Translation Management in the Cloud

Scott Yancey, Cloudwords CTO and Co-founder, will speak on how Cloudwords designed translation management workflows to streamline the process.  He will address how translation customers can use technology to manage multiple projects and vendors simultaneously, while making the process faster and less expensive.  He will describe the importance of customer’s centralizing their... [read more]

Scott Yancey, Cloudwords CTO and Co-founder, will speak on how Cloudwords designed translation management workflows to streamline the process.  He will address how translation customers can use technology to manage multiple projects and vendors simultaneously, while making the process faster and less expensive.  He will describe the importance of customer’s centralizing their translation assets such as translation memory and glossaries, and how doing so via the cloud will deliver these capabilities at a price point never before possible.  He will discuss how a standardized translation project bidding platform can make selection of translation vendors more transparent and understandable.  Finally, Scott will also discuss how to leverage APIs throughout the process to improve integration with multiple tools and vendors.

Scott Yancey was a key architect on the salesforce.com platform and applications, and his technical leadership and expertise helped grow salesforce.com from 2,000 customers to an industry titan with 77,000 customers and $1.5 billion in annual revenue. His roles included architecting and delivering mission critical areas of the salesforce.com service and he provided technical leadership at both the team and organizational level. He has 9 patents pending from his tenure at salesforce.com. Scott graduated cum laude from Santa Clara University in 1999 with a degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Neuroscience. Prior to joining salesforce.com in 2001 Scott performed functional MRI research for a Neuroscience lab at New York University.

Schedule:

6:30-7:00 Social time with snacks

7:00-8:30 Presentation and discussion

8:30-9:00 Social time

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