Speakers

Chris Poole

Chris Poole is a 53 year old Australian male. He and his wife have three teenage boys. He is a high school dropout who wanted to go to Italy, not Japan, when offered a place in 1976 by Rotary.
Originally earning a living as a builder, he fell into interpreting on the ludicrous pretext that he spoke a second language. He has completed no further studies nor has he ever studied Japanese. He has also never been to Hawaii.
For the past 20 years he has been the proprietor of a company that provides translation and interpreting services to any party with the money to pay, regardless of industry, field, application, mode, or indeed language. This work has taken either Chris or full time members of his staff to Japan, China, Thailand, New Zealand and Antarctica.
His business plan had him sitting on top of a skyscraper while others do all the work by now. Chris is an avid collector, analyzer and presenter of data, and this enables him to explain in the most lucid and persuasive terms why it is perfectly reasonable that this business plan has yet to be fully realized. He has presented previously at IJET 4 and IJET 20.
All further relevant details may be obtained by visiting the website of Chris Poole Translation or by stalking him on Facebook.

Sessions

Ethics Panel – the Gameshow!!

Welcome erstwhile linguists!! Welcome to a modern ordeal by mortification! Yes! We will present to you a cohort of contestants, stand them on a podium one by one and give them a ridiculously small amount of time to develop and present a practical response to an excruciating...

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Translation and interpreting: A modern profession

Providing a service that is acknowledged as critical to every conceivable life and business process.
A Service for every relevant attribute of which – quality, completeness, value – there are clear, uniform and objectively verifiable definitions.
Where practitioners are held in...

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