Dates: July 31, 2026 & August 1, 2026

Location: UNC Greensboro
Sullivan Science Building
301 McIver St
Greensboro, NC 27412

Registration for this event is now closed.

Agenda:

Friday, July 31, 2026

Time	Event/Presentation	Location
Beginning at 9:30 am	NCITLB Board Meeting	Sullivan Science Building – Room 201
Beginning at 2:30 pm	NCITLB Annual Board Forum	Sullivan Science Building – Room 201
4:30 – 6:30 pm	Educational Session 1: “NCITLB: NC Licensure Law Updates, Outlooks, and Discussion” – Presenters: Mark Lineberger & Caitlin Schwab (0.20 PS pending approval)	Sullivan Science Building – Room 201

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Time	Event/Presentation	Location
8:00 am	Registration Opens	Sullivan Science Building – Outside Room 101
8:30 – 11:30 am	Educational Session 2: “Social Bias Towards Language Varieties” Presenter – Dr. Joseph Hill (0.30 PS pending approval)	Sullivan Science Building – Room 101
11:30 am – 1:00 pm	Lunch on your own	N/A
1:00 – 4:00 pm	Educational Session 3: “Between Human and Machine: AI’s Role in the Interpreting Profession” Presenter – Frank Griffin (0.30 PS pending approval)	Sullivan Science Building – Room 101
4:00 pm	Adjourn	N/A

NCITLB has applied for 0.80 PS CEUs.
Exact number available is subject to approval.

Educational Session Descriptions

Educational Session 1: “All things NCITLB: Statute, Rules, and Everything in Between” – Presenters: Mark Lineberger & Caitlin Schwab

This session will go over all rules and statutes that a currently in place with the Board. The licensure process, complaint process, and renewal process will all be discussed during the session. There will be time at the end of the session for Q&A to clarify anything that was discussed during the session.

Educational Session 2: “Social Bias Towards Language Varieties”
Presenter – Dr. Joseph Hill

This workshop explores how language serves as an object that is deeply intertwined with social prestige, stigma, and systemic bias. Grounded in sociolinguistic principles, we examine how some languages are frequently marginalized due to historical and institutional systems of oppression and discrimination. Participants will analyze the concepts of overt prestige, which privileges mainstream varieties, and covert prestige, which fosters community solidarity among users of stigmatized varieties. Additionally, we address the impact of invented communication systems (e.g., Signed English) on ASL and the linguistic insecurity within the Deaf community related to signing variation. For interpreters, recognizing these dynamics is critical; unconscious bias directly impacts situational power dynamics, role boundaries, and fidelity. Attendees will engage with schematic frameworks to deconstruct their own linguistic assumptions, developing actionable strategies to mitigate bias, respect dialectal variation, and safeguard equity and linguistic rights in diverse interpreting environments.

Educational Session 3: “Between Human and Machine: AI’s Role in the Interpreting Profession”
Presenter – Frank Griffin

Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from novelty to a practical presence in interpreters’ daily preparation. Not every tool deserves a place in that workflow, and not every task belongs to a machine. This three-hour workshop offers community and educational interpreters a grounded, accessible examination of where AI genuinely supports interpreting work and where it does not.

The workshop opens with a brief history of AI, tracing its evolution from early rule-based translation to the sophisticated tools available today, and considering why that trajectory matters for informed, discerning use. From there, participants will explore the tools interpreters can use to strengthen preparation across settings, including building terminology glossaries, researching unfamiliar topics and speakers, drafting practice material, and preparing for assignments that range from an IEP meeting to a community health fair. One segment introduces the vocabulary of modern AI systems, such as agents, subagents, MCPs, and MD files, offered with a measure of humor and the assurance that these terms are far less intimidating than they sound.

Equally important, the workshop names the gaps and the necessary guardrails. AI generates errors, holds no understanding of confidentiality, and cannot replace a qualified human in the room. Participants will examine FERPA and HIPAA obligations, client privacy, bias, over-reliance, and the distinction between a tool that supports professional judgment and one that quietly erodes it. Participants will leave prepared to apply AI to the routine elements of preparation while keeping the human elements firmly human.

No technical background is required. Curiosity and healthy skepticism are strongly encouraged.

To request reasonable accommodations:

ASL Interpreters will be provided during all sessions.

CART will be provided during the Forum and Board Meeting.

If additional access to communication is needed please contact Caitlin at the Board office (NCITLB@caphill.com) by July 15, 2026.