Industry Events 2026

Upcoming localization, machine translation, and AI language conferences.

May 22, 2026
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SlatorCon London

Slator

Londonin-person

SlatorCon London 2026 brings together industry executives, founders, investors, and buyers to share actionable insights on the future of language AI. Focused one-day event covering language industry trends, Voice AI, med…

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Jun 9, 2026
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International Search Summit New York

TransPerfect Digital

New York City, USAin-person

Single-track summit dedicated to scaling websites and campaigns across multiple markets. Covers AI impact across channels, international SEO and SEM strategies, and tactics for driving revenue from global campaigns.

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Jun 9–11, 2026
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LocWorld55

LocWorld

Dublin, Irelandin-person

LocWorld55 Dublin centers on transforming AI capabilities into culturally relevant, trusted human experiences. Explores agentic orchestration, data design, and global business growth, equipping professionals with strateg…

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Jun 15–18, 2026
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EAMT 2026

European Association for Machine Translation

Tilburg, Netherlandsin-person

The 26th Annual EAMT Conference brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and language industry professionals to share cutting-edge advancements in machine translation, translation memories, and language te…

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Jul 2–7, 2026
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ACL 2026

Association for Computational Linguistics

Vienna, Austriain-person

The 64th Annual Meeting of the ACL — the world's premier NLP conference. Key venue for MT research, multilingual models, and language generation advances directly relevant to localization.

ACL2026computational linguisticsNLP
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Sep 3, 2026
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SlatorCon San Francisco

Slator

San Francisco, USAin-person

SlatorCon San Francisco 2026 at the St. Regis Hotel. High-impact presentations on language AI, voice AI, data-for-AI, media localization, and the evolving landscape of language AI investment.

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Oct 7–8, 2026
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World Summit AI Amsterdam

Gavagai

Amsterdam, Netherlandsin-person

One of Europe's largest AI executive summits. Relevant to language services as AI lab executives, enterprise AI buyers, and policymakers converge to debate multilingual model capabilities and AI governance.

World Summit AIAI industry
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Oct 19–21, 2026
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LocWorld56

LocWorld

Vancouver, Canadain-person

LocWorld56 Vancouver under the theme "From Chaos to Order." Conference sessions, focused tracks, networking events, and Solutions Square exhibition for localization professionals.

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Oct 28–31, 2026
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ATA67

American Translators Association

San Francisco, California, USAin-person

ATA's 67th Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. North America's premier professional development event for language service providers, drawing ~1,000 translation and interpreting professionals.

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Oct 24–29, 2026
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EMNLP 2026

ACL Special Interest Group on Linguistic Data

TBAin-person

EMNLP is one of the most influential NLP venues, with strong focus on data-driven MT quality, multilingual models, and low-resource language processing directly relevant to production MT systems.

EMNLP2026NLPmachine translation research
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Dec 6–12, 2026
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NeurIPS 2026

Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation

Vancouver, Canadain-person

The world's leading ML research conference. NeurIPS advances in LLMs, multilingual representation, and AI scaling directly determine the future of AI-powered translation.

NeurIPS2026AI researchlanguage models
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