
THRIVE 2025 – How to Become a Sales-First Business
ATC Unconference THRIVE 2025 focuses on sales, account growth, marketing and lead generation. Bring your sales team, senior PMs and account managers, and spend two days putting together the building blocks for a compelling, sales-first business. THRIVE 2025 will connect you with industry peers, and give you the tools and confidence to manage a business underpinned by solid financial, technological and commercial foundations – ready for whatever comes next.
Join the ATC, business experts, and language services industry peers for two days of tight-knit networking and learning on 22-23 October 2025 in Manchester for THRIVE 2025 – ATC Unconference and ATC Language Industry Awards celebrations!
Programme highlights
- Onboarding and growing client accounts: setting up for success
- Building growth through human relationships: panel discussion
- The case for MT/AI for client growth & retention: taking an AI-led approach
- Open mic – strategies for ROI in 2025: share your insights
- Transition to becoming a sales-first business: engaging the whole team
- Sales-first project managers: don’t talk about sales
- Marketing-led sales & success stories: keynote and case studies
- Lead generation through social media: drive growth where it happens
Speakers

Corinne Saynor Smith
ATC Chair & Director, International Translations Limited

James Brown
ATC Vice-Chair & Head of Commercial, Comtec Translations

Roy Allkin
Founder, Wolfestone Group

Steve Higgins
Former CEO, Mondia Technologies

Ruth Partington
CEO at Empower Translate & outgoing ATC Chair

Bernadette Byrne
Managing Partner, Six Worldwide

Rian Bailey-Weir
Director, The Nice Exchange

James Halstead
ATC Council Member

Helen Provart
Managing Director, Peak Translations

Gabriela Lemoine
Director, Accentus Language Services

Shrushti Chhapia
CEO, eLanguageWorld

Sophie Howe
CEO, Comtec Translations

Raisa McNab
CEO, Association of Translation Companies