memoQ talks Mark Shriner & Cedomir Pusica

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/