How the Ukrainian Translation Industry Conference took me by surprise What’s so special about UTIC? Finally, my first on-site translation conference this year! This conference was also unique due to its uncommon location in a pine forest (a campsite outside of Dnipro in Ukraine) and its cozy family feel (participants could bring their families along as well). It surprised me more than any other event of its type. We had evenings around the campfire, accompanied by music from guitars…
Nordic Translation Industry Forum (NTIF) 2019 in Gothenburg During the seven years it has been running, the NTIF conference has taken place in all the Nordic countries, including faraway Iceland. This time, conference participants were invited to Gothenburg, the second-largest city in Sweden. Although promoted as a forum for language industry representatives from the Nordic and Baltic countries, the conference caught my attention too. I was not the only person from Central and Eastern Europe to…