Île-de-France Region highlighted in the USA : PRIME, French Tech Hub and Open Innovation Club help French companies enter the American market On October 6 we headed up to Third Street for a visit of the French Tech Hub and PRIME office in San Francisco. Both companies were represented by one of their members: Olivier Allegret, the PRIME Business

TransPerfect is a world translation-leading company, the second one in the US, with 90 offices based on 5 continents. Since its creation in 1992, its turnover is always growing, and today, it is about 471 million dollars a year. Transperfect counts 3500 employees and 5000 freelancers, who are language and subject area specialists. Client satisfaction, quality

On Wednesday October 7th, we headed to Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. We were warmly welcomed on the campus by Max Troyer, program coordinator of the Translation and Localization Management program (TLM). The TLM program provides a full education to the students willing to work in the localization field. With several second-year students, we attended a class on the evolution

On October 7th, after meeting students of the Middlebury Institute, we had an opportunity to dive deeper into the world of localization with a visit of MediaLocate, a translation and localization company located nearby, in Pacific Grove. We were welcomed by the CEO, Stephen Lins, and his team who introduced us to the company as well as their day-to-day working environment and

On Thursday 8th October, the CAWEB students went to the Silicon Valley for a one-day trip. We had the chance to go to Facebook’s main office for some pictures and to have lunch at Google Tech Corners, thanks to our hosts Fabiana and Matt. Last but not least, in the afternoon we all went to Oracle’s office to attend a

Big Data at Parisoma. Gauthier Vasseur, our host and speaker, is a French businessman who’s been working in San Francisco for some years now. He is a Data Analytics Instructor at the prestigious Stanford University and Vice President Marketing at TruFA. Mr Vasseur enlightened us on how to embrace Big Data in order to improve our future companies and business decisions. “Embracing data