Qualifications
Co-founder of Custom.MT, a machine translation implementation company
Organizer of the GenAI in Localization conference series
Former Chief Researcher at Nimdzi Insights and Communications Chair at AMTA
Expertise
Machine translation
Localization
Language technology
Language services research
Generative AI
Translation automation
Konstantin Dranch is a language industry researcher and co-founder of Custom.MT, a machine translation implementation company he founded in 2020. He organizes the GenAI in Localization conference series and is widely known for his research on language services and translation technology markets. Earlier in his career he served as Chief Researcher at Nimdzi Insights and led marketing at Memsource (now Phrase).
Experience
Co-Founder at Custom.MT
Jul 2020 — Present · 6 yrs
Communications Chair at AMTA (Association for Machine Translation in the Americas)
Feb 2021 to Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos
Chief Researcher at Nimdzi Insights LLC
Dec 2017 to Aug 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos
Head of Marketing at Memsource
May 2016 to Jan 2017 · 8 mos
Marketing Manager at Memsource
Oct 2014 to May 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos
Recent articles and events
Qualifications
Co-founder of Custom.MT, a machine translation implementation company
Organizer of the GenAI in Localization conference series
Former Chief Researcher at Nimdzi Insights and Communications Chair at AMTA
Expertise
Machine translation
Localization
Language technology
Language services research
Generative AI
Translation automation
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