The Northwest Translators & Interpreters Society is proud to present its 2025 Annual Conference (#NOTIS2025) in honor of International Translation Day! This year’s lively in-person event will bring together local translation & interpretation professionals for a full day of networking, workshops, skills training sessions, presentations, and more. Don't miss this opportunity for professional growth, interpersonal connection, and inspiration ✨ with the best in the business! 

Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025 
Time: 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. PDT
Location: Lynnwood Event Center
3711 196th St SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036

Our dynamic 2025 conference program (see below) 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, and intercultural competency for interpreters and translators. 

We are delighted 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 three conference sessions: the keynote address, titled "Articulate Your Human Value in a Language Services Industry Grappling with Artificiality" and two additional sessions on T&I Ethical Dilemmas and The Basics of Terminology Management. 

Please find session descriptions here and speaker bios here. To view and download a PDF version of this schedule, click here.

cost of admission

REGISTER HERE!

* The non-member rate automatically includes a one-year NOTIS membership!
Explore your new membership benefits here.

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP COST:
 Student - $25  |  Individual - $55  |  Institutional - $75  |  Corporate - $95

Why join NOTIS? For a complete list of level-specific member benefits, visit notisnet.org/why-join. 

Thank you to OUR SPONSORS!

Want to SPONSOR this event & promote your organization? Click here for details.
Click on the links or logos below to visit our sponsors' websites! To date, our NOTIS 2025 sponsors are: 

Interpreters United, WFSE/AFSCME Council 28 Local 1671 (Diamond)
Universal Language Service, Inc. (Diamond)
SOSi (Gold)
Seattle Central College Continuing Education (Silver) 
Bellevue College Continuing Education (Bronze)

A special shout-out to the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters (OSTI) — collaborative sponsors of this year's event.

And, last but not least, thank you to our parent organization, the American Translators Association (ATA). Don't miss ATA 66 in Boston this fall!