BP Translation Conferences have always been at the forefront of embracing new technology and new techniques of organizing events for translators.  In 2020 we were first ones to successfully transition the entire event to an online platform in just a few weeks.  Earlier we were the first ones to show first names on attendee badges in large print to make it easier to socialize.

This year we carry on introducing new solutions to make networking easier — this time by moving our online networking activities to a brand new platform that allows to form more meaningful connections with fellow attendees.

Many translators tend to get stuck in years of routine when conducting their freelance business.   BP Translation Conferences, with their focus on Business & Practice, help you become more efficient in what you and encourage you to try new techniques — hence this year’s motto:  Breaking Patterns.

BP21 Translation Conference will take place over 4 days on 20-23 April 2021 (Tuesday to Friday), between 14:30 and 19:10 CET every day, in two parallel tracks on the Zoom platform. 

We will probably have some workshops on Monday, 19 April and the preceding Friday.

Timings are chosen to allow as many translators as possible to join in from various different time zones.

As long as we have online events, we can give discounts to colleagues from lower-income countries.  Essentially the prices of our online events and video collections depend on which country you buy your tickets from.

The prices you see on our online store are based on your computer’s ID address, and may not be accurate. The definitive prices are applied on the Checkout page after entering your invoicing details.

Currently displayed prices are valid only for the first 100 tickets sold.  Prices for the next batch of 100 tickets will be somewhat higher, and so on.

As a reference, the ‘Super early bird’ price for translators in the highest income countries is 80€ (+VAT), and the price will eventually reach 120€.  Prices in the lowest income countries start at 30€ and will eventually reach 45€.

As soon as workshops will be published, you’ll be able to purchase workshop tickets at reduced prices available for BP21 attendees (i.e. you don’t necessarily have to buy these items at the same time.)

So you’ve found your feet, acquired experience at the wordface, and built up a reliable fallback clientele. You feel ready to seek out new, more demanding clients. Direct clients.
But many of the tips and tricks that work with translation companies or wow fellow linguists on social media won’t get you far. They may even backfire. It’s time to re-examine how you engage. Want to get past the Praetorian Guard and into the inner sanctum? For starters, it’s less about military tactics and more about learning the steps of an intricate dance. Because you need to know the moves before you can execute them.

Chris Durban is a French>English translator based in Paris. She translates every day—primarily business texts for demanding clients—and enjoys it no end. She co-authored “The Prosperous Translator” and contributed to “101 things a translator needs to know”, and has written client education materials (“Translation, getting it right“). She is also the founder of SFT’s Université d’été de la traduction financière, and a co-founder the Translate in… series of writing workshops for translators, plus occasional lecturer and instructor.

Learning how to set your translation rates is key when you’re a freelancer. To do so, you have to consider and research several factors, such as market trends, your competitors, your current circumstances and your clients’ needs. The only way to achieve your financial goals and make your clients happy is by setting your rates consciously and with data to back you up.

During this session, we will explore how to use four pricing strategies (value-based pricing, penetration pricing, competitor pricing and premium pricing) to determine our translation rates and how to research data for each strategy. We will also look at cost-based pricing as a way to calculate your minimum rate and use it as a starting point for other pricing strategies.

Finally, we will briefly touch upon common pricing conundrums, such as what to do when a client asks for a lower price, or how to raise your rates over time.

Martina is a coffee-fuelled, pizza-loving Italian translator based in Hove, UK. She’s the owner and director of 3P Translation, a company that helps English-speaking SMEs in the food, travel, tourism and hospitality industries grow internationally by providing marketing translation services.

Martina also works as a business and marketing consultant, and she’s a visiting lecturer at London Metropolitan University, where she teaches Business Translation to MA students. Martina also supports other translators and interpreters by giving workshops, talks and webinars on marketing and business skills around Europe and online.

When she’s not working, you will find her headbanging at a rock gig, or browsing through CDs and vinyls in a charity shop.

A key step to take our translation business to the next level is to start looking at our client portfolio strategically, applying a standardized set of criteria across the board to determine which clients are the best fit for our business goals and to ultimately seek clients who align closer with our ideal client profile. In this session, we will explore the criteria and methodology that will help us achieve this.

Nora Díaz holds a B.A. in English Language Teaching and Translation. She is a full-time published EN-ES translator and translation team leader, working for clients located around the world on a daily basis translating, editing or proofreading content on a wide variety of topics, including healthcare, legal, technical and general texts, and leading teams of linguists, including translators, editors and proofreaders from Mexico, South America and Spain working together on large projects. Her interest in productivity has led to a constant exploration of technology to boost productivity, such as CAT tools, speech recognition and custom macros. In her blog, Nora Díaz on Translation, Teaching and Other Stuff she shares what she has learned with translators from around the globe.

