The ATC’s Member of the Month in July 2026 is TranslateAble, an LSC solely dedicated to providing language solutions for the events industry. Founded by multilingual event professional Julia Danmeri, TranslateAble helps companies and individuals communicate with their audiences and communities globally through translation, interpreting, captioning, and sign language services.

We caught up with Julia to talk about coming to language services from the client side, building a business around one industry, and why trust wins the day when your clients have 40 urgent things on their to-do list.

From running events to running a language agency

Before founding TranslateAble, Julia spent more than 20 years in international event operations, building a multi award-winning global ops team from scratch. Languages were never far away, though: she studied languages at university and, as an event professional, regularly bought translation and interpreting services for her own events.

When she graduated from the University of Portsmouth as a mature student with a Post Graduate degree in Translation Studies and set up TranslateAble in 2020, the plan was originally to work as a translator herself. That plan didn’t last long.

“I pivoted from being a translator myself to running a language agency,” Julia explains. “But since that pivot, the purpose has always been the same: to serve the events industry as best I can. Every tweak I’ve made to the business has come through conversations with clients needing something extra, something different.”

Today, TranslateAble works with exhibition and conference organisers across the world, alongside event agencies delivering events for global brands, and a growing number of direct corporate clients. Behind the scenes, Julia is supported by a team of project managers and business support specialists, a structure that has freed her up to focus on clients, networking, and growth.

Building a one-stop shop and then branching out

What began as a translation service has grown into a full multilingual toolkit for events: interpreting, translation and localisation, live captioning and subtitling, transcription and sign language interpreting. The newest addition in TranslateAble’s suite of services is multilingual stand staffing for trade shows and exhibitions.

“Across events, you have all these different needs for language support, and for extremely busy events organisers, it saves so much time to be able to go to just one partner for everything one event needs,” Julia explains.

Many of TranslateAble’s clients run events all over the world, and the company simply travels with them. “There are events that change location every year. One year they’re in the UK, then in Spain, then in Kenya, so we travel with them.”

Diversification is also Julia’s answer to AI. Having witnessed the ground automated captioning is gaining at multilingual events, she is focused on staying relevant and branching out to new services where human connection is paramount such as TranslateAble’s new stand staffing service.

“At some point, AI is going to take a chunk out of my business, so I’m constantly thinking about how I can mitigate that. But at its core, events is such a people industry. You could probably replace a little bit of it with machine translation, but it can only take you so far.”

Working in, not for a client industry

TranslateAble is a great example of the ATC’s Commercial Collaborations ethos: becoming part of a client sector rather than selling to it from the outside. Julia still does most of her networking at events industry gatherings, and her ops background shapes how she approaches every client.

“Coming from an event ops background, I know the event teams’ pressure points, and when their down times and busy times are, so I know when to approach them and how,” she says. “If someone asks me for a sign language interpreter two weeks before their event, I know they’re absolutely stacked, and this is one thing on a to-do list of 30 or 40 things. So I’ll say: why don’t I take the communication with the person who needs the interpreter off you completely? That’s one thing you can cross off your list.”

The result is a business built largely on referrals and recommendations. “In events, you want to feel a sense of trust when you appoint someone. Sometimes you haven’t got the time to appoint an unknown entity. That’s why it’s so important to be there, so people know your face, know you, and how you work.”

Julia combines networking in the events industry with connecting with language services peers. TranslateAble is a Finalist in the ATC Language Industry Awards 2026 in three categories, Company of the Year, Team of the Year and Sustainable Business of the Year, and Julia will be sharing her insights in her showcase Embedded: Working in, not for a Client Industry at the ATC’s 50th anniversary conference, ATC Gold, on 21-23 October 2026 in Glasgow.

Julia Danmeri was in conversation with ATC CEO Raisa McNab.