Adam Asnes, Lingoport
Adam Asnes founded Lingoport in 2001. As Lingoport's president and CEO, he focuses on sales and marketing alliances while maintaining oversight of the company's internationalization services engineering and Globalyzer product development. Adam is a frequent speaker on globalization technology as it affects businesses expanding their worldwide reach.

Loïc Dufresne de Virel, Intel Corporation
Loïc Dufresne de Virel is currently a localization strategist within Intel’s in-house localization team. In this role, his main activities include overseeing the use of Intel's translation management system and deployment of other localization tools, constantly advocating for proper and improved internationalization and localization practices and processes for web, software and "print" collateral, as well as defining the training roadmap for localization and internationalization. Prior to moving to Oregon and joining Intel, where he has been involved in localization for the past 12 years, Loïc spent a few years in Costa Rica, working as a regional technical adviser for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. 

Daniel Goldschmidt, RIGI Localization Solutions
Daniel Goldschmidt is a principal consultant and cofounder of RIGI Localization Solutions. As a senior software engineer and professional in the globalization of software and content field, he has extensive experience in the internationalization and localization of large-scale enterprise applications and projects. Through his association with RIGI Localization Solutions, Daniel provides his client base with internationalization and localization expertise: automation, process improvement, training and workshops. He has previously served as a senior software engineer in the Google Internationalization Team, working on the Google Localization Framework, and he was invited by the European Commission to serve as an independent expert in the information and communication technologies program. Daniel holds a B.Sc. in computer sciences and mathematics (cum laude) and a M.Sc. in computer sciences, both from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Mike Hedley, Microsoft
Mike Hedley has worked for Microsoft in the United States and China in various capacities since 1995. As a group program manager, Mike manages the globalization team for the developer division. The team's primary responsibilities are to ensure the world-readiness of Visual Studio, the .NET Framework and other developer tools produced by Microsoft. In addition, team members located in Europe, Asia, India and the Middle East work closely with local customers to gather product feedback and identify market-specific needs. 

Ulrich Henes, The Localization Institute
Ulrich Henes is the president of The Localization Institute which he founded in the fall of 1996 because he saw a serious lack of quality training and learning opportunities in this important area. He has been involved with localization, first as an international sales and marketing manager (also serving as a localization manager) for a US software company and then as president of the American office of a British localization agency. He is a co-organizer of the Localization World conferences. 

Gary Lefman, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Gary Lefman joined Cisco in 2000 and rapidly became a professional network engineer, but in 2003 he stumbled into the world of localization by accident and has never turned back. Gary is now localization engineering technical leader for the Voice Technology Group and is responsible for the internationalization, externalization and localization of the Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration Software Group core portfolio. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Lincoln in England teaching internationalization and localization to final year and Ph.D. research students and is currently extending a product agnostic localization toolkit that enables the localization of any product, anywhere by anyone. 

Michael McKenna, Yahoo! Inc.
With over one and a half decades of internationalization experience, Michael McKenna is a specialist in the globalization of applications and distributed systems. He is a licensed professional engineer with extensive experience consulting and leading globalization projects for a number Fortune 500 companies and has a background in global e-commerce, application design, database internals, distributed bibliographic systems, test engineering and ethnographic research. He is currently leading the internationalization architecture and infrastructure team at Yahoo! Inc. 

Dirk Meyer, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Dirk Meyer, product manager for collaborative translation technologies in the globalization group at Adobe Systems, based in San Jose, California. In this role, he is researching and applying technologies that empower Adobe's user community to work — in a collaborative fashion — on translations relevant to Adobe products. Before his current assignment, Dirk has been driving Adobe's World Readiness initiative and has provided guidance to internal teams on how to improve a product's international functionality, contributing to make Adobe's products "world-ready" and capable of supporting a truly global customer base. During his tenure with Adobe, Dirk has played an important role in the successful integration of shared technologies into several versions of the Adobe Creative Suite product family, working with teams who spanned time zones and cultures. As a member of Adobe's Type department, Dirk's activities have included working on CJKV fonts and researching Asian encoding standards. Dirk studied in Germany and at the University of Beijing, China. He holds a master’s degree in Chinese studies and East European history from the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Donna Parrish, MultiLingual Computing, Inc.
Donna Parrish is co-organizer of the Localization World conferences and publisher of the magazine MultiLingual. Prior to her work at MultiLingual Computing, Inc., she was a computer programmer for 25 years. Donna holds a degree in mathematics from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. 

Nico Posner, LinkedIn Corporation
Nico Posner is principal international product manager for LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network. Nico focuses on growing LinkedIn's international presence through building flexible features and superior user experiences that meet the different needs, goals and expectations of professionals worldwide, including multiple language support. Prior to LinkedIn, Nico spent many years at eBay building products and leading product and marketing teams in international, search, selling and new business. Nico holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and speaks English, German and Spanish. 

Bill Sullivan, IBM
Bill Sullivan has worked for the IBM Corporation since birth. For the last 17 years he has been in the internationalization and globalization arena. During that time, he has worked with hundreds of software and hardware products from laptops to mass spectrometers. He has also served as a globalization consultant to IBM solution and service providers supporting a broad range of industries. He is currently IBM’s globalization executive and director of globalization and translation with overall responsibility for all of IBM’s software, hardware and service offerings. Bill manages IBM's worldwide team of globalization subject matter experts, including the teams that develop the open-source international components for Unicode.  He also owns and manages the process and tools used by IBM’s worldwide translation centers. Bill is a graduate of Fordham University with post-graduate degrees from Trinity College Dublin and New York University. Currently, Bill is chief strategist and a member of the executive committee for the Localisation Industry Standards Association and a member of the Unicode board of directors.