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The ABSL Tech Lab is the successor to the ABSL Start-Up Challenge. We offer young tech companies the opportunity to connect & scaleups with leading international and Polish companies including ABSL member companies.

Key facts
4
editions of the event
350+
applications submitted
1000+
viewers each year
Program Council
Emilia Burzyńska
Emilia Burzyńska
GBS & IT Shared Services Leader for Central Europe | Procter and Gamble
Janusz Dziurzyński
Janusz Dziurzyński
Vice President | ABSL | Principal Director | Accenture Strategy & Consulting
Michał Podgórski
Michał Podgórski
Global Head of Securities & Pricing Operations | Citi
Agnieszka Sygitowicz
Agnieszka Sygitowicz
Vice President | Lodz Special Economic Zone
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Data gathering automation

We are looking for solutions allowing us to gather data directly from online resellers websites. How does your tool facilitate the process of data collection and analysis in order to increase online sales revenues based on daily reports?

Effective communication to teenagers (12-15)

We are looking for solutions that will allow us to effectively reach the target group of 12-15 -year-old teenagers with our market communication. How to combine educational activities with establishing a long-lasting relationship with the brand? How to strengthen a level of confidence among young people and encourage them to share the benefits of these relationships with their peers?

Increase the efficiency of online sales

We are looking for solutions that will increase the efficiency of online sales that is initiated by offline activities. How to increase the efficiency of direct sales and verify the effectiveness of product recommendations delivered in specialist surgeries? How to keep customers’ attention and avoid procrastination resulting in purchase delays, while supporting them throughout the decision-making process?

Effective monitoring of our downstream supply chains

We are looking for solutions enabling effective monitoring of our downstream supply chains. How to monitor the location of individual products, both during the delivery process as well as after the product is delivered to retailers?

Virtual Training & Onboarding

We are looking for solutions will allow us to enhance our remote training and onboarding capabilities for example, solutions to track historic experience, current hard & soft skills and interests and utilizing same to recommend future training from a multi-source catalogue. Other solutions of interest would help improve the process of rolling out virtual training and onboarding sessions e.g. breakout into subgroups, ability for participants to raise questions anonymously for trainer and trainee to exchange materials. Solutions need to be easy to use and relatively light on processing resources

Support for Process Optimization

We are looking for solutions which will support management in both identifying and streamlining activities that are not actively generating a value-add to our clients. From an identification perspective, we look for a means of systemically tracking core application usage and time spent on auxiliary tasks such as email management, meetings and calls with the aim of identifying teams and processes which may benefit from additional automation or operational change. We require a deep level of detail with supporting metrics and reporting capabilities which can enable compare and contrast exercises across similar teams and sites functionality, as these will be the drivers for future efficiency initiatives within the Bank. From a streamlining perspective, we are interested in solutions which increase our ability to delegate and track tasks in a user friendly manner. Outside of basic delegation functionality, solutions which incorporate centralized administration, authorized work recipients and an intuitive, graphical exception based UI are of particular interest"

Advanced Text Analytics

During the course of the month the risk assessment team generates around 10 million words across tens of thousands of individual cases. The challenge is to use sophisticated tools like natural language processing, named entity recognition and sentiment analysis to generate insight into how the text looks like and what additional information or connections we would be able to take away from such a huge data set in order to reuse information more efficiently and increase risk coverage.

Career Mobility and Recruitment

As the lines between Operations and Technology continues to blur, we are looking for solutions which can increase knowledge of and interest in Technology - particularly in businesses or applicants which traditionally would not have considered Technology as a viable career option. As a strong believer in career mobility, transferrable skills and the benefits of blended learning, we are looking for solutions which can help increase further the perception of the company as an attractive and innovative organization fully supportive of employee development. Innovative solutions incorporating gamification, integration with targeted Social Media platforms and/ or other similar non-traditional means of attracting internal and external talent within the broader workforce to apply for a role within Technology are welcomed. Our end goal is to have an integrated attraction and application process aligned with modern day usage of technology i.e. a consistent and applicant friendly process laptop, tablet and mobile

All in one communication

We are looking for a solution that will allow us to send information and activate our partners simultaneously. How to focus all communication in one tool? How to encourage our partners to activate and interact with this tool? How to extend the functionality of the tool with a free knowledge base and commercial events simultaneously? We want our solution to be easy to use and functional at the same time.

Effective warehouse and manufacturing management

We are looking for solutions that will enable production companies to manage their warehouse and manufacturing processes more efficiently. How to automate processes in the warehouse, optimize inventory and production lines? We are looking for life-time monitoring, automation and management processes solutions that may be used by manufacturing clients.

Our Goal
Our goal is to facilitate commercial cooperation basing on the real-life business needs and challenges of our partners. Together with market experts we will help you to prepare your business proposal with reference to the needs and requirements of the largest corporations. Difficulties caused by COVID-19 have sparked a discussion about support mechanisms for start-ups and young tech companies. At ABSL, we believe that regardless of the financial instruments, enabling access to corporate clients is indispensable to stimulating the development of young tech companies.
Benefits
For young tech companies
  • Fast track to actual business needs of corporate partners in a model nearing ongoing procurement procedures and their business owners
  • Advanced business advisory focused on tailoring value proposals addressing challenges
  • Opportunity to access ABSL member companies' top executives
  • Potential media presence covering success stories
For corporate partners
  • Open platform allowing our members to target their challenges at any time
  • Tailor-made solutions prepared to meet specific needs
  • Access to the most creative young tech companies
  • All the participating digital challengers will be validated by the ABSL Tech Lab team of experts based on their previous track record, available resources, and credentials
  • Simplified cooperation process
  • Accelerated implementation of technological solutions
  • Optimization of processes with regards to time and cost
Finalists 2019
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