12 posts tagged with "conferences"

As a technical writer creating tutorials and courses for users of all levels, I'm constantly re-evaluating my content, looking for ways to make it more accessible and easy to understand. I had one such oportunity yesterday, when I attended the workshop Improve Your Writing Using Accessible Language, held by Amy Dickens and organized by You Got This. In this post, I'll share with you my learnings from the workshop, combining the speaker's slides with my personal notes.

Women in Data is an international non-profit organization dedicated to increasing diversity in data-related careers by organizing conferences, networking events, and mentorship programs around the world. The Berlin Chapter of WiD was just founded in May this year and I was very excited to join as a Marketing Coordinator.

We Are Developers is the world’s largest conference for software development. It’s a great opportunity for software engineers to connect with tech companies and learn about interesting advances in technology. This year, WAD was supposed to take place in Berlin, but due to COVID-19, the event was moved online for a Live Week (25-29 May) of exciting talks on different tech topics.

On the second day, I tuned in to watch Adrian Spataru‘s and Bohdan Andrusyak‘s talk The pitfalls of Deep Learning – when Neural Networks are not the solution.

We Are Developers is the world's largest conference for software development. It's a great opportunity for software engineers to connect with tech companies and learn about interesting advances in technology. This year, it was supposed to take place in Berlin, but due to COVID-19, it was moved online for a Live Week (25-29 May) of exciting talks on different tech topics.

On the first day, I tuned in to watch Christoph Pirringer's talk on Diversity in Development: Which hurdles can we overcome right now to open up development?

Wednesday marked the first day of the last summer month and I celebrated by presenting a poster at the 5th Linguistics Meetup Berlin-Potsdam, hosted at the Potsdam University.

Whereas last year I gave a talk about semantic dementia, this year I contributed with a poster about my ongoing Master's dissertation on Romanian psych-verbs.

Update: You can read more about the research method and data analysis of this project in this blog post.

I've just come back, tired but inspired, from the ULAB Conference** in Edinburgh**, where for three days I've learned about research projects on various linguistics topics of students from Britain mainly.

Last Saturday 18th November I attended again the Autumn Meeting of Patholinguistics in Potsdam, in a wonderful new location Am Neuen Palais. The theme of this edition was "Diagnosis and treatment of dysphonia" (also known as hoarseness), a condition of the vocal chords or the larynx which makes the voice sound breathy, strained, raspy, or lower in volume or pitch.

Today I attended the long-awaited international fair for languages and cultures ExpoLingua in Berlin. It's a must event for anyone interested in language learning and teaching, because for two days (17-18 November) it brings 150+ exhibitors (language schools, travel operators, cultural institutes, publishing houses, translators, associations) from 30+ countries and offers workshops, presentations, crash-courses in different languages, performances, and moderated panel discussions, from five categories: languages and cultures, presentations for teachers, learn & travel, tests, and career.

I am typing this post from a coffee shop around Humboldt University of Berlin, sipping the fifth coffee today and leafing through my notes from the 2nd Conference for Student Research (Forschung Vermitteln-Communicating Research).

It's a hot morning on August 4th in Berlin, summer holidays are already on... But at the Institute of German Language and Linguistics of Humboldt Uni there's much ado about something: the 4th Linguistics Meetup Berlin-Potsdam!