9:00am – 12:00pm: Morning Pre-conference Workshop
                                  Title VI and Language Access, by Bruce Adelson, Esq.

12:00pm – 4:00pm: Registration Opens (Come early and network)

1:00pm – 3:00pm:  Afternoon Pre-Conference Workship
                                 Making Infromed Decisions About Translation Within Hospital
                                 Language Access Budgets by Donald A. DePalma and Nataly Kelly

4:00pm – 4:30pm: Keynote Speaker: Dr Angwood, Joint Commission

4:30pm – 4:45pm:  Joseph Betencourt, MD, Disparities Solution Center

4:45pm – 5:00pm:  Louis Provenzano, President and COO of Language Line Services

5:00pm – 6:00pm: Cultural Presentation Onye Onyemaechi

6:00pm – 8:00 pm: International Interpreter Day Reception and Book Signing

Click here for a full list of conference Sessions

7:30am – 9:00am: Registration & Continental Breakfast in the Grand Ballroom

9:00am – 10:30am: Plenary Panel on Standards of Practice

10:30am – 11:00am: Exhibitors & Coffee Break

11:00am – 12:30pm: Workshop A (9 sessions) & meetings

12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch & Keynote Mr. Winston Wilkinson, National Director, HHS Office of Civil Rights

1:30pm – 3:00pm: Workshop B (8 sessions) & Meetings

3:00pm – 3:30pm: Exhibitors & Break

3:30pm – 5:00pm: Workshops C (10 sessions) & Meetings

6:00pm- : Free Time!
                 Suggestions:
                 Walk/Bike by the Charles River
                 Visit Harvard Square
                 Try the Zephyr Restaurant in the Hotel
                 Blue Man Group

8:00am – 9:00am: Registration & Continental Breakfast in the Grand Ballroom

9:00am – 10:30am: Plenary Panel on Speaking Together

10:30am – 11:00am: Exhibitors & Coffee Break

11:00am – 12:30pm: Annual Meeting the Grand Ballroom

12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch (Awards and Raffle) in the Grand Ballroom

1:30pm – 3:00pm: Workshop D (9 sessions)

3:00pm – 3:30pm: Exhibitors & Break

3:30pm – 5:00pm: Workshops E (7 sessions)








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