The II Congress on Interpreting Studies and the III Colloquium on Sign Language Interpreting in Community Contexts: Health, Education & Justice were held online on May 26, 27 and 28, 2021, in a closed platform. As a special guest for the opening of the events, we had the honor of receiving Dr. Daniel Gile, proponent of the Effort Models for conference interpreting. Dr. Gile is a former mathematician. He completed a PhD on the training of Japanese-French translators and interpreters in 1984, and another, on the difficulties in the transmission of information in simultaneous interpreting in multilingual meetings, in 1989, as well as a post-doctoral dissertation (habilitation) in 1994.