Cracow Translation Days 2013 – Preliminary Programme Announced

Source: Cracow Translation Days 2013 – Preliminary Programme Announced

Kontax - Cracow Translation Days 2013 - Frankfurt am Main - Germany -The preliminary programme of the Cracow Translation Days 2013 has been announced. The conference will feature talks and workshops by industry leaders such as Chris Durban, Marta Stelmaszak and Nick Rosenthal as well as an extensive social programme.
Both new developments and best practice will be covered by:Anne Diamantidis (Your LinkedIn profile: Dress your Shop Window to the World)Chris Durban (Keynote Address; Working the Room)Jean Nitzke (Post-Editing – Job Killer or New Opportunity?)Jerzy Czopik (Quality Assurance)John Moran (Machine Translation – A Waste of Time?)Katarzyna Slobodzian-Taylor (Promoting a Professional Image in the Online Realm)Nick Rosenthal (Customer Service: What We Can Learn from Other Sectors)Marian Dougan (Spreading the Language Love: Translators and Educational Outreach)Marta Stelmaszak (Blue Ocean Strategy – Can Translators Make Competition Irrelevant?)Ralf Lemster (Welcome Address)Sabine Dievenkorn (Translating a Religion)Siegfried Armbruster (Aligning the Internet)Stefan Gentz (Building High-Performance Teams – Make ‘em Click!)
Registration is now open. The conference fee (EUR 495 excluding VAT) includes conference attendance, accommodation, meals, a the trip to Wieliczka salt mine (including dinner) as well as a guided tour of Cracow.
The Cracow Translation Days are a non-profit conference. All proceeds go in equal shares to St Lazarus Hospice and the children's charity Rupert Mayer Foundation.
For more information, please visit www.cracow-translation-days-2013.com, find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter(@TranslationDays).
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The Cracow Translation Days – an international non-profit conference for professional translators – will be held from 6–8 September 2013 in the Benedictine abbey of Tyniec, 13 km southwest of Cracow.

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TRANSLATION NEWS: Games Industry leaders on quality and localisation within the gaming industry - 25th - 26th June 2013

World's First Game QA & Localisation Forum to Host Inaugural Meeting of the QA Alliance

Source: http://www.marketwatch.com

LONDON, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Game QA & Localisation forum, featuring keynotes from EA, Sony & Microsoft, is the first ever event dedicated entirely to QA and localisation within the games industry, and takes place in London, UK from 25-26th June 2013.Through a combination of presentations, panels and interactive group workshops, the unique two-day meeting allows senior QA and localisation managers an opportunity to discuss new methods and techniques with peers who experience the same challenges, as well as the chance to network with some of the biggest names in the biz, including Sega, Ubisoft, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Codemasters, Paradox, Blizzard, Team17, Supercell, Freestyle Games, Unity and many more.http://www.gamingqa.com/PRnews

Taking advantage of such a gathering of leading industry figures, the event plays host to the inaugural meeting of the QA Alliance, a newly formed industry working group which aims to establish some international benchmarks and standards for the global games industry, helping to catalyse a change in the way QA is perceived both inside the industry and out.The QA Alliance is being lead by a committee of developers, including EA, Sony and Sega. Many developers who take their QA seriously are signing up to the QA & Localisation Forum in order to both benefit from the expertise presented there and also contribute to the important issues being discussed at the QA Alliance meeting.

Here's the full speaker line-up for the forum http://bit.ly/106ElaA and a downloadable event programme is also available here http://bit.ly/14rZmwj

For quality assurance and localisation professionals in the gaming industry who are keen on setting international standards and raising the benchmarks for QA and localisation in their studio and globally, two whole days of inspiration awaits....

The Game QA & Localisation Forum takes place on 25th - 26th June 2013 in London, UK. Find the full program, event details and registration information about the summit on http://www.gamingqa.com/PRnews, phone +44-(0)20-7036-1300 or email enquire@iqpc.co.uk

Media contact: Veronica Araujo, +44-(0)20-7368-9748, veronica.araujo@iqpc.co.uk or visit http://www.gamingqa.com/PRnews

Press are invited to attend this important industry forum, if you would like a complimentary press pass please email Veronica Araujo: veronica.araujo@iqpc.co.uk

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