Many organizations start strong with innovation but struggle to sustain and scale it. Establishing a structured innovation practice is key, whether it’s creating a central hub, building an ecosystem, or ensuring smart investment. This path addresses common challenges, such as fragmented innovation efforts, limited resources for scaling ideas, and the need for strategic investment. Additionally, we provide hands-on coaching and introduce your teams to activities and investment strategies that align with your innovation goals.
We help you build and develop internal structures dedicated to managing innovation processes and initiatives.
A fully operational Innovation Hub, designed to foster collaboration, generate ideas and drive innovation within the company. With clearly defined objectives, governance, roles and processes tailored to your organization.
We help organizations expand their innovation ecosystem by connecting them with startups, partners and external experts.
Access to a customized ecosystem that accelerates innovation efforts, enabling knowledge exchange, technology scouting and strategic partnerships aligned with your business goals.
We design and implement Corporate Venture Capital models that enable companies to invest effectively in startups and emerging technologies.
You get a ready-to-implement CVC model that allows your company to invest in startups and new technologies in a structured and effective way.
We support leaders and teams in developing innovation competences and building an innovation mindset.
Individual or team coaching focused on building skills, overcoming challenges and ensuring the effective implementation of innovation projects.
We introduce organizations to the key principles of startup investing, covering strategy development, processes and market best practices.
Practical knowledge and tools that enable informed decision-making and effective management of innovation and investment activities within your organization.
Accelerate innovation cycles
Strengthen market position
Empower autonomous, innovation-driven teams
Make strategic, impactful investments
Prepare a long-term strategy for working with innovations for an organization or an innovation department to choose the best way to move
the business forward.
We cocreate and coordinate the process of setting up a framework for the organization’s innovation strategy taking into account its business strategy, best market practices, and the level of innovation culture in the organization. We define which approach to work with innovations will give the company the most significant profits.
If you need to organize or improve the process of working with innovations in your organization.
We help to define critical conditions to be fulfilled to successfully verify, test, and implement innovations. During the workshop, we identify the main pain points for the startup to enter the organization and prepare a list of ideas to make the process run smoothy and in a more startup-friendly manner.
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Orlen
1. Tools for econometric analysis in the MarTech
We are looking for a solution that will enable econometric analyses in the context of planning marketing campaign activities. The system should have the capability to create econometric models (automatically, manually, inference systems based on distributed databases)
2. Electricity management in pilot energy community to to increase efficiency
We’re seeking a new energy billing model and compatible control system for a 50 kWp PV and 120 kWh energy storage project within an energy community. The solution must optimize electricity management based on dynamic pricing, enable monitoring, forecasting, and flow control for maximized self-consumption and adaptation to local energy needs. Scalability for future offerings is important.
3. Innovative technologies to improve the energy efficiency of process steam production
We are looking for a technology based on the cascade conversion of energy from hot air to improve the efficiency of steam production processes and generate additional electricity from previously unused thermal resources.
4. Tools to detect potential irregularities/frauds in the handling of transactions at petrol stations
We are looking for a solution to increase the level of detection and prevention of activities that may occur in transactions at service stations. The solution should use self-learning mechanisms.
5. Tools to optimise the management of the vehicle fleet (forklifts and tractors) on the production site
We are looking for a tool to coordinate the movement of vehicles (forklifts, tractors and semi-trailers up to 12 tonnes) within the company to enable the automation of company intralogistics.
6. Tools for measuring process steam flow using non-invasive techniques
We are looking for non-invasive tools to improve the accuracy of steam measurements on production facilities.
BNP Paribas
1. We are looking for an AI tool (agent) that will support BNP Paribas in a quick analysis of sme companies using available and up-to-date online sources for banking products.
2. Anti-fraud and KYC tool
We are looking for tools to support anti-fraud, anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) processes. These tools should demonstrate an innovative, proprietary approach to detecting fraud and money laundering patterns. We expect them to provide functionality to detect dormant accounts used for cybercrime, significantly speed up and simplify KYC activities, and effectively cross-check information between different data channels.
Carslberg Polska
Complaints and inquiries module in Hoppy application
We’re looking for a solution applicable in the Hoppy application which will support users in sending complaints. On the other hand the solution should support admin in effective management of reported complaints and inquiries.
