Coonfi, consumo colaborativo para comunidades de extrema pobreza.
Sus fundadores Andrés Rubiano, Laura Sierra y John Higuera presentaran el proyecto en el próximo Mobile World Congress de Barcelona.

Comunidades Coonfi es un proyecto de innovación social basado en una plataforma de consumo colaborativo para zonas de extrema pobreza a través de la cual, los usuarios podran compartir bienes y servicios usando una moneda virtual llamada coonfi que generará niveles de confianza en cada individuo. Coonfi responde al reto lanzado por la entidad Compartamos con Colombia que busca mejorar la convivencia de los vecinos de las 100.000 viviendas gratis entregadas por el gobiernos de Colombia a ciudadanos de extrema pobreza.

Comunidades Coonfi ha sido desarrollado en los 5 días que duró Imagine Colombia 2015 por los Dreamers Andrés Rubiano, Laura Sierra y John Higuera. Comunidades Coonfi fue presentado al Ministro TIC David Luna en el marco de Andicom 2015 y se pondrá en marcha bajo la coordinación de la entidad sin ánimo de lucro Compartamos con Colombia.

Imagine Colombia 2015 es un programa de innovación disruptiva por tierra, mar y aire en el que han participado 12 talentos colombianos de distintas edades y perfiles profesionales seleccionados durante 2 meses en concursos organizados por todo el país. Los 12 participantes, llamados Dreamers, se configuraron en 4 equipos de 3 el pasado 28 de agosto y durante 5 días viajaron por distintas ciudades del país (Medellín, Rionegro, Barranquilla, Cartagena de Indias) desarrollando soluciones innovadoras a 4 retos planteados por distintas empresa y entidades colombianas. Los 4 proyectos resultantes se presentaron el 2 de septiembre en el congreso Internacional TIC Andicom 2015 celebrado en Cartagena de Indias.

Videos Presentaciones Imagine Colombia 2015 en Andicom 2015:

Reto 1. Maternas. Mejorar la experiencia de las Maternas. Solución: Calma

Reto 2. Mercados. Impulsar el desarrollo rural. Solución: Ekii

Reto 3. Tendencias. Mejorar la innovación en las PYMES de Colombia. Solución: Hágale

Reto 4. Comunidades. Mejorar la convivencia en comunidades pobres. Solución: Coonfi.

Imagine Colombia 2015 es la primera edición de Imagine en Colombia y la décima edición de este programa de innovación fundado por el emprendedor de Barcelona y residente en San Francisco Xavier Verdaguer. Previamente a la edición de Colombia, se han desarrollado 5 ediciones en el Silicon Valley de California y 4 ediciones en Europa. Más información de Imagine:

http://imagine.cc/

Imagine Colombia 2015 ha sido organizado por el Imagine Creativity Center de San Francisco junto a Cintel Colombia y Pillow Education. Ha contado con el apoyo de Grupo Sura, Compartamos con Colombia, Innpulsa, Everis, PWC, Eada Business School, Alecop Colombia, Rutan N Medellín, Datawind y i3D.

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+info: http://colombia.imagine.cc/

contacto: colombia@imagine.cc

Seleccionados los 3 primeros Dreamers de Imagine Colombia 2015

La competición se ha llevado a cabo subiendo a los 3,152 m del Cerro Monserrate

Laura Sierra, John Higuera y Alex Vásquez son los 3 primeros participantes (dreamers) de los 36 que van a participar en el Imagine Colombia Express 2015, un viaje de innovación disruptiva por tierra, mar y aire que se empezará el 28 de agosto en Bogotá y acabará el 2 de septiembre en el Andicom 2015 de Cartagena de Indias.

La selección de los 3 primeros participantes se ha llevado a cabo en el Cerro Monserrate de Bogotá siguiendo los cánones de disrupción de la factoría Imagine. Se trataba de seleccionar 1 Dreamer Creativo, 1 Dreamer Developer y 1 Dreamer Business. Participaron varios candidatos seleccionados previamente que tuvieron que demostrar su talento delante de un jurado formado por: Mario Castaño (Cintel), Maurico Salazar(YoungMarketing), Ana Echeverry (Eiesec) y Borja Rius (Roca Salvatella). Las dinámicas llevadas a cabo para escoger los ganadores han sido:

Concurso 1r Dreamer Creativo:

