalization and Unicode Conference

IUC is the premier technical conference for software and Web internationlization. This conference is of particular value to anyone implementing the Unicode Standard or working on internationalization. The tutorials and conference sessions cover current topics related to Unicode, the web, software and internationalization. Participants can learn about new developments and implementing Unicode.

According the the IUC web page, reasons to attend include:

• This is the only conference where your organization's staff can learn the fundamentals of i18n and Unicode directly from industry experts.
• Learn about the latest trends, tools and techniques in internationalization.
• This conference includes new speakers and topics, as well as the most popular speakers from prior conferences.
• Find out about security risks and preventative measures.
• Moving to the cloud or integrating social networking into your applications? This conference addresses those topics.
• Creating Web apps with tools like Joomla or PHP? This conference will show you how to create multilingual Web applications.
• Working with mobile applications? Learn about the problematic emoji characters and how they are being addressed.

Internationalization & Unicode Conferences are the ideal place to interact and exchange ideas with others in the field of internationalization, including experts, implementers, clients and vendors. The interactive format makes the Internationalization & Unicode Conferences a great place to meet leading experts, find out about the needs of potential clients, or find out what Unicode enabled products are available. 

For more information and links to upcoming and past conferences, visit http://www.unicode.org/conference/

 

Three-Day Workshops in Europe and the US
GALA / ATA / Localization Institute / CSU-Chico

Localization Certification Program
and Localization Project Management Certification

IMUG member and frequent speaker Bill Hall recommends - and has lectured in - this innovative program of three-day workshops. Another recent IMUG speaker, Anna Schlegel of Acclaro, is helping to design the certification program and will lead workshops on localization management.

The program has been offered in France, Germany, California and Washington, DC. The workshops are attended by talented professionals from around the world, and features experts and guest speakers from companies such as Google, HP, Microsoft, Cisco, and Lionbridge.

The program offers certification by the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), the Localization Institute, and California State University - Chico. Also approved for 20 credits by the American Translators Association (ATA).

More information can be found at http://rce.csuchico.edu/localize/