Process Innovation Challenge (PIC)

The recording of LocWorld's 17th?Process Innovation Challenge (PIC)?is now published on LocWorld's youtube channel and PIC playlist. It was recorded on Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 in Monterey, California as part of #LocWorld52. The competition featured these six outstanding innovators: Carolina Freire, Uber Gabriel Fairman, Bureau Works Shirley Coady, RWS Kirill Solovjov Soloviev, ContentQuo George Jie Zhao, VideoLocalize.com Fabio Minazzi, Translated The Process Dragons who helped coach the innovators and evaluate the competition were Alessandra Binazzi (Global Sights Consulting), Renato Beninatto (Nimdzi Insights) and Jeffrey Jean-Paul Kiser (Acolad.) The competition was moderated by ??Dave Ruane of?Lion People Global and Alex Bernet of?LocWorld. This year’s Innovator of the Year - North America Award went to Fabio Minazzi of Translated for the innovation “Voice for Purpose: A Multilingual Voice Donation Ecosystem Empowering Individuals with Vocal Disabilities to Communicate Worldwide” and the Runner Up was Carolina Freire (Uber) with the innovation "DragonCrawl: Generative AI for High-Quality Mobile Testing." Third place went to Kirill Soloviev (ContentQuo) for the innovation “AI LQA Platform: Deploy, Use & Monitor with any TMS.” Thanks to all who attended and especially the six innovators and three dragons who made the event so exciting! We look forward to seeing you for PIC#18 next June in Malm?, Sweden California at #LocWorld53! The Call For Papers seeking innovations for PIC#18 will open later this week on the PIC website. For more information on LocWorld's Process Innovation Challenge (PIC), please visit our website at pic.locworld.com. https://lnkd.in/gmAePmZN

The winner of the 17th PIC is Fabio Minazzi from Translated with runners up, Carolina Freire and Kirill Solovjov. Well done to all our PIC#17 finalists Tuesday last in Monterey, which also included Gabriel Fairman, Shirley Coady, and George Jie Zhao. Our Process Dragons for the competition were Alessandra Binazzi, Renato Beninatto, and Jeffrey Jean-Paul Kiser. Great job innovators for making your pitches so memorable and to our fantastic audience for responding with such enthusiasm and support for them. https://lnkd.in/dFav2UZD #innovation #incubator #l10nPIC #GenAI #localization #globalization #locworld52 LocWorld Alex Bernet ??Dave Ruane Marina Pantcheva, PhD MultiLingual Media Lion People Global

LocWorld’s 17th Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) is in the books and it was a competitive and exciting Final Round. Tune into #LocWorld52 (and here) tomorrow afternoon to find out who will win the 2024 Innovator of the Year - North America Award! Our PIC#17 finalists included Carolina Freire, Gabriel Fairman, Shirley Coady, Kirill Solovjov, Jie Zhao, and Fabio Minazzi. Our Process Dragons for the competition were Alessandra Binazzi, Renato Beninatto, and Jeffrey Jean-Paul Kiser. Great job innovators for making your pitches so memorable and to our great audience for responding with such enthusiasm and support for them. We hope to see you tomorrow at 4:45pm PT when PIC co-producers ??Dave Ruane and Alex Bernet will announce the winner. #innovation #incubator #l10nPIC #GenAI #localization #globalization

In this clip, CaptionHub's Chief Commercial Officer James Jameson talks with PIC's Alex Bernet about what winning LocWorld's ?? Process Innovation Challenge back in June in Dublin was like and he offers some words of encouragement to other innovators that might be considering entering the next competition. Thanks for sharing about your PIC experience, James and ?? Congratulations again on your big win!! ?? So who will be the next winner of LocWorld's ?? Process Innovation Challenge (PIC)? The final round of PIC#17 takes place on Tuesday, October 29th at 11am at #LocWorld52 Conference in Monterey, California. You'll have to be a registered attendee to attend, where you will get the chance to vote for the Innovator of the Year- North America Award. For more information on LocWorld, please visit: www.locworld.com #innovation #localization #incubator #l10nPIC #competition #award #globalization #translation #MT #AI #GenAI #locworld

