There is so much good to hear when it comes to Cecilia Maldonado, President of Women in Localization, sharing with Michael and Renato about this influential organization and her work founding Latamways. Find out what she is able to get out of it all, even more importantly find out what she is able to give.

Questions submitted by listeners of the Global Podcast on this episode have Michael and Renato discuss their most popular topic and the growing award culture in localization. Listen and you will be the big winner.

Translators without Borders is responding to the on-going crisis by empowering several academic and industry partners to prepare COVID-19 materials for a variety of the world’s languages to be used by professional translators and for training state-of-the-art Machine Translation (MT) models. The focus is on making emergency and crisis-related content available in as many languages as possible. The collected, curated, and translated content across languages will be available to the professional translation as well as the MT research community. For more information check out https://tico-19.github.io/

Luca Rossi knows engineering and is a joy to discuss the topic. Working as a startup founder and now head of engineering at Translated he has gained a ton of experience and he shares that experience at Refactoring.fm

Michael Stevens and Renato Beninatto discuss what is in store for the translation industry. how does the disruption in 2020 affect what is in store for this next year and what to watch?

Nataly Kelly believes that digital companies are destined to be global. Beyond her role as VP at Hubspot, Nataly shares with others through her books and writings at Born to be Global, her blog. Take a moment to hear a conversation and see why both Michael and Renato think that Nataly's work is some of the most influential and enjoyable in the localization industry.

One benefit of lending your voice to leaders, singers, and professionals was getting to be in the room with the action for interpreters but all of that has changed. When the practice of remote interpretation started many claimed that it would drive those involved insane, has it? You can answer that question for yourself by listening to our conversation with Ewandro Magalhães.

In this episode, Michael and Renato spend some time talking about the topics that come to mind such as where has blockchain gone and innovation.

Listen to the stories about some of the most interesting and unusual places in the world. Zoran Nikolić shares about his book, The Atlas of Unusual Borders, that helps you discover how quirks of geography affect people's daily lives. Beware the borders that define our world are not as clear as we think they are.

Few Industries have gone through as much change like the travel industry. According to the Mobility Market Outlook on COVID-19, the global revenue for the travel and tourism industry will be an estimated 447.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2020 - a decrease of around 34.7 percent from the previous year. Additionally, this is significantly lower than the original 2020 forecast of around 712 billion dollars. How has this impacted a leading localization team?