Ukrainian Translation Industry Conference

350 agencies and freelance translators, mainly from Ukraine, Russia, and CIS countries, will meet in Kiev at the first Ukrainian Translation Industry Conference (UTIC) on 18-19 May. This event, featuring presentations by Hans Fenstermacher, Jost Zetzsche, Renato Beninatto, and 40 other well-known speakers will open up communication between the local and international professional communities. Russian [...]

By Sandor Papp – Marketing Director, Kilgray When we were organizing the program for memoQfest 2013, GALA contacted us with a suggestion for a panel presentation. The topic for this discussion was, “Price isn’t everything: Positioning for growth, not price wars.” It is clearly one of the most important issues which could be brought up [...]

After three successful editions, Think Latin America makes it to Europe. Organized by GALA members Ccaps and SpeakLatam, Think Latin America is where leading industry experts, strategists, and true decision makers get together to talk about the region that continues to grow and attract investments every day. Could this growth be because of the more [...]

Translation Forum Russia 2012, an international translation conference, will be held in Kazan, Russia, from 28 to 30 September 2012. The event is the largest conference of its kind in Eastern Europe, and last year the number of attendees totalled five hundred.

June 20/21, Brussels, Belgium http://www.meta-forum.eu
Some spaces left in the R&D Exhibition!

William Rivers, Chair of ASTM F43, gives an update on the ASTM meetings in the month of May.

Michel Lopez, President of e2f translations, reflects on his rewarding trip to Japan and Korea for the JTF and KIGO conferences.

Deadline: 9 November 2011

The 2012 Association of Language Companies (ALC) Annual Conference in New Orleans is seeking speakers and breakout session leaders. Visit the GALA blog to learn more and download the submission form.

1-2 December 2011 UNCC, ECA ADDIS Ababa, Ethiopia The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Localisation Research Center (LRC), and the Center for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) are bringing together business people, technology experts, linguists and policy and decision makers in language and technology fields from around the world from 1-2 [...]