REGISTRATION is CLOSED
NOTIS 2025 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Date: Saturday, September 13
Time: 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. PDT
Location: Lynnwood Event Center
3711 196th St SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036
Don't miss this opportunity for professional growth, interpersonal connection, and inspiration ✨ with the best in the business! This year’s lively in-person event will bring together local translation & interpretation professionals for a full day of networking, T&I workshops, skills training sessions, presentations, and more.
Our dynamic 2025 conference program will include such wide-ranging topics as legal terminology, medical interpreter ethics, the politics of Russian translation, sleep as self-care for language professionals, poetry translation and publication, note taking for interpreters, managing ambiguous phrases in translation, participating in practice groups to improve interpreting, and intercultural competency for interpreters and translators.
Click the links below to learn about our stellar 2025 speakers and the stimulating conference sessions they'll be leading!
We are thrilled to announce our 2025 Keynote Speaker, Dr. Devin Gilbert: a certified Spanish and Portuguese-to-English translation and interpreting practitioner, researcher, and educator with a PhD in Translation Studies from Kent State.
Devin will lead a total of 3 conference sessions, including his keynote presentation: Articulate Your Human Value in a Language Services Industry Grappling with Artificiality. Click the "SESSIONS" link above for details on all three!
REGISTRATION is CLOSED
Registration includes access to all conference sessions and activities, coffee and tea service, and a catered lunch. NOTE: Early-bird registration is no longer available.
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Early Bird |
8/23–9/8 |
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NOTIS Member
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$115 |
$130 |
| Student Member |
$70 |
$85 |
| Non-member** |
$185 |
$200 |
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** The non-member rate for this year's conference automatically includes a one-year NOTIS membership! Explore your new benefits here.
CANCELLATION FEE:
$25 during early-bird registration; $50 after August 22
NOTE: Registration will close at midnight on September 8; no cancellations will be processed after this time.
To view and/or download a PDF version of this schedule, click HERE.
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NOTE: The schedule may experience minor changes in the days leading up to the event. Click the hyperlinks to see our speaker bios and full session descriptions.
See all four tables below for additional details.
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Credits |
Status |
| WA DSHS |
2.5 general |
Approved (Approval number: 828) NOTE: DSHS has approved all one-day conferences for 2.5 general credits. |
| WA AOC |
8 general credits
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Approved |
| OJD |
4 general, 2 ethics |
Approved |
| ATA |
5 CEU points
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Approved |
| CA CIMCE |
Requested
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Approved (Please see the table below for session-by-session approval details.) |
| CCHI |
6 instructional hours
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Approved (#10829) |
| IMIA/NBCMI |
6 contact hours = 0.6 CEUs |
Approved (Registry ID 24-CF-1018)
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Agency Codes
WA AOC - Washington Administrative Office of the Courts
OJD - Oregon Judicial Department
ATA - American Translators Association
WA DSHS - Washington Dept. of Social and Human Services
CA CIMCE - California Court Interpreter Minimum Continuing Education Credit
CCHI - Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters
IMIA/NBCMI - International Medical Interpreters Association/The National Board of Certification of Medical Interpreters
NOTE: Participants are not required to sign in to individual sessions to receive CEUs. NOTIS will send a Certificate of Attendance to each participant after the conference, which may be used as proof of attendance if needed. Please contact info@notisnet.org if you have any questions.
List of approved sessions by agency (if provided)
WA AOC
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Conference Session Title
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Ethics
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General
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Performance
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Ethical Dilemmas in Interpreting
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1.00
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0.00
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0.00
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Creating Effective Study Groups: Practice Makes Progress
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0.00
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0.00
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1.00
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How to Handle Ambiguous or Unclear Source Sentences
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0.00
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0.00
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1.00
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The Basics of Terminology Management
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0.00
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0.00
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1.00
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Introduction to Note-Taking for Dialogue Consecutive
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0.00
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0.00
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2.00
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Refining Consecutive Note-Taking Skills
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0.00
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0.00
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2.00
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The Interpreter as a Sleeping Beauty: Topics and Strategies
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0.00
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1.00
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0.00
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Intercultural Competency for Translators and Interpreters: What Is It? ...
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0.00
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2.00
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0.00
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Poetry Translation A to Z: From First Poems to First Book
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0.00
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1.00
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0.00
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Russian Literary Translation and Human Rights in the Putin Era
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0.00
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1.00
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0.00
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The Revised National Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice: What’s Changed
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1.00
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0.00
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0.00
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Court Language Review: Common and Uncommon Terms, Acronyms, Abbreviations ...
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0.00
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0.00
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1.00
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Articulate Your Human Value in a Language Services Industry Grappling with Artificiality
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0.00
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1.00
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0.00
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CCHI
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Session
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CEAP code
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| 1. Articulate Your Human Value in a Language Services Industry Grappling with Artificiality (1 CE Hour) |
NO10125A
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2. Live Audience Thoughts on Ethical Dilemmas in Interpreting (1 CE Hour)
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NO10225B
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3. How to Handle Ambiguous or Unclear Source Sentences (1 CE Hour)
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NO10325C
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| 4. The Interpreter as a Sleeping Beauty (1 CE Hour) |
NO10425D
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| 5. Introduction to Note-taking for Dialogue Consecutive (2 PB Hours) |
NO10525E
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| 6. The Basics of Terminology Management: Simple yet Powerful Things that Many Linguistics Get Wrong (1 CE Hour) |
NO10625F
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| 7. Practice Makes Progress: Creating Effective Interpreter Practice Groups (1 CE Hour) |
NO10725G
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| 8. The Revised National Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice: What’s Changed? (1 CE Hour) |
NO10825H
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| 9. Refining Consecutive Note-taking Skills (2 PB Hours) |
NO10925I
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10. Intercultural Competency: What is it? Why do I need it? How do I get it? (2 CE Hour)
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NO11025J
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CIMCE
Click HERE to offer or join a carpool with your colleagues!
Please note: Carpooling is arranged independently among participants. NOTIS is not responsible for any issues or liability related to carpooling arrangements.
The nearest hotel to the venue is Best Western Alderwood, located essentially on the other side of the parking lot from the Lynnwood Event Center.
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THANK YOU, SPONSORS!
Listed below are the organizations that have already signed on as generous sponsors of this year's annual conference! To learn more about them, click on the hyperlinks below.
Interpreters United, WFSE/AFSCME Council 28 Local 1671 – Diamond
Universal Language Service, Inc. (ULS) – Diamond
SOSi – Gold
Seattle Central College Continuing Education – Silver
Bellevue College Continuing Education – Bronze
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With the gracious support of our parent organization: the American Translators Association (ATA)
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