Interpreting SIG Meeting December 2024
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Agenda
Join us for an Open Forum Discussion at our December meeting! This session will be an informative discussion where you can share your thoughts, experiences, and ideas and gain insights from others.
What’s on your mind?
- What challenges are you facing in your interpreting work?
- What keeps you up at night, and how do you overcome those challenges?
- What are you most excited about?
- What is important to you?
- What do you think the industry should pay more attention to, and why?
Bring Your Ideas and Join the Conversation!
This open forum is an opportunity to share your perspectives, ask questions, and learn from others. We invite you to join the conversation and explore important topics together.
About the Interpreting SIG
The Interpreting SIG explores the unique issues, needs, and challenges in the interpreting and technologies segment and will explore collaborative solutions to advance the interpreting sector as a whole. Group Moderators: Viviana Bernabe (Welocalize), Aki Hayashi (Dell Technologies), Giulia Silvestrini (Acolad)
GALA Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are member-only committees that connect members on topics of mutual interest and make meaningful contributions to GALA’s knowledge base.
Host organization: Globalization and Localization Association
Event Speakers
Aki Hayashi
Dell Technologies
Aki is a Senior Manager of the Globalization Program Management Office at Dell Technologies. She leads a team of Program Managers and oversees the globalization aspect of Dell’s strategic programs including Marketing, Digital, and Events to help enhance the global business landscape and customer journey in the fast-paced technology industry. Aki is based in Boston, MA, and with Dell since 2008.
Viviana Bernabe
Welocalize
Viviana Bernabe is the Director of Global Interpretation Services at Welocalize. She has over 13 years in various aspects of language services including, Globalization, Localization, AI, and Interpreting with background in Project Management and Program Management. With the ever-changing landscape of live events and services, including increased integrations of multilingual meeting and event technologies over the last couple of years, Vivi is combining her expertise across different language services to promote a more well-rounded event globalization focus for an elevated end-to-end user experience.
Giulia Silvestrini
Acolad
Giulia Silvestrini is Interpreting Solution Manager at Acolad, a leading player in the language industry. Focused on the Interpreting market, Giulia tailors and develops Interpreting as a distinct offering, helping teams, companies and institutions identify and deploy the right service solutions to overcome their linguistic challenges. From the interpretation itself, to technology and support, all aspects are designed to ensure the success of live multilingual communication.
Claudio Fantinuoli
KUDO, Inc.
Claudio is Chief Technology Officer at KUDO Inc., a company specialized in delivering human and AI live interpretation. The latest product is the KUDO AI Translator, a real-time, continuous speech-to-speech translation system. Claudio is also Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Mainz and Founder of InterpretBank, an AI-tool for professional interpreters.
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