Episodes List

Cormac Eklof is a Senior Program Manager at Vistatec. Cormac joined Vistatec in 2017 and is responsible for overseeing several large programs for major global corporations. In this episode, Cormac shares his thoughts on the importance of flexibility, communication, and effective listening in global program management.
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Ep 71: Mathilde Jakobsen

Mathilde Jakobsen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fresh.Land, a disruptive food-tech startup that is digitizing and shortening the food supply chain, connecting farmers and consumers directly to a more sustainable and equitable model. Mathilde co-founded Fresh.Land in 2015 and has since gone on to win various prestigious accolades recognizing her success, such as the women of the decade in start-up by the Women’s Economic Forum.
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Ep 70: Unn Villius

Unn Villius is the Chief Sales Officer and responsible for Vistatec's Business Development. Her localization career started as a Swedish linguist at Microsoft Ireland in 1988, and she has since held a wide variety of positions in localization operations management. Joining Vistatec in 1997, she quickly moved into Business Development and successfully established Vistatec’s first US office.

Ep 69: Mel McVeigh

Mel is VP of Product Commerce & Consumer Brands at Condé Nast. Mel is responsible for leading key brands globally across the portfolio - Vogue, GQ, Condé Nast Traveller, Arch Digest, Allure and is now leading the transformation of new revenue opportunities within the commerce space. Mel has worked in various publishers and commerce companies in her career namely, Photobox, Telegraph, Mr & Mrs Smith, Lonely Planet, and TimeOut.

Ep 68: Ruth Dolla

Ruth Dolla is a manager for VisitSweden, Ruth Manages the operations and marketing for an entire geographical market while also finding the right positioning for Sweden as a destination to market to the international tourist in India and the Asian market. Ruth has 14+ years of experience within integrated marketing, sponsorship management, digital marketing, P.R., social media, strategy & planning, events, journalism, and brand merchandising.

Ep 67: Tammy Darcy

Tammy Darcy is an award-winning social entrepreneur. Tammy founded the Shona Project to provide a safe place for girls to seek guidance and advice on all the challenges associated with growing up in Ireland. The Shona Project has also delivered workshops to almost 13,000 girls in schools across Ireland. The Shona Project won the Community/Non-Profit category at the Think Global Awards 2021 ceremony.

Ep 66: Shane Ryan

From Portarlington to Pennsylvania – Shane Patrick Ryan is an American-Irish swimmer who competes internationally for Ireland. Shane is a firm believer in learning from your past experiences and using these to move forward and mature from them. Shane qualified for Rio Olympics in 2016, with the medals to prove it, won bronze in the 50m backstrokes at the 2018 World Short Course Championships, and in 2019 won the European Short Course bronze.

Ep 65: Mark Pollock

Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Mark became an adventure athlete competing in ultra-endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps including being the first blind person to race to the South Pole. Mark won silver and bronze medals for rowing at the Commonwealth Games. Mark was described by Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella as one of “the most inspiring people I met” after they discussed the ways technology is changing how people learn.

Ep 64: Andreas Palm

Andreas has got over 15 years of experience in the world of international digital marketing, managing the content & localization team at Ladbrokes for over seven years and later running the global digital sales & marketing channels for Sony's mobile division for seven years.

Ep 63: Paula Manzur

Paula Manzur is a Machine Translation Specialist at Vistatec. With over 11 years of experience as an English<>Spanish Translator in the localization industry, she has acquired great experience in a number of customer service roles, ranging from localization, quality assurance, to project management & machine translation deployment in a multi-language environment.

Ep 62: Alberto Ferreira

Alberto Ferreira is a UX research and globalization services expert with over ten years of experience in UX on both the client and agency sides. He is currently the User Research Manager at Vodafone UK and has worked on improving the digital experience of companies like Sony, the BBC, and Emirates.

Ep 61: Emil D. Atanassov

With over ten years of experience in the Localization industry, Emil D. Atanassov is a global expert with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Currently Vice-President Internationalization at ServiceNow, he provides a meaningful voice to the internationalization strategy and execution for the cloud enterprise software organization.