GET CLIENTS NOW!™ is both a best-selling book by business coach C.J. Hayden and a training programme for freelance professionals. Straightforward, structured yet flexible and highly effective, this sales and marketing system has been used by thousands of freelance business owners and other professional service providers throughout the world since 1995.
Whether you are brand new in business or a seasoned professional, whether you need more clients, want better-paying clients and more interesting projects, or simply aspire to earn a better living with less effort, GET CLIENTS NOW!™ has the answers.

It teaches over 100 tactics and practical ‘how-to’ tools to help you come up with new ideas to better focus your prospecting efforts, inject more energy into your marketing, and gain the confidence necessary to promote yourself to prospective clients. You identify the “success ingredients” that are missing from your current marketing activities and create a personalized marketing plan, comprising just ten simple things to be implemented on a daily or weekly basis, in order to effectively and efficiently market your professional services and generate an endless stream of clients.

Originally from Northern Ireland, Kathryn has been living and working in France since 1994. After a corporate career spanning 18 years in various sectors of industry, during which she held executive positions in sales and marketing, project management and economic intelligence, Kathryn set up her first freelance business as a technical translator in 2012. Today she translates exclusively from French into English, primarily in the naval construction and aeronautics fields (she is a certified Airbus Helicopters translator), as well as in the luxury hotel sector.
Kathryn is a state-qualified professional trainer in France, with five years’ experience in training freelancers in the creation and development of their businesses. She became a licensed GET CLIENTS NOW!™ facilitator in 2016 (the only one in France), and since 2017 has trained and coached over 150 established freelance professionals and postgraduates planning to set up their own business in the techniques described in the GET CLIENTS NOW!™  book and related 28-day marketing programme. Since September 2020, she ensures in-person and online training in marketing and the GCN method for the Société Française de Traducteurs.

 We usually don’t meet our customers – either agencies or direct clients – in person, so sometimes we might forget that there are people on the other side of the screen. And since we all like to be taken care of, let’s s have a look at a few tips to provide top-notch customer service to your customers and prospects so that they will want to work with you… because it’s you and no one else! Expect useful advice from a former multilingual customer service specialist!

Chiara translates from English and German into Italian from her home in Italy. She specialises in cosmetics, medicine and travel & tourism. Before diving into translation, she worked in sales, customer service and marketing in Italy, Germany and the UK. She holds a MA in Translation from Swansea University (UK) and a BA in Translation and Liaison Interpreting from the prestigious School for Interpreters and Translators in Forlì (Italy).
You can find out more about her on her website or connect on LinkedIn.

In an overcrowded marketplace, successful brands don’t just talk at their audiences; they have conversations and build relationships with them. Verbal identity plays a crucial role in this. It conveys a brand’s message and personality and shapes the way its target audience perceives it. You know that voice you hear when you read engaging copy? That’s the brand’s voice shining through, and it needs to be conveyed consistently no matter who’s writing or speaking– even beyond borders. But what if we can’t hear that voice? What if the guidelines (if any) are vague? In this talk, we’ll go through various examples to see what a strong verbal identity looks like, which tones of voice create an emotional connection, and how we can develop our own.

Elina I. Nocera is a bilingual Italian-English translator and copywriter with 13 years of experience, 9 of which as a freelancer. She crafts words to help brands express their personality and connect with their international audience through a natural tone of voice.
She works with both agencies and direct clients and specialises in marketing, design, and tourism.
Elina has an MA in foreign languages and literature and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Perugia. In 2011, she translated a novel by Mozambican author João Paulo Borges Coelho from Portuguese into Italian for Edizioni dell’Urogallo.
Obsessed with good writing, she regularly attends CPD courses to keep up to date with the latest developments and hone her writing skills.
Elina is based in Umbria, Central Italy. When she’s not glued to a computer screen, she’s probably travelling, reading, enjoying a session of HIIT or body combat, or watching (not binge-watching) her favourite TV shows.

Creativity and great writing skills are just part of it takes to be a good copywriter – they only count if you and your client have a shared idea of success.
As a translator and marketer, my experience on both sides of the industry has shown that there is a gulf between the expectations of marketing clients (agencies, in-house teams, etc) and the effectiveness of the copy that translators deliver.
This is understandable – the background and training of the typical marketing copywriter is so unlike that of a translator that we might as well be from different planets, not to mention the difference in the value given to our work. But if translators learn to think like a copywriter, we can start to bridge that gulf and open up a world of opportunities for ourselves and our clients.

