Santalucía Impulsa 2020-2021 final event
Last Thursday, February 11, the final event of Santalucía Impulsa 2020-2021, where the Intrapreneurs of the Santalucía Group and the startups winners of the Legaltech InsurChallenge presented their projects to the jury and the public electronically.Ángel Uzquiza (Innovation Director of Santalucía), Andrés Romero Peña (Director General of Santalucía) and Rubén Muñoz (General Director of Operations and Technology) kicked off the event by welcoming attendees and participants and giving an introduction to the innovation in the company, highlighting the milestones achieved in 2020 and presenting the challenges set for 2021. “It's important to recognize that technology and digital transformation are already adding value to the company”, highlighted Rubén Muñoz. For his part, Ángel Uzquiza invited employees to continue participating in the projects and supporting this type of revolution,”Because innovation is nothing more than that, it's a revolution”.
Intrafurrecy projects
The final continued with the presentations of the Intrapreneurs; 24 courageous people who, divided into four teams supported by mentors, have spent four months learning, working as a team and developing projects based on two specific challenges proposed by the insurance group. ”Innovation is the lever of transformation. It is essential to achieve a competitive advantage and increase the value proposition we offer to the market,” said the CEO of Santalucía. This was the 3rd edition of Santalucía Impulses Employees, the corporate incubation program for innovative ideas where the internal talent of the insurance group is hybridized with external entrepreneurial talent. The four groups of entrepreneurs were: Web Onboarding SAM, OnTarget, SeguroN and Dreamers. SeguroN and OnTarget won the award for best presentation.These two entrepreneur groups will move to acceleration phase of the program, a program that makes it possible for employees from all areas of the company to work on disruptive innovation projects. In this phase, teams will be able to evolve and scale their solutions. The SeguroN project also won the public award. After the presentations of the entrepeneurs, the public was able to enjoy the intervention of Bisila Bokoko, a globally recognized businesswoman, philanthropist and serial entrepreneur, who spoke a few words from New York and highlighted the Santalucía Impulsa initiative.
Legaltech Startups
The entrepreneurial proposals from the startup world that participated in the final event were 2BePart and Bigle Legal, both startups that won the Legaltech InsurChallenge released last September. The highest-rated proposal of this 4th edition of Santalucía Promotes Startups was Bigle Legal, a complete document automation solution. The objective of this Latest InsurChallenge was to look for Insurtechs that could provide solutions in the Legaltech field and thus find tools that would facilitate the legal and contractual operations of Santalucía in the face of possible problems that could arise in the current context due to COVID-19. In this edition of the acceleration program for innovative projects 54 projects were presented from Spain and foreign countries such as France, Israel, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine. The event, according to Andrés Romero, highlights the enormous potential of the company's internal talent and entrepreneurial spirit, which could also be shared with interesting entrepreneurial proposals from the world of startups, which in this edition focused on Legaltech solutions.
