Full provisional programme

Please note this timetable is subject to change

THURSDAY, April 23 - Pre-conference masterclasses

08:00 Registration 
  Room 6 Room 2
9:30- 
12:30
The Perfect Likeness
Andrew Morris
Align This!
Marek Pawelec
12:30-
14:00
LUNCH
14:00-
17:00
The Sound of Music
Ros Schwartz
XML - Yes we can!
Stefan Gentz

FRIDAY, April 24

07:30 Registration
09:00 WELCOME
Opening by The Hon James Ramsbotham DL
  Gateshead
(300 seats)
Room 6
(85 seats)
Room 2
(45 seats)
09:30 Languages take you further
John Evans
Translating a book, by two book virgins
Nick Rosenthal & Judith Townsley

K. Heimerl-Moggan & A. Gansmeier
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Moving beyond translation to offer our clients more
Panel
Breathe and change your life
Gabriela Bocanete
Why should you invest in a TEnT?
Lone Beheshty
12:00 In Conversation with Ann Cleeves
Karen Seago
SimConsecTM: a new frontier in interpreting?
Maha el Metwally
Okapi framework - The Swiss army knife of localisation
Marek Pawelec
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Farewell to isolation: co-working as a new way of life & a business tool
Panel
ITI as a leading ‘Community of Practice’
S. Griffin-Mason & A. Brooks
Fashionable translations: from designer labels to clothing labels
Percy Balemans
15:15 Tea break
15:45 Ten facts about the future the translation industry cannot afford to ignore
Stefan Gentz
Brain food for translators: the language (and flavours) of chocolate
Marian Dougan
Should he be doing that?Workshop
16:45 KEYNOTE
Jonny Mitchell: The challenge of making languages relevant and fun for the future generations of translators and interpreters
17:15 Close

SATURDAY April 25

07:30 Registration
09:00 WELCOME
Opening by Ted Salmon, FSB
  Gateshead
(300 seats)
Room 6
(85 seats)
Room 2
(45 seats)
09:30 Professionalism in international trade
Lesley Batchelor OBE
“Business Budies”: a case study on a successful collaboration in shared marketing efforts
N. Fahloun & C. Joffrin
Work-life balance: Exercise to help you strike the balance and run a successful business
Sara Colombo
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Surgery was successful but the patient died
Siegfried Armbruster
The translator’s invisible toolkit
Andrew Morris
Translating & Interpreting in Platform and Community Settings
Panel
12:00

Selling translation… together

Panel-debate chaired by Doug Lawrence

How to integrate machine translation and CAT tools in your workflow
William Cassemiro
When is a square not a square? Try architecture translation for a change of perspective
Kim Sanderson
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Budgets and you
Chris Durban
Planning CPD for sustainable business growth
Alessandra Martelli
Who’s afraid of remote interpreting?
Sabine Braun
15:15 Tea break
15:45 Promoting Translation & Interpreting - Approaches
Panel
Translating Innovation: The Patent Cooperation Treaty & Technical Translation
Peter Smith (WIPO)
It’s not what you spend, it’s the way that you spend it
Alison Hughes
16:45 KEYNOTE
A very special team of linguists - To be announced
17:15 Closing 

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