In this session, we’ll discuss two essential approaches to the work of a copywriter:
– The brief: how to develop clear understanding of the client’s business needs and strategy
– The practice: how to hone your writing skills by observing the culture and incorporating feedback

I’ll also de-mystify the marketing process and provide you with plenty of timeless wisdom courtesy of some of the world’s most successful copywriters.

After completing her degree in German & Hispanic Studies, Rosie spent 11 years in agency and in-house marketing roles in London and Barcelona, running consumer PR and social media programmes for brands including Persil, British Airways and American Express.

Since obtaining her DipTrans qualification in 2015, Rosie has worked as a freelance translator, copywriter and consultant, doing what she loves best: helping people from different cultures to understand each other better.

You received an edited version of your translation. In the ideal case the changes are visible, but it’s way too often they are not. Or you were editing someone, and you need to show just the changes, and fast, to avoid making the same corrections again and again in the future. Tools, tips and tricks to reveal every little change in a wide variety of file formats and workflow types, from CAT tools to subtitles, etc. We’ll try to cover as many tools and cases, as the time allows. It is very important to keep track of changes in our work, so these tools could come in handy to anyone.

Translator. Editor. DTP man. Amateur photographer. Clumsy programmer. Gamer. Husband. Father. A BP fan since 2014, ATA-certified since that time as well. Since it is quite hard to find spare time when two boys are running around, Vatslav had to become a productivity and efficiency geek. Specializations: IT, agricultural machinery, information security, marketing.

If you like it or not – revision has become part of our everyday life, be it as translators or editors. Although quality management for translators is a must, knowledge about how to implement procedures to enhance and manage translation quality on a permanent basis could be improved. Especially, as the assessment of translation quality by editors applying related procedures in the revision process becomes much more comprehensible, transparent and objective. So, let’s talk how to develop customised procedures and guidelines, how to get past subjective impressions and judgements to objective quality criteria, and how to improve our work without much effort on a daily basis to meet the challenges of the modern translation industry.

First of all, you should perhaps know that Helga is a so-called ‘Revision Nerd’. Heaven forbid she got a pencil in hands while reading the newspaper – off she is, correcting spelling and punctuation mistakes without even realising it…. Well, more than 30 years in the translation industry and permanent professional development especially on revision topics seem to have an impact.
So, having participated in the last three BP conferences and enjoying being part of the community, she would like to share her knowledge acquired in the field for her colleagues’ benefit. Also, working as an editor, she strives for better quality management by freelancers and to be able to deliver editing jobs with results like “Excellent translation”, “Good work”, “The translator knows what he/she does”. Her hope is that the guidelines and procedures presented will help translators to better manage their work and editors to implement an objective basis and transparent criteria in assessing translation quality.

Clients see their text as “their baby,” but what if their baby is ugly? Should we tell them? In this talk, attendees will be encouraged to abandon the service-provider mindset and become true partners to your clients. We will discuss the need to assess our work from a broader/more holistic perspective, problems we should be on the lookout for, how to suggest improvements to the original text in a professional way, and why this approach is beneficial for them (and us!).

Ana is a transcreator and copywriter, with 10 years of experience translating marketing content from English and Spanish to Brazilian Portuguese. She also teaches Creative Translation in Brazil, focusing on tourism and marketing transcreation, always highlighting the best practices in our industry. She currently serves as social media manager for APTRAD, the Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters working with the Portuguese language. Her website is AnaRibeiroOlson.com.br

With new norms and expectations that affect they way we work, we have to adapt new practices and face challenges in order to stay on top of business. Whether you’re just starting out your translation career or you’re an experienced translator with a large number of clients, this is the time to Break Patterns and use Content Marketing techniques to your benefit.

In this session you will learn, with examples and tips, why you need to know how to write great headlines for your marketing content and how these headlines will get your leads’ attention and increase traffic to your business. Join me to see examples of successful effective headlines and learn how to use them to market your business in the digital world.

Anastasia is a native Greek professional freelance translator. She holds a BA degree in English Language and Literature from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She also holds an MA degree in Translation and Intercultural Studies from UMIST, UK and a Certificate in the Strategy of Content Marketing from the University of California, Davis Extension.
She has been working as a freelance translator since 2004. Her areas of expertise include technical and marketing texts, and her working languages are English and Greek (native). She works with translation agencies and direct clients in Greece and internationally. She is a proficient user of many CAT tools, such as SDL Trados Studio, Memsource, memoQ and more.
Anastasia is a member of ATA, ITI and IAPTI. Anastasia has been a full member of PEM (Panhellenic Association of Translators) since 2007 and she has been elected as the Secretary General of the Board for the 2020-2022 term.
Find out more on Anastasia’s website at InGreekTranslations.com.

