ANDREA KATES, PARTNER AT SUMA VENTURES

A passionate entrepreneur and travel industry enthusiast. Founder of Netactica, a leading player in the Latin American travel technology space since 2003, a company that it aims to become best strategic technology partner for the most successful travel related businesses, such as OTAs, airlines, banks, tour operators.

In 2019 Guido brings that experience to build and run Rappi new travel vertical, Rappi Travel, as part of the fastest growing app and ecommerce platform in the latin american region

In this fascinating interview with international, Silicon Valley-based, thought leader, Andrea Kates ,she address the rapid innovation of Rappi, the power of cross-industry inspiration, and much more. 

– ANDREA KATES, PARTNER AT SUMA VENTURES

It used to be, that not long ago, business was a zero-sum game with winners and losers, where strategy was about gaining a competitive advantage to win a bigger market share. That model seems to be quickly dating as a new approach to business is leveraging the power of co-creation to effect combinatorial gains across businesses and industries to not only increase market share for everyone but also create new value opportunities for customers. Welcome to the Ecosystem Model.

In this roaring interview with international, Silicon Valley-based, thought leader, Andrea Kates we discuss how incumbent organizations can leverage their scale and influence to build Ecosystems that maximize, growth, impact, and opportunities for players of all sizes and customers.

(And What That Means For Your Career)

In this session, we’ll discuss the evolution of the corporate innovation function so far, and what will be next. Will innovation be a separate function, or integrated in other functions and business operations? If separate, what will be the scope and how will success be measured? What does this all mean for you as innovation professional? In some companies, innovation is still a risky step that could easily derail your career; will that change in the next years? Beyond an innovation role, how can you still leverage your innovation skill- and mindset in other functions?

Hans Balmaekers – Chief at Innov8rs

Gina O’Connor – Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College

John Metselaar – Professor of Management Practice at Solvay Brussels School for Economics and Management 

Andrea Kates – Partner at SUMA Ventures – Get To Next

Anthony Ferrier – Head of Innovation and Commercialization at Swinburne University of Technology

To say that the financial industry is transforming rapidly is a grave understatement. Cloud and AI are at the center of the transformation. Fintechs are both competing and collaborating. Bigtech are closing in and other industries are embedding financial services in their current offerings.

How will the future look like for the established industry? What are possible avenues for the existing players to take?

Take the chance to join a great discussion about what impacts the financial industry, customers and beyond. You will walk away with insights from some of the real frontrunners.

Andrea was an electrifying speaker at our Design Thinking & User Experience Summit (DT|UX Summit 2021) – an event where we highlight how global technology trends can be effectively be embraced to design better user experiences. She brought an incredibly refreshing perspective as to how technology can be leveraged to humanise our complex current and future human experiences. By bringing in Silicon Valley tech insights on VR, AR, she was able to engage the virtual audience actively with her Innovation Activation theme of ideas and they resonated  very well with the compellingly practical Get To Next principles. She showed how they could take things forward in their own spheres of influence, and this is always a very important aspect of our DT|UX Summit. Andrea’s work is original, her delivery is captivating and well contextualised to the audiences’ experiences and her personable approach to ideas that are complex make her a keynote speaker that we would be more than honoured for her to return at our future DT|UX Summits!

Aznan  Abu-Bakar – Chair DT|UX Summit, Singapore Polytechnic

Andrea is a global corporate transformation specialist, tech startup CEO and advisor. She has worked on more than 200 corporate initiatives designed to equip leaders to commercialize emerging trends and technologies. She’s currently involved in a range of projects focused on innovation strategy, the “Future of” Series (Mobility, AI, Retail, Work) and Business Model Redesign. Based in San Francisco and working with teams around the world, Andrea focuses on bringing new ideas to market, co-creating with customers to uncover new product directions, and facilitating sessions that align leadership on a future direction.

To say that the financial industry is transforming rapidly is a grave understatement. Cloud and AI are at the center of the transformation. Fintechs are both competing and collaborating. Bigtech are closing in and other industries are embedding financial services in their current offerings.

How will the future look like for the established industry? What are possible avenues for the existing players to take?

Take the chance to join a great discussion about what impacts the financial industry, customers and beyond. You will walk away with insights from some of the real frontrunners.