LocWorld55 Dublin 2026 Exhibitor List

Lee Orr is the head of US and EMEA sales and marketing at Gengo, a global people-powered translation platform that is working toward enabling everyone to read and publish across languages. Before joining Gengo, he managed global sales and marketing teams at Cvent, CEB and Oracle. With 18 years of experience helping organizations establish a […]

Michael Bahles is international brand strategist and assistant professor at the University of Economics, Prague. He studied international business at the University of Cologne, at the University of Economics in Prague and at the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago. In addition, he studied psychology and philosophy in Cologne and Prague. Michael has been engaged […]

Kaho Lo has been involved in localization engineering for over 12 years, first at Macromedia and then, after it was acquired, at Adobe. During that time he has worked on globalization solutions for desktop, web and mobile platforms, on products such as Acrobat.com, After Effects, Connect, Creative Cloud Ecosystem, EchoSign and many others. Kaho is […]

Talia Baruch is a senior manager, international products, at LinkedIn. She has 20 years of experience in the localization industry, driving localization and internationalization initiatives and customizing products for worldwide consumption. Her former international record includes Google’s Maps and Earth products, Starbucks, VMware, Blurb and others.

Anna Zierow is senior language specialist at Google, managing the localization quality and vendor network since 2011 for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. As a Wharton Marketing Academy graduate, she has specialized in improving the quality of marketing translations and has driven a number of initiatives to ensure that the Google voice sounds natural and idiomatic for […]

Youyi Huang is a member of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference, vice president of Translators Association of China and serves on various other translation committees. As a senior translator/interpreter and editor, Huang has translated an extensive range of books about history, education, economy, politics, travel and literature, mostly from Chinese into English. He has helped […]

Kaiser Kuo is director of international communications at Baidu, China’s leading search engine. He also hosts the Sinica Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China featuring prominent journalists, academics and subject-area experts. Born in upstate New York to Chinese parents, Kaiser took his first trip to China in 1981, lived in China in […]

Laurence Dansokho, senior manager, program management, is responsible for content process optimization and content engineering within the global content organization at eBay. Throughout her different roles at eBay the past 14 years, she acquired a strong expertise in operations management, global content strategy and content engineering. From 2012 to 2014 Laurence led a transformation program […]

Scott Li has been working for Microsoft as a software engineer for over 14 years. Currently, he’s the world readiness driver for the Data Platform group in the Cloud and Enterprise division. Scott has worked on the software deployment, servicing, content and internationalization in various Microsoft products such as Visual Studio, SCVMM, MSDN and Dynamics […]

Matthias Gutknecht is a business development manager at STAR AG. He is a subject matter expert on customer and product communications, marketing execution, communication logistics and knowledge management processes. Matthias has more than 25 years of experience in research, design, development, selling and deployment of knowledge and content management solutions and services. Before joining STAR […]

Lucie Le Naour joined eBay’s machine translation language specialists team in 2014. She holds a master’s degree in bilingual translation, English to/from French, from the University of Westminster, London, and has gained knowledge on post-editing practices and machine translation engine training thanks to her hands-on experience in the localization industry since 2010.

Pavel Dunaev has a BS in space ballistics, military interpreting and professional management from the Open University Business School. He is an expert in process optimization, expectations management and software implementation. Pavel has firsthand experience in commercial translation with Moscow-based translation companies, and language services for large-scale projects such as the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee. […]

Kathy DiCenzo loves her career as a freelance German to English translator and translation project manager. She has worked as a project manager at several translation and localization companies since 1997 and is an active member of both the American Translators Association and the Colorado Translators Association.

Ilya Mishchenko holds a degree in linguistics from Novgorod State University. He has been with EGO Translating Company, a Russian language service provider, since 2006 where he progressed from a project manager to director of the Translation and Localization Centre. Ilya is also actively involved in the Union of Translators of Russia, chairing the St. […]

Iouri Tchernoousko has worked in the localization space over the last 13 years. His current role at Adobe includes management of globalization and localization support for Photoshop and the Creative Cloud Ecosystem. He enjoys languages and technology. Iouri is a graduate of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he also taught localization-related courses. He […]