According to today’s marketers, content is the new advertisement.

During this session, I’ll go through 8 actionable steps to devising an effective content marketing strategy on LinkedIn.

Delfina Morganti Hernández is a writer, marketer and English-Spanish (LATAM, Argentina) transcreator and copywriter.

Every day, she helps brands and fellow translator entrepreneurs boost their conversion potential through disruptive content that converts and stories that sell.

Delfina is the self-published author of the essay on literary translation in Spanish “Objetividad. Fidelidad. Invisibilidad. Un ensayo a propósito del discurso de la traición en traducción literaria” (2017) and of the collection of poems in English, Spanish and French “Las lenguas que me habitan. The languages within me. Les langues dans ma peau” (2019).

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpreting Studies (2008-2011), unfinished studies in Language and Literature (2011-2019), and an undergraduate degree in Marketing and Advertising (2017-2019). She’s also a certified pianist and has attended several Performing Arts courses for pleasure.

In 2020, Delfina created Founded in Transcreation, the first ever podcast on transcreation, her specialty service.

Convinced that marketing is a tool that can help translators coexist (rather than just compete) in the localization market, Delfina uses her social media accounts (LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube) to share free content on marketing and branding tools for translators.

She has been delivering training on literary translation, transcreation, and marketing for translators for 8 years now.

Choosing a specific niche for your translation business can be scary. What if you lose business? The truth is, it’s exactly the opposite. You’ll get more work, more referrals, more credibility, and will be able to charge more. And you don’t have to stick to one niche only.
Are you ready to get uncomfortable and take action? Follow me on a journey to ‘microniching’.
I’ll show you exactly how I have chosen my own niches, have become the go-to translation provider for the biggest companies in these industries, do work that truly fulfils me and can charge more than the ‘average market rates’ – and how you can do the same, and more.

Martina is a 10+ years English, German, Spanish to Italian and Swiss Italian translator who specializes in two very different niches:

Her main company, Moving Words, works exclusively with brands in the B2B SaaS / marketing and sales technology space – while The Action Sports Translator (as you may have guessed by the name) specializes in marketing translation and localization for brands in the adventure sports industry.

She also runs FreelancerAtWork.co, a small ecommerce that makes laptop stickers for translators and interpreters, and is often seen gesturing during her online webinars and presentations. She usually talks about how to effectively use marketing, branding and social media like LinkedIn to grow your translation business.

For some time now I have been reading articles and books about personal finance and investing. Mostly this came from a desire not to repeat money blunders of the past and to educate myself about money and investment.
I will discuss efficient ways to save and invest surplus income for the future without hurting our household budget. I will share a couple of paid tools I use to make informed decisions.
Attendees will hopefully come away with a better idea of how to implement a long term saving programme.

Jason Willis-Lee, CL CIOL MITI graduated in physiology after training as a doctor for over three years at Bristol Medical School including one year’s full hospital training. He put in a brief stint as a clinical research associate before switching into applied linguistics and earning a postgraduate diploma in translating and interpreting from the University of Bath.

He now works full time in Madrid as a self-employed Medical and Pharmaceutical translator (niche areas clinical trials, medical reports and research articles) in the Spanish-English and French-English language pairs. He has previously given subject specific webinars for medical translators on the topics Blood Tests, ECG, Diabetes and Cancer. He organised the conference thread specialization at the Elia Together event held in Athens in February 2018. He is also a partner in the collaborative networking translation project medico-legal translations.

We all agree that networking during industry events is essential to keep our businesses running. It’s how we get to know and meet potential clients. Of course, everything changed in 2020 when all events became online and true networking became a challenge.

Higher visibility events will resume their in-person format (hopefully sooner rather than later), but many events will continue to have an online (or hybrid) format. And, to some extent, that is a good thing. It will allow us to attend events that – for professional, personal, or financial reasons – we wouldn’t be able to attend otherwise. But, what about networking?

In this session, I will share some tips on how to make the most of online events even without face-to-face networking.

Ana Sofia Correia is an English to Portuguese Life Sciences and Medical translator and language consultant based in Portugal.

With over twelve years of experience, she works with Medical and Life Sciences Companies and Contract Research Organizations (CROs), specializing in the translation of clinical trial materials, regulatory documentation, product information and labeling, as well as in the linguistic validation of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life measures.

She also helps patient organizations by translating patient information materials, awareness-raising campaigns, and surveys.

