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Interpreting Europe Conference 2025

The Interpreting Europe Conference is the flagship event of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Interpretation.

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The Interpreting Europe Conference is the flagship event of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Interpretation

The 2025 edition took place in Brussels and online on 6-7 February 2025. Participants could connect with fellow professionals, industry experts, academics and students in the field of interpretation, Artificial Intelligence and beyond to engage in discussions on the future of the interpreting profession. 

Watch the recordings of the sessions on Youtube.

Watch the recordings with interpretation in English, French and German below:

Recordings

Day 1

Welcome by masters of ceremonies | Contributions from other EU interpretation services | Opening keynote | Young Interpreters Award ceremony | Roundtable discussion | Oxford-style debate | A conversation with...

Day 2

Panel debate | TED-style talk | Young Interpreters Award Keynote Speech | Fireside chat | Closing remarks

Slideshow

Programme

Programme - Interpreting Europe Conference 2025
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  • 31 January 2025
Programme - Interpreting Europe Conference 2025

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  • Thursday 6 February 2025, 14:30 - Friday 7 February 2025, 12:30 (CET)
  • Brussels, Belgium
  • Live streaming available

Media

Files

  • 13 FEBRUARY 2025
Annika Biedermann - 1st prize winner - Young Interpreters Award 2025
  • 13 FEBRUARY 2025
Ioana-Daniela Cutudi - 2nd prize winner - Young Interpreters Award 2025
  • 13 FEBRUARY 2025
Anna-Katharina Linzner - 3rd prize winner - Young Interpreters Award 2025

Speakers

Speaker
Sally Bailey-Ravet
Head Interpreter and Head of Interpreting, Travel, Events and Multimedia (ITEM), Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Speaker
Alice Delorme Benites
Professor of Human-Machine Communication and Head of the Institute for Multilingual Communication, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Moderator
Ivana Engel Quiroz
Knowledge management officer, Audio-visual solutions and sound quality Unit, Directorate General for Interpretation, European Commission
Speaker
Claudio Fantinuoli
Research Associate in Interpreting Studies and Natural Language Processing, University of Mainz and Chief Technology Officer, KUDO Inc.
Speaker
Carlos García Vico
Interpreter Coordinator, Directorate-General for Interpretation, European Commission
Speaker
Alison Graves
Director for Interpretation, DG LINC, European Parliament
Moderator
Andrea Grosso
Pedagogical Assistance Coordinator, Talent Development Unit, Directorate-General for Interpretation, European Commission
Moderator
Merje Laht
Head of Estonian Interpretation Unit at DG Interpretation, European Commission
Moderator
Antoinette Legrand
Deputy Head of the French interpreting unit, Directorate-General for Interpretation, European Commission
Speaker
Marie Muttilainen
Director for Interpretation, Court of Justice of the European Union
Moderator
Alicja M. Okoniewska
Head of Succession Planning and Training of Future Interpreters, Talent Development Unit, DG Interpretation, European Commission
Speaker
Davor Orlič
COO, International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI)
Speaker
Alexandra Panagakou
Director of Interpreters, Directorate-General for Interpretation, European Commission
Speaker
Judith Platter
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna
Speaker
Franz Pöchhacker
Professor of Interpreting Studies, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna
Speaker
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Co-Chair, Center of Excellence for Generative AI, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA
Speaker
Kilian G. Seeber
Vice Dean and Program Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Interpreter Training, University of Geneva
Speaker
Judith Simon
Full Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies, Universität Hamburg
Speaker
Andreas Witt
Head of the Department of Digital Linguistics, Leibniz Institute for the German Language

Practical information

When
Thursday 6 February 2025, 14:30 - Friday 7 February 2025, 12:30 (CET)
Where
Charlemagne Building
Rue de la Loi 170, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Languages
English

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