memoQfest is not for your competitors

There is an argument that the sensible approach to memoQfest would be to go but keep quiet about it. Have you seen the programme! If your competitors get to go to a conference like this you will have problems.

There are several important areas within the programme and any one of these could result in a loyal customer of yours being enticed away with words of wisdom that your arch enemy picked up at memoQfest

The keynote presentations are being given by Dion Wiggins of Asia Online and Takako Aikawa of Microsoft. Some people have commented on the coincidence that they are both speaking on MT. However, the real coincidence is that they are both exceptionally bright people who have a lot of interesting things to say. It will be a very useful session for your competitor to attend if you would like to spend more time weeding your garden.

memoQfest is a user conference and there is a lot to be learnt here. Many of the presentation will show how the Kilgray products have been used to improve their business. They range from technical presentations to those focussed on project management. Serial entrepreneur (memoQfest is full of them) David Orban, CEO of http://dotsub.com/, will be talking about how he started this company which is dedicated to having any video in any language.

Refactoring is a really odd word which developers use to show that what they are doing is very important and complicated. The idea is that after many years of development successful software will need to be very thoroughly optimised. The next version of memoQ will have gone through this process and it will lead to a more robust and powerful memoQ.

When we were planning the conference it occurred to us that translators, translation companies and translation departments of enterprises also need this process of optimisation and improvement. Richard Brooks of K-International will be speaking on this and we will have a panel on optimising your translation business.

I think I have outlined the problem. The programme for memoQfest is excellent. You need to go but make sure you do not mention this to anyone else otherwise your evil competitors will turn up too.