The four-day Event (which began on June 15) is underway in Paris, the LVMH event dedicated to technology in which startups, business leaders and investors converge, this time focused on three key themes: data transformation, Web3 and sustainability.
In the "LVMH apartment" of 600 square meters inside the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, the focus is on the innovations of 16 of the group's brands, together with the solutions developed by 21 young companies competing for the LVMH Innovation Award, now in its sixth edition, and the results of collaborations with five startups launched in recent years. In the Open Kitchen section there is the Dare program of intrapreneurship and La Maison des Startups. On the stage of Viva Technology yesterday, June 16, Toni Belloni (group managing director of the giant French) spoke, while today it was the turn of Laurent Boillot (CEO of Hennessy) and Nelly Mensah, head of the group's initiatives related to cryptocurrencies and the Metaverse.Also yesterday the absolute winner of the
LVMH Innovation Award was unveiled This is the English Toshi, who has defeated over 950 startups from 75 nations, including the other 20 finalists from 10 nations. "Innovation is a lifeblood for us," said Bernard Arnault, CEO and chairman of LVMH. A lever to continue to increase the desirability of our brands' products and services. The finalists of the 2022 edition of the award will be invaluable in further fueling the synergy between luxury and technology, as their entrepreneurial spirit meets and inspires ours." Toshi is a reality founded in London in 2017, which focuses on personalized and "at home" in-store services, shaped on the needs of high-end customers and which has made sustainable choices in terms of logistics, using public transport and a fleet of electric vehicles to achieve the goal of carbon neutral deliveries. They have already turned to Toshi, among others, Berluti, Christian Dior Couture and Rimowa.At
the LVMH Innovation Award 2022 six other companies stood out: MarqVision from Los Angeles (special mention in the Data & Artificial Intelligence category), Bitski from San Francisco (3D / Virtual Experience & Metaverse), Gamino from Nanterre (Employee Experience & Csr), SeenThis from Stockholm ( Media & Brand Awareness), The ShowCase from Geneva (Omnichannel & Retail), WeTurn from Paris (Sustainability). For the first time on this occasion, LVMH presented an augmented version of its physical stands, in collaboration with Livi. The latter also organized a series of tech talks with LVMH experts. There is also an area dedicated to recruiting in the IT and digital professions.
