The 3cubed Preliminary Rounds of LocWorld’s 15th Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) take place this Thursday, August 17th and Friday, August 18, 2023.  Innovators will get a chance to pitch their ideas to the PIC dragons and audience. If they are successful they can make it through to the final which takes place at LocWorld50 in San Jose, California on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.

 

At PIC #15, you too can join in and watch the innovators pitch their smart ideas to the dragons! Find details and links to attend below – the PIC preliminary rounds are free and open to all to attend. 

 

The Process Dragons who will judge the preliminary round competition for PIC#15 are Erik Vogt (Vogt Strategy), Alessandra Binazzi (Alessandra Binazzi Consulting) and Ben Cornelius (Cornelius Communications.) Alex Bernet (The Localization Institute), and Dave Ruane (XTM International) will moderate the competition for PIC#15.

 

Are you ready to see some great innovations? Please join us for the PIC #15 preliminaries (Zoom link)!

 

PIC #15 3cubed Preliminary Round 1 – Thursday, August 17th, 2023 – 8am PDT.

  1. Anna N Schlegel  – Procore Technologies – “How Globalizers Navigate Corporate”

  2. Alesya Minko  – Janus Worldwide  – “Janus Resource management Automation””

  3. Tom Bridges – CaptionHub  – “CaptionHub Live: synchronised, automatic multilingual subtitles for live video streaming”
  4. Iti Sahai – Klaviyo – “Global Linguistic Immersion: Engaging Users to Evaluate Functionality, Internationalization, and Content Integrity Across Multiple Languages”
  5. Ágnes Varga – memoQ – “Adaptive Generative Translation (AGT)”
  6. Emily Hoyland – Oxford University Press – “Multi-lingual sensitive content identification (language which could cause offense or controversy within an audience) to improve global communication”
  7. Emily Randall  – Uber – “Quill: Bringing context to the “Point of Translation””
  8. Adam Bittlingmayer  – Modelfront –  “Checking human translations with quality prediction”
  9. Catarina Farinha   – Unbabel –  “Content Transcreation Layer for Cultural Awareness using Responsible Generative AI”

Join using this zoom link. The zoom meeting ID is 858 4008 4249.

PIC #15 3cubed Preliminary Round 2 – Friday, August 18th, 2023 – 8am PDT.

  1. Menke Muller – Janus Worldwide  – “Project Management Autopilot for translation services”
  2. Alex Buran  –  Translation Cloud  – “AI Driven Customer Support Tool””
  3. Kincaid Day  –  Centific   –  “Enable human-centric experiences with customer journey tracking at scale”
  4. Gabriel Fairman  –  Bureau Works  –  “Generative Language Engine””
  5. Mathijs Sonnemans  –  Blackbird International Inc  –  “Setting up Custom LLM Orchestrations in Minutes”
  6. Theresa Khoo  – Hopper Inc  – “LQA & Bugfix with confidence”
  7. Shirley Coady – RWS – “Translate every video into any language: Embracing the Machine-First, Machine-Only Paradigm”
  8. Sheriff Issaka – “All Voices: Empowering Text and Audio Data Collection and Validation for Low-Resourced Languages”
  9. Rafał Jaworski – XTM International – “Boosting translation memory efficiency with GPT-inspired text embeddings”
  10. Robert Brodowicz – Argos Multilingual – “Breaking the Bottleneck: Accelerating Multilingual QA Using LLMs”

Join using this zoom link. The zoom meeting ID is 858 4008 4249.

Good luck to all of the innovators!