Call for Papers For The Process Innovation Challenge at LocWorld53 Malmö Is Now Open!

The Final Round will be held on Wednesday, 4 June, 2025 as part of the LocWorld53 Conference in Malmö, Sweden.

The Process Innovation Challenge (PIC) is now in its ninth year. At a time of rapid flux in our industry, have you been working away on something cool, productive or disruptive and would like to share it with peers? We say to all innovators “Show us your latest innovations!”

Well then, join us at PIC #18!

The PIC is open to content publishers, industry supply companies, technologists, academia, and anyone else in the industry who has an innovative idea that can solve a localization or global content challenge. Your innovation could be a unique idea that was successfully applied to a localization process that improved operations, or it could be a new way of using something existing to solve a new problem, or it could be a new and cutting-edge technology innovation that brings real benefit to teams. If you have any of these, share them with the localization community by submitting your proposal to the PIC.

Successful proposals will be invited to join our 3cubed Preliminary Virtual Rounds in mid-April where they can pitch their innovation for a chance to advance to the PIC final in Malmö in June.

Innovators do not need travel approval to submit and participate in the preliminary rounds of this edition of the Process Innovation Challenge, which will be held virtually. However, upon notification of qualifying for the final round, to be held in person in Malmö on 4 June, innovators will need travel approval, to be included as a finalist. If an innovator cannot attend the final round, they may opt out of this event and forward their proposal for consideration at the next LocWorld.

You can re-submit a prior PIC proposal if it was not previously shortlisted, or if you have adopted the innovation since pitching before.

If you have any questions or difficulties with the submittal process, contact . Dates are indicative and may change at the discretion of the PIC advisory board.

Click here to make your submission.

Key Dates for PIC #18

  • Proposal submission deadline: Friday, 21 March, 2025 (open).
  • Invitations to 3cubed preliminary, virtual round: Friday, 28 March, 2025.
  • 3cubed Preliminary Virtual Rounds: Week of Monday, 7 April, 2025.
  • Finalists Announced: Friday, 18 April, 2025.
  • Final Round: Wednesday, 4 June at LocWorld53 in Malmö, Sweden.