Global Ambitions

How early can you start the localization process? Aleksandrs Pereverzevs, product lead at Lokalise, takes us through the design stage localization workflow and the technology needed for it. 

Anna Woodward, Founder and Managing Director of Chillistore, dives into their successful quality program and what it takes to achieve excellence. 

Eike-Marie Eiting, of the German website builder and all-in-one hosting platform, Jimdo, talks about taking localization from a reactive state to a managed one for the company. 

What are the considerations you need when writing a business case for localization? Natalia Levitina shares practical advice and steps. 

Impact localization. What is it and why is it a good option for companies? Maiju Nurminen, Localization Manager & Strategist at what3words talks about this concept and how it has worked for their app. 

Happy holidays from all of us here at Global Ambitions! It has been a wonderful season and we will be back with all-new episodes in the new year.

Oleksandr Pysaryuk, shares his experience joining and leading localization at Ceridian.

Lyena Solomon, Globalization Director at ServiceNow shares highlights from the Globalization Strategy Playbook.

Learn from Karen Combe, retired VP of Localization at PTC about leading globalization strategy. 

Véronique Özkaya, CEO of Argos Multilingual, gives advice on how to start addressing DEI at your organization as well as some ideas of what you can do as an individual. 

Andy Andersen, International Product Growth at Tinder, talks about how he looks at App Store Optimization and growth strategy. 

Kazu Mori, Japan Marketing Manager at Wix discusses marketing localization with tangible examples from the Japanese market. 

David Edwards, Localization Lead at Pipedrive takes us into the framework his team developed to determine which countries to focus on for localization. 

Japan is a tier-one market with unique challenges. John Hayato Branderhorst, Senior Strategist at btrax, dives into taking business to Japan. 

Adriana Grande, UX Localization Specialist at Roku shares her best tips about UX design and localization crossover.

Anna Schlegel, VP at Procore, shares how she transformed the process of going after international markets at several companies over her career. 

Iti Sahai head of international product at Chegg shares her experience growing a company through localization. 

How do you bring not just language but culture to a product? Leah Mori, Head of Localization - Product at BOLD explores how to bring cultural nuance to a very personal user experience. 

Just starting out your career in the language industry? Calvin Westfall, President of the Translation and Localization Club at BYU talks about how the organization helps students get work experience. 

What to do when your creative product requires localization. Rachel Carruthers, Head of Internationalisation & Localisation at Canva shares her insights. 

Jenny Kang, Director of Globalization at Veritas tells how they put the building blocks in place for software internationalization.

Georg Kirchner, Globalization Technology Manager at Dell talks about machine learning at the company. 

Jeff Beatty, Senior Head of Localization at Mozilla talks about global accessibility and how the team manages to localize into 212 languages. 

Danielle Marcos, Adjunct Professor at the University of Washington shares her experience helping students & l10n professionals further their careers through education. 

Ep #16 - Jean-François Vanreusel, Director of Globalization at Adobe, shares actionable insights from his 20+ years with the company and how the focus of the globalization team has shifted.