The closing ceremony of the second edition of Samsung Innovation Camp of was held today at the The ceremony included the awarding of prizes to the groups of young undergraduates/graduates who presented the best project works to the two local entities involved in the Innovation Camp project, Openwork and Sidea Group .
Born with the idea of accompanying Italian university students on a training course in digital technologies, the initiative by Samsung Electronics Italia (in collaboration with Randstad) has attracted considerable interest both from young people ( 494 students and recent graduates ) and from the companies involved in the project.
For the final phase of Innovation Camp in Puglia , the best student proposals were selected and analyzed based on the requirements of the business cases commissioned by Openwork and Sidea Group , the two local excellences that have joined Samsung's initiative in recent months.
Therefore, in addition to establishing a Competence Center on Business Process Management with the Polytechnic University of Bari , Openwork has also warmly welcomed the initiative by Samsung and Randstad, further fueling interest in the digital technology and, by extension, in reducing the gap between business and academia.
OPENWORK PROJECT WORK WINNING GROUPS:
With the goal of increasing the sales conversion rate for Jamio (the Cloud BPM platform developed by Openwork), students were asked to benchmark competitors' efforts, study the impact of Try & Buy on conversion rates, define the most suitable channels and tools for long-term product promotion, identify methods for campaign monitoring and data analysis, and, most importantly, determine costs. In Openwork's case, there were two joint winning groups: E-nnomatics and the Digital Humans .
The ceremony was attended by Prof. Salvatore Romanazzi – member of the Uniba Evaluation Committee – and Dr. Maria Teresa Bilancia , Events and Communications Manager of the Placement Agency for the University of Bari Aldo Moro ; Anastasia Buda , Corporate Citizenship Manager of Samsung Electronics Italia ; Martin Arborea , Sales & Marketing Director of Openwork and Angelo Perrini , Founder and Managing Director of Sidea Group .
SOME NUMBERS FROM THE “SAMSUNG INNOVATION CAMP” PROJECT
Over 10,000 Italian students registered on the Samsung Innovation Camp platform, with a good balance of males (46%) and females many recent graduates also participated, making up 25% of the total enrollment .
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