More than 2,000 people attended the eighth edition of the Entel Summit, “The digital company for a superior customer experience”, where technology entrepreneur Uri Levine, co-founder of the Waze application, was the keynote speaker.
In his presentation, Uri Levine highlighted the changes that the Internet has brought, changing the paradigm of business and the way it engages with its users and buyers.
He also commented: “Failure is a central axis in the entrepreneur’s path to success, precisely because innovation is a constant work until you find a concrete way to implement your idea efficiently. And to be in this constant synergy, it is necessary to fall in love with the problem, not the solution,” he said.
In this context, he shed light on one of the topics that was in the news in our country today: the struggle that exists between traditional taxi drivers and the Uber application. The businessman explained that “disruption is not about technology, it’s about changing the rules of the business game: if you don’t know who’s going to go bankrupt after you launch your idea, it’s probably not such a good idea.”
Levine warned the auditors that the Chilean market is an interesting one, but that there is a culture of excessive fear of failure, comparing it to Israel, where people are educated to learn to fail and take risks: “The entrepreneur’s path is a journey full of failures that you have to try to cope with and overcome” In this regard, he noted that his native Israel is one of the countries with the highest number of startups per capita in the world.
When asked about the smart car market and how Waze could adapt to this new technology, he explained that “just as cars need to detect traffic locations and route patterns, so the use cases are changing, but the need for geolocation of vehicle congestion will continue to be a necessity”.
The entrepreneur has been in the high-tech industry for more than 30 years and is a co-founder and board member of half a dozen startups, including Zeek, Roomer, FairFly, Moovit, Engie and FairSale.
Meanwhile, Julián San Martín, Entel’s Vice President of Corporate Markets, highlighted the changes that companies are experiencing today due to social digitization and the challenges that they will face in the coming years in their quest for a better experience for their customers.
“Reinventing ourselves as a company is in the DNA of our company, something that leads us to transfer the same spirit to all the products and services we offer to our customers. Therefore, we want to help them in this constant evolution so that they, as well as their own customers, have an increasingly better digital experience,” he said.
The other protagonists of the Technology Day
In addition to the latest trends in technology and connectivity, the day also focused on the importance today of the “Internet of Things” and data analytics or big data analytics. Both are concepts that can help companies, institutions and organizations in general improve their management and develop tools that have a positive impact on the environment and people’s quality of life.
Following Levine’s presentation, Mike Sutcliff, Group Chief Executive of Accenture Digital, spoke as part of the “Digital transformation to improve the customer experience” panel about leveraging the breadth and scale of Accenture’s cloud, systems integration and enterprise applications capabilities - in addition to its global delivery network - to help clients integrate digital into all facets of their organizations to transform their businesses.
In parallel, Angel Campillo, Chief Information Security Officer of the Carrefour Spain Group, addressed the increase in cyber-attacks against companies in recent years, which has highlighted the fragility of the security implemented. In this context, he spoke about the importance for companies and business managers to treat cyber defense as a strategy linked to their business, with a permanent advisory service to ensure the security of organizations in the face of these attacks.
Another panel discussion at the event was “Bimodal IT: making digital business a reality”. Entel Summit counted on the participation of Cassio Dreyfuss, Country Manager of Gartner Brazil, who referred to the need to take into account Shadow IT in companies. This was defined by the same company as devices, software and IT services used within organizations that are outside their ownership or control.
The executive, who was recognized in 2013 and 2014 as one of the 50 IT leaders in Latin America by the Hispanic Information Technology Executive Council (Hitec), also presented on topics related to IT strategies, planning, governance and management, with the aim of taking advantage of the value that information technologies can bring to the development of companies.
Meanwhile, the co-founder of Open English, Andrés Moreno, attracted a great deal of attention from attendees when he spoke about creating businesses in the digital age, highlighting the challenges faced by companies in an industry that is gradually going digital. Moreno, an entrepreneur and benchmark for technological innovation in the region, has raised more than $120 million in venture capital thanks to the company’s global expansion. His entrepreneurial career began in his native Venezuela as co-founder of Optimal English, a company that provided language training and coaching to Latin American executives of multinational companies.
Open English currently has more than 100,000 students and is valued at US$350 million. Since 2009, Moreno has also been the face of the brand, appearing in television commercials in more than 20 markets. In 2013, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Endeavor Miami. He is also a member of YPO, Americas Gateway Chapter, the world’s leading network of young CEOs. In 2014, he embarked on a new entrepreneurial foray by founding Next University, an online institution dedicated to developing practical skills that enable immediate entry into the job market.
About Uri Levine
Uri Levine is a passionate and disruptive serial entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Waze, the most widely used traffic and navigation app, with more than 200 million subscribers worldwide and more than eight million users in Chile. Waze was acquired by Google in June 2013 for $1.1 billion.
Levine is also the co-founder and current president of FeeX, a company dedicated to helping its users identify unknowingly paid fees and recover thousands of dollars from their retirement savings and long-term investment programs.
Uri has been in the high tech industry for over 30 years and has an extensive experience and history of failures, moderate successes and great successes that he shares in his presentations to entrepreneurs and executives around the world.
