MICHAEL STEVENS
ROUND TABLE: TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF AVT
BIO
Michael Stevens is the vice president of enterprise growth at Translated, an Italian company that continues to break new ground with the powerful combination of human creativity and machine intelligence. Based in Seattle, Wash. Stevens is responsible for expanding Translated's reach in the U.S. through strategic sales and partnerships, while helping clients understand new localization and language technologies. Before joining Translated, Stevens held leadership roles at RWS and Symbio and has also worked as a software development consultant at several IT companies. In his free time, he co-hosts The Global podcast, where he explores areas of the localization industry that spark his own curiosity and shares his findings and insights with the industry at large.
ABSTRACT
There is really no secret about the fact that the major changes in our century are mostly brought about by technology. This is a time of drastic changes and our profession, crucial to expanding knowledge across the world, could not be left out of this process. As technology circulates information faster than ever, so does the need to translate increase, bringing with it a new demand for the AVT market to cope with the increasing and continuous volume of audiovisual content needing to be translated, through the development of new tools. The aim of this round table is to have the companies that are developing new technologies share with us the not-so-distant future of solutions and tools for audiovisual translation.