She is a member of APTRAD, ATA, DIA, EMWA, IAPTI, ISOQOL, ISPOR, MET, and TREMÉDICA.

Since the advent of digital publishing, translators are now able to collaborate directly with authors―whether working on self-publishing efforts or with small publishers. Let’s explore the different aspects of this collaboration, including the collective decision-making process to localize the final translated book to the target audience, either through foreignization and domestication. Let’s also learn how to reach out to copyright holders to complete book translation projects, including ways you can contact self-published authors to create this successful collaboration.

Rafa Lombardino is a Brazilian translator and journalist who has been living in California since 2002. She is the author of “Tools and Technology in Translation ― The Profile of Beginning Language Professionals in the Digital Age,” published in 2004 and based on her class by the same name. She started working as a translator in 1997, is certified by the American Translators Association (English > Portuguese & Portuguese > English), and has a Professional Certificate in Translation (Spanish > English) from the University of California San Diego Extension, where she started teaching in 2010. Her additional combinations are Spanish > Portuguese, Italian > Portuguese, and Italian > English.

She is the President and CEO of Word Awareness, a network of professional translators established in 2004 and incorporated in 2009. Rafa also hosts the Translation Confessional Podcast and the Tools and Technology in Translation YouTube channel. She has acted as the Blog Editor of ATA’s Portuguese Language Division (PLD) and served as the Division Administrator in 2017-2019. She has an Associate’s Degree in Computer Sciences, with emphasis on Data Processing, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communications, major in Journalism. She specializes in Technology, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Education, EH&S (Environment, Health, and Safety), Health and Well-Being, Tourism, Audiovisual, and Literature.

In our 21st-century world the tendency is to go more and more into specialization. This is for sure necessary if we want to stand out as translators. But what happens if we have always wanted to translate literature, but we also work in another translation field? Is this possible? Can we specialize in both areas? How are they interwoven? In this talk I will address the possibilities from my own experience to encourage, from a positive point of view, other translators to dive into literature as they also work in other translation fields.

Mónica Caldeiro is a medical translator EN > ES and literary translator EN > ES, CA. She studied Spanish Philology at the University of Barcelona (UB) and her PhD courses in English Studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). She also holds a master’s degree in Medical Translation.
Her work as a literary translator focuses mainly on 20th Century American poetics. She has translated poets such as Joanne Kyger, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bernstein and Sheri-D Wilson. She has also translated non-fiction that falls between the categories of medicine and literature. Find out more about her work in VitruvianTranslations.com and MonicaCaldeiro.wordpress.com.

Translating a book requires planning, teamwork, and appropriate quality assurance processes. The translator must assess the text in advance to be aware of the main challenges posed by the project. Planning how to manage the project from the beginning will allow better time allocation for each task. It is also important to configure adequately the team that will be involved in the process of revision and proofreading. Teamwork is a win-win method because the translator learns from others while interacting with them. This is closely related to the quality assurance method followed. Since each project requires a specific approach, different situations will be discussed.

Óscar Curros, 39, is a journalist and translator born and raised in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is the Chief Language Officer of CIS Interpreters, a West Hollywood interpreting and translation agency. Óscar Curros lived for 11 years in Brazil, where he translated for Spanish newspaper El País and contributed to the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, among other clients.
He holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Santiago de Compostela, a master’s degree in Strategic Communications Management from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a master’s degree in Human Rights Education from the University of Brasilia, Brazil.
Óscar Curros is the Spanish translator of the Brazilian classic Sua Majestade, o Intérprete (His Majesty, the Interpreter, not available in English yet) by Ewandro Magalhães. The Spanish version is entitled Su Alteza, el Intérprete.

Termsoup is a CAT tool designed and developed by a Taiwan-based book translator who had never heard of and used a CAT tool. Lacking a CAT tool experience sounds like a disadvantage in this case, yet soon the translator found it actually an advantage! Without having any prior knowledge in CAT, she can think outside the box when designing it.

Besides some must-have features a CAT tool should equip, Termsoup has functions and interfaces especially designed for book translation. The software is now popular among local book translators as well as technical and localization translators. People love its usability and minimalist style.

If you’re looking for a CAT tool that is intuitive to use and pleasant to the eye, don’t miss Termsoup and our story!

Termsoup is the most user-friendly and elegant CAT tool, and it is the best choice for book translation. Most CAT tools are designed by localization specialists, yet Termsoup is created by Joanne Chou, a Taiwan-based book translator. Joanne is also a serial entrepreneur, UI/UX designer, and author.

Termsoup is popular among translators in Taiwan, and we also have translators, translation agencies and universities using it from the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. Welcome to have a free trial!

