8:00 a.m.

Exhibitor & sponsor set-up in the Exhibitors’ Hall (Upper Terrace)

8:30 a.m.

Registration and continental breakfast in the Exhibitors’ Hall (Upper Terrace)

9:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks (Dome Theater)

9:10 a.m.

Keynote Presentation (Dome Theater)

Nataly Kelly, Chief Research Officer, Common Sense Advisory

The Language Services Market: Current Trends and Future Possibilities

9:45 a.m.

Coffee break & book signing (Upper Terrace)

Book signing by Nataly Kelly: Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World, co-authored with Jost Zetzsche

10:15 a.m.

Linguists in International Financial Organizations (Dome Theater)

Moderator: S. Alexandra Russell, Editor and Translator at the International Monetary Fund, former NCATA President & ATA Board Member

Panelists:

Marise Lashley, Senior Translator/Reviser at the World Bank, former translator at the U.S. Department of State

Kirk Anderson, Senior Translator/Reviser at the Inter-American Development Bank, former member of the ATA Board

11:15 a.m.

Developing and Honing Your Interpreting Skills (Dome Theater)

Moderator: James Plunkett, Coordinator of the Office of Court Interpreting Services and Language Access Program, Superior Court of the District of Columbia

Panelists:

Teresa Salazar, Director of Interpreting Services, U.S. District Court for D.C.

Marilyn Sephocle, Professor, Department of World Languages & the Simultaneous Interpretation Unit at the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University

Marjory Bancroft, Director, Cross Cultural Communications

12:15 p.m.

Lunch (Upper Terrace)

1:15 p.m.

Opportunities for Linguists with the U.S. Government* (Dome Theater)

Laura Murray, Technical Director, Center for Language and Area Studies, National Cryptologic School

Maria Brau, FBI, Chair of the Translation and Interpretation Committee of the Interagency Language Roundtable

Thaddeus Thaler, Director of CETRA Federal Services

Jennifer DeCamp, Program Manager, Foreign Language Resource Center, MITRE Corporation

2:15 p.m.

The Language of Diplomacy (Dome Theater)

Joseph P. Mazza, Chief of the Translating Division of the Office of Language Services, U.S. Department of State

An interactive presentation on the meaning of many English words that may take on special meaning in a diplomatic context, and researching the diplomatic lexicon

3:15 p.m.

Coffee break (Upper Terrace)

3:45 p.m.

Machine Translation & Automated Speech Recognition: Friend or Foe? (Dome Theater)

Jennifer DeCamp, Program Manager, Human Language Technology, MITRE Corporation

Hassan Sawaf, Chief Scientist, SAIC’s Linguistics and Cultural Intelligence Operation

Jonathan Litchman, Senior Vice President of SAIC, Head of the Linguistics and Cultural Intelligence Operation

4:45 p.m.

Closing Remarks (Dome Theater)

5:00 p.m.

Conclusion of NCATA conference