Lightning Talks: Hacking to solve i18n issues, right-to-left shenanigans, internships at Facebook, and more

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In August, the Silicon Valley chapter of Women in Localization held an event featuring speakers from Facebook, Survey Monkey, Wikimedia Foundation, Oath, and Welocalize, hosted by Mozilla. Each talk was just a few minutes long, but packed with information.

The following speakers and topics were featured at the event:

Data driven localization internships
Speaker: Shweta Sathe, Facebook

Hacking to solve i18n issues
Speakers: Esther Perez and Nirav Trivedi, SurveyMonkey

Right-to-Left Shenanigans: Where BiDi fails us
Speaker: Moriel Schottlender, Wikimedia Foundation

Localization platform at Oath
Speaker: Yuriko Yamasaki, Oath (formerly known as Yahoo!)

Measuring ROI: Getting the most from your localization spend
Speaker: Samantha Reiss, Welocalize

You can read more about the speakers and why they chose to present on these topics here.

See the video of the event below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D17R_P_oRYnM&source=gmail&ust=1537329376183000&usg=AFQjCNFpn8jh9NkH_4swHv0GDEEBokcFsA

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