RAFA LOMBARDINO
MODERATOR: TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF AVT
BIO
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 (ATA) in both English-to-Portuguese and Portuguese-to-English translations, and has a Professional Certificate in Spanish-to-English Translation from the University of California San Diego Extension, where she subsequently started teaching in 2010. Her additional language pairs are Spanish-to-Portuguese, Italian-to-Portuguese, and Italian-to-English. She is the President & 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 was the Administrator of ATA's Portuguese Language Division (2017-2019) and is the current Vice President of ATISDA. She has an Associate's Degree in Computer Sciences, with an emphasis on Data Processing, and a Bachelor's Degree in Social Communications, major in Journalism. She specializes in Technology, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Human Resources, EH&S, Immigration, Tourism, Education, Health & Wellness, Audiovisual, and Literature.
ABSTRACT
There is really no secret about the fact that the major changes in our century are mostly brought about by technology. This is a time of drastic changes and our profession, crucial to expanding knowledge across the world, could not be left out of this process. As technology circulates information faster than ever, so does the need to translate increase, bringing with it a new demand for the AVT market to cope with the increasing and continuous volume of audiovisual content needing to be translated, through the development of new tools. The aim of this round table is to have the companies that are developing new technologies share with us the not-so-distant future of solutions and tools for audiovisual translation.