Client SIG Meeting, February 2025
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Agenda
📢 Join Us for the First GALA Client SIG Session of 2025!
Topic: Compliance Best Practices: Country-Specific Legal Requirements for Localization
Format: Hybrid: Guest Talk + Interactive Discussion
🔍 Why Attend?
GALA Client SIG is an open and collaborative forum where we can freely share knowledge, learn from each other's experiences, and grow together—so we encourage all members to participate, ask questions, and contribute their insights.
This month we will be talking about Compliance in localization. It is more than a checkbox— It is a critical component of delivering content that meets legal, cultural, and industry-specific standards across global markets.
This interactive session will provide:
âś” Expert Insights: Hear from Carrie Fischer, who is Subway Localization Manager, and Giulia Greco, Globalization Leader, who will share real-world examples and proven strategies to navigate compliance challenges effectively.
âś” Interactive Discussions: Share your experiences, learn from your peers, and uncover practical tips to streamline compliance efforts.
âś” Actionable Takeaways: Walk away with tips and techniques to tackle country-specific legal requirements in your localization processes.
🌟 Key Takeaways:
- Highlighting several compliance challenges and solutions across industries and markets.
- Learn from fellow localization professionals through open dialogue and discussion.
- Building connections with the GALA community and gaining fresh perspectives on this crucial topic from those who can provide practical insights.
Don’t miss this opportunity to dive into one of the most pressing issues in the localization industry and kick off the year with valuable knowledge and connections.
Let’s make localization compliant, collaborative, and impactful—together!
Notes:
- Please feel free to join the live meeting for however long your schedule allows.
- Attendees must be currently employed by a Client company.
About the Client SIG
The Client SIG connects professionals employed on buy-side localization teams to discuss the unique considerations of managing localization, globalization, internationalization, and translation departments within a larger organization.
Group Moderators: Agnes Schöndorni-Schönner (GoTo Technologies), Julia Carrasco (Coupa), Pia Bresnan (Uber)
GALA Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are member-only committees that connect members on topics of mutual interest and make meaningful contributions to GALA’s knowledge base.
Host organization: Globalization and Localization Association
Event Speakers
Giulia Greco
Over the past 8.5 years, Giulia has been a pioneering force in localization at Shopify, strategically building and scaling a high-performance, globally-distributed team. Her innovative approach enabled the Canadian ecommerce platform to successfully expand into non-English-speaking markets by crafting culturally nuanced UI, brand messaging, and content that drives international growth and market penetration. With over a decade of expertise spanning localization, globalization, translation, marketing, multilingual content strategy, SEO, and vendor management, Giulia is now transitioning her wealth of experience to support startups through strategic fractional consulting. Her mission remains unwavering: empowering businesses to scale and enhance growth by making services, products, and experiences authentically accessible across cultural boundaries.
Carrie Fischer
Subway
Carrie Fischer is the Globalization Services Manager at Subway, headquartered in Milford, CT. She is responsible for all globalization-related strategies for the company. She has over 28 years of localization experience and has held previous localization positions at Bodybuilding.com as the Localization Program Manager; Hyperion/Oracle as the Director of the Worldwide Product and Translation Group, and Transparent Language as the Managing Editor. She is also a member of the Board of Directors at Women in Localization and a mentor. She is one of the charter members of Women in Localization when it first started in Silicon Valley. She has held various positions in the organization such as the Americas Geo Manager and Program Director of Global Community. She has presented and moderated many sessions for various industry-related events such as LocWorld, SlatorCon, Loc from Home, LocLife, Ascend and others. Her passions include helping others and continually learning to grow personally and professionally.
Julia Carrasco
Coupa
Julia oversees Localization Program Management at Coupa Software, where she coordinates various teams, identifies software support requirements, and maintains effective cost control. With over a decade of experience on both the client and the service provider sides, Julia has consistently prioritized optimizing processes to achieve outstanding results. She is also an active member of Women in Localization.
Pia Bresnan
Uber
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Agnes Schöndorni-Schönner
GoTo Technologies Germany GmbH
Fuelled by a passion for connecting people and products across languages and cultures, Agnes thrives where technology and creativity intersect. With over a decade at GoTo (former LogMeIn), she started as a localization leader at a fast-growing startup and helped scale global efforts across UI, marketing, and documentation. Her role has evolved alongside the company, taking her across borders and into a global team where she now oversees web and marketing localization, with a focus on international SEO and driving major tech initiatives. Prior to GoTo, Agnes honed her expertise with 10 years on the LSP front, mastering the entire localization cycle – marketing translations, editing, project management, vendor management, and terminology. This extensive foundation helps her shape a holistic view on how people and technology work together.