Date
May 27, 2:00 pm
Duration
40 min
Location
Small Cinema
Life isn’t all rainbows, unicorns or idealistic LinkedIn success stories. Sometimes things go south. Come to the Discomfort Zone to discuss taboo topics with Riki Fridrich and Václav Hodek.
So let’s zoom in on one of those uncomfortable moments that might hit close to home:
Yes, AI can translate anything. The question is: Can everybody understand it? We are going to talk about why the languages are still stubbornly human. How the right translation can save a failing Chinese e-shop. And why New York detectives should speak in Moravian dialect. Don’t worry. It will make sense to you, eventually.
Václav Hodek
CEO & Founder
Localazy
Václav is the founder and CEO of Localazy, a localization platform used by 700+ dev teams across 80+ countries. He originally started as a mobile app developer, but got frustrated enough with broken translation workflows that he built his own solution, and somehow ended up running a 17-person remote company. CEO title aside, he still codes, answers support tickets, and helps other software teams ship multilingual software in peace.
Riki Fridrich
Staff Software Engineer
Outreach
For the last 20 years, Riki has been writing frontend code, mostly Javascript. In his spare time, he likes cooking and going for long walks while listening to podcasts. He hates JQuery.