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Agenda
Language Standards for Global Business©
Barcelona, Spain
May 29-30, 2006

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Date/Time

Talk Title

Speaker
Monday,
May 29
Registration
09:00-09:20 Welcome address Donald DePalma, President, Common Sense Advisory, Inc., USA

09:20-10:05 Keynote Presentation
The Standardization
Role in a Market Economy
Jesus Cañizares, Standardization Technical Officer of AENOR,and Secretary of the Spanish Translation Task Force for the ISO Working Group on Social Responsibility
10:10-10:55 Out with the Old,
In with the New

Donald DePalma, President, Common Sense Advisory, Inc., USA

Hans Fenstermacher
, President, ArchiText®, USA

10:55-11:15 Refreshment Break
11:15-12:25 Panel Presentation:
Can Humpty Dumpty Use
A BlackBerry?
Tex Texin (Moderator), Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc., USA
  Panel Presentation:
Can Humpty Dumpty Use
A BlackBerry?
Bettina Reichart, Senior Manager, Vendor & Language Solutions, Oracle Corp (WPTG), Germany
  On the Failure of Standards Addison Phillips, Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc, USA
    Jennifer DeCamp, MITRE Corporation, USA
12:25-01:00 Moderated discussion Tex Texin (Moderator), Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc., USA
01:00-02:00 Luncheon
02:00-03:10 Panel Presentation:
What Standards Bodies Need
from Their Constituencies
Sue Ellen Wright (Moderator), Kent State University Institute for Applied Linguistics, USA
  Standards as Databases Gerhard Budin, Professor,
University of Vienna, Austria
    Alan Melby (Moderator), Director, BYU Translation Research Group, USA
    Kurt Sollod, OASIS
03:10-03:30 Refreshment Break
03:30-04:05 Moderated Discussion Sue Ellen Wright (Moderator), Kent State University Institute for Applied Linguistics, USA
04:10-05:30 Panel Presentation and Moderated discussion: Translation Quality Management Standards Alan Melby (Moderator), Director, BYU Translation Research Group, USA
  CEN's EN Standard Alfredo Spagna, Managing Director, Arancho Nordic Oy, Finland

Miguel Nunez
, Chairman,
Past CEN Task Force
  ATA representative to ASTM and ISO for translation quality management standards Beatriz Bonnet, President & CEO, Syntes Language Group, Inc., USA
    Sue Ellen Wright (Moderator), Kent State University Institute for Applied Linguistics, USA
  Chair of ISO Technical Committee 37, Subcommittee 2 Gerhard Budin, Professor,
University of Vienna, Austria
05:30-05:45 Closing synopsis of Day 1 discussions Donald DePalma, President, Common Sense Advisory, Inc., USA

Date/Time

Talk Title

Speaker
Tuesday,
May 30
   
09:00-09:20 Welcome address and
synopsis of Day 1
Tex Texin (Moderator), Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc., USA
09:20-10:30 Panel Presentation:
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose. Or is it? Evaluating the Demand for Language Standards in Industries other than Information Technology
Kim Harris (Moderator), Co-owner and Managing Director, text & form GmbH, Germany
    Michael Kemmann
10:30-10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45-11:15 Moderated discussion Kim Harris (Moderator), Co-owner and Managing Director, text & form GmbH, Germany
11:15-12:25 Panel Presentation:
Clients and Vendors and Tools, Oh My! Standards from the Point of View of Language Industry Suppliers
Hans Fenstermacher, President, ArchiText®, USA
  ISO certification:
A Panacea for localization firms?
Julien Didier, Production Manager, translations.com, USA
    Sergei Gladkoff, Logrus
  Abstract Janaina Wittner, Regional Manager Central & Eastern Europe, WH&P, Slovakia
    Keith Laska, Vice President, Desktop Technology, SDL , UK
12:25-12:55 Moderated discussion Hans Fenstermacher, President, ArchiText®, USA
12:55-01:10 Final Wrap-up Donald DePalma, President, Common Sense Advisory, Inc., USA

Hans Fenstermacher
, President, ArchiText®, USA
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