PM3D
Data aggregator
We are looking for solutions that allow aggregation of data from different municipal systems. Current municipal systems are fragmented and poorly integrated due to disparate technologies and vendor lock-in, hindering public service and data management. This lack of a universal platform prevents efficient data exchange between key services.
The business need is an open, secure, and scalable integration platform to unify systems, improve management, and enhance citizen service.
Saint-Gobain
1. AI Agent
We are looking for an AI tool that will function within the website and, based on the company’s data resources, answer customer questions and create personalized recommendations for the use of Saint-Gobain materials and services. The agent must understand project requirements, suggest optimal materials and ensure compliance with sustainability and construction standards. His main task will be to provide Investors, Contractors and Designers with reliable information on the company’s products and complete system solutions tailored to the client’s needs. The solution should be scalable to include data covering various brands and capable of being implemented across various websites.
2. Building analysis
We are looking for a sales tool that will allow an in-depth analysis of the client’s planned investment – construction or renovation of various types of buildings. The tool should take into account basic as well as advanced parameters, such as primary energy demand, CO2 emissions, the amount of renewable energy needed to balance CO2, energy demand for cooling, acoustic analysis, daylight comfort or fire safety.
The tool should analyze the various parameters of the building depending on the material used (from the company’s portfolio) and recommend materials whose use will improve the parameters of the building to comply with current legislation and meet the customer’s needs
PZU - challenges
1. Mass process optimisation
Optimisation and automation of mass processes (e.g. benefits processing, claims settlement, underwriting, automation of back office processes, customer relationship management), particularly through tools using GenAI.
2. Pricing excellence
The challenge can be solved by a tool to better estimate and price insurance risks, both for individual and corporate clients, or by increasing the dataset for estimation or adding new variables to assess the risk of an event.
3. Insurance prevention
We’re looking for startups providing technologies and tools such as digital customer service platforms, advanced risk analysis tools or artificial intelligence to help manage risk and improve safety. The area of interest includes solutions for both corporate and individual clients.
4. Emerging technologies supporting insurance customer experience management.
5. All insurtech startups
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Franek Domachowski
Junior Program Manager
At Huge Thing, Franek actively supports programme managers in running acceleration programmes. He is an innovation and technology enthusiast with a deep passion for fashion and fabrics.
He studied at the School of Innovations at SWPS University in Warsaw, where he gained valuable knowledge about cutting-edge solutions. During his studies, he also worked as a researcher, conducting interviews for various projects, including a collaboration with Sexed. He gained valuable experience as a junior insight specialist, where he was responsible for creating UX reports.
Franek is a true people person, always eager to start conversations and meet new people. In his free time, he enjoys spending time outdoors and unwinding with a good film.
Veolia Poland - challenges
5. Customer experince improvement
Rossmann - challenges
The main challenge for this batch is to support Rossmann customers in the independent purchasing process, which can be delivered due to:
PZU
We are looking for:
Żabka Group - challenges
1. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (ONLINE AND OFFLINE)
New products & services to expand on our convenience ecosystem in areas of health, entertainment, betting, financial and insurance services.
Modern convenience foods such as: nutrition products (especially for school-aged children), nutritious snacks, dietary supplements, functional beverages & snacks.
2. FOODSERVICE & STREET-FOOD SOLUTIONS
Increase the attractiveness of our offer, improve the quality of service and increase operational efficiency in foodservice and our street-food offering. We are looking for innovations in: systems, processes, equipment, self-service facilities and food storage.
3. SALES AND MARKETING
Solutions aimed to: increase and optimise sales in-store, foster better business decision making and innovative in-store marketing. Mechanisms and products that support customer loyalty and influence positive daily habits and routines.
4. MOBILE APP/PHYGITAL
Engaging our customers in mobile app and physical stores. Creating & fostering community of dedicated customers through gamification and new technologies.
5. RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES
Disruptive solutions to transform the traditional retail with the help of new technologies i.e. AR/VR, IOT, blockchain, payment solutions, ESL.
6. NEW BUSINESS VERTICALS
Exploring and developing new business verticals that fit within our modern convenience strategy and further expand our ecosystem.