Reflecting on Dr Ben Saunders’ session about what AI research can teach us about sign language A train is cancelled, the platform changes and an announcement needs to reach everyone quickly. At a railway station, an AI-generated BSL message may be able to provide Deaf passengers with information that would otherwise only be available through spoken announcements and display screens. Now imagine a very different situation. A Deaf person is receiving a medical diagnosis, discus

The final session may have ended, the recordings may have closed and the certificates may have been sent, but the conversations from The Together Conference 2026 are far from finished. This year’s theme, Pick It Up, Pass It On, began with a simple idea. None of us becomes the professional we are alone. We learn from tutors, colleagues, Deaf communities, research, experience, mistakes, feedback and the people who have supported us along the way. We then pass those things on, s

Deaf interpreters have long relied on human support—whether feed interpreters or live captioners—to carry out their work effectively,...