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Technological Innovations not only for e-commerce

 
SARIO Innovation Services connect the needs of the agency's largest clients, investors, and global players with the most innovative Slovak companies to innovate their production processes.

On January 27, 2021, within the SARIO Innovation Services, the agency provided by the webinar Technological Innovations not only for e-commerce a space for the presentation of successful Slovak projects and solutions to purposefully streamline the interaction between the service provider and its potential or existing clients. The moderator of this online discussion was Marek Kopanický, the  SARIO Innovation Services team leader and consultant of SARIO Investment Projects Department.
The webinar presented the newly established Slovak research institute, two Slovak companies that have already become global through their projects, and also one global company originally from the U. S. with a successful branch in Slovakia. All in their activities combine digital and software innovations and the introduction of applied research not only in the e-commerce segment but also in many other activities. Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic is a significant catalyst for moving customers to the online environment, bringing more and more companies from different business areas to their communication with users through artificial intelligence-based conversational technologies, advanced search engines, and other innovations designed to improve and simplify the overall client experience.

Kempelen's Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT) is the first independent institute of its kind in Slovakia, which is engaged in research of intelligent technologies - artificial intelligence and several areas of informatics and information technologies with a focus on connecting the academic sector and research with business. The Lighting Beetle Studio combines human, technology, and business-oriented design to create products and services that can withstand the challenges of the future. This Slovak company has been successful having so far more than 400 projects in 15 countries. Touch4IT - already a globally successful Slovak company, the Impact Star Award of the year 2020 of the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranking in Central Europe.  This company creates innovative tailor-made digital solutions that deliver unique digital experiences with more than 250 projects in 16 countries and can even boast providing its solutions to the European Space Agency. Last but not least, the largest privately owned company in the world dedicated to conversational artificial intelligence, IP Soft, and its Amelia project. Today, Amelia is already a globally successful project of a digital colleague able to solve clients' problems in various (currently 16) areas of expertise.

The SARIO Innovation Services platform connects the needs of the agency's largest clients, investors, and global companies with the most innovative Slovak companies. Since the establishment of the SARIO Innovation Services platform in September 2017, SARIO has organized a total of 24 innovation events. These created opportunities for the presentation of up to 83 different Slovak companies, which presented their innovative products, services, and solutions skillfully 157 times (several of them repeatedly). On average, every tenth presentation of a Slovak company led to the acquisition of a pilot innovation project - order, the current agency registers 15 can be considered a success. In addition to physical events, the SARIO Innovation Services platform organized six webinars with more than thirty speakers and almost 400 registered participants. Last year, the agency through this platform co-organized two webinars with foreign partners from Finland and the Spanish region of the Basque Country, thus presenting Slovak innovative companies to foreign entities as well.