Before Huawei and Foxconn, there was Samsung. Before Samsung, there was Acer. And before that, there was Sony.

The list, of course, goes on. There is Tencent, whose WeChat messenging app is fast becoming the de facto operating system of life in China. People in China don’t just chat on WeChat; they make payments, stream events, order food, buy tickets, make reservations with restaurants and appointments with doctors—all on WeChat. In a nod to Tencent, Facebook is going to focus more on messenging rather than its core social sharing platform.

The list of Asian companies going global—whether it’s in the technology sector or another industry—goes on and on. It’s not surprising that three of the world’s largest economies are in Asia, Oceania, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Not only are Western companies continuing to come to Asia, Oceania, and the Asia-Pacific region to expand business opportunities, APAC companies are also increasingly going global. And with private companies such as SpaceX engaged in private sector, commercial space exploration, companies are not just going global anymore. They are going universal—into the universe! The aerospace industry—long a duopoly between the US-based Boeing and the France-based Airbus, will soon see competition from the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) in the next few years if China were to succeed in its “Made in China 2025” aviation industry initiative.

GoAP 2019 will be about the next set of ideas—big or small—that drive globalization and localization forward.

Thus, we invite proposals that explore how new ideas—big or small—are shaping the global landscape. We invite participants, stakeholders, contributors, and decision-makers who are engaged in globalization, internationalization, and localization. We cordially invite marketers and sales professionals who are looking to expand beyond borders; we would like to hear from localizers who translate, adapt, and package an organization’s products and services for a different culture, audience, and language. We request proposals from technologists who develop the enabling tools and platforms that make globalization and localization possible—whether it’s in AI, machine translation, big data, machine learning, voice technology, innovations in hardware, new processes, or robotics.