Japan Interpreting Forum

[JIF2024] The Full Client Journey (and how to speak to them at each stage)

Julia Poger Julia Poger is a business, conference and diplomatic interpreter fluent in English, Russian and French. With over 30 years of experience working with governments, NGOs, corporation...

[JIF2024] Stress Management and Expert Performance

Chris Guichot de Fortis "Chris Guichot de Fortis, (A-EN, B-FR, C-ES) M.A. (Cantab); PDLS (Bath); BACI; AIIC, has had an eclectic career. He began as a professional tennis player, then became a...

[JIF2024] Retour Self-training for Japanese>English Interpreters: Useful Strategies and Exercises

Sophie Llewellyn Smith Sophie Llewellyn Smith is a conference interpreter and trainer specialising in retour training. Her training activities include webinars, group classes for consecutive ...

[JIF2024] Machine Interpreting: Is it worth it?

Professor Robin Setton Robin Setton is a conference interpreter (AIIC 1983-2020, freelance and staff), researcher, trainer, translator and author of dual French and British nationality, workin...

[JIF2023] How Can Interpreters Respond to the Rise of the Machines?

Jonathan Downie Dr Jonathan Downie is a consultant church and conference interpreter and interpreting researcher. His second book "Interpreters vs Machines: Can interpreters survive in an AI-d...

[JITF2022] Parallels between Music and Interpretation Practice and Performance

Laura Burian Laura Burian is a Professor of Chinese/ English interpretation and Dean of the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education (GSTILE) at the Middlebury In...

[JITF2022] YOU GOT THIS!

Ewandro Magalhaes Ewandro Magalhaes is a writer, former United Nations staff and a conference interpreter. He is also a TED author, a professor and a former Chief Interpreter in the UN system....

[JITF2022] How Should Interpreters Defend Their Interests When Doing RSI

Tony Rosado For over 30 years, Tony has worked as conference interpreter for many highprofile events and clients, including the U.S. Department of State as an independent contractor; major rad...

[JITF2021] Consecutive Interpreting – Memory and Note-taking

Andrew Gillies Andy Gillies has been a freelance conference interpreter since 1996 and works from French, German and Polish into English at a number of International Institutions as well as fo...

[JITF2021] Note-taking Techniques: Why do I need those?

Debra Russell Debra is a Canadian certified interpreter, educator and researcher. As the previous David Peikoff Chair of Deaf Studies, at the University of Alberta, her research interests incl...

[JITF2021] Interpreting Services Price Quotes for the New Normal

Judy Jenner Judy Jenner is a Spanish and German business and legal translator and federally court-certified Spanish interpreter and conference interpreter in Las Vegas. She has an MBA in marke...

[JITF2021] Sound Choices for RSI – How To Create Your Ideal Audio Setup

Naomi Bowman Naomi Bowman is CEO of DS-Interpretation, Inc., a US-based conference interpreting services company that will be celebrating its 50th year in business in 2022. The company has bee...

[JITF2021] The Skills Of An Actor In Interpreting

Matthew Perret Matthew Perret has been writing and performing drama and comedy since childhood, first appearing in a one-man-show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe aged 19. He studied languages...