Friday, September 21 is the last day to register for the upcoming American Translators Association conference (October 24-27 in San Diego) at the Early Bird rate. If you know you’ll be attending, hop on over to the ATA website and register. You have better ways to spend money than missing the Early Bird deadline!
I’ll be presenting a pre-conference seminar: Beyond the Basics of Freelancing. I presented the same session (or at least the same topic!) at the ATA conference in Denver and it sold out, so please register ahead of time if you would like to attend! Beyond the Basics is a three-hour workshop for intermediate to advanced freelancers who want to optimize their relationship with translation agencies, pursue direct clients, raise their profile in the industry and, just for kicks, become better translators! My session is in the morning slot, and in the afternoon slot I’m looking forward to attending Chris Durban’s seminar on Working the Room!
The San Diego conference has plenty of fantastic sessions on tap: Riccardo Schiaffino of About Translation asked me to mention that the Italian Division is bringing in a pair of high-profile Distinguished Speakers. Italian bestselling author Beppe Severgnini and his English translator, Giles Watson will both be speaking at the conference. Even if you don’t translate Italian, these look like a pair of very interesting sessions!
Hope to see lots of you in San Diego!
Hi: I follow your blog, and I like it very much. Congratulations! I have a question: will there be an extra charge to attend your pre-conference seminar on Wednesday morning? I understand there is a fee to attend the conference, but I am also interested in some pre conference seminars. Please advice me, Thank you Nora Migone
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Thanks Nora! Hope to see you in San Diego! The pre-conference seminars are $100 each in addition to the main conference. Personally I think they are well worth it because of the targeted topics and the quality of the speakers. Also, I think it’s helpful to compare the cost of the ATA conference to other, similar conferences in other countries, many of which cost *per day* what the ATA conference costs for 3 days. You’ll see the pre-conference seminar fees listed when you open the registration form on ATA’s site.
See you there! Can’t wait! It’s my favorite week of the year. Go ATA conferences! Ah, and looks like the pre-conference fees went from $50 to $100, right? I completely agree with you, though. These are still fairly reasonable rates. I’ve been to e-commerce conferences, and those tend to run up to $700 a DAY!
Hi Corinne,
See you in San Diego… and thank you very much for mentioning the ILD’s activities!
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