Learn & Connect - Building Your Toolkit for the Future of Interpreting

Access Alliance Language Services

An event for language professionals featuring presentations and interactive workshops to expand your toolkit.

North York Memorial Community Hall

Join us for a series of presentations and discussions as we explore topics that impact your work and shape the language access landscape.<ul><li>AI - caveats and opportunities</li><li>Mentoring and networking</li><li>Goal setting</li><li>Year-end financial accounting and planning for your small business</li><li>Wellness and wellbeing for language professionals</li></ul>Special guest speaker: Marco Campana, Knowledge Mobilization and Social Action Coordinator at Access Alliance, previously supported Immigrant &amp; Refugee-serving organizations to build digital capacity.A detailed agenda will be published closer to the date.Refreshments will be provided at the event.Exclusive access to this event for AALS, MLC, and OCCI interpreters will start today, November 8th, and end on Tuesday, November 12th. The event will then be shared with other language professionals in the community.

Agenda

Check-in

Welcome and Warm-up

AI in Interpretation: Understand it to make it work for you

Mentoring Exercise

Preparing for Assignments: Search Engines vs. Curated Content 

Special Recognition 

The Power of Transparency: Building Trust through Disclosure and Cybersecurity

Goal Setting for 2025

Expressive Arts: Introduction, Theory, and Activity 

Lunch and Networking

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