Localization Management Round Table
The Localization Management Round Table is a unique event giving localization managers on the seller and buyer side the opportunity to discuss new developments and exchange experiences on improving speed, quality, operational efficiencies, and strategy. This round table provides a safe environment for open discussion among attendees to engage and learn under the leadership of experienced localization managers from major global brands.
Event Description
The Localization Management Round Table is a hands-on, 2 day forum for localization management professionals on both the buyer and seller sides.
Participants will engage in discussions and solutions for real business problems with similar level managers in localization and globalization functions. Topics will include the impact of AI, using data to inform decisions, stakeholder management, and how collaboration between partners can foster success
The goal of the round table is to provide a forum for open discussion with mutual benefit to all participants; past attendees have formed relationships lasting decades and continue to learn from one another.
By joining this round table, you will:
- Achieve greater understanding of the most important issues in our industry
- Learn from the other participants by discussing your mutual experience, successes, and challenges
- Get ideas that you can transform into solutions
- Make valuable connections with industry peers
Round Table Topics:.
- AI – how if affects our tools, processes, roles, and jobs
- AI solutions that companies are implementing or offering
- Data – which data, why, how to get it and what to do with it
- Strategic approach to localization management
- Effective stakeholder management; managing up
- Better together: collaboration between buyers and sellers fosters mutual success.
Round Table Location
The Round Table will take place at The Colorado Chautauqua in Boulder, Colorado.
The Round Table will meet in the beautiful and historic Rocky Mountain Climber’s Club room, founded in 1912.
Lodging is available and can be booked directly through the Colorado Chautauqua website. More details on the venue and link to the accommodations webpage will be published here soon. Chautauqua has a number of 1- and 2-bedroom guest cottages available as well as individual rooms in the Columbine Lodge available for attendees.
We do not provide shuttle service to the venue but the Chautauqua campus is 40 miles from Denver International Airport. There are several public shuttle services that are available between DIA and Boulder and Uber, Lyft and local taxi services are also available.
RTD Route AB1 serves Denver International Airport and Boulder with trips running east and west every hour during the day (RTD’s name for this route is SkyRide Bus.) This link goes to the westbound schedule of Route AB1 and you can plan your trip date and time using the timetable. We recommend that you exit the bus at the US36 & Table Mesa Station, which is less than a mile from Chautauqua. A standard Uber or a cab ride from that station to the venue will cost about $10.
Round Table Organizer and Moderator
Karen Combe recently retired from her position as Vice President of Localization at PTC, where she was responsible for product localization as well as for localization support for PTCU, Technical Support, and Marketing. She has been a member of the GILT Leaders Forum, a community of peers in the localization industry, since its inception. In 2022, Karen contributed as an expert from the GILT Leaders Forum and as a co-author of “The Globalization Strategy Playbook”.
Previously, Karen was Senior Vice President at International Language Engineering, where she managed Client Services, Sales and Marketing. Karen holds a B.A in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley and a post-graduate degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. She served in the Peace Corps in Senegal and in International Voluntary Services in Algeria.
In addition, Karen worked for 8 years on a ranch in northwestern Colorado training horses and looking after a large herd of cattle.
Advisory Board Members
Aisling is Smartling’s VP of Customer Success, leading the customer-facing teams such as Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support. She has been in the translation industry and in customer facing roles for 20 years. Before Smartling, she obtained a BA in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, and a MA in Translation Studies from Dublin City University (DCU). After studies she worked in various roles including language services project management, business unit services management for a LSP, and digital marketing client services. Aisling joined Smartling in 2014 as a client service manager, progressing from there into Customer Success Management and now sits on Smartling’s leadership team. Aisling is passionate about helping customers achieve their outcomes and longer-term success with their localization strategy.
Round Table Decorum
The Round Table’s success depends on people being willing to share information and experiences freely. To encourage that, the sessions are not recorded or republished and no formal minutes or records are kept. Attendees are free to keep their own notes.
Terms and Conditions
Cancellation Policy:
The Localization Institute, Inc. reserves the right to cancel this Round Table if there are less than 10 registrants.
Your registration fee is not refundable. It is, however, transferable to a colleague, if we receive written notice prior to the start of the event. If we have to cancel a round table due to minimal enrollment, your registration fees will be fully refunded.
Payment:
We accept payment by credit card, Paypal or by invoice. Payment for invoices is due within 10 days.
If paying via Bank Transfer outside of the United States, you MUST select the FULL SWIFT option in order for your invoice to be paid in full.
