Interpreting Europe Conference 2025

The Interpreting Europe Conference is the flagship event of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Interpretation. Join us in Brussels or online on 6-7 February 2025 to 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.

Location: Charlemagne Building, Rue de la Loi 170, 1040 Brussels, Belgium

Live streaming available: 6 February 2025 | 7 February 2025

Speakers

• Sally Bailey-Ravet - Head Interpreter and Head of Interpreting, Travel, Events and Multimedia (ITEM), Council of Europe, Strasbourg
• Alice Delorme Benites - Professor of Human-Machine Communication and Head of the Institute for Multilingual Communication, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
• Claudio Fantinuoli - Research Associate in Interpreting Studies and Natural Language Processing, University of Mainz and Chief Technology Officer, KUDO Inc.
• Alison Graves - Director for Interpretation, DG LINC, European Parliament
• Gry Hasselbalch - Co-founder, DataEthics.eu
• Juan Carlos Jiménez Marín - Director-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences (DG LINC), European Parliament
• Marie Muttilainen - Director for Interpretation, Court of Justice of the European Union
• Davor Orlič - COO, International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI)
• Alexandra Panagakou - Director of Interpreters, Directorate-General for Interpretation, European Commission
• Judith Platter - Senior Lecturer, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna
• Franz Pöchhacker - Professor of Interpreting Studies, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna
• Jürgen Schmidhuber - Co-Chair, Center of Excellence for Generative AI, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA
• Kilian G. Seeber - Vice Dean and Program Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Interpreter Training, University of Geneva
• Judith Simon - Full Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies, Universität Hamburg
• Andreas Witt - Head of the Department of Digital Linguistics, Leibniz Institute for the German Language