memoQ talks: Recent Episodes
Mark Shriner & Cedomir Pusica
On memoQ talks we talk with localization industry leaders about best practices and important lessons learned related to all areas of localization including leadership, technology, security, data protection, vendor management, operations, quality assurance, business development, sales, marketing, human resources and more! Join us as we talk to and learn from our colleagues and peers in the localization industry.
Eunnara "Nara" Jo is the Founder & CEO of JOEL Localization a full-service language service provider in South Korea. She was recently named CEO of the Year by APAC Insider and was featured on the cover of Global Woman Leader magazine. She has also recently been named as the Leader of the Korean chapter of the Asian-African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AACCI).
In this episode of memoQ talks, Nara talks about her journey from a language student to working in the localization industry and on to starting and running JOEL Localization. She also shares her thoughts about working as a conference interpreter, the effects of AI on the delivery on interpretation services, JOEL Localization's support of memoQ Day Seoul, and more.
JOEL Localization
https://www.joellocalization.com/
memoQ Day Seoul
https://www.memoq.com/events/memoq-day-seoul-2024
Jordan Evans is the Owner and CEO of Language Network, a rapidly growing LSP based in Santa Barbara. In this episode of memoQ talks Jordan shares the processes he used and the lessons learned while successfully acquiring four companies and increasing Language Network's revenues 12x since 2018.
Topics include scaling for growth, sales operations, making cultural and operational changes, acquisitions, how to improve margins, hiring processes, book recommendations, and more!
Language Network
https://www.languagenetworkusa.com/
Kristin Gutierrez is an author, speaker, and business strategist who helps companies improve their sales and sales leadership. Kristin has held sales leadership roles in several organizations including the United Language Group, Vistatec, SDL, Lionbridge, and Translations.com. Her books include Be a Better Sales Leader and, Say Yes and Figure It Out: The Perfect Framework for Taking Massive Imperfect Action.
In this episode, Kristin shares her thoughts about sales and sales leadership. She touches on topics that include transitioning from an individual producer role into a leadership position in sales, key traits of successful salespeople, how to lead change in a sales team, the importance of continual learning, and more.
Mugais Jahangir is the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of memoQ.
In this episode of memoQ talks, Mugais shares his views on what it takes to be a successful salesperson and sales leader. Topics include the importance of listening, key traits of sales leadership, cultural differences, motivation, setting targets, incentives, and motivation.
Ewandro Magalhães is a Global Language Strategist who has held several leadership roles related to the delivery of interpretation services including Co-founder and Chief Language Officer for Kudo.
In this episode of memoQ talks, Ewandro talks about the skills required to be a successful interpreter, how interpreters need to manage their emotions, dealing with cultural and linguistic nuances, the application of AI in delivering interpretation services, and more!
Stefan Huyghe is Vice President of Localization at Communicaid Language Solutions and the creator of the AI-in-Loc newsletter. He is also an AI and social media marketing strategist.
In this episode of memoQ talks, Stefan shares his thoughts about how to effectively use LinkedIn to increase engagement with prospects and customers. He also touches on how to use AI when creating posts, the importance of "likes," "shares," and comments, and what LSPs should be doing to optimize their use of LinkedIn.
Communicaid Language Solutions
https://communicaidinc.com/
Dylan Hartmann is the Founder and Managing Director of AcudocX, a self-service platform that facilitates the translation of important documents such as birth certificates, marriage licenses, and education records, by certified translators in Australia and North America. Certified translators and LSPs have warmly adopted the AcudocX platform as a low-friction and cost-effective way to provide these important but traditionally labor-intensive services.
In this episode, Dylan talks about the origins of AcudocX, the markets it serves, the company's growth plans, and more.
AcudocX
https://acudocx.com.au/
Elena Petrova is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ad Astra. She believes language interpretation, translation, and other related services are vitally important to facilitate communication among all people in all activities of their lives.
In this episode of memoQ talks, Elena shares her thoughts related to the application of AI in the loc industry, the delivery of deaf services, the market for voice interpretation services, and more.
Ad Astra, Inc.
https://ad-astrainc.com/
Pascale Tremblay is a Seattle-based Global Strategy consultant with experience empowering organizations to enable their language capabilities and gain a competitive advantage. Previously the Head of Language Product and Localization at Gap Inc., Pascale now advises and develops Global Language Capability initiatives for growing companies, including Language Operationalization, Multilingual Language Product Ecosystem design, Process Evolution Strategy, and Technology Evangelist.
