2024 Conference Schedule
Saturday, September 07, 2024 | 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM | Widener University Delaware Law School
breakfast / registration
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Location
Opening Remarks
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Ruby R. Vale
DVTA President Sonia A. Schlamowitz
Keynote
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Ruby R. Vale
‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf’ Taming the beast of AI
Ewandro Magalhaes
job fair and coffee break
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Location
Morning Sessions
These sessions are conncurrent
10:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Personal Branding for Translators and Interpreters
Ewandro Magalhaes | Ruby R. Vale
FTT1 – Introduction to Forensic Transcription/Translation (FTT)
Javier Castillo | Room 247
OMG, WTF? Textspeak in the Courtroom
Ellen Wingo | Room 248
Lunch Break
12:45 PM – 1:40 PM
Barrister Hall
Afternoon Sessions
1:45 PM – 3:45 PM
FTT2 – Defending your FTT: Providing Expert Testimony
Javier Castillo | Room 247 | 1:45 PM-3:45 PM
Optimizing the Business of Language in the Era of GenAI
Bridget Hylak | Ruby R. Vale | 1:45 PM-3:45 PM
The Educational Setting: An Interpreting Crossroads
Gabriela Siebach | Room 237 | 1:45 PM-3:45 PM
Beyond Prompting: Taking GenAI to the Next Level
Nora Diaz – Remote | Room 248 | 1:45 PM-2:45 PM
Resilience in Interpreting
Eliane Sfeir-Markus | Room 248 | 2:50 PM-3:45 PM
job fair and coffee break
3:50 PM – 4:10 PM
Evening Presentation
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Ruby R. Vale
“Ensuring Language Access” – A Presentation by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
Anisa Rahim
Closing Remarks
5:15 PM-5:30 PM
Ruby R. Vale
DVTA Board of Directors