Ep 60: Minter Dial

On this episode of VistaTalks, host Simon Hodgkins is in discussion with Speaker, Connector and Elevator, Minter Dial. Minter is a professional speaker and multiple award-winning author, specializing in leadership, branding, and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L’Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division.

Ep 59: Anne-Sophie Delafosse

Anne-Sophie is the mover and shaker behind everything Localization at Deliveroo. Her team is playing a crucial role in helping the company achieve its mission to transform the way people around the world order food. With a background in languages, Anne-Sophie joined the company in 2018 where she single-handedly built the Localization Program from scratch. Three years down the line, people in 12 different countries can get yummy food delivered at their doorstep.

Ep 58: Patrick Kelly

Patrick Kelly began his IT career in software development at Lotus. He then joined GeCAP as Localization Manager and became one of Vistatec’s founding members when GeCAP was acquired in 1997. Patrick is Chief Commercial Officer at Vistatec and is responsible for the commercial viability of our business solutions.

Ep 57: Thomas Murray

Thomas Murray joined Vistatec in 2000 and was appointed Chief Executive officer in 2005. An industry veteran, he held a number of key positions within ITP and SDL in both Europe and Asia prior to joining Vistatec. As CEO Thomas is responsible for the overall strategy of the Vistatec organization.

Ep 56: International Women’s Day (2021)

VistaTalks host Priscillia Charles is joined by Vistatec's Paula Manzur, Machine Translation Specialist, Dominika D'Agostino, Strategic Account Director, and Monika Bugiel, Language Services Manager ahead of International Women's Day, taking place on March 8, 2021. Together they discuss how they choose to challenge gender bias and gender inequality in today's society.

Ep 55: Allison Ferch

Allison is GALA's Executive Director. Over the past 11 years she has served GALA in several roles and provided leadership for many of the association’s programs and activities. As Executive Director, she leads operations at GALA and is responsible for the growth of the association, its financial stability, and for the expansion and delivery of member value. Allison has an undergraduate degree in Biological Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science. A lifelong athlete and a lifelong learner, she enjoys podcasts, reading, and all kinds of sports and athletic endeavors.

Ep 54: TGF Summit Week

Think Global Forum Summit Week hosts María Jesús de Arriba Díaz and Teresa Lawless, Development Directors, and Aoife Murphy, Managing Director at the Think Global Forum, discuss the Think Global Forum community and their upcoming event with VistaTalks host Priscillia Charles. The unique event, running over five consecutive days, March 8-12, 2021, will feature insightful speakers and guests from leading global organizations.

Ep 53: Kathrin Bussmann

Kathrin Bussmann is an international marketing strategist, who helps digital-first companies build successful global brands. She loves to operate at the intersection of global business, content marketing, and localization. Through her strategic consultancy, Verbaccino Inc., Kathrin advises global-minded B2B brands on how to attract, engage and retain more international customers. In her role as Head of Content Localization at Bubbl, a digital marketing agency.

Ep 52: Kelly Bryant

Kelly Bryant is the Director of Global Experiences at WorldStrides, where she partners with top universities and business schools to arrange short-term global immersion programs. The Global Experiences team works closely with faculty and deans to connect university students with local organizations and nonprofits to facilitate educational meetings, service-learning activities, and consulting projects.

Ep 51: Elizabeth Riley

Elizabeth Riley helps support Vistatec sales division as Director of Solutions Architecture, assisting the organization to work closely with clients and partners globally. Elizabeth has held a variety of qualified positions in Sales and Production over the past 15 years. She is extremely knowledgeable about the client-side of operations, with experience as a Linguistic QA Manager, Account Manager, and software Test Lead for clients in the medical device industry.

Ep 50: Dr. Jon Rudd

Dr. Jon Rudd is an Olympic Gold medal swimming coach and Swim Ireland’s National Performance Director. In this episode, Jon discusses the importance of sport and the relationship to business, leadership, coaching, and mental health. In recent years, Jon has directly coached three World Records and several European and Commonwealth Records. Jon’s coaching history sees him having directly coached one or more gold medallists at every international meet on the calendar, including senior, youth, and junior medals at Commonwealth, European, World, and Olympic Games levels.