In this episode of memoQ talks, Pascale talks about how she got started in the localization industry, her experience working at Gap Inc., and why she transitioned into a consulting role. Pascale also explains how she engages with her clients, and discusses some of the different applications of AI that she is seeing in the loc industry.
Mike Dillinger, Ph.D. and Jay Marciano are two leading experts in machine translation (MT), LLMs, and AI in the localization industry. Both have served as Presidents of the Association of Machine Translation for the Americas. Mike has held leading technical positions with large enterprises including LinkedIn, eBay, and Intel Labs. Jay, on the other hand, has helped some of the world's largest LSPs, including SDL International and Lionbridge, to develop their MT strategies.
In this episode, Mike and Jay talk about what types of tasks AI can do better than humans, how LLMs are evolving, knowledge graphs, the difference in how LSPs and enterprises view the application of LLMs, how the day-to-day work of translators will change in the coming years, and more!
Founders of Nimdzi Insights, Renato Beninatto, and Tucker Johnson, share their opinions about the current business and technology trends in the localization industry. Topics include past and current technology hype cycles, the current state of machine translation, how the economic model for translation is changing, and the various applications of AI.
Nimdzi Insights
https://www.nimdzi.com/
In this episode, Richard Sikes, Senior Consultant at memoQ, explains the challenges companies face when doing an in-country review (ICR) for translation projects. He then describes how memoQ developed the ICR tool, and how enterprise customers and LSPs can save time, reduce errors, and create a more efficient workflow by using the memoQ's ICR tool. Richard also discusses the importance of getting customer feedback and next steps in the development process.
Pascale Tremblay and Paula Hunter have both worked in several high-profile leadership roles in the localization industry. They are now teaming up with other loc industry professionals in the Pacific Northwest to launch The Vancouver Localization User Group (VLUG).
In this episode, Pascale and Paula talk about the localization community in Vancouver B.C., their reasons for launching VLUG, and what to expect at the first event which will be held on May 14th, 2024.
VLUG Meetup Page
https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-localization-user-group/
VLUG LinkedIn Group
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9589380/
Ulrich Fricke is memoQ's Head of HUB for DACH, Benelux, Australia, and New Zealand. In this episode, Ulrich talks about the importance of creating value-add learning, sharing, and networking opportunities for customers. He then describes some of the events and venues that memoQ has created to do this, including the memoQ Consultants Roundtable, the memoQ Enterprise Roundtable, memoQ Days, memoQfest, memoQ talks, and more.
Ulrich and Mark also talk about some of the differences in selling in various countries and how selling to procurement can require different tactics. Lastly, Ulrich shares some advice related to professional learning.
André Bastié is the Co-Founder and CEO of Happy Scribe, a leading cloud-based subtitling and transcription platform. André tells the story of how the idea of Happy Scribe came out of a specific need he encountered while working as a graduate student. He then explains the differences between transcription and subtitling, who are the consumers of each, and how AI and integrations with other tools will affect the market and the future direction of Happy Scribe.
Happy Scribe
https://www.happyscribe.com/
memoQ
https://www.memoq.com/
Karen Tkaczyk is the Director of Sales, Life Sciences, at Vistatec. In this episode, Karen talks about her early interest in languages and her different career transitions after graduating from Cambridge with a Ph.D. in chemistry. Initially working as a development chemist for GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb, Karen decided to build her own life sciences translation practice in 2005. She talks about the reasons for this decision and explains how she was able to grow her business. Karen also explains her decision and her process for moving into a sales leadership role for an LSP in 2021 and also talks about some of the latest trends related to life sciences localization.
Join us as we talk with Charles Campbell, CEO of tbo, Carrie Livermore Fischer, Manager of Localization Services at Subway, and Rick Antezana, CEO of Dynamic Language about opportunities for business expansion and operational support in Latin America and the Caribbean. We also talk about the upcoming Vamos Juntos event in Lima, Peru.
