Clients
Conference language Services has provided interpretation for some of the highest-level conferences and most demanding clients in the United States, Great Britain, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Italy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, The Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Thailand, Korea, China, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Senegal, Ethiopia, and South Africa.
Here are some of the events:
G-8
Jobs Conference (Kobe, Japan)
Parliamentary security Meetings (Chicago, IL).
IOC
President Putin’s speech in his bid for Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 (Guatemala City, Guatemala).
CBS
Bush-Gorbachev Summit meeting (Washington, DC).
US Information Agency
President Reagan’s meeting with Soviet media executives (Washington, DC).
United Methodist Church
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia (Fort Worth, TX).
12th International Energy Forum
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa, President of Mexico (Cancun, Mexico).
The United Nations
Ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 9) (Cali, Colombia).
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Power Generation conference (Moscow, Russia)
Workshop on preparing financial packages for Russian power plants. (Gatlinburg, TN);
Workshop on energy-efficient construction. (Moscow, Russia);
US-Kazakhstan workshop on energy-efficient construction. (Washington, DC);
Workshop on corporate, financial and legal structure of utilities (Charleston, SC);
U.S. High Temperature Gas Turbine Mission to Russia (Moscow, Russia);
Power Generation and Distribution Law International Conference (Moscow, Russia);
Workshop on technologies and experience of oil and gas production in the Arctic. (Anchorage, Alaska);
Workshop on export controls at the Nuclear Research Institute (Kiev, Ukraine);
Workshop on oil spill emergency response system (Odessa, Ukraine);
Talks with Kazakhstan on energy-efficient construction (Washington, DC).
Oil Spill Response Workshop for Heads of RF Administrations (Oak Ridge, TN).
Kazakhstan Nuclear Study Tour (Washington, DC, Yucca Mountain, NE).
US-Kazakhstan Energy Partnership (Washington, DC).
CERBA
Evolving Opportunities in the Russian Mining Sector (Toronto, Canada).
Shell Oil (Criterion)
Ebullated Bed Resid Upgrading Workshop (Kananaskis, Canada)
Environmental Protection Agency
Scientific exchange on Dose Reconstruction. (Site visits to Chernobyl, Chelyabinsk and other nuclear accident locations);
U.S./Gazprom Working Group meetings (Moscow).
University of California
Workshops on Dose Reconstruction.
Centers for Disease Control
Nuclear Epidemiology Seminars. (Atlanta, GA)
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Exchange program with GOSSTANDART, Russia. Annual meetings (in the U.S. and Russia).
Argonne National Laboratory
Scientific exchange with Semipalatinsk, Novaia Zemlia and other Russian scientists on nuclear armaments.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
New generation nuclear power plant design and operation.
Odessa Ecoport project workshop (Odessa, Ukraine.)
Oil spill rapid response and containment (Constanza, Romania).
Livermore National Laboratory
Russian and Byelorussian scientist briefings on Lab’s cutting edge research (Livermore, CA);
Plutonium Workshop (Pleasanton, CA).
Sandia National Laboratory
Nuclear arsenal support conferences (London, England and Vienna, Austria).
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Program to assist GOSATOMNADZOR in writing Russian legislation on commissioning and decommissioning nuclear power plants.
U.S. Department of Defence
Workshops with Russian Ministry of Defence on nuclear arsenal stewardship in the post-CBNT era (London, England and Vienna, Austria);
5th US-Russian Federation Missile Defence Exercise (MDEX) (Ft. Bliss, TX);
Information Exchange with Kazakhstan Military Police (Fort McPherson, GA; Ft. Leonard Wood, MO);
US-Russia GPS-GLONASS WG-1 Meeting (Cocoa Beach, FL);
US-Kazakhstan Five-year Planning Working Group (Tampa, FL);
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan PJ training (Albuquerque, NM);
CENTCOM Staff Talks with Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan (Tampa, FL);
PR exchange with Kazakhstan and Tajikistan (New Orleans, LA);
Advance mountain warfare exchange with Kazakhstan (Providence, RI);
Explosive ordnance disposal exchange with Uzbekistan (Valparaiso, FL and Atlanta, GA).
ECOFORUM 2008 (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation).
Center for Naval Analysis
Sea Power Forum (Washington, DC).
US Chief of Naval Operations ADM Gary Roughead
Nineteenth International Sea Power Symposium (Newport, RI).
Arthur Andersen
The Energy Symposium (Houston, TX).
MacArthur Foundation
Panel discussions and award ceremony for creative and effective NGOs (Chicago, IL). Annually.
Motorola
IRIDIUM satellite communications project Board of Directors meetings (Chicago, IL and Bangkok, Thailand);
Cellular communications and data transmittal infrastructure training for Russian network operators (Schaumburg, IL).
Land Mobile Product Sector certification exercises (Schaumburg, IL);
iDEN group negotiations (Schaumburg, IL);
The Global Distributor Summit (Schaumburg and Chicago, IL)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Underwriters Laboratories
Conference on industry-generated standards (Washington, DC).
The MITRE Corporation
US-Russia ecological conference on the use of defence satellites and space photography for environmental purposes (Washington, DC).
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Exchange program on seismic construction (Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA).
National Institutes of Health
Cancer conference (Washington, DC).
Conference on bypass surgery (Washington, DC).
Illinois General Assembly
Exchange program with members of CIS legislatures (Springfield, IL).
Arctic Council
Arctic Council Meeting (Anchorage, AK).
Senior Arctic Officials’ Meeting (Barrow, AK).