?? Drumroll please... And the finalists, for PIC#17 are: Shirley Coady, RWS, Smart Insights: Simplify your Project Managers’ work Gabriel Fairman, Bureau Works, Sous-Chef Carolina Freire, Uber, DragonCrawl: Generative AI for High-Quality Mobile Testing Fabio Minazzi, Translated, Voice for Purpose: A Multilingual Voice Donation Ecosystem Empowering Individuals with Vocal Disabilities to Communicate Worldwide. Kirill Solovjov Soloviev, ContentQuo, AI LQA Platform: Deploy, Use & Monitor with any TMS George Zhao, VideoLocalize.com, Near Real-Time, Fully Automatic Video Dubbing Technology Congratulations to one and all! The 3 Process Dragons ?? judging the competition for PIC#17 are Mary Kazamias, Renato Beninatto and Alessandra Binazzi. Big thanks to each of them for carefully reviewing the submissions and pitches and for providing thoughtful feedback to each of the innovators before selecting the six finalists. Thank you to all of the innovators who pitched in our 3cubed preliminary rounds. It was an extremely close competition and all 18 innovators were outstanding. We encourage and invite those that did not make it to the final round to enter PIC#18, the Call For Papers of which will be opened in early November. The Final Round of PIC#17 takes place on Tuesday, October 29th,?2024 at 11am PT in Monterey, California as part of?#LocWorld52. See you at the PIC final! NOTE:?Voting for the final round will be split between the PIC dragons and the PIC audience and performed in line with the PIC values of fairness and transparency. You can watch the final round of the competition and vote for the 2024 “Innovator of the Year – North America” award by registering for the LocWorld52 Conference. www.locworld.com If you would like to go back and watch the PIC#17 preliminary rounds or any of our previous competitions, please visit the PIC Playlist on LocWorld's youtube channel: https://lnkd.in/e_bz7bwh https://lnkd.in/gdKDrx5p

The recording of the 2nd session of the 3cubed Preliminary Round of LocWorld's 17th ???Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) is now published on the PIC playlist on?LocWorld's youtube channel. Session 2 featured 9 more top innovators ?? who each had just 3 minutes and 3 presentation slides to pitch to our 3 Process Dragons ?? for a chance to move onto the Final Round that will take place on Tuesday, October 29th as a part of #LocWorld52 Conference in Monterey, California. The innovators that pitched today and their pitch titles: 1.) Frederik R. Pedersen, Easy Translate, HumanAI: Merging AI with Human Expertise to Deliver High-Quality, Scalable, and Cost-Effective Translations. 2.) Denys Krasnikov, AI Venture Corporation, Google Cloud Innovator, Responsible AI Expert, AI Translation and Dubbing with Interlingual Emotion Transfer 3.) Veronica Hylak, Metalinguist, End the Translation vs. Interpreting Divide: One Seamless Platform for Your Clients 4.) Shirley Xu, AWS, Tag AI: Context-Aware Tag Reinsertion for Optimized Machine Translation 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. Now that the 3cubed round is complete, our Dragons ?? are faced with the extremely tough task of determining the 6 Finalists who will move onto Monterey. The results of the preliminary round will be published on the PIC website on Friday, October 4th. https://pic.locworld.com/ Thanks to all of the innovators that participated in the preliminary round of PIC#17! #innovation #incubator #localization #translation #globalization #mt #ai #genAI #l10nPIC https://lnkd.in/gpw2zwAe

