Anne-Maj van der Meer gives an overview of the TAUS Program for 2016 and introduces the speakers of the 2015 Translation Technology Showcase. 14 October 2015, Santa Clara, CA

1. Translation
Technology Showcase
Anne-Maj van der Meer, TAUS

2. Transition from think tank to shared services platform

3. TAUS Data Cloud
• Launched in 2008 by 40 Founding Members
• Repository of over 62 billion words, more than 2200
language pairs
• Give and take principle
• Free TAUS Search

4. TAUS Quality Dashboard
• DQF initiative started in 2011
• Quality Dashboard launched September 2015
• Aim for transparency in quality metrics
• Open source API
• Plugins available for SDL WorldServer, Trados
Studio, MateCat, soon SDL TMS and more to come

5. TAUS Academy
• “Old” TAUS think tank with reports & articles
• Knowledge bases
• Courses - Post-editing and Quality management
• Directories - Post-editors and Technologies

6. Agenda for today
14:00 / Andrew Jones (Nikon)
14:30 / Gengo translation as a service, Lee Orr (Gengo)
15:00 / Localization Automation for Agile Teams, Dimitris Glezos (Transifex)
15:30 / Refreshment break
16:00 / Dynamic Website Content: How to Keep Multiple Multi-language
Sites in Sync, Rick Redondo (Senior Manager of Web Development at
Marketo) and Scott Yancey (CEO, Cloudwords)
16:30 / Discussion & Questions
17:00 / Adjourn

7. Want to know more about TAUS?
• Attend the TAUS (TS) Track on Thursday & Friday
• with topics such as: translation quality (metrics), our industry
ten years from now, quality management, big data, machine
translation, localization process automation and machine
translation evaluation
• Presentations from: Translated, EMC, VMWare, Intuit,
Cisco, XTM Intl, Spartan Software, UTH International, SDL,
Nikon and Iconic Translation Machines
• Come and see us at the TAUS Booth
• Find out more on www.taus.net