An exciting opportunity awaits you at ELIA Together 2027, happening on 18-19 February in Rotterdam, the Netherlands!

Under the theme Rebuilding Knowledge: A Shared Journey, this edition will highlight how shared experience, honest dialogue, and mutual understanding can help the language industry rebuild for the future.

Whether you’re a freelancer, a vendor manager, or a LSP leader, our goal is to equip language professionals with the tools and insight we need to lead the change, rather than be led by it.

Rebuilding knowledge doesn’t happen in isolation: it takes collaboration, trust, and a willingness to share experience. Together 2027 will focus on how LSPs and freelancers can strengthen relationships, learn from one another, navigate changing roles, and create shared value through more transparent workflows and clearer expectations.

SUGGESTED TOPICS

• Collaboration between LSPs and freelancers: rebuilding the relationship for a changed industry
• Knowledge transfer and mentoring across generations of language professionals
• Trust and transparency between LSPs and freelancers in an AI-driven workflow
• Communities, networks, and collectives as sources of shared knowledge
• Ownership of data, translation memories, and linguistic assets in the AI era
• Learning from AI adoption: shared know-how, case studies, and lessons learned
• Specialisation and domain expertise as a competitive advantage
• Evolving roles and profiles in language services: from translation to knowledge work
• New services and business models beyond translation
• Reskilling and upskilling to meet client demands
• The economics of shared value: pricing and fair distribution beyond the per-word model
• Sustainability and well-being through industry transformation

We want to emphasise that these topics are intended as inspiration. We warmly welcome bold ideas, practical case studies, interactive formats, and proposals that reflect the real complexity of our industry today.

To submit your application, please complete the form below before 17 September 2026. We will provide feedback on your application by 5 October 2026.

As a speaker, you’ll receive complimentary 2-day registration—including lunch and coffee breaks—and be featured in promotional campaigns across ELIA’s website, newsletters, and social media.

Don’t miss the opportunity to help rebuild knowledge and shape what comes next for our industry—together.

Should you have any questions or require further clarification, feel free to reach out to our Together Programme Coordinators:

Aleksandrina Karabasheva
Diego Cresceri
Carlos la Orden Tovar

We look forward to your participation in the ELIA Together 2027 conference!