Are you ready to see some great innovations? Please join us for the PIC #18 3cubed preliminaries! The prelims are free and open for anyone to attend. 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 LocWorld53 in Malmö, Sweden on Wednesday, June 4th, 2025.

The PIC Dragons who will judge the competition for PIC#18 are Johan Sporre (Ikea), Christina Anselmi (Independent Consultant), and Giulia Tarditi (Revolut). Marina Pantcheva (RWS), Dave Ruane (Lion People Global), and Erika Jeffries (LocWorld) will moderate the competition for PIC#18.

PIC #18 3cubed Preliminary Round 1 – Wednesday, April 9, 2025 – 10am EDT

Join using this zoom link The zoom meeting ID is 962 6083 5801 The passcode is 931413

Order of presenters:

  1. Agustin Da Fieno Delucchi, Microsoft – ContextuAllize: Automated Context for Effortless Localization
  2. Tomáš Burkert, RWS – LLM Synthetic Data Generation Study
  3. Martin Chrastek, Argos Multilingual – A Standardized Format for Structured Localization Style Guides
  4. Elena Murgolo, Custom MT – Automatic Post-Editing for Terminology and Style in CAT Tools
  5. Henk Boxma, XTM – Create, Localize and Maintain Multilingual Software Videos at Scale
  6. Gábor Ugray, memoQ – Agent M: Lights-On Project Automation with Agentic AI
  7. Raffaele Pascale, Arogs Multilingual – AI-Powered Multi-Agent LQA
  8. Ji-Yan Wu, Centific – Smarter Video Localization with AI: Adapting On-Screen Content for Global Audiences
  9. Elise Farhat, Deliveroo, Localization Quality Beyond Copy
  10. Rachel Grewcock, Phrase, AI Innovation Hyper-personalization and the Content Profile: How to Make Natural Language Work for You

PIC #18 3cubed Preliminary Round 2 – Thursday, April 10, 2025 – 10am EDT

Join using this zoom link The zoom meeting ID is 986 4167 7406 The passcode is 153281

Order of presenters:

  1. Henrique Cabral, Bureau Works – Bureau Works Free Flow Editor
  2. Bruno Bitter, Blackbird International Inc. (Blackbird.IO) – Dynamic Adaptive Interoperability: Seamless, Automated XLIFF Conversion for Frictionless Content Exchange Across Enterprise Systems
  3. Mirko Lorenz, Deutsche Welle – plainX: Quality Improvements Features for Transcriptions/Translations
  4. Jose Uribe, All-in Global – CRAIG – A Tailored and Granular Data-Driven Approach to Quality Estimation and Automatic Post-Editing
  5. Gábor Bessenyei, memoQ Zrt. – Dynamic Context Framework for GenAI-Based Machine Translation
  6. Sintija Kivlina, Nord Security – Timeless Guidelines, Modern Impact: Innovations in Localization Practices
  7. Marina Sánchez Torrón, Smartling – Automated MQM Labeling for AutoLQA
  8. Maya Toutountzi, Transifex – Translation Quality Index (TQI) – Intelligent Translation Quality Evaluation for Automated, Semantically-Aware Localization
  9. Gabriela Kouahla, BEYOND WORDS LINGUISTIC SERVICES – From Local to International: Localized Language Solutions for Researchers, From Writing to Publication
  10. Marcus Casal, Lionbridge – Bridging the Glocal Content Gap: Efficient Localization with End-to-End AI Solutions
  11. Dan Bottomley, voxANN – Localization Production Platform
  12. Spence Green, LILT – Contextual AI Engine

Good luck to all of the innovators!