Deadline: 6-May-22
Applications for Viva Technology’s Accor Challenge are now open.
This international event is a gathering of the world’s brightest minds, talents, and products and is a celebration of today’s innovations and tomorrow’s possibilities for everyone who believes in the power of technology to transform business and society!
VivaTech is dedicated to the growth of startups, hosting more than 13 000 of them and enable them to present their innovation on the market.
Accor is a world leading hospitality group consisting of more than 5,100 properties and 10,000 food and beverage venues throughout 110 countries.
Types of Challenges
- Health to Wealth – How to help people take action for their wellbeing
- The Start-Up Challenge is designed to attract, nurture and inspire the global wellbeing change-makers of tomorrow. They will be innovators who recognise the potency and potential of the wellbeing technology merge and the urgency to deliver in this recovering and at the same time, transforming world. This community will represent the trailblazers who seek to cultivate a renaissance culture that inspires a macro to grass-roots impact on how wellbeing is seen, embraced and acted upon.
- If the future of loyalty is blockchain how to operate the transition?
- Accor is looking for solutions to test and learn how blockchain can optimize loyalty programs and what place this technology could take in the relationship between Accor and their most loyal customers.
What you win?
- Scale up: If feasible, implement a POC (proof of concept) with Accor and begin to scale your business with us!
- Collaborate: Benefit from exclusive coaching and support from Accor experts across many fields according to your business’ needs and ambitions.
- Network: Become part of the big Accor Family and benefit from their strong and established network. They commit to open for you their doors to scale up inside Accor and give you all the tools and resources in order to do so!
- Business: They want you to succeed. By opening to you their doors, they commit in helping you to sign contracts and commercial agreements with their brands, clients and partners to scale up your business.
- Pitch at VivaTech: Get the chance to have 2 free passes for VivaTech 2022 and pitch your solution in front of experts.
Selection Criteria
- Complexity: Transition with the existing model (cost, development, integration, etc.)
- Feasibility: Scalable, realism and viability (technical, economic and environmental) of implementing the solution
- Team Profile: Profile of the founder(s) and co-founder(s), ability to lead the project to success, hard and soft skills of the operational team
- Business model: Demonstrated traction and product-market fit. Guest value proposition and adoption complexity
- Pitch: Speech, popularization and ability to project your solution in the Accor ecosystem (Travel / Hospitality)
For more information, visit https://challenges.vivatechnology.com/en/challenges/accor