Registering for an event means paying for an event. You can do this in BP’s store, under the Shop menu above (BPconf.com/shop). If you don’t see the event in the store yet, it means registration has not started yet. In this case you may want to sign up to our mailing list to be notified when registration starts.

Starting from January 2021, as long as we have online events, prices are determined on the basis of your geographical location. The idea is to make online events more affordable for translatos in lower income countries.

The price for the highest geographical category is 114€, the lowest is 35€.  (+ VAT if applicable)

Please note that starting Thursday, 15 April, only card pamyent will be available.  Bank transfers for all previously placed orders must arrive by Monday, 19 April.

BP21 will consist of 8 tracks, each with 5 sessions/talks (on Friday only 4 sessions/talks). 

This year we offer a new ticket type: ‘2 tracks’. This type of ticket costs 60-65% of the full ticket (depending on where you live), and gives you access to 2 full tracks of your choice.

You’ll also receive access to the unedited Zoom recordings of the selected tracks until 31 May, access to networking sessions on the selected days, as well as a certificate of attendance.  

You will receive a form where you can indicate your choice after placing your order.  This ticket type will be available as soon as the detailed programme is published (most probably on 22 February).

At BP21 we will have 4 workshops (titles, details, and prices will be published around 22 February).

BP21 attendees will be able to register for the workshops at reduced prices, but you can also buy access to these workshops without attending the conference itself.

Currently we offer  3 video collections (BP Video Library (135 conference sessions);  BP Workshop Week (8 workshops);  BP21es recordings (32 sessions in Spanish)).

You can buy access to any of these collections at a discount (see below) when buying them at the same time as your conference ticket.

We offer a number of discount codes that you can use.

‘vid1’: 40% off any video collection (BP Video Library, BP Workshop Week, Recordings of BP21es) if you buy it together with a ticket to BP21.

‘vid2’: 50% off any two video collections if you buy them together with a ticket to BP21.

‘vid3’: 60% off all video collections if you buy all three together with a ticket to BP21.

‘wsh‘: 30% discount off any workshop if you also buy a ticket to BP21 itself (workshops will be announced on or around 22 February)

Students / faculty members: You’re eligible for a 40% discount off your conference ticket. As a student you need to be enrolled in the current academic year and be under 30. Recent graduates (graduated in ’19 or ’20, under 32) are eligible for a 20% discount.  Upload your documents in the form below and you’ll receive the discount code by email.

 Group discount: If you wish to purchase at least 4 tickets for the same company, contact us directly for an additional 20% discount, mentioning the items you’d like purchase, together with your invoicing details.

In most cases you’ll need to pay VAT on top of the net prices shown below.  (27% Hungarian VAT — the company that issues the invoices is registered in Hungary.). VAT is calculated automatically based on your settings on this Checkout page.

You don’t need to pay VAT if

(i) you purchase as a company, you are based in an EU member state outside Hungary, and you have a valid European VAT number. (In this case on the Checkout page you’ll need to click on the ‘Company billing’ checkbox AND enter your company’s name, then enter your VAT number WITHOUT the 2-letter country prefix);

(ii) if you purchase as a company, and you are based ouside the European Union. In this case it’s your responsibility to make sure you’re eligible for VAT-free purchase according to your country’s regulations.  In some countries solo entrepreneurs are eligible for VAT-free purchases from abroad. (In this case please open the ‘I’m based outside the EU and I purchase as a company’ box on the Shop page for more details.)

In the first two steps of the shopping process (on the Shop and Cart pages), VAT is still shown in all cases.  Once you arrive on the Checkout page, you’ll be able to specify if you wish to purchase your ticket as a company. If you are eligible, the VAT amount will disappear from the total payable amount.

BP21 Translation Conference will take place online, just as last year.  

All sessions and talks will be part of various Zoom meetings — most of you must be already familiar with this platform.

There will be two simultaneous tracks on each day (Tuesday to Friday, 20 to 23 April 2021), in most cases starting at 14:30 CET and finishing at 19:10 CET.  

For each track you will receive the necessary access details by email a few hours in advance on each day, around 9:00 CET each day.

You can hop between the tracks any time: simply leave the Zoom meeting you’ree in, and join the other one using the access details you receive in the email.

For all networking sessions we will use Wonder, a new online platform for emulating real-life scenarios.  This is a very intuitive platform, you will learn how to use it in no time.

You will receive the necessary acess details in time.

