Editorial
Customer Experience
Why Machine Translation Matters in the Modern Era
Kirti Vashee is a Language Technology Evangelist at SDL who was formerly an Independent Consultant focusing on MT and Translation Technology. He was also with Asia Online (Omniscien), and was previously responsible for the worldwide business development and marketing strategy at SMT pioneer Language Weaver, prior to its acquisition (by SDL). He has long-term sales and marketing experience in the enterprise software industry, working both, in large global companies, (EMC, Legato, Dow Jones, Lotus, Chase) and several successful startups. He is the moderator of the Automated Language Translation (MT) group with almost 6,000 members in LinkedIn, and also a former board member of AMTA (American Machine Translation Association).