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In this episode, we dive once more into the world of AI and its impact on the translation and interpretation industry. Our expert guests, Whitney Douglass, Vice President of Coordinated Services at GLOBO, Kristin Hoffman, Director of Translation at GLOBO, and Ewandro Magalhaes, the renowned writer, former United Nations staff, and conference interpreter, join host Tucker Johnson to separate fact from fiction when it comes to using AI for translation and interpreting services.
Whitney Douglass brings her extensive experience in compliance, quality assurance, and business development within the interpreting field to the discussion. She shares insights on how AI can enhance service delivery, client experience, and Deaf consumer satisfaction, while also addressing the challenges and limitations of AI in interpreting, particularly in the context of American Sign Language (ASL) education and medical interpreting.
Kristin Hoffman, with her unique background as an attorney and her focus on serving marginalized communities, provides valuable perspectives on the role of AI in document and audiovisual translation. She explores how AI can be leveraged to create positive impact while ensuring language access best practices are maintained, especially in the context of Title VI compliance and serving low-wage immigrants and migrant farm workers.
Ewandro Magalhaes, drawing from his diverse experiences as a writer, UN staff member, conference interpreter, and career coach, shares his thoughts on the promising field of remote interpretation and how AI is shaping its future. He offers insights on the potential benefits and drawbacks of AI-assisted interpretation, as well as strategies for language professionals to adapt and thrive in this evolving landscape.
Laura Holcomb is a professional interpreter, interpreter trainer, and partner at String & Can Multilingual Online, specializing in online simultaneous interpreting and tech services. She holds a Master in Conference Interpreting from Glendon College and works with English, Spanish, and Portuguese, focusing on coffee and agriculture. As an adjunct professor at Gle
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In this episode, we take a look at a a real application of how a major localization company is partnering with AI to enhance their Multimedia localization services as we discuss Deluxe's strategic partnership with AI technology leader AppTek.
Deluxe, a major provider of media localization services, has acquired an interest in AppTek and will become the exclusive reseller of AppTek's products to the global media and entertainment industry. We explore how the combined expertise of the two companies will allow them to develop cutting-edge AI solutions to empower translators, voice artists and other creative professionals. The goal is to leverage AI sensibly to make more diverse content accessible to audiences worldwide, while still keeping human creativity at the center. Deluxe can now offer custom high-performance AI tools that integrate directly into customer workflows.
This partnership combines AppTek's award-winning R&D with Deluxe's decades of media localization experience. Tune in for an insightful discussion with Belén Agulló García, Ph.D., and Evgeny Matusov on how this major industry collaboration aims to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI-enabled localization.
We'll cover the key points of the deal and what it means for the future of global media distribution and access.
About Belén: she has over a decade of experience in the localization industry, starting in game localization with various roles. She later focused on training, teaching game localization, and subtitling technologies in master's programs across Europe. While completing her PhD in subtitling for virtual reality content, she took on roles as a lead media researcher and VP of learning at Nimdzi Insights. She works as a community builder at Deluxe Media, supporting a global team of over 5,000 freelance subtitlers to enhance their professional growth and ensure top-quality client experiences.
About Evgeny: is a seasoned professional with a passion for advancing the field of machine translation. As the Lead Science Architect at AppTek, he leads a team of experts in developing cutting-edge solutions that bridge language barriers.
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Scaling up an organization inevitably reaches an inflection point where founding teams can no longer fuel customer acquisition alone. Yet constructing a sales engine to stimulate growth eludes many leaders lacking exposure beyond their functional expertise.
On this week's episode, host Tucker welcomes Kaarina Kvaavik, an accomplished sales leader renowned for architecting high-performance teams across prominent translation providers to demystify building revenue engines. Kaarina shares field-tested tips steering fledgling language service companies from fragmented founder-led sales motions to scalable specialized teams driving repeatable results.
Through candid advice forged over the years developing top sales producers across providers, Kaarina offers actionable guidance for expansion-focused language services CEOs taking the leap to fund and form dedicated commercialization drivers.
