Research Scientist/Engineer at Apple. Before that, he was a research student at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, where he focused on Automatic Post-Editing for Machine Translation.
Founder and principal architect at KantanMT, prominent cloud-based custom machine translation solutions provider. He is an entrepreneur with over 30 years of expertise in the localization industry. In April 2011, he founded xcelerator Ltd. to develop web-based statistical machine translation software.
Ex-Head of the NLP & Speech at Yandex, manager of the team in charge of Yandex Translate. Co-organizer of WMT since 2022. In 2023, he founded Dubformer, an AI dubbing startup that works with the Media industry.
Senior Product Manager at Amazon AI, in charge of future evolution of NMT. He earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and he worked in the field for 8 years. He spent 6 years at Microsoft before joining Amazon and working on the creation of a customer-based machine translation.
Senior AI director at Smartling, Alex is a globalization/localization veteran with high expertise in various areas, from machine translation to content management, i18n, and L10n engineering. He holds a PhD in Slavic languages and literature from Brown University and is a frequent contributor to industry conferences and journals.
Staff Machine Translation Language Manager at eBay, his main focus is on the Quality of Data for AI/Machine Learning, and the developing of original processes that improve data quality. Picinini is an expert in the localization and machine translation industry, with many years of experience in Language and Data Quality.
Olga is a global expert and leader of AI & MT at Smartling. She spent more than 5 years leading the AI Innovation team at Welocalize. Under her guidance, machine translation adoption increased across the whole translation and localization industry. Starting her career very early with rule-based systems at PROMT, Olga has become a frequent […]
Founder and president of PROMT, an early machine translation company that is still active today. She and her company went through three generations of MT: Rule-based, Statistical, and Neural.
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.
CEO of Glodom, the company that gave rise to Cloud Translation, one of the most successful MT outlets in China
Co-founder of Translated. Pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in collaboration with professional translators. Today, besides being responsible for the overall administration of Translated, Marco is pursuing research in machine learning models for integrating machine translation in a human translation workflow.
CEO & founder of Pangeanic and founding member of TAUS. He is an experienced implementor of machine translation (MT) technologies at LSPs.