10,770 registrants

ProZ.com 2015 virtual conference for International Translation Day

Sep 30, 2015



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Summary

Date: Sep 30, 2015
Registrants: 10,770
Attendees: 6,734
Sessions: 24




Sessions

Group discussion

Chat Room

Time: 10:00 to 21:00
Presentation

10-tip survival kit for professional translators/interpreters

Time: 10:10 to 10:55
Presentation

Understanding Your Client: Is Your Client Always Right?

Time: 10:15 to 11:35
Presentation

How to Sell More: Effective Sales Strategies for Translators and Interpreters

Time: 11:00 to 12:10
Group discussion

Literary Translation Chat

Time: 11:40 to 12:40
Presentation

The Future is Here. Are You Ready To Remain Competitive?

Time: 11:40 to 12:55
Presentation

Translation Project Management, CRM, Budgeting and Competitiveness, Business Strategy

Time: 12:15 to 12:45
Panel

Leveraging voice recognition technology for greater efficiency panel

Time: 13:00 to 14:00
Presentation

How to perform keyword research for web translation

Time: 13:50 to 14:30
Presentation

The beauty of machine translation

Time: 14:05 to 15:00
Group discussion

Audiovisual translation Chat

Time: 14:10 to 14:50
Presentation

"How to be a great Mentor on ProZ.com"

Time: 14:35 to 15:25
Panel

Customer Relationship Management panel

Time: 15:10 to 16:10
Presentation

Tackling the Japanese translation market

Time: 15:35 to 16:20
Group discussion

Sociology of Translators Chat

Time: 15:40 to 16:25
Presentation

Translators as entrepreneurs - how to be enterprising!

Time: 16:15 to 17:10
Presentation

Medical terminology: useful hints on confused terms and pitfalls

Time: 16:25 to 17:15
Panel

Glossary & Terminology

Time: 17:20 to 18:20
Presentation

Is That Translation or Interpreting? The Emerging Market for Hybrid Communication Models

Time: 17:25 to 18:40
Presentation

Find direct clients and run a business that you love

Time: 18:25 to 19:55
Group discussion

Localization issues

Time: 18:30 to 19:10
Presentation

Central European Translation Market Survey

Time: 18:45 to 20:00
On-demand
presentation

Getting in the game: How to for translation beginners

Time: 10:00 to 11:00
On-demand
presentation

Information System for Quality Assurance in Translation, Education and Management

Time: 16:00 to 17:00




Conference feedback

Highly motivating and educative! The best forum where translators are able to interact and exchange ideas. Can't wait for next year's event.

Olayemi Olabenjo
Member since: Sep 14, 2005

Thanks, interesting talks, useful tips. Well organized!


Thank you very much for your effort. I am looking forward for more similar useful events. I can't wait to follow all on-demand sessions.


Thank you very much all the visible staff of ProZ.com, organizing this professional event and the invisible IT staff, making it accessible ecerywhere in the world. Thank you all presenters who shared the knowledge with us - it was a really happy International Translation Day!

Erzsébet Czopyk
Member since: Dec 19, 2006

Excellent presentations and discussions! I had technical problems with Flash Player for one session only, for all other sessions it was okay, so the problem was not on my side. Hope you can check this in the near future.

MARISOL MANDARINO
Member since: Mar 17, 2008

Great events well organized. I appreciate every kind of information which i find very useful. Federico Moncini

Federico Moncini
Member since: Nov 24, 2008



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11:28 Apr 8, 2014 Epameinondas Soufleros: 951887 All it would be useful and a direct competitor to Kilgray's LanguageTerminal
11:29 Apr 8, 2014 Cathy_Atril: 1469690 All Blandine, Ali Bayraktar has ordered DVX3 Pro online
11:29 Apr 8, 2014 Cathy_Atril: 1469690 All Just so you know
11:30 Apr 8, 2014 Ali Bayraktar: 710657 All Daniel, I understand that you mentioned it in descriptions bbut on the first page of price your advirtisement says "try it and love it" people dont see anything
11:30 Apr 8, 2014 Pavel Tsvetkov: 634408 All Trados has always had special prices in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe. Back in 2007 when I bought my first Trados license it cost 400 EUR, while everyone else was paying thousands.
11:30 Apr 8, 2014 Ali Bayraktar: 710657 All *on the first page of proz,
11:30 Apr 8, 2014 Ali Bayraktar: 710657 All sorry it was a typo
11:30 Apr 8, 2014 Pavel Tsvetkov: 634408 All All subsequent upgrade prices cost around 120 EUR
11:31 Apr 8, 2014 Blandine-ATRIL: 1459982 All great
11:31 Apr 8, 2014 Blandine-ATRIL: 1459982 All Can you send quick confirmation to all the people and telling them they'll receive their permanent key very soon?
11:31 Apr 8, 2014 Blandine-ATRIL: 1459982 All I did not think about this before, but since it is a very special event we need to be reactive
11:32 Apr 8, 2014 Pavel Tsvetkov: 634408 All It was long argued that Trados upgrades were more frequent than Deja vu upgrades, but his has changed as well.
11:32 Apr 8, 2014 Daniel Benito: 1130548 All Epa: that is indeed something we're considering, but not for the immediate future
11:32 Apr 8, 2014 Daniel Benito: 1130548 All Pavel: updates or upgrades?
11:32 Apr 8, 2014 Pavel Tsvetkov: 634408 All upgrades
11:32 Apr 8, 2014 Cathy_Atril: 1469690 All Yes, I'll confirm to all who order.
11:33 Apr 8, 2014 Daniel Benito: 1130548 All yes, we often like to add functionality to our existing versions without charging additional fees
11:33 Apr 8, 2014 Daniel Benito: 1130548 All :)
11:33 Apr 8, 2014 Pavel Tsvetkov: 634408 All Yes, this is appreciated.
11:33 Apr 8, 2014 Daniel Benito: 1130548 All in fact, we have lots of stuff planned for DVX3
11:33 Apr 8, 2014 Daniel Benito: 1130548 All and you won't have to wait for DVX4 to get them
11:33 Apr 8, 2014 Blandine-ATRIL: 1459982 All thank you!
11:34 Apr 8, 2014 Daniel Benito: 1130548 All regarding the discount, the point is to offer it to people who participate in the event
11:34 Apr 8, 2014 Daniel Benito: 1130548 All if we post it on the ProZ.com home page, people who aren't participating will also see it
11:35 Apr 8, 2014 Daniel Benito: 1130548 All so, outside of the event, all we're saying is that we have special prices for participants