12 May, 2016
More than 2,000 people attended the eighth edition of the Entel Summit, “The digital company for a superior customer experience”, where technology entrepreneur Uri Levine, co-founder of the Waze application, was the keynote speaker.
In his presentation, Uri Levine highlighted the changes that the Internet has brought, changing the paradigm of business and the way it engages with its users and buyers.
He also commented: “Failure is a central axis in the entrepreneur’s path to success, precisely because innovation is a constant work until you find a concrete way to implement your idea efficiently. And to be in this constant synergy, it is necessary to fall in love with the problem, not the solution,” he said.
In this context, he shed light on one of the topics that was in the news in our country today: the struggle that exists between traditional taxi drivers and the Uber application. The businessman explained that “disruption is not about technology, it’s about changing the rules of the business game: if you don’t know who’s going to go bankrupt after you launch your idea, it’s probably not such a good idea.”
Levine warned the auditors that the Chilean market is an interesting one, but that there is a culture of excessive fear of failure, comparing it to Israel, where people are educated to learn to fail and take risks: “The entrepreneur’s path is a journey full of failures that you have to try to cope with and overcome” In this regard, he noted that his native Israel is one of the countries with the highest number of startups per capita in the world.
When asked about the smart car market and how Waze could adapt to this new technology, he explained that “just as cars need to detect traffic locations and route patterns, so the use cases are changing, but the need for geolocation of vehicle congestion will continue to be a necessity”.
The entrepreneur has been in the high-tech industry for more than 30 years and is a co-founder and board member of half a dozen startups, including Zeek, Roomer, FairFly, Moovit, Engie and FairSale.
Meanwhile, Julián San Martín, Entel’s Vice President of Corporate Markets, highlighted the changes that companies are experiencing today due to social digitization and the challenges that they will face in the coming years in their quest for a better experience for their customers.
“Reinventing ourselves as a company is in the DNA of our company, something that leads us to transfer the same spirit to all the products and services we offer to our customers. Therefore, we want to help them in this constant evolution so that they, as well as their own customers, have an increasingly better digital experience,” he said.
The other protagonists of the Technology Day
In addition to the latest trends in technology and connectivity, the day also focused on the importance today of the “Internet of Things” and data analytics or big data analytics. Both are concepts that can help companies, institutions and organizations in general improve their management and develop tools that have a positive impact on the environment and people’s quality of life.
Following Levine’s presentation, Mike Sutcliff, Group Chief Executive of Accenture Digital, spoke as part of the “Digital transformation to improve the customer experience” panel about leveraging the breadth and scale of Accenture’s cloud, systems integration and enterprise applications capabilities - in addition to its global delivery network - to help clients integrate digital into all facets of their organizations to transform their businesses.
In parallel, Angel Campillo, Chief Information Security Officer of the Carrefour Spain Group, addressed the increase in cyber-attacks against companies in recent years, which has highlighted the fragility of the security implemented. In this context, he spoke about the importance for companies and business managers to treat cyber defense as a strategy linked to their business, with a permanent advisory service to ensure the security of organizations in the face of these attacks.
Another panel discussion at the event was “Bimodal IT: making digital business a reality”. Entel Summit counted on the participation of Cassio Dreyfuss, Country Manager of Gartner Brazil, who referred to the need to take into account Shadow IT in companies. This was defined by the same company as devices, software and IT services used within organizations that are outside their ownership or control.
The executive, who was recognized in 2013 and 2014 as one of the 50 IT leaders in Latin America by the Hispanic Information Technology Executive Council (Hitec), also presented on topics related to IT strategies, planning, governance and management, with the aim of taking advantage of the value that information technologies can bring to the development of companies.
Meanwhile, the co-founder of Open English, Andrés Moreno, attracted a great deal of attention from attendees when he spoke about creating businesses in the digital age, highlighting the challenges faced by companies in an industry that is gradually going digital. Moreno, an entrepreneur and benchmark for technological innovation in the region, has raised more than $120 million in venture capital thanks to the company’s global expansion. His entrepreneurial career began in his native Venezuela as co-founder of Optimal English, a company that provided language training and coaching to Latin American executives of multinational companies.
Open English currently has more than 100,000 students and is valued at US$350 million. Since 2009, Moreno has also been the face of the brand, appearing in television commercials in more than 20 markets. In 2013, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Endeavor Miami. He is also a member of YPO, Americas Gateway Chapter, the world’s leading network of young CEOs. In 2014, he embarked on a new entrepreneurial foray by founding Next University, an online institution dedicated to developing practical skills that enable immediate entry into the job market.
About Uri Levine
Uri Levine is a passionate and disruptive serial entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Waze, the most widely used traffic and navigation app, with more than 200 million subscribers worldwide and more than eight million users in Chile. Waze was acquired by Google in June 2013 for $1.1 billion.
Levine is also the co-founder and current president of FeeX, a company dedicated to helping its users identify unknowingly paid fees and recover thousands of dollars from their retirement savings and long-term investment programs.
Uri has been in the high tech industry for over 30 years and has an extensive experience and history of failures, moderate successes and great successes that he shares in his presentations to entrepreneurs and executives around the world.
