The 3cubed Preliminary Round sessions of LocWorld’s 16th Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) are now complete and the Process Dragons have finished their deliberations. We need two more days to now notify all 28 innovators from the 3cubed round and to confirm that the 6 selected innovators are able to accept the invitation to pitch in the final round in Dublin on 6 June. 

Dave Ruane and Alex Bernet will publish a short video announcement this Friday, 10th May at 4pm IST (5pm CET) and we will also publish the results here at that time. Please check back here on Friday or follow the PIC LinkedIn page to see the video.

 

 

 

The 3cubed Preliminary Round sessions of LocWorld’s 16th Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) are set and will take place across three days from Tuesday, 30th April – Thursday, 2nd May, 2024. Each 3cubed session lasts one hour and will take place from 3pm – 4pm IST each day (4pm – 5pm CEST.)

Innovators will get a chance to pitch their ideas to the PIC dragons. If they are successful they can make it through to the final round which takes place at LocWorld51 in Dublin, Ireland on Thursday, 6th June, 2024. This is the biggest PIC field yet with 30 innovators competing for the Innovator of the Year-Europe Award so don’t miss it!

At PIC #16, 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 competition for PIC#16 are Véronique Özkaya, Gaëtan Chrétiennot (Six Continents) and Páraic Sheridan (VOISEED.) Alex Bernet (The Localization Institute), and Dave Ruane (XTM International) will moderate the competition for PIC#16.

Are you ready to see some great innovations? Please join us for the PIC #16 preliminaries (Zoom link)!

 

PIC #16 3cubed Preliminary Round Session #1 – Tuesday, 30 April, 2024 – 3pm IST.

  1. Olga Beregovaya  – Smartling – “Smartling PET – Prompt Engineering Tool for Linguists “
  2. Rosa Maria Pradas  – LocalizationLab  – “New UI internationalization tool”
  3. David Atkinson – Lipvideo.com  – “Lip synched dubbing tool for webinars”
  4. Oscar Martinez Diaz – Loc & Capture SL – “Mastering Quality Control: Introducing fly.qc – Revolutionizing Video Localization”
  5. Philippe Cao  –   Clearly Local  – “easyLT — An All-in-One Testing Tool for Mobile and Desktop UI Localization“
  6. Ellinor Johansson  – Humans in Localization – “FairLoc”
  7. Lionel Rowe – Clearly Local  – “DescripGen AI — SEO content generation, fuzzy keyword matching, and automated LQA checking”
  8. Eva Zhang Jingyu   – King –  “Multilingual AI in a gaming context“
  9. Nicolas Jadot  – Trendyol  – “Evolution of UX localization at Trendyol: from Google Sheets to Agile workflows”“
  10. Szymon Kaczmarek –  XTM International – Advanced Translation Evaluation with BERT for Enhanced Semantic Accuracy“

PIC #16 3cubed Preliminary Round Session #2 –  Wednesday, 1st May, 2024 – 3pm IST.

  1. Ayushman Dash  –  NeuralSpace –  “Script, translate and subtitle 2x faster with LocAI“
  2. Márton Jánosy  –  Edimart –  “PromptLoc: User-controlled precision AI-solutions for any language task“
  3. Ariana Habrova  –  Janus Worldwide  –  “Smart LQA“
  4. Dominick Kelly – Keywords Studios Plc – “Proofbot – Automated Game Testing 160+ Languages”
  5. 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”
  6. Henrique Cabral  – Bureau Works – “Dynamic Activity Feed”
  7. Nicolas Martinez – NicoLoc – “Create your own Translator onboarding app“
  8. James Jameson – CaptionHub – “CaptionHub Live— real-time, zero latency AI live-subtitling in 130 languages“
  9. Matthew Hardy – RWS – “Evolve! Reduce human post-editing by combining MTQE with specially trained LLMs”

PIC #16 3cubed Preliminary Round Session #3 – Thursday, 2nd May, 2024 – 3pm IST.

  1. Andreas Ljungström –   XTM International – “Auto-QA and Conditional Workflows“
  2. Evgeny Matusov – AppTek / Deluxe – “Using automatically predicted speaker gender labels for improved and consistent gender-specific machine translation in medial localization workflows“
  3. Rachel Grewcock  –  Phrase –  “How to turn AI into ROI with Hyper-Automation powered by Phrase“
  4. Bruno Bitter  –  Blackbird –  “Glossaries, Unchained“
  5. Dylan J Hartmann  – AcudocX  – “AcudocX: Revolutionizing Certified Translations with Automated, Streamlined, and Cost-Effective Technology“
  6. Jing Pang  – Amazon Web Services – “Enable AI for Localization Readiness“
  7. Sagi Reuven – Deepdub – “Holistic platform for high-quality localization with eTTS™️ (emotion-based text to speech)“
  8. Illan Knafou – Acolad – “Content Checker: Revolutionizing DEI and Regulatory Compliance “
  9. Konstantin Savenkov  –   Intento – “AI Squared: When Tech Watches Its Own Back“
  10. István Lengyel  –   BeLazy – “The 5-minute assignment promise“

The public is invited to attend the 3cubed preliminary round sessions. In order to attend the Final Round of PIC#16 in Dublin on 6th June, you need to be registered for LocWorld51 Conference. Note that the zoom link and meeting ID are the same for all 3 preliminary sessions.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85439646252

Meeting ID: 854 3964 6252

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdJTcQC9Qg

 

Good luck to all of the innovators!