PIC: Process Innovation Challenge


Track: Process Innovation Challenge | PIC |   Everyone |
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 1:45pm – 2:45pm
Held in: Serra 2
Presenters:
Gabriel Fairman - Bureau Works 
Klaus Fleischmann - Kaleidoscope GmbH 
Sheriff Issaka - African Languages Lab 
Andreas Ljungström - XTM International 
Konstantin Savenkov - Intento 
Marina Sánchez Torrón - Smartling
Moderators: Erika Jeffries,
Marina Pantcheva,
Dave Ruane
Hosts: Olga Blasco,
Salvo Giammarresi,
Celine Halpert

The PIC has grown and evolved as an incubator for innovation in the localization industry, reaching large live and virtual audiences. Our Process Dragons will pose questions to the innovators in front of attendees. Everyone will vote on who will be the winning innovator of PIC19!

The finalists are:

  1. Sheriff Issaka, African Languages Lab, “MansalLLM: A Unified AI Model for African Language Translation and Localization”
  2. Marina Sánchez Torrón, Smartling, “Code – Not Write – Prompts at Scale for Self-Optimizing AutoLQA”
  3. Gabriel Fairman, Bureau Works, “Explained Suggestions”
  4. Andreas Ljungström, XTM International, “LLM-driven Diagnostic Quality Estimation with Intelligent Score”
  5. Klaus Fleischmann, Kaleidoscope GmbH, “Model Context Protocol for Terminology Augmented Generation”
  6. Konstantin Savenkov, Intento, “From Translation to Language Governance”