
Localization Fireside Chat · 2026-06-22 · 1h 4m
In this episode of the Localization Fireside Chat, Robin Ayoub sits down with Kincaid Day, VP of Global Strategy and Innovation at Welocalize, for a conversation grounded in 12 months of real agentic translation in production. Most AI-in-localization conversations are still theoretical. This one is not. Kincaid breaks down how Opal, Welocalize's agentic translation platform, works in live enterprise environments, why better AI output actually made human review more important, not less, and why closed tech stacks are becoming a strategic liability in the AI era. They also get into the post-editing paradox, the model garden approach, the Phrase partnership, the walled garden problem, and what the localization org chart looks like three years from now.