'Class Room to the Board Room' - EXPERT Business Showcase - Rome 2016

2. Class Room to the Board Room

3. What is KantanMT.com?
 Statistical MT Platform
 Cloud-based
 Highly scalable for high volume
 Fully-automated translations
 Fusion of TM & MT & rules
 High speed, high qualitytranslations
 Our Vision
 To put Machine Translation
 Customization
 Improvement
 Deployment
 into your hands
Active KantanMT Engines
8,739
Training WordsUploaded
323,179,753,587
Member Words Translated
6,042,269,925
www.kantanMT.com

4. Navigating DCU – it’s a big place

5. Navigating DCU – it’s a big place
Built Original
Prototype
INVENT Concept Space
Com-Fund
Application
School of Computing
Software License
INVENT Tech-Transfer

6. INVENT Concept Space
 4th Floor INVENT Building
 Open-plan office
 Incubation of ideas
 Shared with other early start-ups
 Super fast Internet (really fast)
 Tech-Venture Programme
 12 week intensive business start-up programme
 Novation Programme
 6 Month business start-up programme
Built Original
Prototype
INVENT Concept Space

7. Com-Fund
Application
School of Computing
School of Computing
 CNGL HQ
 Centre of Next Generation Localisation
 Felt more intelligent just by being there!
 Tuned into latest developments in MT
 Google Hadoop Hackathon
 Won it in 2012
 Joint Commercial Fund
 Managed by INVENT, KantanMT and CNGL
 Supported by Enterprise Ireland
 €170k Funded 100%

8. Software License
INVENT Tech-Transfer
Back to INVENT
 Class room to Board room
 Tech-Transfer office license
 MT technologies from Com-Fund
 VC 1st round was closed
 $1.2m in the bank
 INVENT Office Space
 2nd Floor – space for 6 developers
 Galway office (NUIG) – space for 2
engineers

9. Standing out from the crowd…
Built Original
Prototype
INVENT Concept Space
Com-Fund
Application
School of Computing
Software License
INVENT Tech-Transfer

10. Our Journey…
Kantan BuildAnalytics:
Helpingengineersbuild
betterMT
Kantan Analytics: 1st
Predictive Quality
EstimationTechnology
Massive Adoption:879m
translatedand100b training
wordsuploaded
Q2 2013 Q3 2013 Q3 2014Q1 2013 Q1 2014 Q1 2015 Q4 2015Q3 2014
Adoption:Uploaded10b training
wordsand 200m words
translated. KantanAPIlaunched
www.kantanmt.com:
1st SMT CloudBased
Platform(TotalRecall)
KantanAutoScale:Using
the powerof the cloudto
maximise performance
ConfirmedScale:6 Billion
wordstranslated. 300+
billionwordsuploaded

11. The KantanMT Community
Some clients un-named for maintenance of confidentiality

12. So what did I learn?

13. #1: Take Risks
“A person who never
made a mistake never
tried anything new “
Albert Einstein

14. #2: Make Prototypes

15. #2: Make Prototypes

16. #2: Make Prototypes

17. #2: Make Prototypes
 5 Things to remember
 Do rough prototypes
 Do be quick, dirty and early
 Don’t be slow, perfect and late
 Do use just enough technology to get
going
 Don’t hesitate to throw away prototypes

18. #3: Define Values (and live by them)
 Customer Obsession
 Be courageous and take risks
 Seize opportunities and deliver
 Simplify and improve
 Quality in everything we do
 Fail fast and recover even faster!
 Transparency and openness
 Scale everything
 Be agile and responsive

19. #3: Define Values (and live by them)
 Developyour culture
 Value-centric
 Performance-driven

20. #4: Recruit Teamers
The Team with the best players
always wins!

21. #5: The Idea Factory

22. #5: The Idea Factory
“Innovation is a team sport that
requires extraordinary collaboration”
Tom Peters, The Circle of Innovation

23. #5: The Idea Factory
“I am looking for a lot of people who have an
infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done”
Henry Ford

24. #5: The Idea Factory
Don’t Forget : It’s a game of big numbers…

25. Lessons Learnt…
 #1 : Take Risks
 #2 : Make Prototypes
 #3 : Define Values
 #4 : Recruit Teamers
 #5 : The Idea Factory

26. One more thing…
Never EVER give up trying!

27. Tony O’Dowd
tonyod@kantanmt.com
Thank you…