Vamos Juntos
https://www.juntoslatam.org/vamos
Melanie Francis is the President and Founder of Global Search RC. Melanie joins her colleague Steve Moore to discuss trends in recruiting and hiring in the localization industry including the increasing importance of technical skills, how companies can evaluate sales recruits, how companies can make themselves more attractive to prospective hires, and why companies opt to use external recruiters. Melanie and Steve also talk about recent trends in offshoring, salaries in 2023, and a really, really, really, long Welsh word.
Global Search RC
https://globalsearchrc.com/
Agnes Varga is the CTO at memoQ. She was a finalist in the Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) at LocWorld Silicon Valley 2023 where she introduced memoQ AGT, an AI-based translation automation technology. Agnes explains how memoQ AGT will help customers improve quality and productivity.
In this episode of memoQ talks we talk with three localization industry executives about their experiences with rebranding in their respective organizations. Charles Campbell, CEO of tbo., Jonas Ryberg, SVP & Chief Globalization Officer at Centific, and Robin Ayoub, GM & VP of Sales for Lionbridge Canada talk about the importance of brands, why organizations should consider rebranding, and share their experiences, lessons learned, and best practices related to rebranding.
In this episode of memoQ talks we speak with two industry leaders about how Large Language Models (LLMs) are being used in the localization industry. Adam Vance is the VP of Localization & LQA at GlobalStep and Kincaid Day is Director of AI-Enabled Localization Solutions for Centific. Adam and Kincaid explain the difference between AI and LLMs, define Generative AI is, and talk about what types of localization solutions their respective organizations deliver by leveraging LLMs.
Centific
https://www.centific.com/
GlobalStep
https://globalstep.com/
Mugais Jahangir is Head of the Americas HUB for memoQ. In this episode of memoQ talks, Mugais shares his observations on the recent ALC Summit and Loc World Silicon Valley and explains how memoQ fosters community through hosting and participating in events. Mugais also talks about his role at memoQ and shares his excitement for future opportunities and innovation in the localization industry.
(From Wikipedia) Kate Edwards is a geographer, writer, and content culturalization strategist, most active in information-based cartography and video game content. She was the executive director of the International Game Developers Association from December 2012 to June 2017. Edwards spent over a decade working in various roles at Microsoft, creating the Geopolitical Strategy team and working to evaluate and manage geopolitical and cultural content in software products. After leaving Microsoft she founded Englobe (now Geogrify) as a consulting firm engaged in content culturalization and strategy, primarily for the video game industry.
In this episode of memoQ talks, Kate talks about how she got started in cartography and content culturalization, and discusses some of the geopolitical and social challenges related to publishing video games and creating a unified metaverse.
Geogrify
Jay Jaehoon Choi is a Localization Engineer at NCSOFT, one of the world's largest game publishers. In this episode, Jay talks about game localization workflows and explains some of the differences in localization in Korea vs. the rest of the world. He also touches on how Korean game publishers view international markets, the challenges in recruiting localization talent in Korea, and how companies in Korea are starting to adopt AI-related tools for localization workflows. Lastly, Jay gives examples of how NCSOFT handles communication and geopolitical hot topics in their game platforms.
NCSOFT (U.S)
https://us.ncsoft.com/
G-Star
https://www.gstar.or.kr/eng
Richard Brooks is a sales and growth consultant in the localization industry, a visiting faculty at the Cranfield School of Management, and a Senior Advisor for Slator. In this episode, Richard explains the importance of value-based selling and shares his thoughts on a variety of topics including sales training, value creation, pricing and discounts, knowing your customer, and more.
Richard's Contact Information
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardbrooks/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RichardMBrooks
Website: https://richard-brooks.com/
Karen Fowlie is the VP, Product Services & Operations for Qlik. She has also held leadership positions at IBM and Cognos.
Karen talks about how she has transitioned into different roles in her career and explains how some of the pressures placed on localization teams have helped her professional development. Topics included transitioning into non-loc roles, the importance of demonstrating the value of loc across the enterprise, how to build a culture of continuous improvement, how to empower your team, developing professional relationships, and tips for maintaining a work-life balance. Karen also gives her book and movie recommendations and shares tips on how to survive a tornado.
Book Recommendation
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Dr. Brené Brown
Robin Ayoub of Lionbridge and Mark Shriner of memoQ discuss best practices related to sales and talk about some of the lessons learned from their experience selling and leading sales teams.
Topics include:
The importance of having a sales process.
