Sarah Weldon
Former Programme Manager of Microsoft Azure, now Product Manager of Google Cloud AI.
Former Programme Manager of Microsoft Azure, now Product Manager of Google Cloud AI.
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.
Retired Group Program Manager of Azure Language Services, he was responsible for its planning and designing, including Microsoft’s machine translation services. Wendt graduated as Diplom-Informatiker from the University of Hamburg and later focused his efforts on software internationalization within a variety of Microsoft products. He has now founded his own consultancy for customers interested in […]
Former Chief Innovation Officer at Memsource (now Phrase). He is the leader behind Phrase’s pioneer machine translation quality estimation features and routing. Four years after joining Memsource in 2011, Dalibor established the artificial intelligence department.
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.