Date/Time

Session Title

Speaker

Thursday, December 14

8:00 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 9:10

Welcome and Opening

Eva - Maria Leitner, MSS, Austria

9:10 - 9:20

Review of Barcelona Summit

Eva - Maria Leitner, MSS, Austria

9:20 - 9:50

Keynote Address -
Using Standards - To make ends meet

Gerard Meijssen, Wikiforstandards.org

9:50 - 10:30

Standards, standards, standards - the grouping of technological, process and language standards

Ziad Chama, Freelance Translation Technology Consultant, SDL / Trados, Germany

10:30 - 10:50

Refreshment break

10:50 - 11:30

Workshops: Brainstorming for inventory and classification

General participation

11:30 - 12:10

Panel presentations/classification and discussion of the result of workshops

Designated leader of each Workshop

12:10 - 1:10

Luncheon

1:10 - 1:40

Keynote Address: What Web Standards can contribute to Global Business

Felix Sasaki, Internationalization Activity, W3C/Keio University, Japan - Via Web cast

1:40 - 2:20

Presentation and discussion: Format exchange in localization : - limitations; source texts

Joseph Dengler, Solutions Director, LinguaNet AG, France

2:20 - 3:30

Panel Presentation and discussion: Globalisation - Speed versus quality?

Moderator:

Maryse Benhoff, BG Communications, Canada

Panelists:

Speed-Quality-Cost

Jiri Stejskal, President-elect ATA, President CETRA Inc., USA

Do Standards Help
With Juggling?

Bettina Reichart, Senior Manager, Vendor & Language Solutions, Oracle Corp (WPTG), Germany

Michal Küfhaber, Global Production Manager,Skrivanek Translations, Czech Republic

3:30 - 3:50

Refreshment break

3:50 - 4:30

Locale Standards: The new standards (IETF) that replace the old IETF 3066 for Language Tags and interaction with UTS #35 on the locale markup language.

Sue Ellen Wright, Professor,
Kent State University, USA

4:30 - 5:10

Presentation and discussion: Case studies of databases: Limits and implementations.

Gerhard Budin, Professor, University of Vienna, Austria

5:10 - 5:30

Day 1 summary and presentation of the first entries in real-time in Wikiforstandards; entries to be completed along the process

Sue Ellen Wright, Professor,
Kent State University, USA

Special event dinner - Schreiberhaus (Heurigen)

Date/Time

Session Title

Speaker

Friday, December 15

8:00 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 9:10

Opening and welcome

Eva-Maria Leitner, MSS, Austria

9:10 - 9:20

Day 1 review

To be announced

9:20 - 10:00

Keynote: From chaos to order - an inventory: what we have now and where we might be in 5 to 10 years

Nico Sallembien, Software Engineer, Google, USA

10:00 - 10:20

Refreshment break

10:20 - 12:00

Panel Presentation:
An Inventory of Tools

Moderator:
Nico Sallembien, Software Engineer, Google, USA

Translation Technology acting in concert

Panelists:
Ziad Chama, Freelance Translation Technology Consultant, SDL / Trados, Germany

Corpora and Standards

Gerhard Budin, Professor, University of Vienna, Austria

Open Source and Standards in Project Management

Udo Leinhäuser, Managing Director, Leinhäuser und Partner Fachübersetzungen, Germany

OmegaT - Implementation
and Limitations

Sabine Cretella, Open Progress, Translator and Evangelist, Italy

Content Management and Standards, still room for improvements?

Andrzej Zydroñ, CTO, XML-Intl., Poland

12:00 - 1:00

Luncheon

1:00 - 1:30

The Standards Compilation on the Foreign Language Resource Center

Jennifer DeCamp, HLT Program Manager, The MITRE Corporation, USA

1:30 - 2:30

An Inventory of Tools - continued

Working group discussions:
- Completion of the inventory
- Communication within the next 5 to 10 years
- What would be needed to improve interoperability and full data exchange

General participation

2:30 - 2:50

Refreshment break

2:50 - 4:00

Panel presentations and discussion

Workgroup designated speakers

4:00 - 4:30

Summit wrap up including first results and work items

To be announced

4:30 - 5:00

Comments, future focus and closing

To be announced