The complexity of sales.
Building rapport.
Connecting logic & emotion
Product knowledge & belief
Dealing with rejection
Hunting & Farming
How to use LinkedIn
The importance of continual learning
Robin on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinayoub/
Martial Mernier is the owner of Talk Finance, a Luxembourg-based translation agency that specializes in providing high-quality translations for the finance industry. Martial talks about the different types of financial translation and some of the challenges related to using EU-mandated templates for the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). He also shares his ideas on how to find and evaluate qualified financial translators and his process for evaluating and using machine translation.
Talk Finance
https://www.talkfinance.biz/
Kevin Gerardin is the Production Manager at Peter & Clark a global communication partner that specializes in financial translation. Kevin talks about the different types of financial translation and discusses some of the regulator requirements related to the translation of financial documents including KIDs and SFDR.
Peter & Clark
https://www.peterandclark.com/
Adam Bittlingmayer is the CEO & Co-Founder of ModelFront, a company that has built a platform for AI-driven machine translation quality prediction. Adam explains how companies can save time and money by being able to accurately predict the quality of machine-translated content. He also touches on various topics related to AI and localization.
ModelFront
https://www.modelfront.com/
Ana Sofia Correia is a professional medical translator and medical writer. In this episode Ana Sofia explains how she got her start in medical translation and writing, and talks about the reality of working as a freelancer. She also discusses the most common workflows and content in medical translation, translation for clinical trials, the importance of readability, best practices for using LinkedIn, the pros and cons of working as an in-house translator, the importance of mentoring, and future trends for technology and regulations in life sciences translation.
Ana Sofia Correia
https://www.anasofiacorreia.com/
Olivier Debeugny is the Founder and CEO of Lingua Custodia a leading provider of machine translation (MT) services to a wide variety of banks and other financial services firms. Olivier talks about why and how he started Lingua Custodia and the different types of content that are frequently translated in the financial services space. He also discusses quality, regulatory, and security concerns, and gives advice to LSPs and translators on how best to adopt MT in their workflows.
Lingua Custodia
https://www.linguacustodia.finance/en/welcome/
memoQ
https://www.memoq.com/
Konstantin Dranch is a well-known language industry researcher and the Co-Founder of Custom.MT. In this episode, Konstantin shares his views regarding how ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) will be used by companies in the localization industry. He also talks about how LSPs and enterprises can accelerate their deployment of machine translation and AI by using external consultants.
Custom.MT
https://custom.mt/
memoQ talks
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB6oSH6AfH9NVwwOsyG-ZbM3LNc2l3A5z
Tina just returned from her trip to Denmark where she set up Comunica's branch for the Nordics. We discuss the various aspects involved in running and growing her boutique agency business, what makes an agency 'boutique', how the team is structured, what the cooperation with freelancers is like and what matters the most, as well as some cultural differences between the two very different places like the cold European north and the vibrant, sunny south of Spain.
www.comunica.dk
https://comunicatranslations.com/
https://skrapling.com/
00:01:19 - Expanding Comunica's physical presence in the Nordics
00:06:30 - The first steps in opening the new branch
00:08:04 - The very beginnings of Comunica
00:11:51 - What differentiates a boutique agency from a big one
00:13:45 - The structure of the core team
00:15:05 - The team of translators
00:17:04 - Cultural adaptation
00:21:17 - Do you feel more Spanish or Danish?
00:22:46 - Tech talk
00:26:22 - Skrapling
00:28:05 - Terminology creation
00:28:47 - How do you choose your clients?
00:31:11 - External translators
00:32:20 - What are the qualities that make a translator the company's favorite?
00:37:05 - Final thoughts
David Hansfield is the EVP of Global Sales at Dotsub, a provider of technology and services to add captions and voiceovers into online videos. David explains the workflow and processes used for video translation and localization and discusses several related topics including pricing models, the use of AI and synthetic voice overs.
https://dotsub.com/
Charles Campbell is the Founder and President of Translation Back Office. Charles talks about his experience at localization industry events and shares his thoughts on how to make them more enjoyable, memorable, and effective. He also introduces one of the industry's newest events, Vamos Juntos, which will be held for the first time on March 24-25th 2023 in Rio de Janeiro.
