Who we are

Dr. Peng Wang is an IT analyst, the organizer of the Multilingual AI Roundtable, and the chair of the Multilingual AI Track. Previously, she was the CAT Tools Coordinator at the University of Maryland. In addition to AI and automation tool development/testing, as well as database design, Dr. Wang has rich research experience. She has worked on corpus linguistics, data mining, and automatic discourse analysis tools. Furthermore, Dr. Wang is the first author of two books: Machine Learning in Translation, and Multilingual Artificial Intelligence.

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Belén is a compulsive lifelong learner. She holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting Studies, an MA in Audiovisual Translation, and a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies. Belén has been in the localization industry since 2011. She started in the game localization industry wearing different hats for more than five years (PM, training specialist, marketing strategist and copywriter, translation manager, and quality and innovation director). She combined her years in this industry with her true passion: training others. She has been teaching game localization and subtitling technologies in several MA programs and workshops in Spain, UK, and France. She also contributed to Nimdzi Insights as a researcher specializing in media localization and as the director of the eLearning program. She briefly had the opportunity to work as a Customer Success Manager specializing in gaming companies at memoQ, broadening her knowledge of software development. Currently, she works as Community and Outreach Program Manager at Deluxe, building a community together with the team of freelance translators and advocating for their needs to create a better translator experience.

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Jan Grodecki has experienced localization from different angles and in various roles, from work on the client side as developer, localization engineer and project manager to the localization supplier side in his current role as senior solutions architect at RWS. This knowledge enables him to advise partners in their decisions on localization strategies, technology and processes. Jan has a passion for education. He has been teaching localization engineering and project management since 2004 at the University of Washington.

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Ulrich Henes is the founder and president of The Localization Institute, a Madison, Wisconsin-based consulting and event organizing company. Already in his early years, Ulrich was fascinated by language, cultural differences, and global business. He spent the first decade of his career organizing international campaigns against the arms race and apartheid; and promoting global social justice. For the past 25 years Ulrich has channeled his passion for all things global into promoting awareness and respect for differences among people, countries, and languages in the international business community.

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