Don DePalma
Speaker Bio:
Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Idiom Technologies
Don drives Idiom's corporate strategy and serves as an industry spokesperson on the topics of Web globalization and global e-business. Don is a widely recognised and respected expert on Web globalization and has nearly 20 years of experience in the software, research and consulting industries. Before joining Idiom, Don was founder and president of Common Sense Advisory, a consultancy that assisted both established and start-up firms in developing their e-commerce strategies. For more than six years, he was a principal analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass. During that time, Don delivered trend-setting reports on globalization, Web content management, digital marketing, data warehousing and application development. Prior to joining Forrester, Don was a co-founder of Interbase Software Corporation, developer of the era's most technologically advanced relational database server. Before joining the business world, DePalma was a member of academe as a linguist specialising in generative grammar, computational linguistics, and the historical phonology of Slavic languages. He holds graduate degrees from Brown University and the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA).
