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Merging MindsGoodbye TMS and LSP welcome LTP and LSI with Florian Faes and Anna WyndhamWhy are LSI (Language Solutions Integrators) and LTP (Language Technology Platforms) becoming the new standard in our industry?
In this episode of Merging Minds, Gabriel Fairman and Rodrigo Demetrio sit down with Anna Wyndham and Florian Faes from Slator to unpack the shift.
They dive into why traditional acronyms like LSP and TMS no longer capture today’s reality, and how LSI and LTP better reflect the industry’s transformation with AI, multimodal content, and evolving buyer demands.
This is not just about terminology; it’s about the future of translation and localization.
Are agencies ready to redefine themselves and embrac...
2025-09-0549 min
KONTRAFUNK aktuellKONTRAFUNK aktuell vom 13. August 2025Israel hat angekündigt, den gesamten Gazastreifen einnehmen zu wollen. Über das Vorhaben und die Lage in der Region berichtet „Weltwoche“-Nahostkorrespondent Pierre Heumann. Der AfD-Politiker Joachim Paul darf nicht zur Oberbürgermeisterwahl in Ludwigshafen antreten – wegen Zweifeln an seiner Verfassungstreue, wie der Wahlausschuss der Stadt die Entscheidung begründet. Über den Vorgang informiert der Landtagsabgeordnete selbst in unserer Sendung. Was will die EU mit der Besteuerung von Wasser? Diese Frage erörtert Prof. Stephan Sander-Faes von der Universität Bergen. Und Florian Machl betrachtet in seinem Kommentar die jüngste Rüge der österreichischen Außenpolitik durch Russland.
2025-08-1355 min
Translation ConfidentialEP 131 - Industry News With Florian Faes: Tariffs,
M&A, and Market TrendsJoin co-hosts Peter and Patrick as they discuss global tariffs' impact on language services with Florian Faes, Managing Director at Slator. They explore market uncertainties, increasing M&A activity, and buyer trends in translation, offering valuable insights on navigating economic headwinds in the language industry.
2025-04-0928 min
SlatorPod#236 The Year in Review and 2025 Predictions!In the 2024 year-end episode of SlatorPod, hosts Florian Faes and Esther Bond, along with guest Anna Wyndham, explore pivotal language industry trends from the past year and predictions for 2025.First, the language industry news of the week, with LXT’s acquisition of clickworker, which aims to expand its AI data capabilities and potentially double revenues by 2025. Meanwhile, Esther shares how EzDubs, a speech translation startup, secured USD 4.2m in seed funding.Florian notes that RWS reported stable revenues for 2024, with GBP 180m coming from AI-driven products and services. He also highlights YouTube’s AI dubbing roll...
2024-12-2044 min
SlatorPod#234 RWS and BLEND Appoint New CEOs, Microsoft and Amazon Speech AIFlorian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, where they explore how AI is influencing content creation and translation, noting its progress and limitations. A recent study on GPT-4 revealed its ability to match junior translators but lag behind experienced professionals, particularly in nuanced contexts. Florian highlights the public’s heightened perception of the risks of AI, such as OpenAI’s Whisper, in critical sectors such as healthcare, where transcription errors and hallucinations can have severe implications.Esther delves into leadership transitions in the language industry, with notable appointments including Benjamin Faes, a tec...
2024-12-0628 min
Merging MindsDouble Down: How to Stay Relevant in the Language Industry (with Florian Faes)The #localization industry needs creative and competent people now more than ever. If you have a passion for languages, now is the time to double down on your skills and dig out your niche. Things are changing, but there are a ton of new opportunities cropping up everywhere. Don’t give up and don’t be scared. This is advice straight from Florian Faes, Managing Director and Co-founder of #Slator (the localization industry’s largest intelligence publication). If anyone is qualified to give advice about our industry, it is him. In this episode of #MergingMinds, Florian...
2024-04-1832 min
Localization Fireside ChatConversation with Florian Faes: The story of Slator & L10N Industry updateHere is the chat that I had with my friend and colleague Florian Faes, the Managing Director of Slator, in our upcoming episode of the Localization Fireside Chat! In this episode, we covered: the dynamic world of translation, localization, and language technology. Florian Faes, who is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in the industry, gives us valuable insights and expertise. Based in #Zurich, Florian has a deep understanding of the global market, having spent nearly a decade in Asia before co-founding Slator in 2015. Slator has since become the go-to source for news and research in the #translation, #localization, and...
2023-07-1847 min
The Translation Company TalkS04E07: Outlook for Localization Industry in 2023Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another insightful interview with guest Florian Faes from Slator. In today's episode we are going to talk about the outlook for localization industry this year. The language industry is a growing and evolving services sector and oftentimes ignored. Our industry helps other industries manage and mitigate risk at times of economic difficulties by enabling them to grow business across borders.
