The LT-Innovate Summit 2015 in a Nutshell

The LT-Innovate Summit 2015 was attended by more than 140 stakeholders from industry, research, consultancy and policy making. Below are its highlights.

LT-Innovate Award Winners 2015

Five Winners of the LT-Innovate Award 2015 were selected by the jury & participants from the 17 applicants who showcased themselves during the Summit:

The 5 Winners of the LT-Innovate Award 2015 were designated at the LT-Innovate Summit on 25 June:
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Dolphio Technologies
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Speexx
The Winners were selected by the jury & participants from the 17 applicants who showcased themselves during the Summit.
See more information on our main LTI Award page.
- See more at: http://www.lt-innovate.eu/lti-summit/award-2015#sthash.ngYjBzd8.dpufthe LT-Innovate Award 2015 were designated at the LT-Innovate Summit on 25 June:

digm
Dolphio Technologies
Interprefy
recapp IT
Speexx

The Winners were selected by the jury & participants from the 17 applicants who showcased themselves during the Summit.

See more information on our main LTI Award page.Five Winners of the LT-Innovate Award 2015 were selected by the jury & participants from the 17 applicants who showcased themselves during the Summit:

For more information, see main LTI Award page.

Launch of the LTI Cloud

Jochen Hummel - CEO, ESTeam and Chairman, LT-Innovate; Robert E. Etches - CIO, TextMinded; Luc Meertens - CEO, CrossLang; and Christoph Prinz - CEO, SailLabs called upon the Language Technology industry to join forces for the Launch of the LTI Cloud, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) wrapper which will make it easy to discover and plug ‘n’ play language technology components.

For more information see letter and presentation
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Jochen Hummel - CEO, ESTeam and Chairman, LT-Innovate; Robert E. Etches - CIO, TextMinded; Luc Meertens - CEO, CrossLang; and Christoph Prinz - CEO, SailLabs call upon the Language Technology industry to join forces for the Launch of the LTI Cloud at the occasion of the LT-Innovate Summit on 26 June 2015. - See more at: http://www.lt-innovate.eu/lt-observe/document/call-collaboration-join-us-launch-lti-cloud#sthash.8QNp6p0Q.dpuf

Industry Challenges

Several industry executives provided an overview of their company's current and future needs from a language technology point of view:

Christian Dirschl, Chief Content Architect, Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH
Florence Beaujard, Head of Linguistics and Physiology for Cockpit Design, Airbus
Armin Hopp, Founder, Speexx
Christophe Leclercq, Founder, EurActiv

Christian Dirschl wrote a blog, summarising his experience and offering the support of Wolters Kluwer for the next steps.

Keynote speakers

The Summit welcomed three keynote speakers representing the three institutions involved in policy making at EU level:

Paul Rübig, Member of the European Parliament
Robert Madelin, Director General, European Commission, DG CONNECT
Alexander De Croo, Belgian Federal Vice-prime Minister and Minister for Development Cooperation, the Digital Agenda, Telecommunications and Post

For more information, see blogs by Margaretha Mazura, Charles Huot (in French) and BelgienInfo article (in German).

Board of Directors

At the occasion of the Annual General Meeting of LT-Innovate, several new members of the Board of Directors were appointed:

Robert Etches, CIO, TextMinded
Matthias Heyn, Vice President Global Solutions, SDL International
Charles Huot, COO, TEMIS

You will find a full list of the current Board of Directors here.

Key links

Here are additional links to find out more about LT-Innovate 2015:

Programme and presentations
Speakers
Participants
Storify (summary) drawing upon the #ltisummit Twitter stream
Picture gallery

13 July 2015