SlatorCon is coming to New York on October 12, 2017. Senior language industry executives, buyers, investors, and technologists will gather at the sleek Dream Hotel Downtown near Google’s New York City HQ to network and hear from some of the industry’s biggest names. The program is packed and presentations will be 20-minute TED-type talks, plus three to five minutes for Q&A.
New York City is home to TransPerfect, one of the industry’s most successful companies over the past decade. So we went out and landed Phil Shawe, TransPerfect’s Co-founder and Co-CEO.
And Shawe is just the latest addition to a stacked lineup of speakers. Traveling down to New York from Waltham, Massachusetts, is another industry titan, Lionbridge Chairman Rory Cowan, who will discuss what buyers of language service providers look for, and what owners should expect during the M&A process and post-acquisition phase.
Qordoba CEO May Habib will be flying in from tech epicenter San Francisco. Only a few months 
We are excited to have Ron Kuehl, Managing Director at Frontenac, represent the investor-side. Frontenac is a leading private equity firm based in Chicago. The firm has raised over USD 1.5bn of capital since its inception and has made more than 200 investments.
If there was one industry topic that stole the spotlight from M&A over the past 12 months, it was 