Tune in to hear field-forged wisdom equipping novice leaders to architect income engines powering the next chapter of organizational maturity and market leadership.
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In March, JUNTOS proudly presents "VAMOS JUNTOS 2024," its highly anticipated second summit set amidst the vibrant backdrop of Lima, Peru. This dynamic two-day affair is tailor-made for language service providers across Latin America and the Caribbean, offering a premier platform for thought leadership, interactive discussions, and unparalleled networking opportunities.
Don't miss your chance to gain invaluable insights and insider perspectives with Rick Antezana, Kristin Gutierrez, and Charles Campbell. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of collaboration and innovation in driving transformative change within the language services landscape.
About Rick: is the CEO of Dynamic Language and former President of the Association of Language Companies of the United States. Based in Seattle, Rick has been in the language industry for more than 25 years.
About Kristin: is the author of the best selling book "Be a Better Sales Leader" and is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Language Network. Kristin is a frequent keynote speaker, coach and mentor.
About Charles: is Founder and President of tbo. and a founding member of JUNTOS, the association representing translation, localization and interpreting companies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Want to Transform Your Business to Run Without You and Scale Faster in 2024?
Are you tired of feeling like a prisoner in your business, drowning in tasks, and struggling to achieve the ever-elusive work-life balance?
Imagine a life where you can call the shots, focus on what truly matters, and watch your business thrive without you. Michèle Hecken is an ex-CEO, Public Speaker, Author, and Advisor to high-performing leaders. An entrepreneur for over 25 years, Michèle has founded, built, and scaled a global, multi-million-dollar translation company, culminating in a high-7-figure exit in 2019, all while working less than 10 hours a week!
Through The Art of Offboarding, her proprietary methodology, Michèle shifts the paradigms of a high-performing leader's “expected” work and life. As a result, Michèle helps create profitable, productive, powerful change that results in exceptional operations and life leaders could hardly dream of.
A sought-after certified Global Speaker and member of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), Michèle delivers keynotes, workshops, and talks to exceptional organizations worldwide. She has been featured in media outlets, including Inc. Magazine, the Financial Post, and numerous podcasts, including Built to Sell Radio. Her first book, the co-authored “Lead Like a Woman: Audacity,” was a #1 best-selling book on Amazon within seven days of its release in 2023. Today, Michèle helps high-performing leaders design an organization where each person works on things they love and that create the most value.
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Join us at ELIA - European Language Industry Association’s Together 2024 in Riga (Feb 22-23), the premier European event uniquely serving freelancers and language service companies. This year, in its eighth edition, we embrace the theme "Perfect Harmony," focusing on fostering partnerships and balancing technology with the human touch. Our event becomes increasingly vital as the interest in AI grows, providing an interactive platform to explore best practices and collaborative opportunities. Engage in enriching sessions, vibrant social events, and a dynamic job fair designed to strengthen provider-freelancer collaboration.
Hear from Carlos la Orden Tovar, freelancer, trainer, and member of the Together Program Committee, as he shares his valuable insights on the evolving landscape of the language industry and the growing significance of such events. -
In a world saturated with content options, understanding the unique strengths of video can be a game-changer. Kane Lam will unravel the intricacies of choosing video as a content medium and discuss its unique value proposition. Why does video stand out among various content options, and how does it impact your brand, business, or personal growth?
Whether you're a marketer, entrepreneur, or content creator, this episode promises to provide valuable insights that can elevate your content strategy to new heights.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a transformative force in global content management, catalyzing the improvement of multilingual content. It poses challenges and creates opportunities for organizations ready to add value with the right combination of people, process, and technology.
Join us for this live stream as we explore insights into navigating this landscape, explore experiences that guide decision-makers, and illuminate the operational intricacies from the front lines.
With Bruno Herrmann, let's discover how to effectively leverage AI to turn challenges into strategic advantages.
About Bruno: with 25+ years in global leadership roles across tech, market research and life sciences, directed localization at IQVIA. Formerly at Nielsen, he led digital globalization and held key roles in marketing and product leadership. A seasoned practitioner, speaker, and thought leader, he's been a driving force in data-driven and client-first information, transformation, and product management.
