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Intertask: Delivering remote interpreting to over 90 sessions

By Patricia Magaz on Jul 11, 2022 10:45:34 AM

Intertask Conferences has been Canada’s leading provider of conference, exhibition, and special event services since 1973. A Professional Congress Organiser (PCO) consultant company that offers full PCO services, from budget development to program support, scientific abstract management, to exhibit and sponsorship sales and fulfilment. There is no PCO task that Intertask has not undertaken at one point in time.

Topics: Event & Interpretation Support Conferences Multilingual Web Conferencing PCO
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Setting up a hybrid event at CICG to connect on-site and remote delegates and interpreters

By Markus Aregger on Oct 27, 2021 9:50:53 AM

The Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG), located in close proximity to Lake Geneva, has been home to international congresses, conferences, seminars and exhibitions for over 40 years.

Topics: Event & Interpretation Support Conferences Governmental & Non Profits Hybrid Events In-Person Events
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How the Virtual HiiL Innovating Justice Forum provided live interpretation in 2 languages with Hopin and Interprefy

By Markus Aregger on Apr 16, 2021 8:20:18 AM

About HiiL Innovating Justice Forum

The HiiL Innovating Justice Forum is a yearly event focused on making justice accessible, affordable, and easy to understand for everyone. It’s hosted by HiiL, a foundation dedicated to justice innovation. HiiL’s mission is to achieve equal justice for all by 2030. 

At the Innovating Justice Forum, HiiL showcases their research and work and facilitates discussions on innovation in the justice system. Promising  startups focused on improving the justice system also compete against each other in a pitch competition. HiiL then selects a winning startup by determining which one has the best idea to innovate justice.

Challenge

Traditionally, HiiL held the Innovating Justice Forum at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, an in-person gathering was impossible for their 2021 forum. 

That’s why HiiL chose to host their first-ever fully-virtual Innovating Justice Forum. 

HiiL’s 3 primary goals for the 2021 Innovating Justice Forum:

  1. Reproduce the atmosphere and experience of an in-person event.
  2. Build a branded virtual experience mirroring the look and feel of prior, in-person Innovating Justice Forums.
  3. Offer live language interpretation from English to Arabic and from English to French inside the virtual event interface. This was a key feature for HiiL as the event was in English but many attendees spoke only Arabic or French.

Solution

HiiL chose Hopin as their virtual event platform, because Hopin met all three of these goals. “We moved to Hopin, because we wanted to really recreate as much as possible the experience of an in-person event. We felt Hopin was the platform that would allow us to do that,” Michelle Ton, Project Manager at HiiL, says.

Hopin features used:

  • Stage: Keynote speakers spoke from a Hopin Stage.
  • Sessions: Attendees could join interactive breakout sessions on specific topics inside Hopin Sessions.
  • One-on-one networking: Attendees met 1-on-1 to meet and chat with each other.
  • Expo: Inside the Expo, 14 startups pitched their ideas for innovating the justice system.
  • StreamYard: HiiL used StreamYard to live stream branded video content to the stage.

On top of that, HiiL used Interprefy, integrating it with Hopin to add live language interpretation to the event.

With the Interprefy and Hopin integration, attendees were able to access live translations of English talks into Arabic and French, directly inside Hopin via a widget. Attendees simply clicked in the interpretation widget and selected their language. Then, they could immediately hear a live translation in their own language from real interpreters.

Pro tip: You can add the Interprefy widget to the Hopin Stage, Sessions, and Expo areas.

I think it's a great tool,” says Michelle Ton, Project Manager at HiiL about the Interprefy and Hopin integration.  “And for the interpreters, it was easy to use. They gave us positive feedback.

Learn more: How to Integrate Interprefy and Hopin

Result

Over 1,000 people from around the world attended the virtual Innovating Justice Forum. “We found that having the event online really opened it up to a whole new group of people who would otherwise not be able to join us” says Ton. “I would recommend Hopin to international organizations, because it offers a really great alternative to organizing a physical event.”

