Program

We would like to welcome you to the Plunet Summit 2018. Since our first user conference  last year, a whole lot has happened. Which exciting developments have taken place at Plunet? Who are the new and „old“ faces and what do they do? Which topics are on our agenda – for 2018 and beyond?

Networking and sharing experiences are the real highlight of the Plunet Summit! This is your chance to meet 150 Plunet clients from across the whole world, our technology partners, and, of course, the Plunet team! The perfect start to the Summit – we’re looking forward to it already!

Plunet 7.3 has just been released and we would like to present the most exciting new features and „invisible“ improvements.

Implementing change is a challenge for most companies. Dan Milczarski from CQ fluency will cover a change management approach that helped CQ fluency roll out numerous Plunet automation solutions that have not only improved productivity but have also transformed the change management culture of the company.

Still sending out files via e-mail instead of having your vendors pick up and deliver jobs directly in Plunet? You’re not sure if their contact details, availability, CAT tools, areas of expertise and payment details are still up to date in their profiles? Let them check it in the system themselves and tell you! Save time and e-mails and learn how to successfully set up the Vendor Portal for your external resources.

Feedback is a tool for continuous improvement. The more feedback translators receive, the more chances they have to develop their talents and professionalism and thus contribute to the top quality service of your company. Plunet’s Job Feedback tool offers an efficient way to provide feedback to translators and to monitor the translation quality using reports, which also helps project managers save time. This presentation is about how Translavic uses this tool, the struggles and doubts we went through during its implementation and the benefits this brave step has brought.

Are you still using the manual workflow and wondering what the automated workflow and workflow templates can do for you? We will show you how to create different workflow templates for projects with split translations or with automatic jobs, set up different transfer methods for price units, and enable more folder access for your external resources.

We all want to experience world class growth that leads to immense value but the road can be long and painful – how do we find the right path and timing?  Roland Lessard Co-CEO of Morningside Translations (one of the fastest growing major language service providers in the world) will be presenting different focus areas that drive growth and create value for you as an owner / leader of an LSP.  Roland will bring a blended view as someone who has spent time in growing other technology enabled business services as well as our world of language services.

Spending your evenings in front of the PC, waiting for some finalized documents before you can deliver them to the customer, manually copying files from one folder to another… Does this sound familiar? Keep calm, create some automatic jobs and let Plunet do these tasks for you while you enjoy your favorite TV show, your yoga class, a good red wine with your friends…

Developing a better product isn’t easy. You can spend a lot of time in endless meetings and discussions, or you can run a five-day design sprint. This process allows your team to reach clearly defined goals and actual results, while quickly gaining key insights.  We recently ran our first design sprint on improving how Plunet interprets analysis files from CAT tools, and are happy to share our thoughts and experiences with you.

Tired of trying to keep track of multiple projects with a common budget using information dispersed in various files? You hate coming up with formulas (we are no mathematicians!) to calculate the remaining budget of big projects divided into smaller ones? Thanks to master projects, you can monitor a given budget acrossmultiple projects, get automatic notifications when the budget is exceeded and query the system for projects that share the same budget.

The new data regulation comes into force on May 25, 2018. While many companies fear the heavy fines they could face by ignoring the new rules, they still feel uncertain about the correct application of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

Plunet’s Head of Operations, Sufian Reiter, will provide you his insights about the regulation’s main principles and point out Plunet’s interpretation as well as implementation of it in an exclusive Summit session.

Unfortunately, this Round Table is already fully booked! If you have any specific questions about the memoQ integration, feel free to contact us (summit@plunet.com) and we can arrange a meeting at the Plunet Summit.

Do you work with the memoQ integration in your company? Are you planning to implement it or are you interested in the functionality, new features and how other customers connect memoQ with Plunet? Or do you want to push your favourite feature into one of the next versions? Then the memoQ Integration Round Table is for you!

Sabri Tahiri, Program Officer for Tanslation and Interpretation, will give exclusive insights into the work at the World Bank Group with their 120 locations and over 10,000 employees worldwide. He will share which requests project managers have to work with, how the World Bank Group manages their vendor vetting processes, and which setups help working safely in an high security environment.

**Remote Presentation** Live video stream from the World Bank headquarters, Washington D.C.

Limited availability!

Do you work with the Memsource integration in your company? Are you planning to implement it or are you interested in the functionality, new features and how other customers connect Memsource with Plunet? Or do you want to push your favourite feature into one of the next versions? Then the Memsource Integration Round Table is for you!

The number of participants is limited to 10 companies. If there are more than 10 registrations, we’ll have to pick names out of a hat! Please register here!

When Franklin Templeton Investments originally rolled out their translation centralization strategy, they planned to have a small team located in the CET time zone only. In order to support all the FTI teams in different time zones, they always knew they needed a TMS with automation functions that route a translation request to the appropriate vendor without the CET team having to manually assign it. Magdalena Gawlik will give an insight into how the corporate translation department at Franklin Templeton has benefited from using Plunet’s automated workflows over the last year.

Wait, what? Does this function already exist? Really? No way!
With every Plunet release, some awesome new functionalities are born – but often project managers just miss them! Let’s play Bingo and see how many of them you already know and use on daily basis!