We will have two main networking sessions: one before the first couple of conference sessions on the opening day, and the other one after the last couple of conference sessions on the closing day.  The networking ‘room’ will stay open during the conference week, so you may pop in any time.  Most likely the busiest times will be European evening hours, between 20:00 and 22:00 CET.

When you open the link for the first time, you will need to give permission for the app to use your camera and microphone, then you’ll need to enter your name and upload a profile photo. Alternatively, your webcam will take a photo that you can use.

Once you’re in, you’ll see a number of ‘areas’, such as ‘Medical translators’, ‘Russian’, ‘Interpreters’, etc.  You will also a number of circles, each consisting of up to 15 people.  Move your photo closer to any of these circles to join the conversation.  Once a circle reaches 15 people, additional people cannot join. In this case move closer to another circle, or even to ‘lonely’ people to form a new circle.

All participants are listed in alphabetical order.  You can chat with anyone, and there’s also a general chat, as well as a chat fr each circle.  When you click on a person’s name in the list, the entire room will dim, only the person’s photo will be lighter — so it’s very easy to find a particular person in the room.

If you prefer ‘good old’ Zoom, we’ll also have Zoom networking sessions at the same times.

Well, even in the best case scenario you’ll be able to attend only half of all sessions, because of the two simultaneous tracks. 

All sessions will be recorded in Zoom, and these will be available for free for all BP21 attendees, starting the following Monday (26 April).   These unedited recordings will be available until the end of May.  You will receive more details about how to access these recordings in due course.

The edited versions of the sessions will be added to BP Video Library from about early June. This video collection currently has 135 titles (BP16 through BP20), and will be expanded to about 175 titles with BP21 sessions. If you purchased a licence in the past year, you will have access to BP21 sessions as well.

You can purchase a 1-year license to BP Video Library at a 30% discount using the ‘vid1’ discount code if you purchase it together with your conference ticket.  (Or at a 45% discount with the ‘vid2’ code if you add another video collection, such as ‘BP Workshop Week’  or ‘Grabaciones del Congreso de traduccióm BP21es’).

Certificates of attendance will be available, more information on the procedure will be published in March.

All sessions and short talks will be recorded on Zoom. These unedited recordings will be available to all conference attendees until 31 May 2021. (If you purchase a ‘2 tracks’ ticket, you’ll have access to the recordings of the selected tracks only.)

Edited videos will be added to BP Video Library from early June. (They may be available in a different package as well, to be decided later.)

Registering for an event means paying for an event. You can do this in BP’s store, under the Shop menu above (BPconf.com/shop). If you don’t see the event in the store yet, it means registration has not started yet. In this case you may want to sign up to our mailing list to be notified when registration starts.

Starting from January 2021, as long as we have online events, prices are determined on the basis of your geographical location. The idea is to make online events more affordable for translatos in lower income countries. 

Also, prices do not increase at certain dates, but after each batch of 100 tickets sold. 

The ‘Super early bird’ price for BP21 valid for the richest countries is 80€ (+VAT), and will eventually reah 120€ after several steps. The starting price at the lower end is 30€, eventually reaching 45€.

BP21 will consist of 8 tracks, each with 5 sessions/talks (on Friday only 4 sessions/talks). 

This year we offer a new ticket type: ‘2 tracks’. This type of ticket costs 60-65% of the full ticket (depending on where you live), and gives you access to 2 full tracks of your choice.

You’ll also receive access to the unedited Zoom recordings of the selected tracks until 31 May, access to networking sessions on the selected days, as well as a certificate of attendance.  

You will receive a form where you can indicate your choice after placing your order.  This ticket type will be available as soon as the detailed programme is published (most probably on 22 February).

At BP21 we will have 4 workshops (titles, details, and prices will be published around 22 February).

BP21 attendees will be able to register for the workshops at reduced prices, but you can also buy access to these workshops without attending the conference itself.

Currently we offer  3 video collections (BP Video Library (135 conference sessions);  BP Workshop Week (8 workshops);  BP21es recordings (32 sessions in Spanish)).

You can buy access to any of these collections at a discount (see below) when buying them at the same time as your conference ticket.

We offer a number of discount codes that you can use.

‘vid1’: 40% off any video collection (BP Video Library, BP Workshop Week, Recordings of BP21es) if you buy it together with a ticket to BP21.

‘vid2’: 50% off any two video collections if you buy them together with a ticket to BP21.

‘vid3’: 60% off all video collections if you buy all three together with a ticket to BP21.

‘wsh‘: 30% discount off any workshop if you also buy a ticket to BP21 itself (workshops will be announced on or around 22 February)

Students / faculty members: You’re eligible for a 40% discount off your conference ticket. Recent graduates are eligible for a 20% discount.  Upload your documents here, and you’ll receive the discount code by email.  The number of students / faculty members with this discount is limited to 10% of the total number of attendees.

