Do What You Like and Pursue It with Agnes Varga, CTO of memoQ | C-Suite HotSeat E49

Ágnes Varga was born in Győr, Hungary, and has been fond of languages all her life. Her desired career path was to study English to become an interpreter or a diplomat. However, with a sudden decision, she chose to study Computer Science in addition to English at the University of Veszprém, which changed her whole career path. After graduating, she became an Assistant Lecturer, then later a Senior Lecturer at the Department of IT at Széchenyi University in her hometown, Győr. During this time, she brought back her love for languages into her PhD thesis about the possibility of automatic post-editing of machine-translated text, which she finished in 2012.

After getting her PhD, memoQ approached her, and she has been working with them for the past 10 years: 7 years as a Software Developer, then a Development Team Lead and Product Manager, and now as a CTO, managing an outstanding Production team.

Hosts:
Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights
VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade

Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Agnes Varga |CTO of memoQ
00:40 What does your company do?
01:14 What was your dream career as a child?
01:57 How do you like to spend your free time?
03:16 3 destinations you'd like to visit
05:16 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:50 A day in the life of a CTO
07:49 Biggest challenge
10:47 First breakthrough moment
13:51 Your biggest failure
16:04 Advice for entrepreneurs