Dareen, Founder of eArabization, a premier Arabic localization and translation company in the Middle East, brings over two decades of expertise to the forefront of the industry. With a steadfast commitment to excellence, I have cultivated eArabization into a trusted partner for businesses seeking to effectively communicate their message to Arabic-speaking audiences.
My journey in localization and translation spans more than 20 years, during which I have honed my skills and deepened my understanding of linguistic nuances and cultural sensitivities. Armed with a Master's degree in Translation from the prestigious University of Leeds in England, I have garnered the knowledge and proficiency necessary to deliver top-tier solutions tailored to our clients' needs.

Hosts:
Eddie Arrieta, CEO, MultiLingual
Eddie has a decade of experience in startups, comms, and growth. He's now focused on global expansion through AI, ML, and blockchain to create opportunities for all.

Laszlo Varga, Lead Researcher and Consultant, Nimdzi Insights
Laszlo has 10+ years in localization and excels in service delivery, solution development & strategy. Enjoys physics, randomness & a healthy lifestyle.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Dareen Mukhaimer, eArabization
00:59 What does your company do?
01:13 What was your dream career as a child?
01:54 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:20 What inspired you to start your company?
03:12 When did you realize you could do money out of this business?
04:29 How big is your team?
04:50 Key things to spend time on
06:06 Biggest challenge
07:41 Your biggest failure
08:29 Valuable business lesson
09:03 What does success mean to you?
10:17 Secret sauce
11:38 What makes you a great leader?
12:54 Advice for entrepreneurs
14:20 Music for working
15:19 Where would you live?
16:04 Movie recommendation
16:29 Most productive time of day
16:46 What's your favorite drink?
17:07 Book recommendation

Jan Cizmar is a visionary entrepreneur and the founder/CEO of Tolgee Company. Since 2008, he has passionately developed web applications, gaining extensive experience in various technologies, languages, tools, and libraries. In March 2021, Jan founded Tolgee, an open-source localization platform for software companies. With his leadership, Tolgee aims to revolutionize the industry by delivering smart and simple software solutions. Jan firmly believes in the future of open source and has simplified software localization for developers with the Tolgee Localization Platform, making it accessible to everyone.

Hosts:
Eddie Arrieta, Head of Growth, MultiLingual
Eddie has a decade of experience in startups, comms, and growth. He's now focused on global expansion through AI, ML, and blockchain to create opportunities for all.

Lazlo Varga, Senior Consultant and Researcher, Nimdzi Insights
Laszlo has 10+ years in localization and excels in service delivery, solution development & strategy. Enjoys physics, randomness & a healthy lifestyle.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Jan Cizmar CEO of Toglee
00:45 What does your company do?
00:59 What was your dream career as a child?
01:40 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:33 3 destinations you'd like to visit
03:24 What is the best advice you've ever been given?
04:37 What inspired you to start your company?
05:56 When did you realize you could make money out of this business?
06:33 Biggest challenge
07:04 Have you ever considered pivoting?
07:36 What makes you a great leader?
08:11 Who are your mentors?
08:35 Secret sauce
08:46 Valuable business lesson
09:28 What is the most innovative thing you have done?
10:19 What does success mean to you?
10:40 Key things to spend time on
11:06 How big is your team?
11:09 Would you rehire your current team?
11:15 Advice for entrepreneurs
12:08 Music or silence?
12:36 Music for working
13:10 Where would you live?
13:14 Movie recommendation
13:23 Last business books you've read?
13:36 Most productive time of day
13:45 Misunderstood career
14:13 What's your favorite drink?

Heather is the mastermind behind Language I/O’s core technology, which eliminates the need for expensive and time-consuming neural machine translation engine training by dynamically selecting the NMT engine that will best translate a given piece of content and imposing company-specific terminology onto any of the many NMT engines integrated into the Language I/O cloud solution.
Prior to co-founding Language I/O, Heather was well-known for globalizing code for Fortune 500s. She was also the senior director of Product Management and Globalization for eCollege, which was acquired by Pearson Education during her tenure. While at Pearson/eCollege, Heather and her team built a next-generation, online college education platform, which was launched globally.
Heather holds a Master of Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Engineering as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has lived in various parts of the United States and Mexico and speaks English and Spanish.

Hosts:
Eddie Arrieta, Head of Growth, MultiLingual
Eddie has a decade of experience in startups, comms, and growth. He's now focused on global expansion through AI, ML, and blockchain to create opportunities for all.

Laszlo Varga, Senior Consultant and Researcher, Nimdzi Insights
Laszlo has 10+ years in localization and excels in service delivery, solution development & strategy. Enjoys physics, randomness & a healthy lifestyle.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Heather Shoemaker Founder&CEO Language IO
00:46 What does your company do?
01:02 What was your dream career as a child?
01:13 How do you like to spend your free time?
01:46 3 destinations you'd like to visit
02:50 Best advice you've ever been given?
03:12 What inspired you to start your company?
05:48 Biggest challenge
06:35 Your biggest failure
07:56 Secret sauce
08:41 Have you ever considered pivoting?
09:19 What does success mean to you?
10:22 How big is your team?
11:06 How do you motivate your team?
12:35 Would you rehire your current team?
12:56 What makes you a great leader?
14:05 Advice for entrepreneurs
15:57 Music for working
16:09 Where would you live?
16:15 Favorite foreign word
16:29 Last business books you've read?
16:47 Most productive time of day
17:01 What's your favorite drink?