Ep 49: VistaTalks Rewind

In this special 'rewind' episode, Simon Hodgkins, Gregory Twohig, and Jordan Knights look back over the year to highlight several important topics and episodes. Digital transformation, mental health, and how the pandemic has changed the global landscape are the main discussion topics.

Ep 48: World UX - Part Three

The World UX roundtable event, hosted by María Jesús de Arriba Díaz of Vistatec, María is joined in conversation with Alberto Ferreira, Vodafone, Tarja Karjalainen, Oura, Pat Higgins, Verizon Connect, Ryan Moroz, LINE Plus Corp, and Sergio Valero Notari, Doctoralia. This online round table event aimed to share learnings on why it is key to bring design, content and localization together.

Ep 47: World UX - Part Two

The World UX roundtable event, hosted by María Jesús de Arriba Díaz of Vistatec, María is joined in conversation with Alberto Ferreira, Vodafone, Tarja Karjalainen, Oura, Pat Higgins, Verizon Connect, Ryan Moroz, LINE Plus Corp, and Sergio Valero Notari, Doctoralia. This online round table event aimed to share learnings on why it is key to bring design, content and localization together..

Ep 46: World UX - Part One

The World UX roundtable event, hosted by María Jesús de Arriba Díaz of Vistatec, María is joined in conversation with Alberto Ferreira, Vodafone, Tarja Karjalainen, Oura, Pat Higgins, Verizon Connect, Ryan Moroz, LINE Plus Corp, and Sergio Valero Notari, Doctoralia. This online round table event aimed to share learnings on why it is key to bring design, content and localization together.

Ep 45: Jameson Hoscyns

Jameson is a language prodigy who speaks over a dozen languages. He’s developed his own accessible language teaching style and used it successfully with students for more than 16 years. He has also done translating and consulting for major businesses and start-ups. Most recently, Jameson was the Localization Manager at American Express. He’s spoken at Think Global Forum and Mystic South.

Ep 44: Simon Hodgkins

Think Global Forum Founder, Simon Hodgkins, answers questions about the fourth year of the Think Global Awards.

Ep 43: Kyle Hegarty

Kyle Hegarty is the author of the Accidental Business Nomad. A book for anyone working in a more global environment and who is looking to gain critical insights and communications skills needed for a shrinking world.

Ep 42: Magdalena Daccord

Magdalena Daccord is the CEO of FH Europe, the European FH Patient Network. The organization is a network of 24 Patient organizations, who actively work together to secure early identification and diagnosis of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia patients to prevent early cardiovascular disease and devastating consequences.

Ep 41: Barbara Brennan

Barbara Brennan is the Programme Coordinator at See Change, working positively to reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with mental health problems and to ensure that everyone enjoys the same rights on an equal basis. In this episode, we discuss mental health in the workplace, the voice of the lived experience, and the importance of sleep, nutrition, and hobbies. Barbara explains taking responsibility for wellness and the importance of minding your mental health.

Ep 40: Kristina Podnar

Kristina Podnar is a Digital Policy Consultant and Author of 'The Power of Digital Policy.' She is an advisor and enabler for brands looking to engage users and minimize risks. In this episode, we cover investing in digital, lowering risks, and increasing opportunities, protecting global brand integrity, the C-Suite and the understanding of digital. Kristina has worked with many global brands, including Canon, Delta Air Lines, Intel, Symantec, Toyota, Verizon, and Unicef.

Ep 39: Brian Crooke

Brian Crooke is a wellbeing educator, speaker, and adviser supporting organizations to promote and sustain wellbeing within their workplaces. Brian is a prior IBM Management Consultant and is responsible for program design and delivery of the Postgraduate Certificate in Workplace Wellness at Tangent, Trinity College Dublin. He works with many HR leaders as an educator, speaker, and advisor.

