L-R: Mehdi Bargache (ArcelorMittal Europe Flat Products); Stéphanie Walter (Luxair); Aurélien Mellé (BIL); Fabian Burtard (EIB); Laure Leduc (Wort); Emilie Bechet (LOIC);
Credit: Foyer
The Luxembourg Open Innovation Club (LOIC) held its fourth Innovation Dating event on Wednesday evening at Foyer's headquarters in Leudelange.
Following past editions on Artificial Intelligence (2017 and 2018) and Smart Cities (2018), LOIC members selected Human-Centred Design as the theme for this edition of the Innovation Dating event. The event provided an opportunity to not only showcase Human-Centred Design solutions and processes, but also to tackle different aspects of this theme, such as user experience (UX) and user interface (UI), as well as their impact on technology and digital transformation.
Seven Human-Centered Design solution providers were carefully selected by LOIC’s steering committee following a call for applications. Art Square Lab (Luxembourg), Ergosign (Germany), nosoft (France), Smile (Luxembourg), swipe (Luxembourg), weloop (France) and World of Digits (Luxembourg) pitched in front of 90 attendees, UX experts and major corporates.
Along with startup presentations, the event also included an opening keynote from Stéphanie Walter, Lead UX Designer, as well as a roundtable with LOIC Members’ UX experts. The panel featured Mehdi Bargache (Head of Data Science at ArcelorMittal), Laure Leduc (UX-UI Designer at Wort), Aurélien Mellé (Lead UX at BIL), Stéphanie Walter (Lead UX Designer at Luxair) and Fabian Burtard (Solution Architect at EIB).
The roundtable focused on the Luxembourg market’s maturity level in terms of User Experience or User Interface. Interactions demonstrated that while every corporate has its approach, the common challenge for UX-UI leaders is to make the rest of the company understand the importance of including UXUI processes at the beginning of each project.
The annual Innovation Dating event represents one of the LOIC's most important events, with this year marking the club's biggest event to date. Emilie Bechet, Corporate Innovation Manager at LOIC, commented: “Our Innovation Dating event seems to get bigger each year. I think this is also a demonstration of the LOIC’s momentum swing coming from its members and our partners. Our membership is growing, fueling LOIC’s initiatives and thus demonstrating vividly how well-connected Luxembourg’s corporates want to be to innovation”.
The fourth edition of Innovation Dating was organised in close collaboration with Foyer, who sponsored and hosted the event.
The fifth edition of LOIC’s Innovation Dating will take place in autumn 2020.
