(Finance) – CA Auto Bankthe mobility bank active in 19 countries, e I3P, the Incubator of the Polytechnic of Turin, they throw Digital Factory, the new open innovation platform aimed at Italian and international startups and SMEs. The initiative aims to seek the best innovative solutions and technologies for the digital transformation of the Bank. The projects to be presented must fall within one or more of the following areas: banking, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, mobility and sustainability. The best companies will be involved in a field experimentation process, through the development of a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) aimed at perfecting the innovation processes already underway in CA Auto Bank.
The initiative is part of Start&Pulsethe group’s European program Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance dedicated to startups and focused on open innovation. Digital Factory is part of a sector in which technological evolution has led to new consumer needs, opening up important opportunities for growth and development of the services offered. Digitalizing means adapting all business processes to the digital era, in which speed and operational efficiency play increasingly crucial roles. In this scenario, the innovative drive of startups and SMEs can lead to a further acceleration towards responsible growth and the creation of value for the planet.
There new Digital Factory platform follows the initiatives of the same name launched in 2020 and 2022, which led to successful collaborations with innovative startups such as Stip and Reefilla. These two young entrepreneurial entities, born in Italy and developed with an international perspective, today support CA Auto Bank in renewing the management of its customer service, leveraging artificial intelligence and new user experiences dedicated to electric mobility respectively.
“The launch of the new Digital Factory – he said Giacomo Carelli, CEO of CA Auto Bank – will offer us crucial support in the search for cutting-edge solutions for customers and partners, with which to give new life to the path of continuous innovation started by CA Auto Bank. We have great trust and expectations towards the role and innovative power of startups and SMEs: their contribution will be decisive for our Bank, which has always been aimed at evolution and the future”.
“Startups today constitute a source of innovation of absolute value also for corporate entities, such as CA Auto Bank, which already implement digitalisation and the integration of cutting-edge technological tools. Through Digital Factory, – he commented Giuseppe Scellato, President of I3P – the I3P incubator will offer its extensive experience in open innovation in order to create numerous concrete opportunities for collaboration and development of innovative products and services over the next few years.”