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Annalisa Nash Fernandez

Annalisa Nash Fernandez

Intercultural Strategist - Because Culture LLC

New York City, New York, United States

Annalisa Nash Fernandez is a specialist in world cultures, focusing on cultural elements in technology and business strategy. An experienced corporate strategic planning director who worked globally as an expatriate executive based in emerging markets, she bridges her dual background as a sociolinguist to navigate cross-cultural communication in marketing, leadership, and the digital economy. Her expert quotes are featured widely, including by CIO magazine and the BBC, and her articles are published in trade journals and in leading media. Annalisa held various roles at Philip Morris International and Kraft Foods, based in São Paulo, Brazil, and investment banks, including Bankers Trust, based in New York City and Santiago, Chile. Annalisa holds an M.A. in language and translation from the University of Wisconsin, and a B.S. in international finance from Georgetown University.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Finance & Banking
  • Media & Information

Topics

  • User Experience Design
  • Cross Cultural Communication
  • Inclusive Leadership
  • Social Media
  • LLMs
  • The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Trends and Transformations

Taking Agility Global: Sustainable Goals Across Cultural Borders

Agile teams increasingly work globally, across real and perceived borders, and in diverse cultural contexts. Explore the geo-cultural dimensions of trust, timing, change management, digital communication, and data privacy and security. This engaging and informative presentation explores how cultural differences present themselves on multicultural teams and can challenge the sustainability of Agile methodology in diverse cultural contexts, but ultimately are the key to unlocking innovation and achieving global excellence.

Crossing Cultural Borders in a Digital World

Your digital content is designed for a few markets, but consumed globally as new media yields unprecedented access across national borders. But technology is not a cultural leveler. As our message travels through a digital tunnel across borders to customers and business partners, the new cultural context can render it ineffective, misunderstood, or even offensive. Digital natives expect content that is personalized along the customer journey to be relevant in their culture. A revolution is underway where the new tool to engage diverse international customers and subscribers is cultural segmentation of the digital experience.

Starting from C-suite topics about preserving the corporate message and the company’s cultural assets across borders, review the objectives in localizing content for a digital and mobile world stage. Explore the cultural side of digital communication and how to adapt content and engagement strategies to this forum. Learn different regional communication styles and perceptions of time, discover why emojis aren’t universal, and explore cultural preferences for layout, animation, sound, and even color in digital media. Multidisciplinary content draws on emerging research in intercultural new media studies, developments in neural machine translation, and relevant studies and academic theories on intercultural dynamics.

You’ll takeaway expertise in customizing digital content and engagement strategies for diverse cultures beyond simply translating and localizing text.

Technology as a Social Science: Cultural Factors in IT

Technology is connecting us more than ever, but we still face cultural barriers. In a globalized world, teamwork, collaboration, and business growth mean communicating across borders and across cultures to achieve organizational objectives. Explore research detailing the cultural values associated with approaches to trust, privacy and security. Learn how cultural principles influence user perception, trust parameters, privacy definitions and functions, and information security. Review the cultural implications behind recent technology events. This engaging and informative presentation explores how cultural differences present themselves on multicultural teams and in dissemination and application of global data policies. Because as globalization makes our borders invisible, digital technology reinstates them.

World Social Media Forum

Cultural Elements in Influencer Marketing

November 2019 Amman, Jordan

ARMA International 2019

Break Out of Your Cultural Comfort Zone

October 2019 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

International Search Summit

Crossing Cultural Borders in a Digital World

September 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

RAPS Regulatory Convergence

Cultural Intelligence in the Global and Digital Arena

September 2019 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Content Marketing World

Localizing Content Marketing with Global Consistency

September 2019 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

New York Business, Science, and Industry Library Leadership and Communication Conference

Leading With Cultural Intelligence

June 2019 New York City, New York, United States

HUE Tech Summit

Panel Moderator: AI, Calculating for our Culture

May 2019 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

SMPS Northeast Conference

Break Out of Your Cultural Comfort Zone

May 2019 Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Hunter College Teaching Translation and Interpretation Conference

Crossing Cultural Borders in a Digital World

April 2019 New York City, New York, United States

CDM Miami CIO Summit

Technology Across Cultural Borders

March 2019 Miami, Florida, United States

FABTECH 2018

Leverage Culture to Communicate & Deliver Breakthrough Results

November 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Information Governance Conference (INFOGOV)

Break Out of Your Cultural Comfort Zone to Communicate Globally

September 2018 Providence, Rhode Island, United States

ACMP Midwest Change Connect Conference

Break Out of Your Cultural Comfort Zone to Communicate Globally

September 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States

National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC)

Break Out of Your Cultural Comfort Zone to Communicate Globally

June 2018 Fort Myers, Florida, United States

Royal Caribbean Cruise Line

Cuban Culture (regular speaker)

January 2018 Miami, Florida, United States

Annalisa Nash Fernandez

Intercultural Strategist - Because Culture LLC

New York City, New York, United States

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