Day 1

Friday 20 October 2023

9:00-9:30

Registration & Morning Coffee

9:30-10:00

Opening & Welcome 

Opening

Overall Conference moderation: Anastasia Giagopoulou, Gen. Secretary PEM

Welcoming speeches
  • Vasiliki Dadavassili, PEM President
  • Elias Giarenis, Vice Rector of Quality Assurance, Student Welfare and Lifelong Learning, Ionian University

  • Sotiris Livas, Director of the Laboratory "Language and Politics", DFLTI, Ionian University

  • Elpida Loupaki, President, Hellenic Society for Translation Studies
  • Maria Antoniadou, President, ESIEA
10:00-11:30

Translation & Interpreting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM)

Current developments

Moderator: Valentini Kalfadopoulou (PEM)

  • Harris Ghinos, AIIC Vice President, CEO, ELIT Language Services & Athens Interpreting Hub (AIHub)
  • Viveta Gene, PhD Cand., Translation & Localization Expert, Machine Translation technology and Post-Editing Specialist
  • Stavroula Sokoli, Senior Researcher & Audiovisual Translation Expert
  • Maria Stasimioti, PhD Cand., Machine Translation Senior Researcher
  • Kostas Nadalis, Translation & Localization Consultant, TM Serve
  • Giorgos Stathis,  Sign Language Interpreter, Owner, HandsUp.org, SDENG  President
11:30-12:00

Coffee Break

12:00-13:30

Translation & Interpreting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM)

Prospects (panel discussion & audience questions)

Moderator: Valentini Kalfadopoulou (PEM)

  • Harris Ghinos, AIIC Vice President, CEO, ELIT Language Services & Athens Interpreting Hub (AIHub)
  • Viveta Gene, PhD Cand., Translation & Localization Expert, Machine Translation technology and Post-Editing Specialist
  • Stavroula Sokoli, Senior Researcher & Audiovisual Translation Expert
  • Maria Stasimioti, PhD Cand., Machine Translation Senior Researcher
  • Kostas Nadalis, Translation & Localization Consultant, TM Serve
  • Giorgos Stathis,  Sign Language Interpreter, Owner, HandsUp.org, SDENG  President
13:30-14:30

Lunch Break

14:30-16:00

Translation & Interpreting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM)

Presentations

Moderator: Vilelmini Sosoni (DFLTI)

  • The PBL educational approach in action: presenting an innovative educational activity in the field of translation – Elpida Loupaki (AUTH) & Mariza Lavda (ORCO)
  • Terminology Issues in Contemporary Translation Practice – Elpida Loupaki, Eleni Tziafa, Mavina Pantazara
  • New Linguistic Artificial Intelligence Capabilities in Trados - Despina Pilou (ORCO)
16:00-17:30

Networking Event

17:30

End of Day 1

Day 2

Saturday 21 October 2023

9:30-10:00

Registration

10:00-11:00

Keynote Speech

Interpretation in the Era of Twin Transition

Gabriella Suzanne Vanzan, Vice Chairperson, FIT Europe 

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-13:00

Education & Professional Training: Strength in unity

Moderator: Effie Frangkou (PEM)

  • Vilelmini Sosoni, DFLTI, Ionian University
  • Elpida Loupaki, Joint PPS in Interpreting & Translation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Kyriaki Kourouni, Department of English Language, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Eleni Tziafa, Department of French  Language, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • George Floros, University of Cyprus
13:00-13:30

Book Presentation

Moderator: Elpida Loupaki (HS4TS)

  • English translation of the Greek Code of Criminal Procedure
  • English translation of the Greek Code of Private Maritime Law

John O'Shea & Daniel Webber (LexGraeca)

13:30-14:30

Lunch Break

14:30-16:00

Standards, Ethical, Legal, Financial & Practical Issues

Moderator: Elena Pantopoulou (PEM)

  • Mavina Pantazara, Chairwoman, Technical Committee TE 21/ELOT ("Terminology - Language Resources")
  • Natalia Alexiou, LLM, Lawyer-Linguist, Researcher
  • Pantelis Tsigkas, LLM, Supreme Court Lawyer, Certified Data Protection Officer (DPO), Accredited Mediator 
  • Michael Zecherlis, Isologistiki Accounting Firm
  • Spyros Zotos, Zotos & Partners Accounting Firm
16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

16:30-17:30

Conference Proceedings - Recap

Moderator: Vicky Ghionis (PEM Vice President)

Commentators
  • Vasiliki Dadavassili, PEM President
  • Vilemini Sosoni, DFLTI, Ionian University
  • Elpida Loupaki President, HS4TS
17:30

End of Conference

REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED

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