SlatorCon London held on May 9, 2017 was attended by over 60 senior language industry executives. The forum’s six 20-minute presentations featured everything from neural machine translation to venture capital and private equity investment to how the largest translation buyers procure language services.
Acton Capital’s Marcus Polke drew parallels between the language services and the advertising industries. Steve Kirk, Chief Global Procurement Officer at QuintilesIMS, discussed where LSPs are positioned on a vendor quadrant.
Investment banker Simon Baertl, Managing Director and Partner at William Blair & Company, discussed with Slator co-founder Andrew Smart why the investment community considers the language industry an attractive market for mergers and acquisitions.
