>The Forum "Sochi 2014: Translating the Games"
December 7-8, 2012, Sochi.
Day 1, Friday, 07.12.2012
- 09:00 – 09:30 – Registration, welcome coffee
- 09:30 – 10:00 – Forum opening: word of welcome from the Executive Vice-President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, D.G. Sekachev, and the Deputy Mayor of Sochi, A.A. Karandin
- 10:00 – 10:45 – Director of the Language Services Department at the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, A.V. Moiseev, "Management of language services during preparation and staging of the Games"
- 10:45 – 11:15 – Head of Interpreting Unit at the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, E.A. Sgibneva, and the Project Manager of Interpreting Unit at the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, G.A. Shirvanyants, "Preparing for the Games: initial experiences of interpreting at the Test Events. Figure Skating and Ski Jumping" - video address
- 11:15 – 12:00 – Head of the Volunteer Translators Unit at the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, I.B. Petrun, "Language volunteers: self-fulfillment and self-development"
- 12:00 – 12:30 – Coffee Break
- 12:30 – 13:15 – President of Janus Worldwide, K.S. Josseliani, "How to work successfully with the biggest linguistic services clients"
- 12:30 – 13:15 – Director of the St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation, Herzen University, I.S. Alekseeva, "Preparing interpreters: pathways to perfection in the profession"
- 14:00 – 15:00 – Games interpreter since 1976, Daniel Glon: "Languages and Cultures, and … Sports! An unlikely triad"
- 15:00 – 16:00 – Lunch break
- 16:00 – 17:00 – Member of the Sochi Interpreters & Translators League, Y.A. Yurchenko, "The changing nature of interpreters' work on the way to the Games"
- 17:00 – 17:30 – Transfer to the figure skating venue
- 18:00 – 19:00 – Attendance at the figure skating competitions
- 19:00 – 19:30 – Transfer to the hotel
- 20:00 – 22:00 – Buffet