Other events

Friday, 10 May 2024
11 pm to midnight (NZST)
Online

Numbers don’t lie: The language industry continues growing, and the demand for language services is at an all-time high. And yet, we find ourselves in a peculiar moment of the industry’s growth trajectory, with professionals and companies wondering how their future will look, with AI especially being seen as the great disruptor coming for our jobs. Perhaps surprisingly, localization managers on the client-side report that AI is driving renewed interest in languages from their companies. Is there hope that AI is not on the hunt for our jobs after all? AI will continue to shape our industry, so how do we reinvent the rules of the game to enable us to continue growing personally and professionally? In this one-hour session, we’ll talk about the global state of the industry in 2023/2024, the transformation we’re undergoing. We will also shed light on what is the reality of those first in line tasked with bringing AI in localization to life — the localization teams — and discuss prospects for future reinvention, in a world where human and machine thrive alongside each other.

Sunday, 19 May 2024
6.00 - 8.00 am (NZST)
Online

In this presentation we will briefly review the history of how Artificial Intelligence has developed for language access and explain the basic workings of how AI functions in language access in general. Finally, we will identify the weaknesses and strengths in the current AI technology used in language access in order to allow attendees to gauge the risks of this technology with an eye to being able to explain them to potential clients who might feel AI is a "cost-saving solution" which eliminates the human being from the process.

In the Neighbourhood: Connecting, Growing and Celebrating our Communities

6-7 July 2024, Wellington, New Zealand

In an increasingly globally connected interpreting profession, SLIANZ invites you to strengthen connections close to home and forge new links at our 2024 face-to-face conference.