Topics: Remote Simultaneous Interpretation Conferences Customer Stories Interprefy Partners Virtual Events
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World Teachers' Day 2020 - connecting 500,000 people in 24-hour live stream

By Markus Aregger on Nov 10, 2020 3:37:20 PM

World Teachers' Day 2020 on 5 October constituted an unprecedented moment for educators worldwide. Streaming live on YouTube for 24 hours, more than 500,000 people around the globe tuned in to follow the 100+ sessions, delivered in 7 languages, to reconnect about what educators have learned during the pandemic and what it will take to build back better.

Topics: Conferences Educational Institutions & Associations Customer Stories Virtual Events
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Bringing the global boxing family together for the 99th Convention of the World Boxing Association

By Markus Aregger on Sep 24, 2020 10:50:15 AM

Overview

A fully-virtual global event

Just two months before the event, it appeared as if the 99th Convention of the World Boxing Association (WBA), might fall through the ropes. But demonstrating their pioneering spirit, WBA adopted cutting-edge technology to bring together the great boxing family spread across the planet from July 1st to 4th, 2020.

Topics: Online Events Event & Interpretation Support Conferences Sports GoToWebinar & GoToMeeting Multilingual Web Conferencing Virtual Events
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5,000 Experts Tackling Global Health Issues During Multilingual Vaccine Virtual Days

By Kim Ludvigsen on Aug 6, 2020 10:02:07 AM

Overview

Moving a physical event online with a short notice

Due to COVID-19, healthcare professionals have missed out on critical opportunities to connect with both experts and peers, whilst facing a global crisis that requires collaboration and knowledge sharing like never before. This is why an independent scientific committee of leading experts has designed an interactive 2-day programme to bring healthcare professionals together. 

Topics: Event & Interpretation Support Conferences Healthcare Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences ON24 Multilingual Web Conferencing Virtual Events
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The Postal Union hosts international conference in English & French

By Kim Ludvigsen on Jun 3, 2019 5:41:00 PM

Overview

The Postal Union for the Mediterranean (PUMed) was established in 2011 by 14 Postal Operators across the Mediterranean Region. PUMed is a restricted union of the Universal Postal Union (UPU). Established in 1874, the Universal Postal Union (UPU), with its headquarters in the Swiss capital Berne, is the second oldest international organization worldwide. Today, PUMed counts up to 21 member organizations.

Topics: Conferences Educational Institutions & Associations Technology & Telecommunications In-Person Events
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Roche reduce costs and win back floorspace in two-day, five-language event

By Kim Ludvigsen on Apr 4, 2019 4:41:00 PM

Overview

Roche AG is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide. Interprefy provided interpreting in five languages for this highly technical summit.

Topics: Conferences Healthcare Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Hybrid Events In-Person Events
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Google sets record with 13 languages & 102 interpreters at major summit

By Kim Ludvigsen on Nov 30, 2018 12:15:00 PM

Overview

This was a large summit with a jam-packed agenda consisting of conference-style presentations, product demonstrations and smaller break-out sessions. With numerous meetings and presentations running simultaneously across several venues, there was a high level of complexity.

Topics: Conferences Technology & Telecommunications In-Person Events
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Dansk Industri employs remote interpreting for over 250 delegates

By Kim Ludvigsen on Nov 29, 2018 9:45:00 AM

Overview

The Confederation of Danish Industri (DI) is Denmark’s largest, most representative and most influential business and employers’ organisation, covering manufacturing as well as service industries across sectors such as transport, energy, IT, health, trade and professional services. DI’s event team wanted to hold a conference with Arabic-speaking participants in January 2017 at the Hotel Narcissus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event was organised using the hotel's WiFi network at very short notice.

Topics: Conferences Educational Institutions & Associations Finance and Insurance In-Person Events