Ep 38: Louise O’Conor

Founding Partner at Beta Digital, Louise O'Conor, catches up with Simon Hodgkins on this episode of VistaTalks to discuss the important topic of digital transformation and how companies are focusing on a digital-first strategy. In this new episode, we discuss digital maturity, purpose lead transformation, and internal and external communications. Louise shares insights on how global content and communications have changed, why empathy is more important than ever, and how organizations are developing their digital transformation processes.

Ep 37: Ellie Kemp

Ellie Kemp is the Head of Crisis Response at Translators without Borders (TWB). Ellie is leading TWB's scale-up to bring language support to humanitarian action, facilitating communication between the people caught up in crisis and the aid organizations seeking to help them. Translators without Borders is a non-profit working towards a world where knowledge knows no language barriers.

Ep 36: Aoife Murphy

Major Accounts Director Aoife Murphy joins us on this episode of VistaTalks. Aoife discusses transitioning to working from home, the Think Global Forum online, digital transformation and adapting to the current situation. During this episode, Aoife explains localization and customer experience. She also shares insights on ‘Digital Natives’, ‘Digital Pioneers’, and ‘Digital Explorers’, as well as the importance of ‘Digital First.’

Ep 35: Róisín Maguire

Róisín Maguire is Co-founder and CEO of Jetpack Learning. Roisin has managed, digital design projects and teams since 1997, firstly with Oniva New Media in Dublin, then with BBC Technology. She co-founded digital design agency Eyesparks in 2002 before founding Jetpack Learning. At Jetpack Learning, Róisín shapes the company’s strategy, based on feedback from users combined with ongoing research into potential adaptations and markets for the Game-Changing authoring tool.

Ep 34: Louise O’Conor

Louise is a strategic and innovative leader with 20 years of international experience of digitally transforming and scaling businesses and teams across global markets and multiple industries – from start-ups to multinationals. Passionate about technology, education, diversity, people, and making a difference, Louise loves turning ideas into business reality to disrupt and transform industries and societies.

Ep 33: Alan Duffy‎‎

With over 20 years’ experience in the translation and localization industry, Alan Duffy is the definition of an industry veteran. Alan discovered his passion for language at a young age; he quickly realized that learning languages was second nature to him. When he’s not managing the team at Vistatec and finding new and innovative solutions for clients.

Ep 32: Lucio Bagnulo‎

In this episode of VistaTalks, we catch up with Lucio Bagnulo of Amnesty International. Lucio shares with us the history of the organization in addition to his own role as Head of Translation. Lucio discusses the importance of the work at Amnesty International, a global movement of more than 7 million people in over 150 countries and territories who campaign for human rights. The organization is known for investigating and exposing the facts, whenever and wherever human rights abuses happen.

Ep 31: Dr. Fiona Edwards Murphy

in this episode of VistaTalks, we celebrate 'World Bee Day' with Dr. Fiona Edwards Murphy, CEO, and Co-founder of ApisProtect. Now monitoring the health of over twenty million honey bees in hives across Europe and North America, ApisProtect brings the power of advanced sensors and machine learning technology into the hive to deliver a 24/7 early warning system so beekeepers can give at-risk hives immediate attention and improve bee health.

Ep 30: Siobhan Gantly‎

In this episode of VistaTalks, Chief Human Resources Officer, Siobhán Gantly joins us to discuss a number of very important topics. She touches on the journey from the early days of Vistatec to a large organization with a global footprint. Siobhán also shares the process of transitioning to remote working, remaining focussed on customers, remote hiring, and remote onboarding, during this time of the global pandemic.

Ep 29: Shannon Rose Farrell-Jackson

We are joined in this episode by Founder, Shannon Rose Farrell-Jackson. She shares her experience of helping global life sciences companies in the localization industry. Working in emotional intelligence and change leadership Shannon Rose shares how going global right now is not just about sales, it is around how we are supporting and leveraging our global customers and their experiences.

Ep 28: Dominika D’ Agostino & Michael J. Asquith

In this episode, Priscillia Charles catches up with Vistatec's Dominika D'Agostino and Michael J. Asquith in the USA. Topics on this episode of VistaTalks include COVID-19, Multilingual Content, Transcription, Copywriting, Thought Leadership, AI, and the Think Global Forum.

