DI | Remote Translation for Large Institutional Events

Overview

The Confederation of Danish Industri (DI) is Denmark’s largest, most representative and most influential business and employers’ organisation, covering manufacturing as well as service industries across sectors such as transport, energy, IT, health, trade and professional services. DI’s event team wanted to hold a conference with Arabic-speaking participants in January 2017 at the Hotel Narcissus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event was organised using the hotel's WiFi network at very short notice.

The sound quality was perfect

- Peter V.H. | Project Manager, Dansk Industri

The Challenge

Arabic Translation for an institutional event

Dansk Industri reached out to Interprefy a few days before the event. The conference was going to take place in a hotel, and Interprefy needed to rely on the local WiFi connection. After considerable testing, carried out by Interprefy's in-house technicians working remotely, the WiFi was deemed suitable to run the event. Dansk Industri's event was going to run in Arabic and English, but the event organisers were unsure how many attendees would require interpreting.

Remote Simultaneous Interpretation Case Study - Dansk Industry conference in Riyadh

The Approach

Remote RSI support & partner interpreters

As the exact number of conference delegates was uncertain, DI was not sure whether streaming to smartphones would be sufficient or whether a transmitter and headphones had to be rented.

Working closely with DI’s event team and after extensive testing with the hotel’s IT department, Interprefy’s tech team determined that interpreting could be relayed through the local Wi-Fi onto delegates’ smart devices. The two English-Arabic interpreters worked from Interprefy’s partner Ubiqus’ premises in London. The event was set up and managed by Interprefy’s event management completely remotely.

Remote Simultaneous Interpretation Case Study - Dansk Industry conference in Riyadh

The Outcome

The event ran with the provision of audio and video streaming, with 100% uptime. Originally, DI had requested for interpreting from  English to Arabic. But, in the middle of the event DI’s onsite asked if Interprefy could add Arabic to English.

Among the event’s happy users was the EU Commissioner Violeta Bulc. The conference was a success and DI was happy to be able to apply their financial savings to improving the event in other areas.

"We were pleased to use this efficient and cost saving technology. We had some last-minute changes, which the Interprefy team successfully managed to implement remotely."

- Peter V. H., Project Manager at Dansk Industri