Did you miss today's 1st session of the 3cubed Preliminary Round of LocWorld's 17th ?? Process Innovation Challenge (PIC)? If so, you can still listen to the recording on our youtube channel. Session 1 featured 7 top innovators ?? who each had just 3 minutes and 3 presentation slides to pitch to our 3 Process Dragons ?? for a chance to move onto the Final Round that will take place as part of #LocWorld52 Conference on Tuesday, October 29th in Monterey, California. The innovators that pitched today and their pitch titles: 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 [Please note there was a problem with this recording and zoom only captured the slides and the audio. We regret that the cameras are not visible in this recording and are working to fix the problem before tomorrow's second session.] The 3cubed round marches on with another preliminary session tomorrow, beginning at 8am PDT. We've got 9 more superb innovators ?? who will pitch and then our Dragons ?? will have the extremely tough task of determining the 6 Finalists who will move onto Monterey. The results of the preliminary round will be published on the PIC website on Friday, October 4th. The public is encouraged to attend the ongoing preliminary sessions and you can join them from the link on the PIC website linked here: https://lnkd.in/g4ExjFdX We hope to see you tomorrow for session 2! #innovation #disruption #incubator #languageservices #mt #ai #genai #multilingualai #translation #localization #l10nPIC https://lnkd.in/gtcZeR46

Throw back Thursday! Chachky from another time! Localized screen cleaner branded #DragonSystems, leader in speech recognition technology in multiple languages. I started my career at Dragon Systems and where I learned everything l10n, i18n, t9n, g11n, data annotation, voice data collection and lots lots more. I was blessed to work with brillant professionals with a passion for #language, #accessibility and #innovation. As many #ExDragons I will always be a dragon at heart. These days my dragoning continues to focus on language, technology and innovation as a Dragon in the 17th Process Innovation Challenge (PIC). Join the 3cubed preliminary rounds today and tomorrow, where innovators will showcase their solutions to earn a spot in the live final at LocWorld in Monterey, CA, next month. More details here: https://lnkd.in/g4ExjFdX

The running order for the 3cubed preliminary round sessions of LocWorld's 17th Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) is now set. Please join us tomorrow and Friday at 8am PDT both days for the prelims on zoom. Afterwards, our Process Dragons will have the difficult task of selecting 6 finalists to move onto the final round at #LocWorld52 in Monterey, California on October 29th. 3cubed Preliminary Round #1 - Thursday, September 26th - 8:00am 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 ? 3cubed Preliminary Round #2 - Friday, September 27th - 8:00am 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. These sessions are free to attend and the public is invited to join on zoom and watch the competition. The zoom link and meeting ID/passcode are included in the post on the PIC website that is linked here. We hope to see you tomorrow. And good luck to all of the innovators!! https://lnkd.in/g4ExjFdX #innovation #incubator #localization #globalization #l10nPIC

LocWorld's Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) returns next week with two 3cubed preliminary round sessions that will help determine the six finalists that will advance to the final round as part of #LocWorld52 in Monterey on October 29th. We are thrilled to announce today that the 3 Process Dragons (judges) for this 17th edition of the Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) will be Mary Kazamias (TRSB), Alessandra Binazzi (Global Sights Consulting) and Renato Beninatto (Nimdzi Insights.) PIC co-producers ??Dave Ruane and Alex Bernet are thrilled to welcome back Alessandra as our veteran dragon for this competition and we could not be more excited to welcome Mary and Renato to the competition and are excited for the new voices and perspective they will bring to the PIC platform. 18 innovators will compete in next week's 3cubed round and the running order for these two sessions will be published on the PIC website linked here early next week. The 3cubed preliminary round is free and open and the public is invited to attend these two virtual rounds on zoom. The sessions will take place from 8am - 9am PDT on both Thursday, September 26th and Friday, September 27th. Don't miss out on the excitement! Join us next week for the 3cubed preliminary round using the zoom links in the article linked here. #l10nPIC #PIC #localization #translation #globalization #internationalbusiness #locworld #innovation #incubator #award #prize #mt #AI #genAI #lsps #languageservices #competition #locworld52 https://lnkd.in/g4ExjFdX