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ELIA is famous for organising focus events for different players in the language industry. Its “Together” event aims to bring together freelance language professionals and language service companies for constructive dialogue and mutual growth.

Our vendor manager will attend “Together” because we believe in the power and possibilities of strong relationships between freelance language professionals and language companies. Only working together and understanding each other’s concerns, aligning our procedures and creating an atmosphere of mutual trust will allow us to achieve our goals. 

The three-day programme is quite impressive: communication, technology, ethics, recruitment and other important topics will be discussed during the fifth edition of Together. Networking is also a crucial part of such an event. Let’s get Together!

After a few years’ break we were able to attend Localization World, the largest localization industry event assembling both localization services customers and providers.

Exciting and engaging panels and insightful presentations gave us new energy to move forward in these strange times of uncertainty. The main takeaway from this two-day event: We are an industry that is impervious to crisis as we grow in multiple directions and constantly adapt. These encouraging thoughts reinforce our resilience and give us new impetus to embrace challenges.

ELIA’s event on Project Management is our project managers’ favourite event, since it is dedicated to honing the PM skills and attitudes that are required in today’s fast-paced, challenging and competitive landscape. In the four years leading up to now, one of our project managers travelled to a different city each year to attend this unique industry event. The fifth edition of this event was different, and not only because it was held virtually. This year the event’s extended format featured a 4-week programme with three hours of content per day, twice a week. Each week was dedicated to one topic covering the complex work of a project manager:  CAT tools master classes, key account management, vendor acquisition and retention, and finally the idea of technology automating and boosting our productivity.
Two project managers from our team, Edvinas Belevičius and Roberta Šareikaite, attended this event and were really impressed by the charismatic and knowledgeable speakers and active fellow participants. New insights from the event will be shared with our entire team. 
We will be sure not to miss ELIA’s next event on Project Management.  

For nearly 10 years, XTRF has facilitated our project management activities and helped to boost our productivity. It’s a tool we use every day, which is why it is important for us to keep up to speed with regards to system development and to know how to use its functions as efficiently as possible. To that end, we definitely could not miss the XTRF summit #online. We are really excited about the news we learned from the XTRF team: Chat and Business Barometer are new, amazing features that have been added to the system, which we will definitely implement into our daily routine as soon as possible and which, we are sure, will improve our productivity.
Thank you, XTRF team, for hosting this event. We are grateful to our industry peers who have shared their insights about the use of the system, its customisation possibilities and best practices.
The next XTRF summit has already been announced, and we registered for it without hesitation.

The 10th edition of the Nordic Translation Interpretation Forum took place virtually and instead of enjoying beautiful Reykjavik in person, we met our peers online. On one hand, the crowd was much more diverse and included not only Nordic and Baltic participants, but industry professionals from 28 countries. On the other, the event was shorter (only a few hours instead of the usual two days) and, of course, the virtual format prevented us from having in-person discussions over coffee or champagne. Despite these drawbacks, the event gave us “a shot of positive energy”. Two inspiring speakers, their thought-provoking questions and subsequent group discussions gave us new ideas to take away from the event. The forum motto “Don’t Refrain – Rethink” truly gave us a boost. We will wait for the #NTIF2021 which we hope will finally happen in Reykjavik. In the meanwhile, we will continue to rethink our new reality and find new ways to thrive in these volatile circumstances.

This year’s GALA conference, “The Language of Business. The Business of Language,” was replaced by a virtual version entitled GALAconnected. The coronavirus didn’t stop us from meeting peers, learning what is happening in the language sector or contributing to shaping our industry. This event was attended by more than 200 participants from over 30 countries. The fact that it was organised in Pacific daylight time didn’t keep us and many other participants from Europe and Asia from enjoying the event even though it meant long working hours. Thank you GALA for the great content and amazing networking possibilities.

It’s no surprise that this year’s ALC annual conference was held virtually, featuring three days of education, networking, and collaboration with the brightest minds in the LSC Community. Agile thinking, innovative solutions, best practices, forecasting the future – these were the themes covered and analysed in depth during the event. ALC’s promotional material promised to ensure the “full Conference Experience, virtually” and we would say that they almost kept that promise. The one minor difference was the coffee breaks, which were not so enjoyable without the opportunity to chat with industry friends face to face. :)

The 46th meeting of Eulogia, an alliance of hand-picked translation companies with just one member per language allowed to join, took place in Portsmouth. Membership in this alliance is something we take pride in. For twelve years, Diskusija has represented the Lithuanian language in this exclusive alliance, meeting our fellow Eulogia partners twice a year to share our expertise and inspire one another.

This is ELIA’s fourth event focused on project management. At Diskusija, we continue to attend these targeted events as this is a great opportunity for our project managers to meet their fellow colleagues from other language companies, to learn new tips and tricks for making their work more efficient and to feel part of a larger community of like-minded people.

The Meet Central Europe Conference took place in Prague. This event, targeting vendor management, was a great success! We want to thank the organisers for the energy they put into making it happen and the participants for inspiring and insightful talks or brief, but rewarding meetings. Our vendor manager Natalija enjoyed every moment.

We can't wait for the next meeting in Innsbruck.