This is Meet Central Europe Conference
During an associations meeting in Belgrade, Serbia in November 2017 Miklos Ban, president of the Hungarian association of translation companies Proford approached colleagues Trisha Kovacic-Young and Radka Vegrichtová, (who phoned Michal Kmeť), fellow presidents of their respective Austrian, Czech, and Slovak associations with the idea to create a regional translation industry conference. After several meetings over the next weeks held in the centrally located Vienna, Meet Central Europe Conference has been created and planning of its inaugural conference in Budapest was underway.
To this day, the MCE Conference is co-organized by representatives of the founding associations using a join-venture Meet Central Europe, s.r.o. a limited company headquartered in Slovakia.
MCE Founders
MCE Team
MCE Content Committee
Giada Gerotto, Creative Words, Italy
Marina Pancheva, RWS Group, Czechia
Elisa Polastrini, Explika, CzechiaLaszlo Kalman Varga, Nimdzi, Hungary
October 2024
MCE has taken place in beautiful venue premises of the Empire Hall of the Slavic House in Prague.
Meet Central Europe Conference Milestones
October 2023
MCE has returned to Budapest, to Central European University.
October 2022
Meet Central Europe goes to Šamorín, close to Bratislava.
October 2021
Meet Central Europe online takes place in a virtual Martian 3D world.
October 2019
Meet Central Europe Prague attracts more than 400 attendees.
October 2018
Inaugural Conference is held in Budapest, Hungary.
November 2017
Idea of a regional translation industry conference is born during an EUATC General Meeting held in Belgrade, Serbia.