Are you excited to discover groundbreaking innovations? Join us at the PIC#20 3cubed preliminaries—an event that is free and open to all. Twenty-six innovators will pitch their ideas to the PIC Dragons for a chance to advance to the final round, which will be held at LocWorld55 in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday June 10, 2026.
The PIC Dragons who will judge the competition for PIC#20 are Tommaso Rossi (Spotify), Veronique Ozkaya (DataMundi), and Peter Reynolds (memoq). Marina Pantcheva (RWS), Dave Ruane (Lion People Global), and Jefferson Clark (LocWorld) will moderate the competition for PIC#20.
PIC #20 3cubed Preliminary Round 1 – Wednesday, April 15, 2026 – 8am PDT/10am EDT/5:00pm CEST
Join using this Zoom link , Zoom Meeting ID is: 825 9286 6062 , Passcode is 674686
Order of presenters:
- Adéṣínà Ayẹni, Yobamoodua Cultural Heritage, TermLog: A Multilingual Terminology Bank for Standardizing and Sharing Contextual African Terms for Localisation and Digital Inclusion
- Muhammad Ikram, Individual, Redesigning Localization Architecture to Unlock Digital Inclusion for Four Billion Users Across Emerging Markets in Asia and Africa
- Michail Xynos, Intertranslatios S.A., PaliVerse: AI-Powered Translation of 10 Million Words of Ancient Buddhist Scripture into Multiple Languages
- Vladimir Zhdanov, Alibaba, International Digital Commerce, From Reviewers to Architects: A Linguist-Led AI Framework for Instant, Bias-Free Multi-Market Content Generation
- Antonio Tejada, LanguageLine, LanguageLine AI Translation App: Free-to-Enterprise, Self-Service AI with Custom Prompts, Human Escalation, and Secure Scalable Workflows
- Enzo Agosta, NinjaOne, Hypomnema – The Open Source Solution to Handling TMX Files
- George Zhao, VideoLocalize Inc., Zero-Upfront-Cost AI Video Localize solution for Global Video Libraries
- Nicola Mattina, Radical, Language-Specific AI Translation Chains: Configurable Multi-Step Prompt Pipelines with Content Staleness Detection for Multilingual Websites
- Andreas Ljungström, XTM, XTM Migration Wizard: Turning Months of TMX Migration into Days
PIC #20 3cubed Preliminary Round 2 – Thursday, April 16, 2025 – 8am PDT/10am EDT/5:00pm CEST
Join using this Zoom link , Zoom Meeting ID is: 825 9286 6062 , Passcode is 674686
Order of presenters:
- Rachel Grewcock, Phrase, Precision robotics for language: Surgical word-craft in a self-improving system
- Stephen Cook, 18ways, Keyless, SEO-ready, context-aware machine translations
- Oscar Martinez, Loc & Capture, Fly.QC Linguist: A Multimedia QC Collaborative Platform
- Rinaldo Dieziger, WE ARE VERY, Inc., Multilingual Editor
- Tom Bridges, CaptionHub, Timbra Link: Plug-and-play hardware device for real-time multilingual captioning and translation in live events
- Sofia Johansson, Comactiva Language Partner, Rethinking Localization Ops | Breaking the TBMS Dependency
- Vieux Valcin, Onki, LexiQ™-Guard API: GenAI Guardrail
- Ben Cornelius, Cornelius Communications, Open Source Workbench for Language Data Management
- Henrique Cabral, wxrks, AI as an Engine for Human Opportunity
PIC #20 3cubed Preliminary Round 3 – Friday, April 17, 2026 – 8am PDT/10am EDT/4:00pm CEST
Join using this Zoom link , Zoom Meeting ID is: 825 9286 6062 , Passcode is 674686
Order of presenters:
- Nicole Michel, Smartling, No Dialect Left Behind: Scaling Hyperlocalization with LLMs
- Jane Nemcova, Ollang, Agentic In-Video Text Localization for After Effects and Media Assets
- Mathijs Sonnemans, Blackbird.io, Native Content Editing
- Akash Nidhi P S, Vitra.ai, Autonomous Visual Agents for Localization Workflows
- Ji-Yan Wu, Centific, LocClaw: An AI Localization Agent for Inclusive Multilingual Access
- David Meikle, BloxWeaver, Loom: A Multi-Surface Enterprise Agent Framework for Content, Operations, and Everything In Between
- Sara Basile, XTM International, XTM Express: Instant Document Translation with Intelligent Routing
- Konstantin Savenkov, Intento, Translate from All Languages at Once
Good luck to all of the innovators!
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