LW47 - PIC#12 - Final RoundThe Final Round of LocWorld's 12th Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) was recorded on July 12, 2022 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Berlin, Germany. This round featured five top innovators pitching their innovations to 4 "Process Dragons" (judges) for the chance to win the "Innovator of the Year - Berlin" award.
This year’s Innovator of the Year Award went to Andrea Ballista of VOISEED and his innovation “Voicing the Unvoiced with Universal #AI #Dubbing“ and our Runner Up was Saurabh Kavathekar of NetApp and his pitch for “Dr. Global - #sourcecode #internationalization #selfhealing using AI.”
The three other finalists were Gary Lefman of Cisco, Robert Brodowicz of Argos Multilingual and Konstantin Savenkov of Intento, Inc. The Process Dragons who helped coach the innovators and evaluate the competition were Bert Esselink of RWS Group, Giulia Tarditi of Qualtrics, Patricia Paladini Adell of Paladini Global and Jochen Hummel of ESTeam AB.
This year’s Innovator of the Year Award went to Andrea Ballista of VOISEED and his innovation “Voicing the Unvoiced with Universal #AI #Dubbing“ and our Runner Up was Saurabh Kavathekar of NetApp and his pitch for “Dr. Global - #sourcecode #internationalization #selfhealing using AI.”
The three other finalists were Gary Lefman of Cisco, Robert Brodowicz of Argos Multilingual and Konstantin Savenkov of Intento, Inc. The Process Dragons who helped coach the innovators and evaluate the competition were Bert Esselink of RWS Group, Giulia Tarditi of Qualtrics, Patricia Paladini Adell of Paladini Global and Jochen Hummel of ESTeam AB.
PIC7 Winner: Lori Silverstein, Senior VP, Sales at SPi Global"It is INSANE what PIC has done for us in the last 24 hours!!" We interviewed Lori Silverstein (Senior Vice President, Sales at SPi Global), who won LocWorld's 7th Process Innovation Challenge (PIC.) The competition was held at LocWorld41 in San Jose, California on November 7, 2019. Lori's innovation on "AI Dubbing... allows users to engage with content in their own language and increases discoverability for content otherwise not available to certain target audiences." We asked her what impact participating and winning the PIC has had on her innovation and SPi Global's business.
PIC7 Runner-up: Heather Shoemaker, Co-CEO of Language I/OWe interviewed Heather Shoemaker, Co-CEO of Language I/O, who was the runner-up in LocWorld's 7th Process Innovation Challenge (PIC.) The competition was held at LocWorld41 in San Jose, California on November 7, 2019. Heather's innovation focused on "How to Get the Most Accurate MT Translations Across All Industries." We asked her how she heard about the PIC and why she chose to enter the competition and she gave us some great advice for other innovators out there who might be asking themselves "Why should I enter this challenge?"
The 6th Process Innovation Challenge (Full)Did you miss LocWorld's 6th Process Innovation Challenge in Estoril, Portugal back on June 13, 2019? This is the full recording of that session. See how the challenge works and if you have a great innovation that you think should be a part of the next challenge, please visit pic.locworld.com and follow the instructions to submit your innovation for the next challenge.