Florian talks about events, evolutions and changes that have taken place over the years, top trends affecting the localization sector, the impact for localization of lay-offs in other sectors, mergers and a...
2023-04-2046 min
New Books in Business, Management, and MarketingAndrew Smart: Giving the Language Industry a Bigger VoiceWhen Andrew Smart co-founded Slator, he banked on a major paradigm shift—and an industry-first—from the very beginning.His hunch more than paid off. Slator is a business news, research, and advisory service for the language services and technology industry. Unlike most business segments, however, providers of translation, localization and globalization services had virtually no trade media to keep them informed at the time of Slator’s founding.Andrew Smart, and his Slator co-founder, Florian Faes, believed there was an opportunity, not only to provide the $multi-billion language services industry with a reliable source of indu...
2022-07-111h 12
Troublesome Terps67: The Translation & Interpreting PodcastivalPodcasts are everywhere, so what to listen to?
To help you along here, the Troublesome Terps reached out to some of our favorite language related podcast-superstars and invited them to join our first ever live #podcastival.
The goal was to celebrate the language industry at large in all its beautiful diversity with all its shades and wrinkles and shine a spotlight on these fabulous contributions - if we missed your favorite language podcast, do let us know and enjoy our #podcastival!Special Guests: Ada Volkmer, Carrie Gillon, Cate Hamilton, Corinne McKay, Eve Lindemuth Bodeux, Florian...
2021-11-251h 51
Translation ConfidentialEP 70 - Translation Industry Trends With Florian Faes From SlatorPeter and Patrick are joined by Florian Faes, managing director of Slator. Slator is one of the most important news sources in our industry. We discuss positive and negative trends in our industry, the state of conferences in a post-Covid world, and the most impactful translation news story in 2021.
2021-10-2934 min
memoQ talksMarketing Tips from Florian Faes at SlatorFlorian Faes, Managing Director at Slator provides some excellent tips on how LSPs and other companies in the localization industry can improve their marketing efforts. www.slator.com
2021-09-2938 min
New Books in FinanceFlorian Faes: Entrepreneur and Managing DirectorIn this episode Florian Feas describes his route into setting up Slator: to solve problems he became aware of, as a result of working in the translation industry in senior positions. He outlines the importance of having a co-founder with complementary skills and how SaaS business tools enabled him to scale his business fast and cost effectively We draw out lessons that any entrepreneur can benefit from hearing.Florian Faes is the Managing Director of Slator, a business media and advisory firm for the global language industry he co-founded in 2015. Prior to Slator, Florian spent nearly a d...
2021-04-051h 11
New Books in EconomicsFlorian Faes: Entrepreneur and Managing DirectorIn this episode Florian Feas describes his route into setting up Slator: to solve problems he became aware of, as a result of working in the translation industry in senior positions. He outlines the importance of having a co-founder with complementary skills and how SaaS business tools enabled him to scale his business fast and cost effectively We draw out lessons that any entrepreneur can benefit from hearing.Florian Faes is the Managing Director of Slator, a business media and advisory firm for the global language industry he co-founded in 2015. Prior to Slator, Florian spent nearly a d...
2021-04-051h 12
SlatorPod#6 The TMS Question, 475M Stratus Deal, UK Manifesto, Slator LSP Index Heads-upSlatorPod #6! Florian Faes and Esther Bond unpack ASICS’ localization strategy and weigh up the benefits of centralized and local procurement strategies. The two also discuss when to use a vendor-agnostic (pureplay) translation management system (TMS), or one offered by an LSP. Florian analyzes the acquisition of US-based video interpreting provider Stratus Video by healthcare service giant AMN Healthcare for a whopping USD 475m, while Esther shares highlights from the UK Association of Translation Companies (UK ATC)’s newly published manifesto on public sector translation and interpreting. Links to the stories discussed in this episode:How ASICS Runs Localization: Insights on Vend...
2020-01-3129 min
SlatorPod#5 Interpreter Strike, Amazon Machine Dubbing, Super Agencies 2019 FinancialsSlatorPod #5! Florian Faes and Esther Bond discuss the 1,500-strong interpreter strike in the Netherlands. Florian talks about Amazon’s foray into automatic machine dubbing, which combines machine translation, text-to-speech, and audio rendering models. Esther unpacks the 2019 financial results for two Super Agencies — SDL and TransPerfect. TransPerfect’s acquisition of no less than seven media localizers in 2019 made it the most acquisitive LSP in 2019, just one of a number of highlights Esther shared from the recently released Slator 2019 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report.Links to the stories discussed in this episode:We’re On Strike: Dutch Linguists Oppose the Use of ‘...
