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Sophie Ferrini, Elena Bellacicca, Akash Verma and others are enlisted in the challenge
ACCOR
ACCOR
Startup Challenge
About Viva Technology
VivaTech is Europe's biggest startup and tech event. Co-organized by Publicis Groupe and Groupe Les Echos and dedicated to the growth of startups, digital transformation, and innovation, the 5th edition will take place on June 16-19, 2021.
In 2019, the event reached 231 million people worldwide, bringing together 124,000 visitors including more than 13,000 startups, 3,000 venture capital firms, and 2,500 journalists from 124 countries. This year, VivaTech will provide a hybrid experience, in-person in Paris and online worldwide, that will bring together an even larger community of innovators.
ACCOR Live Limitless
Accor is a world leading hospitality group consisting of more than 5,100 properties and 10,000 food and beverage venues throughout 110 countries.
The group has one of the industry’s most diverse and fully-integrated hospitality ecosystems encompassing luxury and premium brands, midscale and economy offerings, unique lifestyle concepts, entertainment and nightlife venues, restaurants and bars, branded private residences, shared accommodation properties, concierge services, co-working spaces and more.
Accor also boasts an unrivalled portfolio of distinctive brands and more than 260,000 team members worldwide.
Also, 68 million members benefit from the company’s comprehensive loyalty program ALL - Accor Live Limitless - a daily lifestyle companion that provides access to a wide variety of rewards, services and experiences.
As today the art of hospitality knows no bounds and extends beyond walls, to spark inspired experiences everywhere, Accor dares to reimagine hospitality not as a place or service, but infinite connected moments, whether you want to live, work or play.
By combining talent and passion, Accor ambitions to design this future of hospitality, always with a human touch and commitment to sustainability.
ACCOR Live Limitless Challenges
Challenge 1
How can we further enrich the experiences in our hotels so that they are at the heart of city life?
Challenge 1
How can we further enrich the experiences in our hotels so that they are at the heart of city life?
Accor wants to enrich the role of hotels. More than a place to stay, Accor's ambition is to make hotels interconnected with their local ecosystems.
Indeed, guests and locals should not only come to hotels to experience hospitality, but also to work, learn and discover new things, find entertainment, enjoy wellness activities, or simply meet and connect with people.
While Accor has always strived to develop quality products and services for travelers and guests, we now want to create products and services for a broader target audience.
We are convinced that hotels are no longer reserved and dedicated to guests alone but must become an essential place to respond to changing lifestyles.
This is why we are looking for projects that will strengthen the links between hotels and their environment.
Let's put hotels at the heart of city dwellers' lives by meeting all their needs for better living, working, sports, disconnection, entertainment, etc.
Together, let's help our hotels around the world become the most exciting new places to live and share, at more scales than ever before!
Challenge 2
Looking for all solutions that can accelerate our sustainable and positive hospitality ambition
Challenge 2
Looking for all solutions that can accelerate our sustainable and positive hospitality ambition ?
Accor has for a long time been engaged in social and environmental responsibility.
Through its Planet 21 program – Acting Here, Accor Solidarity foundation, RiiSE network and ALL Heartist Fund initiatives, the group is focused on driving positive action on a long-term basis through business ethics, responsible tourism, environmental sustainability, community engagement, diversity and inclusion.
Accor is also deeply committed on topics such as reducing food waste, sustainable food & beverage offers but also carbon emissions and 0 single-use plastic in guest experience by end 2022.
Today we want to continue to pave the way in the hospitality sector for both environmental and social responsibility. We have the strong will to accelerate the implementation of our commitments to tackle these fundamental subjects and are looking for great projects that will help us in doing so !
Winners Prizes
5 finalists will have the opportunity to come and Pitch at VivaTech in front of a jury composed of Accor top Executives.
The winner of this final will win the following prizes:
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If feasible, implement a POC (proof of concept) with Accor and begin to scale your business with us !
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Benefit from exclusive coaching and support from Accor experts across many fields according to your business’ needs and ambitions.
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Become part of the big Accor Family and benefit from our strong and established network. We commit to open for you our doors to scale up inside Accor and give you all the tools and resources in order to do so!
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We want you to succeed. By opening to you our doors, we commit in helping you to sign contracts and commercial agreements with our brands, clients and partners to scale up your business.
