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Interview — Sonia Oliveira Interview with Senior Director, Globalization at GoPro Priscillia Charles, Communications Director, VTQ Tell us about your background and your education, did you study Translation and Interpretation as well as Linguistics? I have a degree in translation and interpretation and a degree in international relations as well as teaching. My affinity with foreign languages dates…

GDPR and You Melanie Howes, Information Security Manager, Vistatec General Data Protection Regulation The new data privacy framework was rolled out across the European Union (EU) in May 2018. It’s called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It has been designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect all EU citizens regarding data…

Think Global Forum The Think Global Forum returns to Europe with numerous guests and Forum Executives from leading organizations joining the European Travel Forum taking place at the Conrad St James Hotel, in London. Aoife Murphy, Managing Director and María Jesús de Arriba Díaz, Development Director, Think Global Forum Europe will welcome attendees to the…

VistaTalks Ep 16  - Beatrice Whelan This episode of VistaTalks was recorded live at the recent Think Global Awards. Priscillia Charles sits down with Beatrice Whelan to discuss everything from her early career in Google to the latest role in Sage, a global company, working with 6.2 million businesses across the world. Sage is the global market…

Think Global Forum Los Angeles April 12, 2019 | Mountain View, California For Immediate Release The next Think Global Forum will take place in Los Angeles, California on April 15, 2019. Numerous guests from leading organizations will be joining the event which will take place in downtown LA. The Think Global Forum Los Angeles returns…

Think Global Forum Awards Shortlist Announced March 15, 2019 | Dublin, Ireland / Mountain View, California. Think Global Forum Awards have announced this year’s shortlisted applicants. The judging panel – made up of leading professionals from a broad array of industries – carried out a meticulous review of every entry across 12 award categories and…

Vistatec celebrates #IWD2019 A balanced world is a better world. Have you considered how you can you help to forge a more gender-balanced world? Vistatec celebrates International Women’s Day. We are helping to raise awareness against bias and taking actions for equality. International Women’s Day takes place on March 8, 2019. The International Women’s Day…

The Maamtrasna Murders Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland VistaTalks host Priscillia Charles discusses The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland with Professor and Author Margaret Kelleher. In a recent Irish Times article Dr Christopher Kissane a historian at the London School of Economics and Political Science comments on how this story is…

University of Lille Vistatec welcomed Masters’ students from the University of Lille. During this visit, the Linguistics students had the opportunity to gain knowledge on translation and localization operations in Vistatec – a practical application of their studies and an area of interest for them. The students were excited to be joined by Fabienne Perrin,…

Global Digital Overview An extensive new collection of Digital 2019 Reports reveals that internet users are now growing by an average of more than one million new users every day, with all of the original ‘Next Billion Users’ now online. The number of people using the internet has surged over the past year, with more…