Canada Department of Public Works and Government Services
High Containment Laboratories (Winnipeg, Canada);
Inuit: Unity within Diversity. 2006 ICC General Assembly (Barrow, AK);
Paper and pulp seminar (Montréal, Canada);
Mining seminar (Toronto, Canada);
The Judicial Exchange (Banff Springs, Canada);
The visit of His Excellency Gundars Daudze, Speaker, Latvian Saeima (Ottawa, Toronto, Canada)
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Board of Directors and Working Meeting (Guatemala City, Guatemala);
Board of Directors and Working Meeting (Kunming, China);
Board of Directors and Working Meeting (New Delhi, India);
Partnership Forum (Dakar, Senegal);
Board of Directors and Working Meeting (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission
Annual meetings since its inception and RPCM (Vancouver, BC, Seattle, WA, Juneau, AK, Nanaimo, Canada, Vladivostok, Russian Federation, Jeju, Korea).
Wild Salmon Center
Meetings of the Board of Directors (Annually) (Portland, OR);
Sakhalin Monitoring Seminar (Vancouver, Canada);
Conservation Action Planning in Protected Areas: Workshop/Training (Anchorage, Alaska);
Exploring Market Incentives for Salmon Conservation (Portland, OR);
NGO Coalition Meeting (Portland, OR);
Sustainable Fisheries and Conservation Exchange (Washington, Oregon, California);
CAP Training Workshop (Elizovo, Kamchatka, Russia);
Conservation Priorities Workshop (Portland, OR);
Russia Programs Planning Week (Portland, OR);
Science Workshop (Portland, OR);
Fishery biological interactions (Portland, OR);
State of the Salmon (Portland, OR);
State of the Salmon (Anchorage, AK);
State of the Salmon 2008 (Vancouver, Canada)
U.S. Postal Service
International conference on latest research in mail processing robotics (fuzzy sets, etc.) (Washington, DC).
Union Carbide
High-density polyethylene plant technology transfer to Russia. Training program for Russian plant operators (Piscataway, NJ).
United States Information Agency
U.S.A. conference of the Presidents of U.S.S.R. Universities;
Small Business Administration school for Russian businessmen;
U.S.-U.S.S.R. Information Talks (Chief Interpreter).
American Bar Association
A.A. Sobchak, Mayor of Leningrad: appearances in the U.S.A.
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibilities in the United States: study tour by the Russian Federation Chamber of Lawyers (Chicago, IL)
GE Executive Training Course
GAZPROM executive training workshops (Crotonville, NY, and Moscow, Russia).
GE Power Systems
Turbine control training workshop.
U.S. Federal Reserve
Workshop for the heads of Central Banks of NIC.
U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S.-U.S.S.R. Commercial Commission;
Capital Goods and Overseas Construction Department seminars and meetings (in the US, Russia, and France);
Legal Department workshops on commercial law (Chicago, IL).
International Monetary Fund
Taxes in Emerging Economies Seminar (Washington, DC);
Conference on Second Generation Reforms (Washington, DC).
World Bank (Board of Governors)
Annual meetings (Washington, DC).
Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings
Meetings XXII-XXX (in Tromso, Norway; Lima, Peru; The Hague, Netherlands; Warsaw, Poland; Madrid, Spain; Cape Town, South Africa; Stockholm, Sweden; Edinburgh, UK; New Delhi, India; Baltimore, USA).
Brown University
Oral history conference: End of Cold War (Providence, RI).
FIFA
Soccer World Cup USA 1994 (Chicago, IL)
FIBA
The Seventeenth World Basketball Congress, World Basketball Championship (Indianapolis, IN)
AIBA (International Association of Amateur Boxing)
AIBA Extraordinary Congress (Chicago, IL)
FILA (International Association of Amateur Wrestling)
FILA Congress (Beijing, China)
International Olympic Committee
Games of the XXVIth Olympiad (the Centennial Olympic Games) (Atlanta, GA);
The Winter Olympics (Nagano, Japan);
The Winter Olympics (Salt Lake City, UT);
The XXIXth Olympic Games (Beijing, China)
The Winter Olympics (Vancouver, Canada);
The 114th IOC Session (Mexico City, Mexico);
The 119th IOC Session (Guatemala City, Guatemala);
The 120th IOC Session (Beijing, China).
Pepsi
Pepsi Ring of Honor (San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Albany, NY.) Annually.
Encore Entertainment
Treasures of Russia from Peterhof exhibition (Las Vegas, NV).
Faberge Collection at Casa Loma (Toronto, Canada).
The Field Museum
Kremlin Gold exhibition (Chicago, IL).
United Methodist Church
Quadrennial Conference (Fort Worth, TX).
Dow AgroSciences
International briefing (Indianapolis, IN).
Herbalife International
Herbalife Extravaganzas, Presidential Summits, Universities and Weekend Leadership Training Sessions (Orlando (4 times), Los Angeles (6 times), Chicago, London, Prague, Stuttgart, Rimini, Montecatini, Tokyo (3 times), Osaka, Kobe, Chiba, Fukuoka, Hong Kong, Moscow (3 times), Hawaii, Paris, Anaheim, Long Beach, Singapore, Atlanta).
Heartland International
A Training Program for Armenian Water Sector Specialists: Institutional and Regulatory Issues for the Water Sector (Chicago, IL).
International Launch Services
Astra 1K Launch Campaign (Baikonur, Kazakhstan).
City of Chicago
Chicago Global City Forum 2009 (Chicago, IL);
Richard J. Daley 2010 Global Cities Forum;
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Executive Bureau Meeting (Chicago, IL).