Keynotes

Jeff Beatty
Jeff Beatty is the Head of Localization at Mozilla, the makers of the popular open source web browser, Firefox. He holds a MSc in Multilingual Computing and Localisation from the University of Limerick. Jeff has also been featured as a community-driven localization expert in prominent global publications, such as The Economist, El Universal, Multilingual Magazine and others. Jeff directs the Mozilla community’s Firefox desktop, Firefox for Android, and Firefox for iOS localization efforts, as well as resolves issues within the collaborative translation process through mentorship, tooling, and automation. Jeff aims to showcase Mozilla’s localization program, create disruptive, open source translation technology, and serve as intermediary between Mozilla, its community, and the localization industry.
In addition to his position with Mozilla, Jeff teaches a course on translation technology at BYU, was the founder of the Mozilla Utah community, and has sat on technology and advisory councils for Translators Without Borders and Translation Commons.

Josh Simmons
Josh Simmons is a community organizer and web developer with a penchant for armchair philosophy. He currently serves as a board member for the Open Source Initiative, is a program manager at Google’s Open Source Programs Office, and is community manager emeritus for O’Reilly’s OSCON. Josh has worked in freelance, agency, startup, and companies large and small accumulating a lot of experience… which might be related to why his most popular talk is titled “Fail Well.”