Countdown to the Social Business Forum 2013 - #SBF13

Men at Work: Bruno and Ian will be in the booth again at #SBF13

The hours are ticking away – and the 6^th Social Business Forum is now less than 2 days away!

As the speakers, attendees and members of the Interpret the Future team make their way towards Milan we would like to give you a snapshot of our preparations for this event.

The Interpret the Future group now has eight professional interpreters who will be providing a feed of simultaneous translation from Italian into English and English into Italian.

Returning from last year we have Loredana Nano, Alice Bertinotti, Lara Warburton, Ian Mansbridge and Bruno Musarra. This year we also welcome three new team members: Veronica Cioni, Daniela Negru and Flavio Lanteri.

The team have been intensively preparing for this event by familiarising themselves with specialist Social Business vocabulary that they have collated using an online spreadsheet in Google Drive.

We are also using Google Drive to co-ordinate all the interpreting activities on the two days of the forum via another spreadsheet which each member of the group has access to and can edit in real time.

Other useful information, links and documents available online have been shared with the interpreters.  

These include two key documents written by OpenKnowledge and published by the Harvard Business Review Italia:

·        Social Business Manifesto – published in 2012, this seminal document provided a clarion call for transforming business during the Social Business Forum 2012.

·        Social Business Toolkit – to be published this year in the HBR Italia, the Toolkit provides a complete set of practices and tasks that can be implemented to help companies become more social.

With a host of top flight speakers at the event this year –  including Sandy Carter of IBM, Brett King, Jacob Morgan, Ray Wang and many more – this looks like being another great Social Business Forum. 

And the highly resourceful translation professionals of Interpret the Future will again be an integral part of the mix.

Looking forward to Wednesday 12^th June 2013 when the Social Business Forum 2013 will kick off. Hope to meet you there!

Robert Dennis,

Project co-ordinator for Interpret the Future
CEO and Head of Innovation at Riverstone Language & Communications

Interpret the Future is back at the Social Business Forum 2013 this June!

Interpret the Future demolishes the language barrier at SBF12

Interpret the Future is one year old! And to celebrate we will be returning to the Marriott Hotel in Via Washington, Milano this June for the Social Business Forum 2013.

Following the success of Interpret the Future at last year’s Social Business Forum, OpenKnowledge has asked us again to provide the interpreting service at the leading Social Business event in Europe, which will take place in Milan on June 12-13 2013.

Led once more by Robert Dennis of Riverstone Language & Communications our team of interpreters will be on hand to help make the Social Business Forum 2013 as successful as possible with expert, simultaneous translation both from Italian into English and from English into Italian.

The Interpret the Future team has grown this year: we now have eight interpreters who will be working on both days of the Forum to enable everyone who attends to get the maximum benefit – and not miss any of the pearls of wisdom and business insight offered by the speakers.

Stay up to date with our preparations for this key event in the social business calendar and find out more about what the people in our team have been doing since last year. You can also share any comments, feedback or questions you may have about interpreting, the Social Business Forum and any aspects of translation or language in business. All of the interpreters and other language experts in our team will be happy to share their knowledge and experience – and to reveal some of the tricks of the trade (for example in this post by Lara Warburton).

The Social Business Forum 2012 was a great event and we are confident SBF13 will be even more brilliant with a line-up of top-name speakers – all of whom will be able to get their message across in both English and Italian thanks to the professionals of Interpret the Future.

Loredana Nano of Interpret the Future in action!

Click here to find out all about the Social Business Forum 2013 and how to book your place now.