James Jameson (CaptionHub) took home the 2024 Innovator of the Year – Europe Award at LocWorld’s 16th Process Innovation Challenge, which took place on the 6th of June, 2024 at LocWorld51 in Dublin, Ireland.

James won the PIC with CaptionHub’s innovation “CaptionHub Live— real-time, zero latency AI live-subtitling in 130 languages.”

The runner-up this time was Aimee Ansari (CLEAR Global / Translators without Borders) with the innovation, “TILES (Touch Interface for Language-Enabled Services) is an innovative process for information dissemination designed specifically for low-connectivity low-literacy contexts”.

Second runner-up was Oscar Martinez Diaz (Loc&Capture Media Services) with the innovation “Mastering Quality Control: Introducing fly.qc – Revolutionizing Video Localization.” 

On behalf of LocWorld and the Process Innovation Challenge, we would like to take this opportunity to recognize and thank James Jameson and CaptionHub for their amazingly generous offer to donate the $1000 USD cash prize from winning the PIC to CLEAR Global / Translators without Borders. This kind gesture is greatly appreciated and thanks again to James and CaptionHub for doing this! 

The PIC dragons this time were Véronique Özkaya (Summa Linguae Technologies), Gaëtan Chrétiennot (Six Continents) and Páraic Sheridan (VOISEED.).  Alex Bernet (LocWorld), and Dave Ruane (Lion People Global) produced and hosted the event. We would also like to thank Multilingual Magazine, LocWorld, and Lion People Global for supporting the event.

The innovators and innovations at the final of the 16th PIC were:

  1. James Jameson – CaptionHub – “CaptionHub Live— real-time, zero latency AI live-subtitling in 130 languages”
  2. Aimee Ansari   – CLEAR Global – “TILES (Touch Interface for Language-Enabled Services) is an innovative process for information dissemination designed specifically for low-connectivity low-literacy contexts”
  3. Henrique Cabral – Bureau Works – “Dynamic Activity Feed”
  4. Oscar Martinez Diaz – Loc & Capture SL – “Mastering Quality Control: Introducing fly.qc – Revolutionizing Video Localization”
  5. Bruno Bitter – Blackbird.io – “Glossaries, unchained”
  6. Dylan J Hartmann – AcudocX – “AcudocX: Revolutionizing Certified Translations with Automated, Streamlined, and Cost-Effective Technology”

Congratulations to all of our 6 outstanding finalists on a competitive and entertaining competition as well all 28 innovators who participated in the earlier 3cubed preliminary round! You can watch the recording of the Final Round in Dublin, as well as the 3 virtual preliminary rounds on the LocWorld youtube channel and the PIC Playlist.

The next PIC event will be held in October in Monterey, California at LocWorld52; the Call for Papers is now open. 

Do you have a localization process or technology innovation for the PIC “stage”? Contact Dave Ruane or Alex Bernet directly for information.