Major international summits like COP30 are often described as temporary cities, requiring massive logistical coordination to keep global negotiations moving. But behind the scenes, there is a critical and often invisible infrastructure: interpreting.

In this episode, we sit down with Giulia Silvestrini, Head of Global Interpreting at Acolad, to discuss what it takes to oversee interpreting operations at one of the world’s most complex events and how AI is currently being used to expand language access without replacing the irreplaceable nuance of human experts.