CEO of Glodom, the company that gave rise to Cloud Translation, one of the most successful MT outlets in China

Research Scientist Manager at Meta AI, deeply involved in large multilingual MT models. Before joining Facebook, he obtained his PhD in Information Technology and Communcation and worked for several years as Machine Translation Specialist and Research Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute.

Research Scientist at Meta AI, he was the ex-Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. His focus is on deep neural networks and their application to speech recognition and translation.

CEO of Prompsit Language Engineering, a language technology provider with a strong focus on tailored MT services and multilingual applications of natural language technologies, mainly based on Apertium.

Co-founder of DeepL, one of the top machine translation engines, where he focused on improving and expanding AI technology. He held a postdoctoral position at Google’s research department in New York, and is a former Google Research Scientist. He is now Professor for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cologne.

Assistant professor at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on machine translation and speech translation and neural network models. He has served as the area chair for machine translation at ACL 2016/2017 and COLING 2016. His publications have won awards such as best papers at EMNLP 2016, EACL 2017, and NAACL 2019. He is also active in developing open-source software, and is the main developer of the DyNet neural network toolkit.

Dr. Li has worked on speech and language technology in academia and industry since 1988. His research interests include automatic speech recognition, natural language processing and information retrieval. He is now a Presidential Chair Professor and Associate Dean (Research) at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), and also o with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.

Chief Executive Officer of aiXplain, he is a data scientist with more than 20 years of experience. Under his management as a COO and Chief Scientist in AppTek, the HLT team introduced in 2008 the first commercially available hybrid machine translation system. In 2013, he joined eBay as Senior Director and founded the Artificial Intelligence organization that pioneered the use of Machine Translation to enable Cross-Border Trade. He has been Director of AI at Amazon and Director of Facebook AI.

Full professor of computer science at RWTH Aachen University. He developed AppTek’s MT technology. His main research interests lie in the area of statistical classification, machine learning, speech recognition, machine translation and handwriting recognition. His work has resulted in more than 700 conference and journal papers. He contributed to a large number of European and American projects. In 2013, he received the award of honor of the International Association for Machine Translation.

Research scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research, Paris. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Paris 6 in 1996. Prior to joining Meta AI in 2015, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Le Mans where he led a large group on statistical machine translation. In 2013, Holger was awarded senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Chairman of GTCom, executive director of the Translators Association of China (TAC), director of the TAC Translation Service Committee, executive director of China Translation Corporation.

Co-founder, and chairman of Italy’s LSP Translated takes pride in the company’s rapid expansion, including the acquisition of large enterprise accounts. Isabelle is directly involved in recruiting new and budding talent for Pi Campus, thay she co-founded.

Jaap van der Meer is a translation industry visionary and pioneer whose conferences and publications inspired both newcomers and veterans. In the late 1980s his first company, INK, published the first terminology lookup and translation memory (TM) software. In 2005 he founded TAUS, an innovative think tank that collects members of the largest IT companies and government translation bodies, serving as an outsourced research resource for the industry. In 2018, he received the title of ‘Honorary Professor’ from the Beijing Language and Culture University for his outstanding achievements in the global translation industry.

Jan Hajič is a full professor of Computational Linguistics and a deputy director of the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He also holds a director position of a Language Technology Infrastructure LINDAT/CLARIN in the Czech Republic, which is part of the EU Clarin network. His work experience includes industrial research (IBM Research, NY, USA) and academia (at home and at Johns Hopkins University).

Ex Senior program manager in the Machine Translation Program at Adobe, her focus is driving the machine translation program strategy across the company as a key component in widening content availability for international customers. She has contributed to industry articles and presented at industry conferences on topics such as translation crowdsourcing and analytics for localization decision-making. Prior to her career in high-tech, Janice taught linguistics at several universities in the US and abroad. She is the current Director & Track Chair of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas and Member of the Alumnae Council of TechWomen.

CEO and co-founder of DeepL, he has a PHD in Computer science. He oversaw the introduction of DeepL Pro for professional use and focuses on expanding the range of AI products and services.

Director of Machine Translation at Lengoo, with more than 20 years of experiences in the development and application of MT. He has held the leading position in some of the world’s leading language service providers, from SDL to Lionbridge. He has been elected multiple times in the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas board of directors.

Former Chairman of SYSTRAN, of which he is in the advisory council, Senellart is now Head of Software Engineering at Quandela. He is also a co-founder of OpenNMT, the most popular open-source frame dedicated to Neural Machine Translation. He has a Ph.D. in both language and computer science.

John Tinsley is an entrepreneur, technologist, and machine translation expert. He holds a degree in applied computational linguistics, and received a PhD in machine translation from Dublin City University in 2009. Following that, John cofounded Iconic Translation Machines, an award-winning language technology software business which pioneered the commercial deployment of neural machine translation technology. He grew the business for almost a decade before selling it to RWS in 2020. Most recently, John was the vice president for artificial intelligence product and marketing at Language Weaver.

Professor of language technology at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki and Visiting Professor at Uppala University. His main research interest are cross-lingual NLP and machine translation.