| Congress No. |
Year |
City
|
President and/or President of the organisation Committe
|
Remarks |
|
21
|
1955
|
Monaco – Montecarlo |
H. Smit – André Morard |
Only typewriting competition |
|
22
|
1957
|
Milano II |
Ugo Andreini |
|
|
23
|
1959
|
Vienna |
Wilhem Zorn |
|
| 1961 – Ibm releases Selectric a new concept of typewriter. Instead of typebars has a pivoting typing element (called typeball) |
|
24
|
1961
|
Wiesbaden |
Fritz Haeger |
|
|
25
|
1963
|
Prague |
Freml |
|
|
26
|
1965
|
Paris IV |
M. Marcel Chouvet |
|
|
27
|
1967
|
Berne |
Konrad Jan – Marcel Racine |
|
|
28
|
1969
|
Varsaw |
Zigmund Bötcher |
|
| 1970 – The fax technology is spread by Japanese companies, replacing the cumbersom and only professional machines of the previous years. |
|
29
|
1971
|
Bruxelles III |
Eugene Cousin |
|
|
30
|
1973
|
Valencia |
Ramon Ivorra Ferrer |
|
|
31
|
1975
|
Budapest III |
Lászlo Barábsi |
|
| 1977 – Apple II is released and is the basis of home computer. At the same time Commodor and Radio Shack incorporate a monitor in their ‘microcomputers’ which previously required to be connected to a TV set. |
|
32
|
1977
|
Rotterdam |
Tijs Bon |
|
| 1978 – Wordstar – the first word processing software is launched. It worked with CP/M operating system. In 1979 Visical – the first spread sheet software is also released. |
|
33
|
1979
|
Belgrade |
Munir Lasic |
|
| 1981 – IBM starts marketing the first personal computer, using the operating system PC-Dos able to manage the disk operation. At the Intersteno Congress in Mannheim the connection of Michela steno-machines to a microcomputer is announced. Cat (Computer aided transcription) is also experienced in the States. |
|
34
|
1981
|
Mannheim |
Willy Kühnel – Karl Gutzler |
|
|
35
|
1983
|
Luzern |
Marcel Racine – René Steck |
|
|
36
|
1985
|
Sofia |
Vesselin Tzvetkov- Natsho Papasov |
|
|
37
|
1987
|
Firenze |
Flaviano Rodriguez |
|
|
38
|
1989
|
Dresden II |
Hans Störel |
|
|
39
|
1991
|
Bruxelles |
Jos Jossart |
|
|
40
|
1993
|
Istanbul |
Ihsan Yener |
|
| 1995 – Speech recognition is presented at Intersteno. Dragon releases the first edition of Naturally Speaking software, which does not need to pause for each word dictation. |
|
41
|
1995
|
Amsterdam |
Cees A. van Beurden – Joke Bakker |
|
|
42
|
1998
|
Lausanne |
William Bonnet -Gabrielle Fasnacht |
|
| 2000 – Internet connections are fastly increasing and are offered at reasonable prices. E-mails are becoming a reliable replacement of traditional messages. |
|
43
|
2001
|
Hannover |
Gregor Keller – Joseph Stehling |
|
| 2003 – For the first time an Intersteno Congress is broadcasted in realtime with audio and video streaming technology. |
|
44
|
2003
|
Rome |
Fausto Ramondelli – Gian Paolo Trivulzio |
|
| 2004 – Helsinki – The Central Committee approves the use of macros, steno machines and speech recognition at the world keyboarding competitions. |
|
45
|
2005
|
Vienna II |
Marlis Kulb |
|
|
2007 – Apple announces and releases the first version of iPhone
|
|
46
|
2007
|
Praga II |
Jaroslav Zaviacic – Jaroslav Polacek |
|
|
47
|
2009
|
Beijing |
Tang Keliang |
|
| 2010 – The first version of iPad (tablet PC) is released. |
|
48
|
2011
|
Paris V |
Jacqueline Bertin Mahieux – Jean Charles Le Masson |
|
|
49
|
2013
|
|
The steering committee is headed by Danny Devriendt, with Georgette Sante and Olivier Levrau |
|
| 2015 – This is the first Congress entirely organized by the Federation and not by a National Group. |
|
50
|
2015
|
Budapest IV |
The steering committee is coordinated by Danny Devriendt, and includes: Georgette Sante, Fausto Ramondelli, Rian Schwarz-van Poppel (Board members) and representatives of the Hungarian Association: Aliz Czuczor and Anita Dobos. |
|
|
51
|
2017
|
Berlin |
As agreed by the Council meeting (Shanghai – October 2014), the Congress was again organized under the direct responsibility of the Intersteno Board. |
|
|
52
|
2019
|
Cagliari (Sardinia – Italy) |
This Congress was organized under the direct responsibility of the Intersteno Board in close collaboration, on spot, with onA.I.R. – Intersteno Italia.
Organization committee: Danny Devriendt (coordinator), Francesca Marchionne (coordinator), Rian Schwarz -Van Poppel, Georgette Sante, Carlo Eugeni, Michele Demontis. |
Innovations:
– Used of an infrared system for the dictation of speech contests, all competitors in the same room
– Original Intersteno Anthem: Verba volant scripta mannent |
