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LISA Global Strategies Summit USA - March 3-6, 2003 UNDERSTANDING WHAT CUSTOMERS WANT TO ACHIEVE

* Keynotes * Strategic Industry Issues *

"Defining global entrepreneurial leadership"

What have we learned about executing global business?
Jean Louis Gassée - Allegis Capital
[Former President of Apple Products Division]

"Homeland Security and Language Technologies"

Homeland security and its need for language technologies and services Moderator - Lyra Spratt-Manning, CEO of the RWS Group

Panelists:

- Phillip R. Herr, Assistant Director, International Affairs and Trade US General Accounting Office (GAO)
- Richard Brecht, Director of the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC)
- Margaret R. Gulotta, FBI Language Services Deployment
- Joel Ross, Basis Technology, VP Defense & Intelligence Services

"Globalization: Resistance is Futile"

Good business adapts to different cultures; not force cultures to be homogenized!

- Mark Davis, Chief Globalization Architect at IBM [President of UNICODE]

"Post 9/11 -- LISA?s LANGTECH MEDIA PANEL"

Changes in how the media perceive and handle language technology and cultural issues.

UPDATED AGENDA : http://www.lisa.org/events/2003usa/agenda.html
REGISTRATION : http://www.lisa.org/events/2003usa/registration.html
WORKSHOPS : http://www.lisa.org/events/2003usa/workshops/

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