More than 2,000 people attended the eighth edition of the Entel Summit, “The digital company for a superior customer experience”, where technology entrepreneur Uri Levine, co-founder of the Waze application, was the keynote speaker.
In his presentation, Uri Levine highlighted the changes that the Internet has brought, changing the paradigm of business and the way it engages with its users and buyers.
He also commented: “Failure is a central axis in the entrepreneur’s path to success, precisely because innovation is a constant work until you find a concrete way to implement your idea efficiently. And to be in this constant synergy, it is necessary to fall in love with the problem, not the solution,” he said.
In this context, he shed light on one of the topics that was in the news in our country today: the struggle that exists between traditional taxi drivers and the Uber application. The businessman explained that “disruption is not about technology, it’s about changing the rules of the business game: if you don’t know who’s going to go bankrupt after you launch your idea, it’s probably not such a good idea.”
Levine warned the auditors that the Chilean market is an interesting one, but that there is a culture of excessive fear of failure, comparing it to Israel, where people are educated to learn to fail and take risks: “The entrepreneur’s path is a journey full of failures that you have to try to cope with and overcome” In this regard, he noted that his native Israel is one of the countries with the highest number of startups per capita in the world.
When asked about the smart car market and how Waze could adapt to this new technology, he explained that “just as cars need to detect traffic locations and route patterns, so the use cases are changing, but the need for geolocation of vehicle congestion will continue to be a necessity”.
The entrepreneur has been in the high-tech industry for more than 30 years and is a co-founder and board member of half a dozen startups, including Zeek, Roomer, FairFly, Moovit, Engie and FairSale.
Meanwhile, Julián San Martín, Entel’s Vice President of Corporate Markets, highlighted the changes that companies are experiencing today due to social digitization and the challenges that they will face in the coming years in their quest for a better experience for their customers.
“Reinventing ourselves as a company is in the DNA of our company, something that leads us to transfer the same spirit to all the products and services we offer to our customers. Therefore, we want to help them in this constant evolution so that they, as well as their own customers, have an increasingly better digital experience,” he said.
The other protagonists of the Technology Day
In addition to the latest trends in technology and connectivity, the day also focused on the importance today of the “Internet of Things” and data analytics or big data analytics. Both are concepts that can help companies, institutions and organizations in general improve their management and develop tools that have a positive impact on the environment and people’s quality of life.
Following Levine’s presentation, Mike Sutcliff, Group Chief Executive of Accenture Digital, spoke as part of the “Digital transformation to improve the customer experience” panel about leveraging the breadth and scale of Accenture’s cloud, systems integration and enterprise applications capabilities - in addition to its global delivery network - to help clients integrate digital into all facets of their organizations to transform their businesses.
In parallel, Angel Campillo, Chief Information Security Officer of the Carrefour Spain Group, addressed the increase in cyber-attacks against companies in recent years, which has highlighted the fragility of the security implemented. In this context, he spoke about the importance for companies and business managers to treat cyber defense as a strategy linked to their business, with a permanent advisory service to ensure the security of organizations in the face of these attacks.
Another panel discussion at the event was “Bimodal IT: making digital business a reality”. Entel Summit counted on the participation of Cassio Dreyfuss, Country Manager of Gartner Brazil, who referred to the need to take into account Shadow IT in companies. This was defined by the same company as devices, software and IT services used within organizations that are outside their ownership or control.
The executive, who was recognized in 2013 and 2014 as one of the 50 IT leaders in Latin America by the Hispanic Information Technology Executive Council (Hitec), also presented on topics related to IT strategies, planning, governance and management, with the aim of taking advantage of the value that information technologies can bring to the development of companies.
Meanwhile, the co-founder of Open English, Andrés Moreno, attracted a great deal of attention from attendees when he spoke about creating businesses in the digital age, highlighting the challenges faced by companies in an industry that is gradually going digital. Moreno, an entrepreneur and benchmark for technological innovation in the region, has raised more than $120 million in venture capital thanks to the company’s global expansion. His entrepreneurial career began in his native Venezuela as co-founder of Optimal English, a company that provided language training and coaching to Latin American executives of multinational companies.
Open English currently has more than 100,000 students and is valued at US$350 million. Since 2009, Moreno has also been the face of the brand, appearing in television commercials in more than 20 markets. In 2013, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Endeavor Miami. He is also a member of YPO, Americas Gateway Chapter, the world’s leading network of young CEOs. In 2014, he embarked on a new entrepreneurial foray by founding Next University, an online institution dedicated to developing practical skills that enable immediate entry into the job market.
About Uri Levine
Uri Levine is a passionate and disruptive serial entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Waze, the most widely used traffic and navigation app, with more than 200 million subscribers worldwide and more than eight million users in Chile. Waze was acquired by Google in June 2013 for $1.1 billion.
Levine is also the co-founder and current president of FeeX, a company dedicated to helping its users identify unknowingly paid fees and recover thousands of dollars from their retirement savings and long-term investment programs.
Uri has been in the high tech industry for over 30 years and has an extensive experience and history of failures, moderate successes and great successes that he shares in his presentations to entrepreneurs and executives around the world.
