We were thrilled to welcome Carrie Fischer as our guest this week! With an impressive career that includes roles at top companies like Disney, Oracle, and Subway, Carrie shared her incredible journey with us.

Here’s a glimpse of what we covered:

• Insights into guiding teams and fostering growth.
• The vital role of empathy in our profession.
• Tips for leaders and the importance of having a support network.
• Diversity: What it means for our community and the industry at large.
• Language Connects Foundation.

Carrie also reflected on her personal journey, sharing how she naturally stepped into leadership roles and offered her views on the future of the industry with AI and other emerging tools. She expressed optimism about the endless opportunities ahead and encouraged everyone to connect with communities like LocLunch to combat isolation and build networks among fellow professionals.

Stick around for Carrie's final insights on the future of the localization industry and advice for new voices eager to make an impact.

This was one conversation you wouldn’t want to miss! You can learn more about Carrie here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrie-livermore-fischer-12046b/

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It is the question everyone is asking about AI- Can we handle it? Such a powerful tool requires us to be responsible in the ways we use it, and we are all wondering if we are up to the challenge.

In this episode of Merging Minds, Gabriel speaks with an expert on these questions. Harish Arunachalam is an expert on responsible AI development and is a Principal Data Scientist in Responsible AI at Verizon.

Harish and Gabriel discuss:

• Applied machine learning for discovering tumors
• Responsible vs. Irresponsible AI
• Larger values to guide AI solutions
• Explainability, transparency, privacy, fairness, accountability
• Algorithmic fairness is easy, systemic fairness is hard
• Losing humanity in the algorithm
• Comparing humans to algorithms is apples to oranges
• Quantifying human qualities
• Avoiding hallucinations in AI
• Emulating thought diversity in algorithms
• The sweet spot between diversity and randomness in AI
• Is there fairness in unpredictability?
• Reliability vs. unpredictability
• Company responsibility vs. user responsibility
• Are humans responsible enough?
• Safety vs. speed to market

and more!

Click play to hear a great conversation between Harish and Gabriel!

You can learn more about Harish here.

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On this week's show, Javi welcomes a true heavy hitter in the world of localization. Chris Dell found his way into localization through writing, publishing, and translation, and he spent the last 15 years building Booking.com into a corporation of over 15,000 people.

Freshly "retired," Chris is reconnecting with old passions and starting new projects. In the episode, he and Javi discuss:

- Chris's experience at Booking.com

- Starting out by studying art

- Non-linear careers

- Curiosity driving your career

- Over empathizing" as a new manager

- Giving space and giving support as a leader

- Building relationships with international teams

- The emotional toll of letting employees go

- Vulnerability in leadership

- Good bosses vs. bad bosses

- Top down culture and crowd-sourced values

- Cultivating Ownership

- Investing in machine translation since 2016

- The value of not burning employees out

- Making time for what matters

- Recognizing our autonomy

- Re-learning to read

- Coaching

- Writing about prophecies and omens

and more!

Click play to hear a great conversation between Chris and Javi!

You can learn more about Chris here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-dell-69597550/

And feel free to reach out! He welcomes LinkedIn messages.

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