Translation Back Office
Vamos Juntos Event
Rick Antezana is the CEO of Dynamic Language. In this episode Rick talks about how he got his start in the language services industry and some of the lessons he's learned related to sales, marketing, and leadership.
Dynamic Language
https://www.dynamiclanguage.com/
GALA Loc Mixer - Seattle (April 6th, 2023)
https://www.gala-global.org/events/events-calendar/gala-loc-mixer-seattle-usa
We talk with Erik about what makes translators successful, what to pay attention to, how to acquire new clients, keep the existing ones, favorite books, travel - including where he parked his yacht, and all those things that translators never say, openly, at least.
Richard Sikes, Senior Consultant - Business Services at memoQ, provides an overview of the linguistic validation (LV) process and explains how memoQ's Business Services team developed the functionality to support LV workflows for our customers.
Note:
During part of this discussion, Richard uses a PowerPoint presentation. Listeners wanting to view the slides can do so by watching the video of the podcast on memoQ's Youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB6oSH6AfH9NVwwOsyG-ZbM3LNc2l3A5z
Stella Hodkin Paris, Head of Language Services at CLEAR Global, talks about the mission of the organization, its Translators without Borders Community, what they have accomplished, and some of their challenges going forward.
https://clearglobal.org/
https://translatorswithoutborders.org/
CLEAR Global Campaign Page
https://clearglobal.org/meet-me-in-my-language-donate/
Dieter Runge is the Co-Founder and SVP of Growth and Strategy at Boostlingo, a leading remote interpretation technology platform. Dieter explains the history of how interpretation services have been provided, and how the technology to support these services has evolved to meet the needs of both the providers and consumers of these services.
Prior to founding Boostlingo, Dieter has held leadership roles at several localization companies including SDL and Lionbridge. Dieter is in the process of co-authoring a book on interpretations services called, The Remote Interpreter.
https://boostlingo.com/
Santiago de Miguel is a Gaming Solution Engineer with memoQ and also a freelance game translator. In this episode of memoQ talks Santiago talks about life in Argentina, the nuances of game localization, and gives some excellent advice on how to get started in game translation, how to find customers, negotiate rates, and more.
memoQ
memoQ.com
Your Game in Spanish
https://yourgameinspanish.com/english/
We talk about both the upsides and downsides of AI, particularly when it comes to its tangible impact on the environment and argue that if a job can be done using less compute-intensive (and environmentally unfriendly) resources, we should use them, providing several examples of how memoQ approaches this issue. We talk about the history of translation memories, machine translation, some hidden (and not so hidden) gems in memoQ, favorite movies and impactful books.
Timecode:
00:00:20 - Intro
00:02:47 - What makes memoQ special (how did memoQ come to be)
00:06:49 - Balazs and his background in book publication
00:08:25 - Atlas of AI, book by Kate Crawford
00:09:38 - Computational intensity of AI, its impact on the environment
00:13:00 - The ALPAC Report and machine translation
00:17:03 - Are we using more resources than we need
00:20:47 - The four components of AI
00:24:22 - Summa Technologiae
00:27:52 - Where is memoQ using AI and ML
00:33:33 - The big difference between statistical machine translation and neural machine translation
00:35:21 - The environmental impact of data centers
00:40:30 - Why do we refer to neural networks as a black box
00:43:59 - The Match Patch feature and the history of the translation memory technology
00:49:30 - The new kind of translation memory: TM+
00:53:22 - The technology that translators do not like talking about
00:59:05 - Do you see the future where machine translation is the only translation we use
01:03:10 - Privacy
01:04:23 - The main rule of GDPR in one sentence
01:06:40 - The challenges regarding data security when you are a cloud provider
01:11:24 - Do you have a favorite Sci-Fi movie
Links:
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-AI-Kate-Crawford/dp/0300209576
The ALPAC Report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALPAC
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/alpac_lm/ARC000005.pdf
Balazs' first computer, ZX81: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
Datasheets for Datasets: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/01/1803.09010.pdf
Summa Technologiae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae
Neural networks: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/neural-networks
Movies and TV series:
The Andromeda Strain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain_(film)
Annihilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation_(film)
Alien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)
Dark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_(TV_series)
Useful blog posts or ebooks by memoQ:
Machine Translation: The Complete Guide: https://blog.memoq.com/machine-translation-the-complete-guide
Post-editing Machine Translation (PEMT): Four Things to Know: https://blog.memoq.com/post-editing-machine-translation-pemt-four-things-to-know
Machine Translation vs. Machine Translation Post-editing: Which One to Use and When?: https://blog.memoq.com/machine-translation-vs.-machine-translation-post-editing-which-one-to-use-and-when
The Future of Machine Translation: Where are we Headed?: https://blog.memoq.com/the-future-of-machine-translation-where-are-we-headed
How to Choose a Machine Translation Engine: https://blog.memoq.com/how-to-choose-a-machine-translation-engine
Adrian Probst is a freelance translator and content creator. Adrian talks about his journey from working in an import export company to becoming a successful freelance translator. He also shares some of his lessons learned related to specialization, maintaining work life balance, managing and tracking finances, creating content for a social media presence, and more!