Hosts:
Eddie Arrieta, Head of Growth, MultiLingual
Eddie has a decade of experience in startups, comms, and growth. He's now focused on global expansion through AI, ML, and blockchain to create opportunities for all.

Laszlo Varga, Senior Consultant and Researcher, Nimdzi Insights
Laszlo has 10+ years in localization, and excels in service delivery, solution development & strategy. Enjoys physics, randomness & a healthy lifestyle.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Grainne Maycock CRO at Acolad
00:46 What does your company do?
01:07 What was your dream career as a child?
02:04 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:59 3 destinations you'd like to visit
04:17 Best advice you've ever been given?
05:04 What brought you to the Revenue track?
06:55 Biggest challenge
09:18 How do you motivate your team?
11:06 Secret sauce
13:25 Would you rehire your current team?
15:13 Key business challenge
17:14 Advice for entrepreneurs
17:59 How often do you get angry?
18:43 One time when you felt discriminated
19:13 Most uncomfortable conversation?
20:10 Misunderstood career

Xavier Maza, with a background in translation and management, has a diverse professional journey. Starting as a freelance translator in the early 90s, he has transitioned into various management roles in the Language Industry and currently holds the position of Global Client Solutions Manager at iDisc. In his current role, Xavier supervises Sales, Business Strategy, Customer Services, and Global coordination. He collaborates with the Marketing team and reports directly to the CEO.

Hosts:
Inge Boonen, Chief Growth Officer, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.

Lazlo Varga, Senior Consultant and Researcher, Nimdzi Insights
Laszlo has 10+ years in localization and excels in service delivery, solution development & strategy. Enjoys physics, randomness & a healthy lifestyle.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Xavier Maza-Cid, Global Client Solutions Manager | iDISC
00:52 What does your company do?
01:39 What was your dream career as a child?
03:50 How do you like to spend your free time?
05:00 3 destinations you'd like to visit
06:42 Best advice you've ever been given?
07:13 First breakthrough moment
09:08 How has growth been for?
10:18 Your biggest failure
10:58 Biggest time wasters
11:50 Three key things to spend time on
13:02 What does success mean to you?
14:15 What makes you a great leader?
16:01 Valuable business lesson
16:51 Secret sauce
17:56 Your biggest success
18:59 Advice for entrepreneurs

Eric is the Owner, Founder & CEO of Mastervoice and a member of the Industrial Advisory Committee KU Leuven, a recognized EC expert in simultaneous translation and UN-accredited provider of simultaneous interpreting. He aims to unlock global business potential with online interpreting for international organizations and speakers. He's the author of the book 'Voices from Above' on the transformation from onsite to online interpreting; he strongly believes in human language technology to globalize business.

He is interested in languages, language technology, philosophy, and spirituality.

"I believe language is a unique gift that can change and influence thoughts, lives, and businesses."

Hosts:
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.

Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights
Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Eric Bauwelinck | Owner & Founder of Mastervoice
00:44 What does your company do?
01:21 What was your dream career as a child?
02:10 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:47 3 destinations you'd like to visit
04:35 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:28 What inspired you to start your company?
08:10 Biggest challenge
09:37 Your biggest success
11:23 Valuable business lesson
12:31 The secret sauce!
14:08 How do you motivate your team?
15:04 Pet peeve when it comes to clients
16:24 Have you ever fired a friend or relative?
17:47 Advice for entrepreneurs

Carol G. Velandia Pardo CHI, PMP, MBA, LMSW is a University of Maryland Graduate Professor, language access advocate, award winning curriculum developer, and the founder and CEO of Equal Access Language Services. She Developed the Interprofessional Curriculum: Effective Inclusion through Language Access which will be taught to three different schools at the University of Maryland in Spring 2024. As a social worker, interpreter, academic, and entrepreneur, Carol’s mission is to expand the concepts of Cultural Competence and Diversity Equity and Inclusion by adding language access as a key component. She hopes to promote a cultural shift that will result in the effective inclusion, and equal access of 25 million multilingual people to public and private services, and the betterment of their healthcare, justice, and education outcomes. She enjoys traveling, movies and dancing flamenco!

Hosts:
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.

Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights
Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Carol G. Velandia Pardo | Founder & CEO of Equal Access Language Services
00:40 What does your company do?
00:58 What was your dream career as a child?
02:07 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:39 3 destinations you'd like to visit
05:25 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:13 What inspired you to start your company?
09:06 Biggest challenge
09:36 Your biggest success
11:17 Valuable business lesson
12:09 The secret sauce!
13:18 Who are your mentors?

Ágnes Varga was born in Győr, Hungary, and has been fond of languages all her life. Her desired career path was to study English to become an interpreter or a diplomat. However, with a sudden decision, she chose to study Computer Science in addition to English at the University of Veszprém, which changed her whole career path. After graduating, she became an Assistant Lecturer, then later a Senior Lecturer at the Department of IT at Széchenyi University in her hometown, Győr. During this time, she brought back her love for languages into her PhD thesis about the possibility of automatic post-editing of machine-translated text, which she finished in 2012.

After getting her PhD, memoQ approached her, and she has been working with them for the past 10 years: 7 years as a Software Developer, then a Development Team Lead and Product Manager, and now as a CTO, managing an outstanding Production team.

Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade

Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Agnes Varga |CTO of memoQ
00:40 What does your company do?
01:14 What was your dream career as a child?
01:57 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:16 3 destinations you'd like to visit
05:16 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:50 A day in the life of a CTO
07:49 Biggest challenge
10:47 First breakthrough moment
13:51 Your biggest failure
16:04 Advice for entrepreneurs