Ep 27: Serena Pirrone

In this episode, Priscillia Charles catches up with Serena Pirrone in Italy. Thank you to Serena, for talking to VistaTalks from Italy, during this challenging global pandemic.

Ep 26: Davide De Simone

In this episode, Priscillia Charles catches up with Davide De Simone in Italy. Thank you to Davide, for talking to VistaTalks from Italy, during this challenging global pandemic.

Ep 25: Teresa Lawless

Teresa Lawless discusses Localization, Translation, the Think Global Forum in London, and Amsterdam, Supporting the Life Sciences industry, and how people manage content in a number of ways

Ep 24: Mary Nurminen

Mary Nurminen is currently focusing on two years of PhD research on the users of machine translation as a full-time Doctoral Researcher at Tampere University. Professional translators use machine translation however, Mary is focused on all of the other global users. Mary is a University Instructor in Finland and has spent over thirteen years in technical writing and localization with Nokia as a senior specialist and manager.

Ep 23: Phil Ritchie

Phil Ritchie is the Chief Technology Officer at Vistatec where he directs all Language Technology and Research and Development activities. Phil has a Batchelor of Science Degree and 20 years of industry experience. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events and a founding Industrial Partner of the ADAPT Research Centre, where he serves as Chairman of its Industrial Advisory Board.

Ep 22: Kayla Kim & Kaelan Guetschow

Priscillia Charles is joined in the studio by Kayla Kim and Kaelan Guetschow. Kayla and Kaelan discuss their experiences in working with the Vistatec marketing department as part of the wider Vistatec internship program.

Ep 21: Garry Connolly

Garry is a digital optimist, people connector, and the Founder/President of Host in Ireland. He is also the Chair of GconnTec. A global keynote speaker, panelist and moderator. (Events in US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dublin, London, Monaco and Costa Rica.) Gary has direct experience in assisting foreign direct investment into Europe, and Host in Ireland is named in the Broadgroup Power 200: 'The Worlds Most Influential Data Economy Leaders of 2019.'

Ep 20: Frank Hannigan

Frank Hannigan is an advisor to Technology and Creative Industry leadership teams. He is a partner in Strategy Crowd and a Director/NEX with organizations such as RTE (Ireland’s state broadcaster), The World Bank, and European Bank including the Innovation Fund in Serbia. His experience spans, everything from film, media, architecture, venture capital, and more! At Partner Crowd the team works with about 300-500 companies per year.

Ep 19: Hannah Webb

Hannah Webb discusses the Irish Advantage and touches on all of the sectors that Enterprise Ireland is involved in. This episode discusses how Enterprise Ireland is the largest VC in Europe and the third-largest VC in the world based on the number of deals. Priscillia and Hannah discuss the 100 Women in Finance event in New York, Women in Business, hosting seminars, panels, conferences, and gender equity and diversity in the workplace.

Ep 18: Patrick Nunes

Patrick Nunes, Director, Global Communications & Design at Rotary International. Patrick is responsible for executing and supporting Rotary’s brand strategy across multiple regions in the world. He also leads and drives innovation in support of efforts to increase the understanding of Rotary and to support 35,000 Rotary clubs and 1.2 million Rotary members worldwide.

Ep 17: Anna Schlegel

Anna Schlegel, Vice President, Global Portfolio Lifecycle Management at NetApp joins us on the latest VistaTalks show! Throughout the world, leading organizations count on NetApp for software, systems and services to store, manage, protect, and retain one of their most precious assets: their data. NetApp is a member of S&P 500, Fortune 500 and is a NASDAQ 100 company.

Ep 16: Beatrice Whelan

Beatrice is an award-winning social media and content strategist in the B2B tech sector. Beatrice is the Global Content Manager for Social Media, Events, and Blogging at Sage, providing social content and inbound content strategy for Sage in over 20 markets globally. She is the author of Trending: The Complete Guide to Social Media for Events. Beatrice is also a public speaker and social media trainer.

Ep 15: Simon Hodgkins

Show host Priscillia Charles talks with Simon Hodgkins. In this episode, we hear all about the plans for VistaTalks, plus we discuss the Think Global Forum and the Think Global Awards.