Group discount: If you wish to purchase at least 4 tickets for the same company, contact us directly for an additional 20% discount, mentioning the items you’d like purchase, together with your invoicing details.

In most cases you’ll need to pay VAT on top of the net prices shown below.  (27% Hungarian VAT — the company that issues the invoices is registered in Hungary.). VAT is calculated automatically based on your settings on this Checkout page.

You don’t need to pay VAT if

(i) you purchase as a company, you are based in an EU member state outside Hungary, and you have a valid European VAT number. (In this case on the Checkout page you’ll need to click on the ‘Company billing’ checkbox AND enter your company’s name, then enter your VAT number WITHOUT the 2-letter country prefix);

(ii) if you purchase as a company, and you are based ouside the European Union. In this case it’s your responsibility to make sure you’re eligible for VAT-free purchase according to your country’s regulations.  In some countries solo entrepreneurs are eligible for VAT-free purchases from abroad. (In this case please open the ‘I’m based outside the EU and I purchase as a company’ box on the Shop page for more details.)

In the first two steps of the shopping process (on the Shop and Cart pages), VAT is still shown in all cases.  Once you arrive on the Checkout page, you’ll be able to specify if you wish to purchase your ticket as a company. If you are eligible, the VAT amount will disappear from the total payable amount.

BP21 Translation Conference will take place online, just as last year.  

All sessions and talks will be part of various Zoom meetings — most of you must be already familiar with this platform.

There will be two simultaneous tracks on each day (Tuesday to Friday, 20 to 23 April 2021), in most cases starting at 14:30 CET and finishing at 19:10 CET.  

For each track you will receive the necessary access details by email a few hours in advance on each day, around 9:00 CET each day.

You can hop between the tracks any time: simply leave the Zoom meeting you’ree in, and join the other one using the access details you receive in the email.

For all networking sessions we will use Wonder, a new online platform for emulating real-life scenarios.  This is a very intuitive platform, you will learn how to use it in no time.

You will receive the necessary acess details in time.

We will have two main networking sessions: one before the first couple of conference sessions on the opening day, and the other one after the last couple of conference sessions on the closing day.  The networking ‘room’ will stay open during the conference week, so you may pop in any time.  Most likely the busiest times will be European evening hours, between 20:00 and 22:00 CET.

When you open the link for the first time, you will need to give permission for the app to use your camera and microphone, then you’ll need to enter your name and upload a profile photo. Alternatively, your webcam will take a photo that you can use.

Once you’re in, you’ll see a number of ‘areas’, such as ‘Medical translators’, ‘Russian’, ‘Interpreters’, etc.  You will also a number of circles, each consisting of up to 15 people.  Move your photo closer to any of these circles to join the conversation.  Once a circle reaches 15 people, additional people cannot join. In this case move closer to another circle, or even to ‘lonely’ people to form a new circle.

All participants are listed in alphabetical order.  You can chat with anyone, and there’s also a general chat, as well as a chat fr each circle.  When you click on a person’s name in the list, the entire room will dim, only the person’s photo will be lighter — so it’s very easy to find a particular person in the room.

If you prefer ‘good old’ Zoom, we’ll also have Zoom networking sessions at the same times.

Well, even in the best case scenario you’ll be able to attend only half of all sessions, because of the two simultaneous tracks. 

All sessions will be recorded in Zoom, and these will be available for free for all BP21 attendees, starting the following Monday (26 April).   These unedited recordings will be available until the end of May.  You will receive more details about how to access these recordings in due course.

The edited versions of the sessions will be added to BP Video Library from about early June. This video collection currently has 135 titles (BP16 through BP20), and will be expanded to about 175 titles with BP21 sessions. If you purchased a licence in the past year, you will have access to BP21 sessions as well.

You can purchase a 1-year license to BP Video Library at a 30% discount using the ‘vid1’ discount code if you purchase it together with your conference ticket.  (Or at a 45% discount with the ‘vid2’ code if you add another video collection, such as ‘BP Workshop Week’  or ‘Grabaciones del Congreso de traduccióm BP21es’).

Certificates of attendance will be available, more information on the procedure will be published in March.

All sessions and short talks will be recorded on Zoom. These unedited recordings will be available to all conference attendees until 31 May 2021. (If you purchase a ‘2 tracks’ ticket, you’ll have access to the recordings of the selected tracks only.)

Edited videos will be added to BP Video Library from early June. (They may be available in a different package as well, to be decided later.)