Category Archives: Conferences

If you are attending the 2025 eAA conference in London, United Kingdom, we shall be delighted to have you in attendance at the session where cApStAn’s Founding Partner Steve Dept (he/him/his) will talk and explain about the capabilities and limitations of artificial intelligence in producing multiple language versions of assessment items. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is …

“The 2025 International e-Assessment Awards | cApStAn | London, UK | June 9th – 11th”

Why would an assessment localization specialist spend 4 days with 4,000+ Industrial/organisational psychologists and be a Bronze-level Partner at their conference? Of course, we thought we had it all figured out when a cApStAn team of three flew out to Denver: Devasmita Ghosh, Grace DeLee and I looked forward to meeting the people who develop those …

“cApStAn at the 40th Annual SIOP Conference | April 2-5, 2025, Denver, Colorado, USA”

Three weeks ago, we flew to Florida. “We” could refer to well over a thousand professionals from the testing industry, who converged in Orlando, Florida from March 23 to March 26. The first-person plural conveys a sense of community and of belonging. At a smaller scale, “we” refers to my fabulous colleagues, Devasmita Ghosh and …

“Post-Conference Review | ATP Innovations in Testing Conference | cApStAn | Florida, USA”

If you are attending the 2025 Society for Industrial and Organization Psychology (SIOP) annual conference in Denver, Colorado, we shall be delighted to welcome you at our booth (#216) for a chat with cApStAn’s Founding Partner Steve Dept (he/him/his), Global Business Development and Marketing Lead Devasmita Ghosh, and Localization Specialist Grace DeLee. At our booth, we’ll showcase the range …

“cApStAn at SIOP Annual Conference 2025 | Denver, Colorado, USA | Booth & Session”

Early March, my colleague Devasmita and I attended the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference 2025, which we refer to as the DOP Conference. Why would we want to go there? Are we I/O psychologists? No, although we often interact with them, we are mainly linguists and translation technologists. Our work focuses …

“Post-Conference Review | Division of Occupational Psychology (DOP) Annual Conference 2025 | cApStAn | London”

If you are attending the 2025 Innovations in Testing Conference in Florida, USA, we shall be delighted to welcome you at our booth (#215) for a chat with cApStAn’s Founding Partner Steve Dept (he/him/his), Global Business Development and Marketing Lead Devasmita Ghosh, and Operations Director Laura Wayrynen. At our booth, we’ll showcase the range of gold standard as …

“cApStAn sponsoring (Gold) 2025 ATP Innovations in Testing Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA”

We are delighted to be a first-time attendee at the The British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference 2025 in Heathrow, UK.Our Founding Partner Steve Dept (he/him/his) and Global Sales & Marketing Lead Devasmita Ghosh will be there on March 5‑6 to initiate conversations about the language component of assessments and questionnaires. See you all …

“cApStAn at DOP Annual Conference, Heathrow, UK | The British Psychological Society”

At this year’s edition of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence Exchange, in Miami Beach, we had conversations with many of the conference delegates. As usual, many questions were asked, some of which by several organisations. We have selected four such queries from our notes and publish them here with the answers we proposed. If you …

“FAQs | Most Relevant | I.C.E. EXG Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, USA”

As I completed the post-conference survey of this year’s Institute of Credentialing Excellence (I.C.E.) Exchange, I was asked to state the primary reason for attending the 2024 edition. That did put me in a quandary. Was it to keep up with the latest trends in the credentialing and certification space? Of course it was! Listening …

“All of the above | Post-Conference Review | I.C.E. EXG Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, USA”

This year’s European Conference of the Association of Test Publishers (E-ATP) was set in the vibrant city of Berlin. The conference theme was “Assessing Tomorrow—Shaping the Future Together”. Was the content aligned with the conference theme? Both linguists and psychometricians are used to respond “it depends” to every question, and I shall make no exception …

“The European home of Assessment (E-ATP) | Berlin, Germany | 23rd-25th October | Post-Conference review | cApStAn”

If you are attending the I.C.E. Conference in Miami, Florida, USA, we shall be delighted to welcome you at our booth (# 321) for a chat with cApStAn Founding Partner Steve Dept, Business Development and Marketing Team Devasmita Ghosh, and Anubhav Nathani. Besides being an exhibitor, our Founding Partner Steve Dept will also be a presenter at …

“cApStAn at I.C.E. Exchange Conference, Miami, Florida, USA | Institute for Credentialling Excellence — Booth #321”

Berlin is a city of contrasts. Recent and distant history are present at every corner, culture and counterculture clash openly, it is a political centre, it has a university, economic power and a zoo. Contrast is a good prism through which to observe new developments of any kind, and history is precious to look into …

“cApStAn at E-ATP Conference, Berlin, Germany | Assessing Tomorrow—Shaping the Future Together”