The 3cubed Preliminary Rounds of LocWorld’s 17th Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) take place next Thursday, September 26th and Friday, September 27th, 2024.  Innovators will get a chance to pitch their ideas to the PIC dragons for a chance to move onto the final round, which takes place at LocWorld52 in Monterey, California on Tuesday, October 29th, 2024.

For PIC #17, you too can join in and watch the innovators pitch their smart ideas to the dragons! Find details and links to attend these virtual sessions on zoom – the PIC preliminary rounds are free and open to all to attend. 

 

The Process Dragons who will judge the competition for PIC#17 are Mary Kazamias (TRSB), Alessandra Binazzi (Global Sights Consulting) and Renato Beninatto (Nimdzi Insights.) Alex Bernet (LocWorld), and Dave Ruane (Lion People Global) will moderate the competition for PIC#17.

 

Are you ready to see some great innovations? Please join us for the PIC #17 preliminaries! (Zoom link, Meeting ID and Passcode are listed below)

The running order of innovators pitching in the prelim rounds will be published here early next week.

PIC #17 3cubed Preliminary Round 1 – Thursday, September 26th, 2024 – 8am PDT.

  1. Dylan J Hartmann, AcudocX, A new finance module for business partners with built-in commission and discount models.
  2. George Zhao, VideoLocalize.com, Near Real-Time, Fully Automatic Video Dubbing Technology
  3. Carolina Freire, Uber, DragonCrawl: Generative AI for High-Quality Mobile Testing
  4. Kirill Soloviev, ContentQuo, AI LQA Platform: Deploy, Use & Monitor with any TMS
  5. Alex Yanishevsky, Smartling, AI Translation Toolkit
  6. Adam Bittlingmayer, ModelFront, Automatic post-editing in the real world
  7. Shirley Coady, RWS, Smart Insights: Simplify your Project Managers’ work

Join using this zoom link. The zoom meeting ID is 858 8917 6199. The passcode is 959983.

PIC #17 3cubed Preliminary Round 2 – Friday, September 27th, 2024 – 8am PDT.

  1. Frederik R. Pedersen, Easy Translate, HumanAI: Merging AI with Human Expertise to Deliver High-Quality, Scalable, and Cost-Effective Translations.
  2. Shirley Xu, AWS, Tag AI: Context-Aware Tag Reinsertion for Optimized Machine Translation
  3. Denys Krasnikov, AI Venture Corporation, Google Cloud Innovator, Responsible AI Expert AI Translation and Dubbing with Interlingual Emotion Transfer
  4. Veronica Hylak, Metalinguist, End the Translation vs. Interpreting Divide: One Seamless Platform for Your Clients
  5. Craig Stewart, Phrase, Hyperautomating Brand Voice; an Automated Pipeline for Consistency, Sensitivity, and Scalability
  6. Romina Cini, Language Scientific, Combining AI Solutions with Human Expertise in Multimedia Localization
  7. Connie Kim, Uber, AI Driven 360 Quality Management: From Term Management to Quality Evaluation
  8. Gabriel Fairman, Bureau Works, Sous-Chef
  9. Fabio Minazzi, Translated, Voice for Purpose: A Multilingual Voice Donation Ecosystem Empowering Individuals with Vocal Disabilities to Communicate Worldwide.

Join using this zoom link. The zoom meeting ID is 858 8917 6199. The passcode is 959983.

Good luck to all of the innovators!