Program

ELECTRA PALACE HOTEL ATHENS			ELECTRA PALACE HOTEL ATHENS
SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER			SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER
8:00 – 8:50	REGISTRATION COFFEE – FOYER		8.30 – 9:00	MORNING COFFEE – FOYER
9:00 – 9:20	AURORA HUMARÁN – IAPTI INTRO – MAIN ROOM		9:00 – 9:20	AURORA HUMARÁN – “Cons and Cons of Post-Editing for Third Parties. Pros and Pros of Post-Editing for Our Own Business” [PRO/ETH]
9:20 – 10:00	KEYNOTE SPEAKER – KEVIN LOSSNER: “Confessions of an American MpT user” [PRO/ETH]		9:20 – 10:10	MONIKA LUCZA: “Why do people love working with memoQ” [TECH]	ENRIQUE INIGUEZ-RODRÍGUEZ: “Increasing quality in retranslations?: Cavafy’s swift conquest of Spanish” [LANG]
10:00 – 10:30	MORNING COFFEE BREAK (30 min) – FOYER		10:10 – 10:40	MORNING COFFEE BREAK (30 min) – FOYER
	MAIN ROOM	BREAK-OUT ROOM		MAIN ROOM	BREAK-OUT ROOM
10:30 – 11:15	ATTILA PIROTH: “Save the world – with added bonuses” [BUS/MKT]	ANGELOS KAKLAMANIS: “Interpreting in a European Environment: 2014, the Hellenic perspective” [INT]	10:40 – 11:30	VALERIA ALIPERTA: “Expert personal branding & identity: inception of a logo and why it should be the right one for you” [BUS/MKT]	MARIAN DOUGAN: “WWW: A Web-Writing Workshop for Web-Worthy Words” [TECH]
11:15 – 12:00	MAYA FOURIOTI: “The secret code and meaning of the Greek alphabet – Letters-Words-Symbolism” [LANG]	HEIDI CAZES: “Getting your Freelance Translation/Interpreting Business Organized for Beginners and Procrastinators” [BUS/MKT]	11:30 – 12:20	ROSE NEWELL: “Writers worth paying for” [BUS/MKT]	TOMAS MOSLER: “Does Google Translate dream of electric sheep?” [TECH]
12:00 – 14:00	BUFFET LUNCH (2 hr) – MOTIVO RESTAURANT		12:20 – 14:20	BUFFET LUNCH (2 hr) – MOTIVO RESTAURANT
14:00 – 14:45	GARY SMITH: “Is the customer always right?” [BUS/MKT]	TONY ROSADO: “The ten worst things that can happen to an interpreter. How to avoid and remedy them” [INT]	14:20 – 14:50	ATTILA PIRÓTH/MARIA KARRA – ETHICS COMMITTEE REPORT: “Translation into a non-native language” [PRO/ETH]
14:45 – 15:30	SAMEH RAGAB: “Building your offline arsenal: A freelancer’s quick guide to glossary creation, terminology management and resource indexing” [BUS/MKT]	PAOLO CAPPELLI: “Conflict in Conflict: Ethical Dilemmas and Coping Strategies for Military and Public Service Interpreters” [INT]	14:50 – 15:35	VILELMINI SOSONI: “The changing landscape of the translation profession: for better or for worse?” [PRO/ETH]	DANIEL SEBESTA: “Punctuation in Translation: Orthography and Typography in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective” [LANG]
15:30 – 16:15	MARTA STELMASZAK: “Boost your business with a plan. Development and growth strategies for freelance translators” [BUS/MKT]		15:35- 16:20	SARA COLOMBO: “The business benefits of living a healthy lifestyle” [PRO]	EFFIE FRAGKOU: “IMIA: Medical Interpreter Certification Goes Global” [INT]
16:15 – 16:45	AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK (30 min) – FOYER		16:20 – 16:50	AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK (30 min) – FOYER
16:45 – 17:30	KONSTANTINOS STARDELIS: “Thoughts on Freelance Translation: Internal Affairs” [PRO/ETH]	Konstantina Georgiou: “Translating through the voice: an alternative translating approach to Dimoula’s poetry” [LANG]	16:50 – 17:35	MARIANO VITETTA: “Sound legal frameworks for a better translation and interpreting profession” [PRO/ETH]	DOROTA PAWLAK: “Creativity in software translation and localisation” [TECH]
17.30 – 18:15	TANYA QUINTIERI: “Direct clients: Get close enough to touch, but don’t kiss!” [BUS/MKT]	SUE LESCHEN: “CPD for Translators and Interpreters in the EU Member States – an international exchange of information and ideas” [BUS/MKT]	17:35 – 18:20	NIKOS SARANTAKOS, “LOANWORDS, IDIOMS, FALSE FRIENDS AND OTHER CURIOSITIES IN A TRANSLATOR’S LIFE” [LANG]
18:30 – 19:30	GROUP PHOTOS / RAFFLE		18:20 – 19:00	CLOSING CEREMONY: SPEECH, RAFFLE, GROUP PHOTOS*
20.30 – 23:30	CONFERENCE NETWORKING DINNER (MOTIVO RESTAURANT – ELECTRA PALACE HOTEL)		20:30 – 00:00	CASUAL DINNER – NEOS RIGAS (GREEK RESTAURANT)