The opening ceremony of the 2017 Translation and Transmission Conference was introduced with speeches from Eric Colombel (President and Founder of the Tsadra Foundation), Chuck Lief (President of the Naropa University), and Valerio Ferme (Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities of the University of Colorado). The conference was held at the University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, and attended by more than 250 translators, scholars, and practitioners representing over forty-five translation groups and sanghas and thirty-five universities around the world.