🎤 CE Accredited Sessions by Loom Analytics @ Unity Summit 2026
📍 Location: Renaissance Nashville Hotel
📅 Dates: May 14–17, 2026
🧠 Hosted by: Unity Summit 2026
Join Loom Analytics for three hands-on, CE-accredited training sessions designed to help transcriptionists, editors, and court reporting teams thrive in the era of AI-enhanced transcription.
Hosted by Ron DaLessio, Mona Datt and Valentina Bianco, these sessions offer pro tips in MS Word, and in-depth courses on running real-time operations, for reporters, transcriptions and managers.
Training Session: MS Word for Transcriptionists
For: Transcriptionists & Reporters who use MS Word to type their transcripts
Hosted by: Valentina Bianco
Room: Midtown 2, Floor 2
Date and Time: May 14, 2026 | 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
CE Credit: 1.5 hours / 0.15 CEU
Course Overview: This comprehensive course is designed for transcriptionists looking to build efficiency, accuracy, and consistency in MS Word. Participants will learn how to format transcripts to meet regulatory requirements and convert that formatting into structured, easy-to-use styles for streamlined production.
The first portion of the course focuses on foundational formatting techniques, as well as built-in shortcut keys and the creation of custom macros and hotkeys to significantly improve workflow speed. The second portion introduces powerful tools such as Search & Replace for efficient editing, followed by a detailed walkthrough of document setup, including margins, headers and footers, and page and section breaks. The course concludes with leveraging styles to generate Tables of Contents and saving documents as reusable templates for ongoing use.
By the end of this course, transcriptionists will be equipped to create, edit, and format transcripts with greater speed and precision, while also developing reusable templates that support long-term productivity.
Recommended Tools: Your laptop with MS Word installed, a client template or a few previous transcripts
Key Learning Outcomes:
Understand how to format transcripts in MS Word to meet regulatory and professional standards.
Learn to create and apply styles to ensure consistency and efficiency in transcript production.
Utilize built-in shortcut keys and develop custom macros and hotkeys to streamline repetitive tasks.
Apply Search & Replace techniques to efficiently edit and refine transcript content.
Set up professional document layouts, including margins, headers and footers, and page and section breaks.
Generate Tables of Contents using styles and create reusable templates for consistent, high-quality output.
Training Session: Real-Time Reporting and Transcription in Digital Operations
For: Reporters & Editors in Digital Operations
Hosted by: Mona Datt and Ron DaLessio
Room: Midtown 2, Floor 2
Date and Time: May 14, 2026 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
CE Credit: 1.0 hours / 0.10 CEU
Course Overview: This comprehensive course is designed for real-time reporters to learn how to set up a multi-channel recording feed into their computers, and make minor edits to the real-time ASR transcript. Reporters either review and finalize the transcript themselves, or share the transcript with transcriptionists for support with review and finalizing the transcript.
Recommended Tools: Your laptop
Key Learning Outcomes:
Set up and test the microphone and recording feed, including backups
Managing spellings and annotations
Starting, reviewing and editing the real-time ASR feed
Post-hearing collaborative transcript review
Transcript download and release
Training Session: Securing your Court Reporting Workflows (and limiting security breaches)
For: Court Reporting & Transcription Operations Managers
Hosted by: Mona Datt and Ron DaLessio
Room: Midtown 2, Floor 2
Date and Time: May 14, 2026 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
CE Credit: 1.0 hours / 0.10 CEU
Course Overview: With the recent news around the security breach in Australia’s court reporting contracts, operational and data security has become top of mind for governments across the world. This comprehensive course is designed for operations leaders managing complex workflows involving court reporters and transcriptionists, to help them secure the entire life cycle of the record, from capture to transcript release.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Centralizing data backups and storage
Setting up security access controls that limit access on a need-to-know basis
Designing and customizing workflows to align with your operations
Driving your entire workflow from capture to transcript production on a single tech platform
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Join Loom Analytics for expert-led training sessions at the Unity Summit 2026.
Please select one or more sessions you'd like to attend - seating is limited, so be sure to RSVP early to secure your spot.
Once registered, you'll receive a confirmation email with all event details, including session times, CE credits, and location info.
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About the hosts:
Mona Datt is a 20-year veteran in transcription operations. She has leveraged the unique combination of her engineering training with her interest in business operations to assist clients with building and running digital transcription operations across court reporting, insurance, and medico-legal sectors.
Ron DaLessio has worked closely with courts, agencies, and reporters to help them navigate the evolving landscape of digital capture, stenography, workflow, translation, and AI-driven transcription. over two decades in the legal technology industry. His focus is simple: help organizations capture more proceedings, reduce turnaround time, and deliver accurate transcripts at scale.
Valentina Bianco is an Authorized Court Transcriptionist with the Province of Ontario, bringing over four years of experience in the field. Her expertise extends to her role as a Training and Process Improvement Lead, where she has successfully managed transcription teams while optimizing productivity and profitability. Valentina has played a pivotal role in assisting client teams with the seamless transition of their typists to editors.