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Few things are as controversial these days as the tension between AI and humans when it comes to translation. Some people see it as the holy grail while others demonish it as the devil. But in Gabriel Fairman's opinion, it's not necessarily a matter of machines OR humans but how to get to a scenario where machines AND humans work together. In this live stream, we will explore exactly what this looks like and how it can change people's minds over what AI is and is not.
About Gabriel: Gabriel Fairman has been the Founder and CEO of Bureau Works since 2005. He's a passionate linguist and technologist who loves to cook, breathe, and spend time with his family.
About Nimdzi Live: There is a shadow industry driving the growth of ALL global brands: Localization. Let’s talk globalization, localization, translation, interpretation, language, and culture, with an emphasis on how it affects your business, whether you have a scrappy start-up or are working in a top global brand.
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Join us for a revolutionary episode of The Nimdzi Live Show. We're now diving into uncharted territory with Innovation Manager, Marta Castello from Creative Words.
Have you ever wondered how AI and human expertise can seamlessly coexist?
Marta will unveil the "Human Approved" certification, a game-changer in responsible AI integration for language-related activities.
About Marta: A graduate in translation and interpretation, she took her first steps into the tech world quite causally when she moved to Lisbon in 2019. Since 2022, she has held the role of operations manager in the startup Creative AI, which deals with data for artificial intelligence, and thus comes into contact with the reality of CW ready to entrust her, in 2023, with the role of innovation manager. This new challenge allows her to give her creativity and tireless curiosity space.
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In this new episode, we delve into the groundbreaking realm of artificial intelligence, focusing on OpenAI's latest release.
Join our experts, Laszlo K Varga, Marina Pantcheva, PhD, Konstantin Dranch, Renato Beninatto, and Tucker Johnson, as we explore the transformative impact this cutting-edge technology holds for localization professionals.
Stay tuned to understand how OpenAI's innovations are reshaping the future of global content adaptation and the key strategies for professionals navigating this evolving frontier.
About Laszlo: Strategic thinker, practical doer, forever curious, and hungry to learn. Passionate about everything that makes successful companies tick, especially Change Driven Technology and Technology-Driven Change, Lean(er) Operations and Supply Chain, B2B Sales and Partnerships, Strategic Programs, and Organizational Change.
About: Konstantin: Founder of an implementation startup, Custom.MT has been a researcher in the localization industry since 2012—an industry influencer, networker, and consultant.
About Marina: Marina is a Senior Group Manager at RWS. Marina holds a PhD in Theoretical Linguistics and is passionate about data, technology, and exploring new areas of knowledge. She leads a team that develops solutions for Crowd Localization, covering tech solutions, BI, linguistic quality, community management, and more.
About Renato: CEO and Co-Founder Renato brings decades of experience everywhere. With extensive experience in international consulting, market research, sales, and marketing, Renato provides the strategic direction that helps Nimdzi better serve clients worldwide.
About Nimdzi Live:
There is a shadow industry driving the growth of ALL global brands: Localization. Let’s talk globalization, localization, translation, interpretation, language, and culture, with an emphasis on how it affects your business, whether you have a scrappy start-up or are working in a top global brand.
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Unlock the potential of AI in translation workflows for faster, more efficient, and error-free results by learning to customize and train AI models to meet specific translation needs and leveraging expert insights in the AI and localization industry.
Your one-stop solution for AI-powered translations and automated localization. Save money, speed up your market entry, and charm customers in every language.
Join Joe Brockbank and Helena Pujol, experts building translation solutions powered up by AI. They speak daily with customers who face the same challenges: translating with quality while doing this effectively, and will share key insights with you.
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Join us for an exciting episode with Ana Boisteanu, MBA, and Samara Hickman, who will share their insights and experiences on the decision-making process behind developing a Translation Business Management Solution (TBMS).
