Thank you for a successful conference!
The conference took place October 5-7, 2023 in Monterey, California, USA on the well-known Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) Campus.
Check out our preliminary report about the conference here: https://fit-northamerica-rc.org/fit-north-america-nextgen-conference-report/.
Recordings and Slides can be found here: https://fit-northamerica-rc.org/next-gen-2023-conference-presenetations/
Event Details
FIT North America held a conference on educating the next generation of TTIs (translators, terminologists, and interpreters). The primary purpose of the conference was to bring together people of North America (Canada, the United States, and Mexico) who believe there should be a next generation of TTIs and wanted to do something about it.
The secondary purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for presenting aspects of educating the next generation of TTIs.
Click here to see statements made by Steve Richardson (past president of AMTA – Association for Machine Translation in the Americas) and Paco Guzmán (Research Scientist Manager at Meta AI) about the future of human translation.
Check out our article Human Translators and AI Translation: Two Visions of the Future to understand our perspective on the future of translation.
Organizing Committee
The organizing committee consists of:
Alan Melby, Chair of the FIT North America regional center and former vice-president of FIT Mundus (www.fit-fit.org), the global federation.
Caitilin Walsh, Chair of the ATA (www.atanet.org) Education & Pedagogy Committee
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Monica De Maria, member of ATIA (www.atia.ab.ca) and on the ATIA Interpreters Committee.
Questions?
Contact Alan Melby
chair.fitna@fit-ift.org