What is revolutionising digital content creation? 🧐
Join us to meet with the founder and CEO of XNFY Lab and Fashable, Orlando Ribas Fernandes, to discuss deep tech for the fashion industry!
Featured Technology
FASHABLE - AI Generated Fashion
A powerful and adaptable technology to revolutionize brand content generation and start a new era.
Fashable, is now a independent company and the first XNFY Lab spin-off.
For more information, please visit: Fashable.AI
XNFY Lab - Goals?
The XNFY lab helps retailers drive and test innovation through a unique cluster that combines internal R&D, Startups, Retailers and the global reach of Microsoft.
Innovation is a key ingredient for future success!!
Shared costs and risks to increase innovation
Build a cluster focused in the future of shopping
Provide real-world retail test environment
Recruit best in class retail startups
Democratize AI in retail, to boost the shopping experience
Reduce go-to market time
Drive new innovation directly with retailers
Shared IP and Source code + ideas, studies and best practices
Why?
Retailers Problems
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We can’t invest in the latest innovations if they have not been proven yet. We get hundreds of pitches requests per Month.. We don’t have team and time!
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We are a very slow company, still focused on our daily issues and small incremental improvements.
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We have a very small team and we can’t dev or test all the required solutions!
Startups Problems
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We tested in live environment, we reached amazing KPI’s, the retail team was aligned, it took more than 3 years to roll out.. The business cycle time is too long to survive!
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We have to give tailored made solutions for free without any guarantees, just to create a business case for the CIO.
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We don’t know who reach in each retailer.. Very difficult to gain footprint and mommentum to scale up.
How?
R&D + SHOPPING BEHAVIOUR
Internal R&D team
Research projects
Shared IP & source code
Integrations & API’s
SCOUTING STARTUPS & TECH
Microsoft teams
Advisory board
Growing network
TOP RETAILERS
Retail challenges
Innovative Solutions
Food, Non-Food, eCommerce,etc..
INNOVATION FRAMEWORK
Identify main problems
Prioritize them
Test stores - real KPI's
Retailer presentation
INNOVATION AS A SERVICE – HOW IT WORKS
RETAILERS NEEDS1 - Retailers need solutions for internal problems.
2 - Retailers need solutions to match customer expectations.
GLOBAL TEAM3 - The XNFY Lab scout startups around the world with proven results.
4 - The XNFY Lab, present a short list of technologies tested in test stores.
SOLUTIONS5 - Retailers select innovations with proven KPI’s and measurable benefits.
6 - Retailers can get access to internal innovations, source codes, and rights on IP.
FOCUS ON RESULTS5 - Retailers can focus on continuous POC, internal KPI’S and how to adapt/design solutions to their realities.
Lab Solutions Portfolio
Some of the Awesome Projects we've worked on.A lot more solutions in our pipeline!! Prioritized by our retailers.. some with EU grants.
Working in very disruptive projects (mainly AI - DeepLearning) in partnership with researchers and universities.
Advisors
Paul Maher
General Manager - Industry Experiences at Microsoft
Mariya Zorotovich
Director, Strategy and Incubation at Intel Corporation
Carl Boutet
Chief Retail Strategist
Eli David, Ph.D.
Serial EntrepreneurAI & Deep Learning Guru
Marlos Silva
ex-Director of Innovation & Future Tech at Sonae
ShiSh Shridhar
WW Director, Retail Business Strategy at MicrosoftFeatured In
Podcasts / Talks
Podcast - Innovation Club Talks
hosted by Orlando Ribas (XNFY Lab) and ShiSh Shridhar (Microsoft for Startups)
available soon
Azure for Executives - AI in Retail Innovation with Orlando Fernandes
Hosted by: Paul Maher, David Starr and Sahir Anand
2-Sep-2021
ClubHouse - Democratizing Innovation
w/ Orlando Ribas, ShiSh Shridhar and Carl Boutet
18-Jun-2021
ClubHouse - invited speak at
Fashion Teck Talks and Bold Brands
30-May-2021 + 03-Jun-2021
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