The episode promises to dive deep into the intricacies of developing a TBMS, providing valuable lessons and practical advice to anyone interested in improving translation management processes.
Join us as we explore the ups and downs of this path and gain insights from industry experts who have navigated through it successfully.
About Ana: Currently Chief Strategy Officer at Mondia Technologies. With over a decade of experience in the localization industry, she's been part of each phase of the company's growth journey, from startup to maturity. She holds an MBA from Imperial College Business School.
About Samara: With a career spanning 15 years in the language services industry, running high profile contracts across both Translation and Interpreting, Samara is a seasoned Operations Management professional. In her role as Chief Operations Officer for the Mondia Group, she brings with her a deft eye for operational planning and performance and an unmatched knowledge of the language services Industry.
About Radoslaw: Radosław (Radek) is a Product Manager for Traduno TBMS, a linguist, and a localization technology aficionado. He analyses the business needs and helps establish the roadmap for the system development. Outside work, he dabbles in woodworking, gaming and reading fantasy and sci-fi books.
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Despite Arabic being the 5th most spoken language in the world, when it comes to language technology, the challenges are more similar to low-resourced languages.
Tarjama, as an LSP, was struggling to find a tool to solve their Arabic translation challenges, so they decided to build their own TMS fit for purpose.
Join Rebecca Jonson, Ph.D., as she discusses the TMS purpose-built for Arabic with an Arabic UI and powered by proprietary Arabic AI to boost the productivity of other translation teams.
About Rebecca: As the Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Tarjama, Dr. Jonsson is leading the Product and AI departments and oversees the overall strategy and vision of Tarjama’s AI-powered platform with its proprietary TMS and NMT engine. Dr. Jonsson is a computational linguist, holding a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Gothenburg, with over 20 years of experience developing language technology, both in academia and in the industry. In her product and research-oriented roles, her focus has always been on leveraging language technology to solve language challenges and build innovative products.
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More of us are working remotely than ever before. This has profoundly impacted who your colleagues are, where they're from, where they're based, and how and when you can work together.
Localization professionals have been pioneering this way of working since well before it became a trend, but are we more impacted by it than others, and what can we do about it? In this episode, we will talk with Giulia Tarditi, Head of Global Experience at Qualtrics and a veteran global worker, to discover how businesses adapt and how we can manage the benefits and challenges presented by the 'new normal' in workplace setup.
About Giulia: Now leading a lean team of six for XM leader Qualtrics, Giulia Tarditi is a veteran localization professional who has been highly vocal in calling for user experience data to take center stage in our industry's decision making and daily management. Known for her plentiful buyer-side experience, Giulia has now helped over 50 brands craft game-changing localization programs. In doing so, she has interfaced with some of the most globally-dispersed and multinational teams in digital.
About Nimdzi Live: There is a shadow industry driving the growth of ALL global brands: Localization. Let’s talk globalization, localization, translation, interpretation, language, and culture, emphasizing how it affects your business, whether you have a scrappy start-up or are working in a top global brand.
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When it comes to getting the job done, mindset is key. And Sasan Banava knows all about it. Join our next episode with Sasan Banava, who will be sharing with us about his career: From Google to Uber to Square, he’s covered a lot of ground, from establishing Uber’s in-house localization team to serving as Square’s senior director of globalization.
You can also find an interview with Sasan Banava in the june issue of Multilingual Magazine.
About Sasan: He is currently heading Globalization team at Square. He was the head of Localization & Internationalization at Uber and started the in-house localization team at the San Francisco headquarters in late 2015. He expanded the team to 20+ program managers over the last few years, after a successful pitch to the previous CEO in early 2016. Previously, he was a localization program manager at Google for 7.5 years and had driven the localization of over 25 product lines in 70+ languages.
Sasan has also been working as a localization consultant advising investment banks on the state of the localization industry, vendor space, technology, and automation.
Sasan is certified from Stanford University in advanced project management and also holds a certificate from Harvard Business School Executive Education in Leadership & Strategy. Sasan holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Near Eastern studies with emphasis on Persian language and spent two years of his academic life studying computer science. He also holds a commercial pilot’s license.
