Global Communication Conference: FINAL PROGRAM

[Nancy Hoft <itech -at- MV -dot- MV -dot- COM>]

To all,

Here is the final programme for the ITALICS conference.  This conference
will be held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on 28-30 MAY 1995. The theme
of the conference is Global Business Communication. For more information,
contact the Secretariat, Lidy Groot, at Lidy -dot- Groot -at- inter -dot- NL -dot- net -dot- 

- Nancy Hoft, former manager, STC International Technical Communication
Professional Interest Committee (ITC PIC).
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Subject: ITALICS - final programme
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 11:30:11 +0000

Final programme - ITALICS 95
Monday 29 May
9:30
Opening remarks
Geoffrey Kingscott, Conference Chairman

9:40
Welcome address from the Netherlands Ministry

9:50
The European Union:  a multilingual information society
Mr. E. Triana, Conseiller hors classe, DGXIII, Commission of the European
Communities

10:00
Keynote:  Globalisation and the impact of culture on business communication
John Mole, author of Mind your Manners

10:45
Break

11:15
Executive roundtable: Globalisation and the impact of culture on business
communication
*       David Lawson, Partner, Megevand, Grosjean & Revaz, Geneva
*       Cesar Vacciano Lopez, President, Telefonica, Spain
*       P. Kern, Director, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
        E. Triana, Conseiller hors classe, DGXIII, CEC, Brussels
        Janet Baker, President, Dragon Systems, USA

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Keynote:  Where is the centre of an onion?
Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Chairman SHV Holdings, Netherlands

14:25
Case studies: Solving language problems in business
Moderator:  Albert Angehrn, Professor, INSEAD, France

15:10
Break

15:30
Keynote:  Global business and the information society
Marcus Bicknell, President, Vision Industries, France

16:15
Executive roundtable: Global business and the information society
*       Esther Dyson, Chairman, Middle Europe Networks, Poland Online, Eastern
Europe
*       Encerino Piol, President, Olivetti Telemedia, Italy
*       Bernard Vergnes, President, Microsoft Europe
*       Lucio Stanca, President, IBM Europe/Middle East/Africa
*       Rod Henwood, Director, Carlton UK/Central Television, UK

17:30
Informal reception and exhibition
Sponsored by the European Association of Translation Companies
Tuesday 30 May
9:30
Issues in global communication for business
Moderator:  Constance Lindgreen, Director, IBM Software Manufacturing
Solutions,

Denmark

9:35
Global marketing: cultural aspects of international advertising
Michael Lasky, Merchant & Gould, USA

9:55
The information superhighway: cultural and linguistic diversity
Patrick Andries, Alis Technologies, Inc., Canada

10:30
Break

11:00
Language - a new kind of engineering
Moderator:  Ron Kaplan, Xerox PARC, USA

*       Speech engineering - Jo Lernout, President, Lernout & Hauspie, Belgium
*       Document engineering - J-J Duby, Directeur Scientifique, UAP Assurances,
France
*       Multimedia/interactive TV engineering - Professor Tim Keane, University
of Sheffield/
Carlton Television, UK

12:15
Culture and Technology: Lessons learned from practice
Hub Rutten, Director, PolyDoc, Netherlands
Reinier Maarschalkerweerd, Director Corporate Planning & Development, DSM,
Netherlands

13:00
Lunch

Breakout sessions:  Praxis networking/workshops

14:00 - PRAXIS A

Multilingual speech and langauge solutions
Anne-Marie Derouault, IBM European Language Business Unit, France
Petra Steffens, IBM European Language Business Unit, Germany
Roger Fletcher, Translator, UK/China

Terminology and language resources
Christian Galinski, Director, Infoterm, Austria
Deborah Fry, President, Deutsches Institut fur Terminologie e.V. and Language
Services
Manager, Software AG

New approaches to language learnin
Stephanie Fischer, Project Leader, Berlitz, Germany
Joe Farrell, Crystal Presentations, UK
Christian DeWilde, DeWilde & Buyck, Belgium

15:00 - PRAXIS B

Translation aids for industrial and commercial applications
Tom Schneider, Deputy Director of NLP, Sietec, Germany

Operations Roundtable:  implementing translation solutions
Doris Marty-Albisser, Vice-President, European Association for Machine
Translation,
President, Language Technology Services, Switzerland
Solange Geraud, Translator, Caterpillar Overseas S. A., Switzerland
Jane Mason, Director, Multilingual Technology Ltd., UK
Giovanni D'Agostini, President, Dagoservice. Italy
Gert van der Steen, Cap Volmac ATS, Lingware Services, Netherlands

Dictionary workbench: A tool for publishers
Gerhard Heyer, President, EP Electronic Publishing, Germany

Language on the information superhighway
Rose Lockwod, Director, ITALICS, Netherlands/UK
Frank von Ruijssevelt, Director, PolyDoc, Netherlands
Fabio Micucci, Saritel, Italy
Montserrat Meya, ACTA, Spain

16:00
European initiatives:  language programmes of the EU
Jan Roukens, Policy Development, DGXIII/E, CEC

16:20
European support for industry:  getting organized
Chairman:  Michael Anobile, Director, LISA, Switzerland
Jaap van der Meer, Chairman, ITALICS, Netherlands
Christian Galinski, Director, Infoterm, Austria

16:50
Conference wrap-up
Geoffrey Kingscott


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