We received a tremendous response to the PIC #19 Call for Proposals! Are you excited to discover groundbreaking innovations? Join us at the PIC#19 3cubed preliminaries—an event that is free and open to all. Twenty-six innovators will pitch their ideas to the PIC Dragons for a chance to advance to the final round, which will be held at LocWorld54 in Monterey, California, on Wednesday, October 15, 2025.

The PIC Dragons who will judge the competition for PIC#19 are Olga Blasco (Lion People Global), Celine Halpert (Canva), and Salvo Giammarresi (Airbnb). Marina Pantcheva (RWS), Dave Ruane (Lion People Global), and Erika Jeffries (LocWorld) will moderate the competition for PIC#19.

PIC #19 3cubed Preliminary Round 1 – Monday, September 1, 2025 – 8am PDT/11am EST/5:00pm CEST

Join using this zoom link The zoom meeting ID is 938 6742 3441 The passcode is 948931

Order of presenters:

  1. Adéṣínà Ayẹni, Yobamoodua Cultural Heritage, TermLog: A Multilingual Terminology Bank for Standardizing and Sharing Contextual African Terms for Localisation and Digital Inclusion
  2. Aimee Gallagher, Geotab, AI Localization with Cross-Language Referencing and Smart LQA
  3. Brian McConnell, Localization Technology Partners, TMS as a CMS for application content
  4. Gabriel Fairman, Bureau Works, Explained Suggestions
  5. Insoo Jeong, Club 30 (Korean translators’ community), CAT TOOL vs GenAI
  6. Konstantin Savenkov, Intento, From Translation to Language Governance
  7. Kunqi Wang, Cate School and Centific, LUCIA: A Multilingual, Culturally-Adaptive AI Companion for Youth Mental Wellness
  8. Luke Vella, Lokalise, AI translation model evolution: RAG models that adapt to your brand
  9. Marina Sánchez Torrón, Smartling, Code—not write—prompts at scale for self-optimizing autoLQA

PIC #19 3cubed Preliminary Round 2 – Tuesday, September 2, 2025 – 8am PDT/11am EST/5:00pm CEST

Join using this zoom link The zoom meeting ID is 971 7844 6031 The passcode is 513501

Order of presenters:

  1. Alex Bit, Codemod, When Code Gets in the Way: Fixing the Dev Bottleneck in Localization
  2. Andreas Ljungström, XTM International, LLM-driven Diagnostic Quality Estimation with Intelligent Score
  3. Catalina Barbat, RWS, Chat-Driven Localization in VS Code with MCP Server and Trados Integration
  4. David Meikle, BloxWeaver, AI-Powered Glossary Agent: Autonomous Terminology Management from Statistical Algorithms to Contextual Intelligence
  5. Dylan J Hartmann, AcudocX, AcudocX: AI-Assisted Self-Service for Certified Translations
  6. Ionela Donisa, RWS, Inline Translation Preview for Subject-Matter Experts
  7. Maria Miron, RWS, Generative Translation for Abbreviated Store Tags and Receipts
  8. Sheriff Issaka, African Languages Lab, MansaLLM: A Unified AI Model for African Language Translation

PIC #19 3cubed Preliminary Round 3 – Wednesday, September 3, 2025 – 8am PDT/11am EST/5:00pm CEST

Join using this zoom link The zoom meeting ID is 975 0641 8183 The passcode is 327202

Order of presenters:

  1. Carolina Freire, Uber, SNAP & AutoMQM: Scale your LQA with GenAI to find linguistic, layout, and internationalization bugs
  2. John Weisgerber, XTM International, Meet xaia: Conversational Agentic AI for Localization Operations
  3. Kevin Redford, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Multi-lingual Pronunciation Guide for AI Dubbing and Text to Speech
  4. Mathijs Sonnemans, Blackbird.io, Blacklake: a new data architecture for language and translation
  5. Olivier Libouban, Lingoport, Visual Context LLM Prompting in Software Localization
  6. Raffaele Pascale, Argos Multilingual, Multilingual Content Creation with Modular AI, Smart Prompting, and Localization Intelligence
  7. Zakiieh Bazyar, Independent Researcher, AI-Powered Translation QA Tool with Adaptive Prompt Engineering
  8. Farmehr Farhour, Kara Technologies, ASL as a Tier 1 locale –  KAT Hybrid’s scalable multimedia localization solution
  9. Klaus Fleischmann, Kaleidoscope GmbH, Model Context Protocol for Terminology Augmented Generation

Good luck to all of the innovators!