We are extremely grateful to our partners for making our trip to San Francisco possible.
Parisoma
Coworking, training and events. These three elements are at the heart of Parisoma’s business model. Founded in 2008, the relatively young daughter company of faberNovel provides a shared work space for over 120 coworkers from 70 different partners. Among these professionals you can find individuals working for Microsoft, La Poste and OKCupid. 
Parisoma is also a successful business incubator, providing a fertile base for start-ups in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco. Parisoma firstly does this by providing an efficient and friendly work environment. Secondly, it offers courses in business, technology and design. We are delighted to have the opportunity to attend training seminars in this innovative work space. Given that many of our CAWEB students may consider working as freelancers in the future, our visit to Parisoma will be a great opportunity to expose then to an innovative an exciting work environment.
Medialocate
Offering their services in over 150 languages and with over 25 years of experience, Medialocate is a major players in the language industry.
Last year, our Team was profoundly impressed by their state of the art, in-house production studio used for multimedia content localization. The field of media localization demands exceptional language skills as well as the ability to deal with digital content in the form of software, audio and video. Our upcoming visit to Medialocate will once again give our team a view into a company whose employees localize content on a daily basis. Localization is, of course, a major part of the CAWEB Master’s program. For this reason, we gladly look forward to returning to Monterey this year with a completely new team.
Venga Global
The Cawebontour team is looking forward to attending an exclusive conference at the premises of the top-quality translation and localization provider Venga Global.
Numberly
The team will also have the privilege of visiting Numberly. This company is highly innovative and forms part of the French 1000mercis Group, created in 2000. Numberly specializes in in data marketing and digital CRM. The Company’s goal is to provide analysed data to advertisers, as well as providing innovative innovative ways to achieve business goals.
The Middlebury Institute of International Studies
An institute open to the world
The Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey was founded in the middle of the 50s to prepare students for the global job market. Since its conception, the focus of the MIIS has been to develop valuable linguistic skills such as translation and localization. Furthermore, the Institute offers great international opportunities at partner companies and universities.
The Middlebury Institute is world renowned for its excellent languages courses and strong international partnerships. In fact, the MIIS offers extensive programs, covering not only linguistics related fields, but also subjects oriented towards the global market, such as multicultural mediation and management.
CAWEB and the MIIS
As with the MIIS, The CAWEB Master’s program also offers diverse courses in several foreign languages, localization and translation. Similarly, the CAWEB program also regularly sends a number of its students to partner universities abroad, including institutions in Russia and Italy, all while hosting foreign students from the aforementioned universities. This recognition of the importance of global exposure is a value the CAWEB Master’s program shares with the MIIS. Similarly, the CAWEB program also places great emphasis on web technologies, and the benefits that these technologies can add to language-based skills.
The Expectations of the CAWEB team
We look forward to meeting instructors from the Middlebury Institute to discuss the nature of real-life localization jobs while sharing views on web technologies in a rapidly globalizing world.
Intern Abroad
Intern Abroad is a international recruitment agency based in the US and Europe. We have a proud and happy history working alongside intern abroad to allow CAWEB students to experience San Francisco. Thanks to Intern Abroad, and its numerous contacts, all previous trips were highly stimulating and worth every hour of careful planning. The latest team, which includes the CAWEB Program Director, Renate De La Paix, is looking forward to see what San Francisco has to offer this year. We can’t wait to be immersed in the American working environment and to interact with professionals in Silicon Valley. This trip is a great opportunity for us to expand our professional networks.
Wingz
Created in 2011, this rapidly growing start-up is enabling travelers to connect with local drivers to schedule personal transport to and from airports. Wings already allows users to catch flights in 19 airports. What a brilliant idea!
Zynga
Zynga is headquartered in San Francisco and develops social games for mobile, social networking websites and its own website. Farmville, its best-known game, reached 10 million daily users within six weeks on Facebook. Two years after, Zynga boasted three of the top five Facebook games (FarmVille, Texas HoldEm Poker and ChefVille). This experience will certainly inspire those of us interested in game localization.
UpWork
Who connects the top-quality freelance French translator to a Chinese company looking to localize it’s website for a French audience ? It’s most probably UpWork. With its proven strategy for bringing together professionals from all fields for effective cooperative jobs, UpWork boasts with a large database of proven programmers, developers, translators and marketers.
Unlock Talent
This year we will have the privilege of visiting Unlock Talent, where we will be talking to Aurélia Laff, its president and head recruiting expert. Unlock Talent specializes in the video-game and digital entertainment industries.
Moravia
Moravia is a translation, localization, and testing services company. It was founded in 1990, and it has now become one of the leading providers in this domain. The company employs more than 1100 professionals all over the world, and has a $134.4M turnover. Moravia has consistently been ranked among the 20 largest language services providers in the world. The Company puts its customer relations in the foreground and attaches great importance to real long-term partnerships. Thus, prestigious companies, such as Adobe, F-Secure, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Tektronix, and Toshiba are all part of their network. Moreover, Moravia is part of the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), which is a non-profit organization that promotes translation, language and technology services around the world. The Moravia name is a strong guarantee of quality and innovation .