On 29 November, Translavic’s managing director Jeroen Hesp was present at SlatorCon Zurich 2018 in Switzerland, an event for senior professionals from across the language industry. Some 75 industry leaders gathered at the Sheraton Hotel to hear six speakers whose areas of expertise span big tech, life sciences, investment banking, private equity, language service and language industry intelligence. There were gripping presentations on topics about language data, the deployment of neural machine translation and data privacy, followed by a lively panel debate in which the participants were also involved.