About Nimdzi Live: There is a shadow industry driving the growth of ALL global brands: Localization. Let’s talk globalization, localization, translation, interpretation, language, and culture, with an emphasis on how it affects your business, whether you have a scrappy start-up or are working in a top global brand.
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Join us in this new episode of Nimdzi Live as we walk through memoQ's most recent investment: memoQ RFP, Inc. A U.S.-based corporation that is developing the next-generation RFP Response platform.
The investment encompasses a significant cash infusion coupled with a technology licensing agreement that harnesses the capabilities of the existing memoQ technology.
memoQ’s decision to invest in memoQ RFP aligns with the rising demand for innovative Request for Proposal (RFP) response tools. The RFP response tool market is projected to be valued at approximately USD 200 million annually, with an impressive growth rate of 15-20 percent per year. This market includes a spectrum of related documents such as Requests for Information (RFI), security questionnaires, ISO and SOC II certification, and industry-specific credential audit documents, all of which necessitate the creation of fresh content while also benefitting from the efficient reuse of previously generated and approved content.
memoQ RFP’s groundbreaking platform will provide users with a unique choice: the option to leverage previously used and approved responses through a technology similar to a translation.
About Mark: He has held several leadership roles in the localization industry, including CEO Asia Pacific for CLS Communication and Managing Director Asia for thebigword. He is currently the Strategic Sales Director for memoQ, leading the company’s market expansion efforts in the regulated industries. Mark is now transitioning to his role as Co-founder and CEO of memoQ RFP.
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Join us for the next episode of Nimdzi Live as we dive into the future of localization with a true industry visionary, Diego Antista.
Diego Antista is a former Googler who worked for over a decade as a lead in the Google multicultural team in the US and LATAM. With his partner, Juan Fusoni, he founded GetGloby, the first AI-powered platform specialized in marketing asset localization, allowing businesses to transcreate their ads in over 100 languages.
Don't miss out on this exclusive opportunity to learn from the best in the business and get ready to revolutionize your approach to localization with the magic of AI!
About Nimdzi Live: A shadow industry is driving the growth of ALL global brands: Localization. Let’s talk globalization, localization, translation, interpretation, language, and culture, emphasizing how it affects your business, whether you have a scrappy start-up or are working in a top global brand.
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In this episode with Marina Ilari, CT, we will discuss the challenges, rewards, and factors that contribute to the success of video game localization. We will also analyze a case study of the localization of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
About Marina: is CEO of Terra Translations, a global localization and LQA company. Marina has over 17 years of experience in the localization industry and a lifetime experience as a gamer. In 2017, she received the Women-Owned Business Enterprise Rising Star Award presented by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to a young business with great promise, and in 2020 she received the Enterprising Women of the Year Award. In 2022, Terra Translations was listed by Inc. Magazine as one of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America.
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Loy Searle has navigated the intricate landscape of localization and is excited to share her expertise with you. During this live session, Loy will delve into the following crucial areas that often pose challenges to localization professionals:
Defining your strategy
Finding your quick wins
Getting funding/budget,
Building the right peer partnerships,
Engagement as a core team skill,
Enabling scalability.
This event is a golden opportunity to learn from Loy Searle's wealth of experience and expertise. Get actionable insights that will drive your localization efforts to new heights.
About Loy: Loy’s been a globalization and content industry leader for 20+ years. Her teams pioneered single-sourcing content strategies in the ERP industry and built extraordinary integrated global CMS/terminology solutions. At Google, she led Global Production and Language Services. Her focus was speed @ scale - turning language quality around while shortening the time to market. At Intuit, her team built a scalable globalization and innovative content foundation to support market expansion. At Deluxe, her team transformed their practice to support the Entertainment industry’s digital transformation. As past President of Women in Localization and previous board member for many years, Loy is committed to the localization industry and the advancement of women within it. Today at Workday, Loy’s team is building a Localization and Globalization CoE to scale and support the company’s expansion goals.
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