As in previous years, ProZ.com will be hosting a two-day virtual conference to celebrate International Translation Day. The conference will take place on September 29 -30, 2014. September 29th will mainly be dedicated to Cat tools and software and September 30th will include sessions and panels about the following topics:

• Free Tools for Translators By Irene Koukia
• Using trade fairs to efficiently gain new customers By Christelle Weckenmann
• Translation Economics – Pricing By Igor Vesler
• Technical translation: is it really about terminology? By Vyacheslav Guzovsky
• Machine Translation 201 By Jeff Allen
• Medical documents for academic publishing: Creating English content with precision, accuracy, and style By Doug Wilcox
• Machine Translation panel for LSP’s Moderated by Jeff Allen with Kirti Vashee
• Patenting strategies of medicinal biotech companies By Katja Prasol
• Machine Translation panel for freelance translators Moderated by Jeff Allen with Dimitra Anastasiou
• Managing client expectations By Barbara Jungwirth
• The art of asking questions By Gabriela Lemoine
• Meeting clients panel discussion Moderated by Konstantin Kisin
• Becoming a tech-savvy translator and interpreter in the Digital Age By Claudia Brauer
• Understanding the differences between Literal, Cultural and Artistic translation By Marcia Pinheiro

The event is free to attend and all those registered  will be able to view all listings from agencies and LSPs that have recruitment needs. Listings will automatically be sorted based on your language pair. Once you find a recruitment listing in which you are interested, you will be able to express interest in that outsourcer and grant that outsourcer permission to contact you via ProZ.com. Language professionals will only be able to express interest in those recruitment needs where their skill set and language pair match the requirements set by the outsourcer.

Registration for the event is open and free.  This event has been awarded 10 ATA CE credits.

Register here.

Source: ProZ.com Virtual Conference

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