Ep 14: International Women’s Day (2019)

A balanced world is a better world. Have you considered how you can help to forge a more gender-balanced world? In this episode, Priscillia Charles is joined by Ivona Ward, Ioana Costea, and Lucy Nzeyimana. The International Women’s Day 2019 campaign theme of #BalanceforBetter is a call-to-action for driving gender balance across the world. How will you help make a difference?

Ep 13: Margaret Kelleher

Margaret Kelleher is Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. She is Chair of the Board of the Irish Film Institute (since 2014) and UCD academic lead on the Museum of Irish Literature (MoLI), a collaboration between UCD and the National Library of Ireland to open a new literary museum at Newman House in early 2019. From 2009 to 2016 she was Chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.

Ep 12: Laura Cociasu

Laura Cociasu is the International Content Strategy Manager at LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network with more than 562 million users in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Laura is a globalization pioneer with a diverse background in social media, education, localization and customer experience combined with a passion for content management and linguistics.

Ep 11: Patricia Paladini Adell

Patricia is the Globalization Director World Wide at CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company. She is a Technology Forum Executive at the Think Global Forum and the Chapter Manager for the Catalan Chapter of Women In Localization.

Ep 10: Esther Curiel

Esther Curiel is leading Indeed's multidisciplinary 'Content Effectiveness' team. Indeed is the number one job site in the world with over 200 million unique visitors every month. Esther is focused on maximizing the impact and effectiveness of Indeed's localized content for global markets.

Ep 9: Sinéad Mac Aodha

We are joined in studio by Sinéad Mac Aodha, Director, Literature Ireland. Established in 1994, Literature Ireland has funded the translation of almost 2000 works of Irish literature into 56 languages around the world. It promotes Irish writers and writing internationally through its translation grant, translator development, and literature events.

Ep 8: Bruno Herrmann

Bruno is a Global Leader in Digital Product, Content and Experience Effectiveness. He is an Advisory Board Member at Brand2Global, a regular columnist at EContent Magazine, Brand Quarterly, and a number of additional publications.

Ep 7: Yuka Naksone

Yuka is the Chief Strategist at Global Bridge, a globalization consulting company that helps businesses to think and be global by adopting best practise globalization and localization strategies, and level up through globalized EQ coaching. She has held various leadership roles in localization, most recently in her capacity as Globalization and Localization Director at Beabloo, a renowned retail analytics and technology company based in Barcelona, Spain.

Ep 6: Lahcene Guerrouj

Lahcene is a marketer, tech enthusiast, and multi-disciplinary international online expert. He has strong content management, marketing, product management, and analytical skills background. Lahcene is busy managing international cross-functional teams and projects on a day-to-day basis at the global organization Salesforce.

Ep 5: Kit Brown-Hoekstra

Katherine is an experienced Consultant, Trainer and Author of The Language of Localization, successful publication book series, aiming to define Localization vocabulary to global professionals.

Ep 4: Michael Cronin

Professor Michael Cronin has published extensively on language, culture, translation, and travel writing. Among his works are Across the Lines: travel, language, translation (2000), Translation and Identity (2006), The Expanding World: towards a politics of microspection (2012), and Eco-Translation: translation and ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene (2017).

Ep 3: Sheila Castilho

Sheila Castilho is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ADAPT Centre. Her research interests include machine translation, post-editing, machine, and human translation evaluation, usability, and translation technologies. If you are interested in Machine Translation, Neural Machine Translation, and the very latest information in the area, this is an episode not to be missed.

Ep 2: Unn Villius

Unn Villius is the Chief Sales Officer and responsible for Vistatec's Business Development. Her localization career started as a Swedish linguist at Microsoft Ireland in 1988, and she has since held a wide variety of positions in localization operations management. Joining Vistatec in 1997, she quickly moved into Business Development and successfully established Vistatec’s first US office.

Ep 1: James Hadley

James Hadley is the Ussher Assistant Professor in Literary Translation at Trinity College Dublin, we discuss how James started his career in the wonderful world of languages and discuss his latest large scale translation research project.

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