Designing for Everyone: How Language Impacts Event Experience and Engagement

As events become increasingly global, language remains one of the most overlooked barriers to participation and engagement. This session explores how language influences who attends, how audiences interact, and what they take away from the experience.

Moving beyond technology for its own sake, we’ll look at how multilingual and captioning solutions can be used strategically to expand reach, support diverse audiences, and enhance overall event design. Through practical examples and real-world applications, attendees will gain a clearer understanding of when and how to integrate these approaches to create more inclusive, engaging and globally accessible events.