Adrian's Website
https://adrianprobst.com/
Adrian's Youtube Channel - Freelanceverse
https://www.youtube.com/c/freelanceverse
Lara Tosoni, Chief Revenue Officer at MEINRAD provides an overview of best practices for the translation of life sciences content and includes suggestions on how to achieve targets for quality, delivery time, pricing, and security.
MEINRAD
https://www.meinrad.cc/en/
Life Sciences Associations
https://www.johner-institute.com/
https://www.lisavienna.at/
Dominika Olszewska, Head of Hub, CEE & Nordics at memoQ talks talks about digital well being, why it's important, and how it can help us to be more focused, present, and productive in our personal and professional lives.
Max Troyer, Associate Professor and Program Chair at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey talks about career options for localization students, trends with technology in localization and education, and gives advice for students and others who want to start or accelerate their career in the localization industry.
Tom Alwood, CTO of Peter & Clark, has previously held technology leadership roles at Bowne, RR Donnelley, and Merrill Corporation. Tom discuses best practices related to in-house technology development, the evaluation process of external tools, calculating ROI on custom tools, rationalizing feature requests and more.
Tom also touches on the integration of Peter & Clark's custom business management system (BMS) with the memoQ TMS. More information can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqoy7A2HkD4&t=90s
https://www.peterandclark.com/
Christophe Djaouani, President Toppan Digital Language, talks about current trends for the translation in the regulated industries such as life sciences and financial services.
Prior to launching Toppan Digital Language, Christophe has held senior leadership positions at SDL, Donnelley Financial Solutions, and RR Donnelley. He has over 20 years of experience leading the deployment of large scale translation services for customers in the regulated industries.
Founded in 2021, Toppan Digital Language is part of Toppan Leefung Pte., a wholly owned subsidiary of TOPPAN INC., the world’s largest printing conglomerate.
www.toppanleefung.com/companies/toppan-digital-language/
https://www.toppan.com/en/
Dominique Trouche, CEO of WhP International explains the basics of DITA and how it can be used to improve localization workflows.
Topics include:
What is DITA?
Applications of DITA
Content Architecture
Linguistic Review using DITA
Cost Reduction Opportunities with DITA
DITA for Video Subtitling
https://whpintl.com/
https://www.memoq.com/
Filipe Tiago Stankovic is a young and very motivated CEO who has been working in this position for the past 3 years. He originally started by getting his hands dirty and being involved in every possible step imaginable of the company. Now he is a bit more focused on (just) management. He loves learning and has been truly blessed by the opportunity – and the burden, of being in charge and being able to actually try his new ideas from all the books he reads. This is an opportunity that not many young people get.
In this episode we explore many different topics in the form of a jamming session: anything from his favorite food, books – and how he applies knowledge acquired through reading in his everyday business, why he prefers non-fiction, although his father, Dejan Tiago Stankovic, is an acclaimed novelist, music (Filipe does rap music), dancing, all the way to his everyday business responsibilities and, ultimately, how having too many irons in the fire may lead to burnout, what the main culprits of it may be, and how to tackle it. We touch upon the topic of psychology, the perceptions of persons being either extroverts or introverts – or, as Filipe explains, outgoing introverts vs. shy extroverts as well. Finally, we cover the topic of learning, personally and as an organization.
