#Kieli2019 – Suomen Kielipalveluyritykset SKY ry

LANGUAGE BUSINESS – BUSINESS FROM LANGUAGE

Finnish Language Service Providers SKY is organizing the #KIELI2019 conference at Finlandia Hall on 5 September 2019.

#KIELI2019 is Finnish for Language2019 and, as the name suggests, the conference will focus on language and language services in 2019 and beyond. The organiser of the conference SKY represents Finnish language service providers and service providers operating in Finland. One of its main goals is to increase the visibility of language services and the companies that offer them.

The theme for the #KIELI2019 conference is “LANGUAGE BUSINESS – BUSINESS FROM LANGUAGE”. Alongside its importance to art and culture, this year’s theme highlights the significant role language plays in the business world at a time when multilingualism has become part of the everyday activities of many companies and a key to business success.

#KIELI2019 will feature interesting presentations and discussions for companies offering language services and customers interested in language services, experts working as partners of language service providers and those working for them. The conference presents an opportunity to gather information, find partners and develop your company’s operations and the expertise of your personnel. Perhaps most important of all, the conference is excellent for networking!

Why #KIELI2019?

Customers:

What kinds of companies and innovations does the Finnish language service
industry include?
How is the language service industry developing and what could it offer your
organisation?

Language service providers:

What kinds of business models are succeeding?
How could you develop your processes and operations?
What kinds of benefits do you get from being a member of an industry organisation?

Translators and interpreters:

Which languages and language services will be most in demand in the future?
Could the conference offer new job opportunities?

Make a note of the date of the conference now! Welcome to the #KIELI2019
conference to find inspiration and network!

Additional information will be added to the website soon!

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Early Bird prices are available until the end of June!

PROGRAM

TIME

PROGRAM

9-9.30

REGISTRATION

MORNING COFFEE

9.30-9.45

WELCOME

Katja Virtanen, SKY ry

9.45-10.45

Should we invest in anything? If so, why? Case: Language Technology

Kim Väisänen

10.45-11.45

Integration and Language Training in Finland – Business from Language

Toni Varis

LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

BUSINESS

EXHIBITORS

13-13.30

Language Technology as an Enabler for AI

Juha Tarvainen, Lingsoft

13.30-14.00

Rethinking Interpretation in Emergency Health Care – to On demand to/from English

Mattias Schain (Semantix) & Pia Malmquist (Karolinska universitetssjukhuset)

14.00-14.30

TBA

14.30-15.00

AFTERNOON COFFEE

15.00-16.00

Talking Human in the Complex World

(In Finnish)

Juhana Torkki

16.00-17.00

AFTER CONFERENCE DRINKS

Juhana Torkki

Talking Human in the Complex World

Juhana Torkki (b. 1977) is an author of popular books on rhetoric and storytelling, holds a PhD in Theology and is a public speaking instructor for the nation’s leading dignitaries. He has stimulated debate about public speaking skills using the teachings of Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian as his authority.

Toni Varis

Integration and Language Training in Finland – Business from Language

In Finland, 60 million euros is spent annually on integration training for immigrants. Societally important training is provided by both educational institutions and private service providers. How should responsible integration training and business be combined?

Director of education and development Toni Varis serves as the speaker.

Kim Väisänen

Should we invest in anything? If so, why? Case: Language Technology

Kim Väisänen is a former startup investor, a serial failure, amateur of administration and a father. He has also participated in Leijonan Luola (Lions’ Den), the Finnish version of the popular tv show, Dragons’ Den. Awards: The first person to win the Internationalisation Award of the President of the Republic twice; both in 2013 and 2017. Finnish Business Angel of the Year 2017 and Entrepreneur of the Year 2012.

Juha Tarvainen

Language Technology as an Enabler for AI

Juha works as CTO at Lingsoft. He has over 10 years experience on using language technology as key part in different customer and service solutions.

Mattias Schain

Rethinking Interpretation in Emergency Health Care – to On demand to/from English

In this session, Mattias Schain, business development manager for on-demand interpretation at Semantix, and Pia Malmquist, chief physican at the Children’s Emergency Ward at the Karolinska hospital in Stockholm, will present the results of a pilot study in 2018-2019 in the The Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, the second biggest hospital in Sweden with some 16 000 employees. A large part of the patients are in need of interpretation. In a five-month study, the hospital’s children’s emergency ward tested a new way of interpretation through Semantix’ app Tolkvox. The change of method meant that instead of pre-booking phone interpreters with a short notice, the doctors and nurses used on-demand interpreters via an app on their individual – in many cases private – phones. Also, instead of using Swedish as the base language, they used English. This enabled them to use qualified interpreters in the UK, US and eleven other countries, massively increasing the availability of interpreters.

Katja Virtanen

Chairwoman of Finnish Language Service Providers (SKY) ry

Katja is the Chairwoman of Finnish Language Service Providers, the organizer of #KIELI2019. In addition to association work, Katja—who has also worked as an interpreter, translator and language trainer—is CEO of Delingua Language Services, a company she founded in 2005.

Venue

The #KIELI2019 conference will be organised on 5 September 2019 at Finlandia Hall’s (Mannerheimintie 13, Helsinki, Finland) Terrace Hall. Finlandia Hall has excellent connections from the railway station and the bus station, and the closest tram and bus stops are located in the vicinity of the building. Read more instructions on how to get to Finlandia Hall here.

Accommodation

The closest hotels to Finlandia Hall are Crowne Plaza Helsinki, Scandic Park Helsinki and Holiday Inn Helsinki City Centre, all located within approximately 0.5 km of the conference
venue. However, all hotels in the city centre are within walking distance or only a few tram stops away.

See you at Finlandia Hall at the #KIELI2019 conference!

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