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Episode 32

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20th Oct 2025

S3 | E32 | Building Trust in AI: How Smartling is Transforming Global Translation with Olga Beregovaya

In this episode, Olga Beregovaya, Head of AI at Smartling, shares how the company is redefining translation with artificial intelligence, making global communication faster, more accurate, and more human.

We explore how Smartling builds trust in AI, what helped them achieve product-market fit, and how they maintain leadership in one of the most competitive spaces in tech.

🧠 Key Talking Points

  • How Smartling combines human linguistic expertise with AI to improve translation quality
  • Building customer trust through transparency, explainability, and real results
  • The “aha” moments that proved Smartling’s AI-powered tools worked at scale
  • Lessons in scaling trust across enterprise customers and global markets
  • What it takes to stay differentiated amid a flood of new AI translation tools
  • Olga’s perspective on the next frontier of language AI
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ThinkData Podcast
The Growth Playbook: Data & AI
The Growth Playbook brings you inside the minds of the leaders shaping Data and AI. Each episode, we sit down with some of the most interesting voices in the industry, from startup founders to seasoned execs, to hear their stories, lessons learned, and the real strategies behind growing great businesses.

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Alex Hutchings

I’m the Co-Founder of the Dataworks Group, a specialist talent partner in the world of Data and Artificial Intelligence.

I’ve spent the last 15+ years working at the heart of this space, helping some of the most exciting companies on the planet build world-class Data and AI teams.

Through our roundtables, live events, and right here on the ThinkData Podcast, my goal is simple: to bring you real insights from the fastest-growing talent market in the world.

Whether you’re building, hiring, or just curious about what’s next, you’ll hear straight from the founders and senior leaders shaping the future of work.