The author attended the Massively Multilingual NLU 2022 workshop, which aimed to address the current limitations of natural language understanding technology across various languages for both production and research purposes. They also participated in the BlackboxNLP 2022 workshop, which focused on interpreting and explaining NLP models with insights from diverse fields such as machine learning and neuroscience, highlighting David Bau’s talk on the ROME method for direct model editing. Additionally, the author has a keen interest in Arabic NLP and attended sessions at the Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP 2022) workshop. Noteworthy poster sessions included topics like a retrieval-augmented transformer, a GENIE evaluation leaderboard, the Bloom Library featuring multimodal datasets in over 300 languages, and a data-efficient music playlist captioning project. Further information about the EMNLP 2022 conference is available through a video and ongoing discussions on Discord, with more content promised in the Talking Language AI series.