The International Annual Meeting on Language Arrangements, Documentation and Publications (IAMLADP) is a forum and network of managers of over 80 international organizations employing conference and language service providers – mainly translators and interpreters. The United Nations Department for General Assembly and Conference Management in New York is the permanent Chair of IAMLADP.
The overall objective of IAMLADP is to enhance the efficiency, quality and cost-effectiveness of conference, language and publishing services system-wide and within each participating organization, as set out in its original mandate (available in English only). More specific objectives include to:
exchange information and share experiences on policies and practices
establish best practice for quality of service and cost-effectiveness
pool resources for tasks of common interest
harmonize practices, workload standards and indicators
promote training of conference and language service staff
As a unique instrument for inter-organizational cooperation, IAMLADP serves many purposes, and was once characterized by one of its members as "the Davos for language and conference services". Since its first meeting over 50 years ago, IAMLADP has provided a unique opportunity for conference and language service managers to learn from their counterparts in other organizations, some of which have accumulated rich and extensive experience with such common issues as identifying, recruiting, training, managing and retaining qualified professional language and conference service providers. By encouraging the pooling of resources and sharing effective best practices, IAMLADP gradually has become a unique repository of information and know-how not available elsewhere. It is also an effective tool for sharing management expertise with organizations that have more modest resources or for training and selecting language and conference service providers.
Members have repeatedly agreed that IAMLADP should continue to be a results-oriented and proactive framework for harmonizing approaches and recommending best practices and innovative solutions in the areas falling within its mandate.
IAMLADP 2025 was co-hosted by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as an online meeting, on 30 June - 2 July 2025.
Headquarters of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC.
IAMLADP 2026 will be co-hosted by the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Council of Europe and will be held at the facilities of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on 29 June – 1 July 2026.
Learn more about the structure, annual meetings, membership and origins of IAMLADP.