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Enabling Global Education: Update on the SMPTE-EBU EuroVOX Tool Collaboration

Join us to hear how we plan to further our collaboration to enable global equity in engineering education, and help us explore what other applications may be useful to the global audience in live Q&A.

Enabling Global Education: Update on the SMPTE-EBU EuroVOX Tool Collaboration

Join us to hear how we plan to further our collaboration to enable global equity in engineering education, and help us explore what other applications may be useful to the global audience in live Q&A.

Description

EBU’s EuroVOX tool currently supports at least 65 different languages and dialects for transcription and almost 20000 different language pairs for translation, and SMPTE is now implementing the tool to translate technical documents and virtual classes for global access.

Join us to hear how we plan to further our collaboration to enable global equity in engineering education, and help us explore what other applications may be useful to the global audience in live Q&A.

Speakers

Benjamin Poor

Project Manager , European Broadcasting Union

Benjamin Poor is a Project Manager, Radio at European Broadcasting union in Geneva. He is managing EBU’s open toolbox for transcription and translation services, as part of their efforts to make news multilingual using this AI-based language processing tool.

David Grindle

Executive Director , SMPTE

SMPTE Executive Director, David Grindle, took the organization's helm in 2022. Since that time, Grindle has been focusing on broadening SMPTE’s influence in the technology world and strengthening organization on all fronts. While working at USITT, Grindle created the Rigging Safety Initiative, providing safety inspections and rig training to more than 150 high schools in 36 states. He also advocated for new educational opportunities, strengthening the revenue stream, and supporting the early career professional groups. He earned USITT an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Prudential Leadership Awards from BoardSource and was also named 2014 Show Manager of the Year by Trade Show News Network and the Expo Group for his leadership of USITT’s Stage Expo. In 2015 he was presented with the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Berry College Alumni Association. He holds the Certified Association Executive designation from the American Society of Association Executives and was accepted into the Fulbright Specialists Program in the US Department of State.

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