2020-01-2428 min
SlatorPod#4 Lionbridge Lawsuit, HOOQ Media Localization, Translator Scams, CES and Translation GadgetSlatorPod #4! Florian Faes and Esther Bond discuss South-East Asia streaming joint-venture HOOQ and their localization efforts across a handful of Asian languages. The two also talk about Lionbridge being sued over earn-out payments by the founders of Geotext, a legal translation company they acquired in 2015. Translation scams continue to be a problem with fake translators impersonating real ones. Esther talks about how those scams work and what can be done about it. Finally, the two discuss the ubiquitous “translation earpieces” which apparently were a hot topic at the Consumer Electronic Shows (CES) in Las Vegas.Links to the stories discussed in t...
2020-01-1718 min
SlatorPod#3 Loc Meetup, EU 60M Awards, LSP Scorecard, 2020 Predictions, Q1 SpeakingSlatorPod #3! Florian Faes and Esther Bond discuss London localization meet-ups, the European Parliament’s giant Translation Directorate’s EUR 60m translation award, Amazon hiring new media localizers, and the scorecard of the handful of publicly listed language service providers. Esther talks about the January reading of the Slator Language Industry Job Index and Florian plucks Amazon’s new batch translation and two other stories featured in this week’s SlatorSweep. Then the two do some crystal ball gazing and make predictions for 2020 language industry M&A and startup funding as well as trends in MT, and talk about their Q1 conferen...
2020-01-1032 min
SlatorPod#2 Top 2019 Quotes, Kantan MT Acquisition, AB5 LawFlorian Faes and Esther Bond discuss the week’s language industry news.Featured this week: the top language industry quotes of 2019 including TransPerfect, BTI Studios, Unbabel’s venture capital backer, and Nike’s Global Localization Manager. Then, the two discuss California’s controversial AB5 gig worker bill, which the language industry is fighting tooth and nail, and Keyword Studio’s acquisition of machine translation provider KantanMT for EUR 7M.Links to the stories discussed in this episode:Top Language Industry Quotes of 2019https://slator.com/features/top-language-industry-quotes-of-2019/Capital Markets Day: What Keywords Studios Said About Game and Media Localizationhttps://slator.com/indust...
2019-12-2016 min
SlatorPod#1 Denmark, EU, RWS, Buyer PanelSlatorPod #1, the very first edition! Florian Faes and Esther Bond discuss the week’s language industry news. Featured this week: a giant interpreting contract gone wrong in Denmark; the EU’s translation test fail; RWS continues its growth streak posting yet another year of revenue and profit growth, and takeaways from SlatorCon Amsterdam’s enterprise localization panel.Links to the stories discussed in this first episode of SlatorPod:How Localization Is Run at Nike, Bose, and KAYAK: SlatorCon Panel Insightshttps://slator.com/slatorcon/how-localization-is-run-at-nike-bose-and-kayak-slatorcon-panel-insights/Serious Data Protection Violations: Denmark Terminates Giant EasyTranslate Contracthttps://slator.com/industry-news/serious-data-protection-violations-denmark-terminates-giant-easytranslate-contract/‘Unacceptable’ — Tempers Flare Over Europea...
2019-12-1314 min
Troublesome Terps35: Talking Business with Florian Faes of Slator.comSometimes it feels like language professionals forget that they are just that - professionals with a business "attached" to them. While being a wordsmith or having "a way with words" is perfectly fine, the economic elements must not be forgotten.
Enter Florian Faes, co-founder and managing director of slator.com, the language industries biggest (and only?) business focused one-stop-news-shop. The Troublesome Terps grill him on the origins of the website, business trends is seeing across the globe and why we should care in the first place.
Special Guest: Florian Faes.Links:Article: Inside...
2019-04-171h 12
Project KazimierzFlorian Faes – co-founder of Slator – the translation industry’s news, analysis and event service (s4ep17)Summary: Florian Faes is Co-Founder of Slator – linguist, business developer, and mountain runner. Based in the beautiful lakeside city of Zurich, Switzerland. Florian had a senior job in translation company and realized he couldn’t find the news and analysis he was looking for. about the industry he worked in. So – with a partner … Continue reading Florian Faes – co-founder of Slator – the translation industry’s news, analysis and event service (s4ep17) →
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2018-03-261h 04
The Worldly Marketer PodcastWhat to Look for in a Language Services Provider w/ Florian FaesFlorian Faes is a native of Zurich, Switzerland. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Slator, which is a digital news platform that makes business sense of the language services and technology market. Before launching Slator, Florian spent over eight years working at CLS Communication – a Swiss-based language services provider, which was acquired by Lionbridge in 2015. Florian began his career at CLS as a financial translator working in Singapore. He eventually became General Manager of CLS's Hong Kong office, and finally took on the role of CEO for Asia-Pacific, based in Shanghai, China. With h...
2016-09-2129 min