Things we mentioned:
LinguaeMundi: https://www.linguaemundi.pt/
Francesinha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesinha
Translation Centre for the Bodies of the EU: http://cdt.europa.eu/en
memoQ talks episode with Ildikó Horváth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSOlKQbECgM
The Socratic Method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
memoQfest: https://www.memoqfest.com/
Books:
The Toyota Way, by Jeffrey K. Liker: https://www.amazon.it/Toyota-Way-Second-Management-Manufacturer/dp/1260468518/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+toyota+way&qid=1651139580&sprefix=the+toyota%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-1
The Leadership Map: Gritty Guide Strategy, by Ian Windle: https://www.ebay.com/p/18050396764
The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses: https://www.amazon.it/Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successful-Businesses/dp/0670921602/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YV66OCVNKQF7&keywords=the+lean+startup&qid=1651139799&sprefix=the+lean+s%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-1
Estoril, by Dejan Tiago Stanković: https://www.laguna.rs/n5409_knjiga_estoril_ratni_roman_laguna.html
Odakle sam bila, više nisam, by Dejan Tiago Stanković: https://www.delfi.rs/knjige/10593_odakle_sam_bila_vise_nisam_knjiga_delfi_knjizare.html
Ildikó Horvath is a new Director of the Translation Center for the Bodies of the EU (as of February 1st, 2022). She speaks about the way the Center works, its organization, initiatives, tenders, languages, and provides some tips to freelance translators who want to work for the Center.
Olivera walks us through the baby steps and the decisions that enabled GORR to grow from a small single language service provider to a multilanguage vendor, how they transformed and keep on transforming in terms of services they offer, and closing on a very positive note - you must love what you do.
Visit their company page at: gorr.si
Val Swisher, CEO of Content Rules, shares some best practices related to content creation and translation workflows in life sciences.
https://contentrules.com/
Barbara Peralta, Director of Life Sciences Solutions at Acolad talks about some of the latest trends related to translation workflows and technology in the life sciences industry.
www.acolad.com/
María Scheibengraf an award-winning Spanish translator, marketing, transcreation, UX/UI & SEO Expert, copywriter, and author of The SEO Translation Bible talks about SEO, why it's important, and introduces some related best practices.
http://www.crisoltranslations.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariascheibengraf/
https://www.instagram.com/crisoltranslations/
https://www.crisoltranslations.com/downloads/the-seo-translation-bible/
Jost Zetzsche, independent translator, localization consultant, and writer, talks about best practices for translators when using machine translation (MT). Jost explains how the output from Neural Machine Translation (NMT) and Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) can differ, what translators should look at when using MT or when post editing, and what verticals and types of text lend themselves to the use of MT for translation.
Jost on Twitter: @Jeromobot
Mladen Stojak, CEO at Ciklopea, speaks of the company’s beginnings and how it grew, through a number of transformations, into a respectable technical, not just translation/localization company, while learning, adapting and keeping the same old vision of ’building something bigger’.
Kimon Fountoukidis, Founder & Chairman at Argos Multilingual talks about lessons learned and best practices related to mergers and acquisitions in the localization industry.
https://www.argosmultilingual.com/
Allison Ferch, Executive Director of the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), talks about the importance of organizational culture and shares her thoughts on how companies can shape their culture.
https://www.gala-global.org/
Peter Reynolds, Co-CEO of memoQ, explains why having a strategy is important and how organizations can develop and effectively execute their strategy.
Tess Whitty is a successful English-Swedish translator, content writer, and transcreator for SaaS, digital marketing, websites, and more. She is also a consultant, speaker, creator and host of the Marketing Tips for Translators Podcast, and the author of The Marketing Cookbook for Translators: Foolproof recipes for a successful freelance career, and Marketing Tips for Translators: The Ultimate Collections of Business Tips from the Podcast.Tess shares advice on how to start out and build a successful business as a freelance translator.
https://marketingtipsfortranslators.com/
Adam Asnes, CEO of Lingoport, explains how software localization is different from regular localization and introduces several best practices related to software localization.
Florian Faes, Managing Director at Slator provides some excellent tips on how LSPs and other companies in the localization industry can improve their marketing efforts.
www.slator.com
Co-hosts Mark Shriner and Cedomir Pusica introduce the memoQ talks podcast and then talk about the importance of organizational learning and best practices related to learning as a company, a team, and as individuals.
memoQ links
https://www.memoq.com/
https://academy.memoq.com/