The Defense Intelligence Agency, Human Capital’s Foreign Language Management Office invites you to showcase your latest products and services at the Human Language Technology (HLT) Showcase.
The exposition will take place on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 in the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center (DIAC) Expansion Lobby, in Washington, D.C.
This showcase is designed to be an educational forum to bring language technology professionals into one venue to display, demonstrate, and discuss language tools and technologies that benefit the intelligence community.
Event Highlights
- Attendee participation from senior language advisors across the intelligence community and DoD
- A VIP tour prior to the event for senior leaders to preview the exhibits.
- The exposition floor will be open to all attendees from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, with networking opportunities available throughout the day! This event is the only event of its kind to be taking place onsite at the DIA
- Featured speakers discussing current needs, challenges and solutions related to human language technologies
- Key networking opportunities to meet with over 400 attendees including DIA Personnel, Acquisition Executives, System Integrators and Intelligence Community Partners
Who is the intended audience?
Attendance will include intelligence community and DoD representatives with a mix of military, civilian and contractor personnel. Concentrated participation will be from:
- DIA Personnel
- Acquisition Executives
- Systems Integrators
- Intelligence Community Partners
- Senior Language Advisors
- Language Analysts from the 16 disparate intelligence agencies including:
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Department of Energy
- Department of Homeland Security (Office of Intelligence & Analysis)
- Department of State (Bureau of Intelligence & Research)
- Department of Treasury (Office of Intelligence & Analysis)
- Drug Enforcement Administration (Office of National Security Intelligence)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (National Security Branch)
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- National Reconnaissance Office
- National Security Agency/Central Security Service
- United States Air Force
- United States Army
- United States Coast Guard
- United States Marine Corps
- United States Navy
Who Should Exhibit?
DIA is looking for participants willing to display and discuss their language related tools, technologies, software applications and programs directly associated with the U.S. Federal Government. Specifically, language technologies with a direct impact and application to the various intelligence disciplines.
Human Language Technology (HTL) areas of interests include:
- Machine-Translation Tools
- Language Identification
- Encoding Identification
- Word Spotting
- Foreign Language Indexing
- Foreign Language Speech Tools
- Speech-to-Text Transcription
- Audio Spotting
- Speaking Identification
- “Alerts” or Content Categorization
- Language-In-Image Technologies
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Automatic OCR Error Correction
- Automatic Handwriting Recognition
- Image Analysis
- Information Discovery Tools
- Multi Lingual Information Extraction (MLIE) System
- Semantic Searching
- Foreign Language Indexing
- Language Visualization
- Language Learning and Educational Tools
- Virtual and Blending Learning Solutions
- Testing and Assessment Tools
- Interactive Language Learning Applications
- Linguist Aids and Translation Service Provider Tools
- Electronic Dictionaries
- Name Normalization
- Workflow Management Systems
- Translation Memory
Exhibitors Will Receive:
- Opportunity to conduct hands on demonstrations of your products and services
- Coordinated security access to the DIA for the day of the event
- Company profile and contact information listed in the Event Program Guide
- 6’ x 3’ Table and Tablecloth
- 2 Chairs and Electricity
- Exhibitor Badges
- This is a tabletop display. Please bring only what will fit on/behind/or infront of your 6’x 3’ table
- For security reasons, internet access will not be available for this event.
Some specific technology products have already been requested by the Foreign Language Management Office. With the current demand from exhibitors we expect that exhibit registration will sell out at record pace. For further information or questions regarding exhibiting at this event or requested technologies, please contact your account executive or Derek Lotfi at 301-596-8899 ext. 245 or lotfi@ncsi.com.
Prohibited items at the DIAC. Please call for details and exceptions.
Click here to purchase exhibit space at the Technology Showcase.