Los 4 finalistas seleccionados previamente (Laura Sierra, Luisa Vera, Camilo Sánchezy Maria Consuelo Ortega) han tenido que ilustrar durante una subida en Funicular al Cerro Monserrate una solución a un reto que se les ha planteado, concretamente tenian que proponer mejoras o alternativas al pico y placa de Bogotá. Una vez realizados los dibujos, tuvieron que presentar sus soluciones en dos minutos delantes del jurado. El Ganador de este concurso y por lo tanto primer Dreamer Creativo de Imagine Colombia 2015 ha sido: Laura Sierra, diseñadora formada en la Swinburne University of Technology que ha planteado una innovadora solución de “placa verde virtual” para mejora el tráfico de la ciudad.
Este concurso ha sido coordinado por Sebastian Romero de Pillow Education.

Concurso 1r Dreamer Developer:

Los 6 finalistas seleccionados previamente (Andrés Felipe López, Emilio Peñaloza,Frank Higuera, John Higuera, Jorge Ardila y John Torres) se han ubicado en la cafeteria del cerro monserrate adecuada especialmente para la ocasión. Los 6 candidatos han dispuesto de 100 minutos para desarrollar una aplicación móvil que sirviera de countdown para el viaje de Imagine Colombia. El ganador de este concurso y por lo tanto primer Dreamer Developer de Imagine Colombia 2015 ha sido: John Higuera, de x años, desarrollar de software freelance que ha desarrollado en 100 minutos un contdown que incorpora realidad aumentada para visualizar el tiempo de programa utilizando el logo de imagine como marcador.
Este concurso ha sido coordinado por Julián Martínez de Pillow Education.

Concurso 1r Dreamer Business:

Los 4 finalistas seleccionados previamente (Danny Sierra, Alex Vásquez, Juan Montenegro y Santiago Cortés) han tenido que realizar un “elevator pitch” personal de 1 minuto subiendo en el teleférico del Cerro Monserrate y contestando a las preguntas del jurado. El ganador del “elevator pitch” más alto jamás realizado y por lo tanto primer Dreamer Business de Imagine Colombia 2015 ha sido: Alex Vásquez, de x años, fundador de giftcode que ha realizado un emotivo pitch contando los aprendizajes de su exitosa trayectoria como emprendedor.
Este concurso ha sido coordinado por Santiago Castro de Pillow Education.

Los 3 ganadores se han presentado públicamente en un acto llevado a cabo en la Universidad Santo Tomás de Bogotá. El evento ha sido conducido por Xavier Verdaguer, emprendedor serial y fundador de Imagine quien ha dado una charla sobre innovación disruptiva en el inicio del evento.

El resto de los 36 participantes se seleccionaran durante los meses de junio y julio mediante la celebración de varios concursos de talento que se llevarán a cabo en distintas ciudades de Colombia. Desde este 1 de junio quedan abiertas las inscripciones a través de la pagina web: http://colombia.imagine.cc/2015/participants/ 

Esta jornada ha sido organizada por Imagine, Cintel & Pillow y ha contado con la colaboración de la Universidad Santo Tomás (evento), Grupo VideoBase (Teaser TV), Diip (Fotos & Video), Cerro Monserrate (instalaciones concurso) y Amazink quién ha ilustrado todo lo acontecido durante el evento en este magnífico graphic recording:

Sobre Imagine Colombia Express 2015:

Imagine Colombia Express es un programa de innovación disruptiva para la generación de soluciones a los retos planteados por 4 empresas. El programa se ha diseñado junto a Cintel y se llevará a cabo en Colombia del 28 de agosto al 2 de septiembre de 2015 en un recorrido por por tierra, mar y aire.

Un total de 36 participantes llamados Dreamers que no se conocerán previamente (12 creativos, 12 ingenieros y 12 expertos en Business) se deberán configurar en equipos de 3 para generar y desarrollar ideas durante el viaje.

En la primera fase del programa cada uno de los 12 equipos deberá presentar sus ideas ante un jurado de expertos. Los 4 mejores equipos (uno por cada una de las 4 categorías de proyectos) presentará sus soluciones en Andicom 2015 (2 de septiembre, Cartagena de Indias).

Los 4 equipos ganadores contarán con una segunda fase de programa consistente en una aceleración de la proyecto junto a las empresas que lanzan los retos y de un acompañamiento de expertos para que los 4 equipos puedan presentar sus propuestas en el el evento Heroes Fest 2015 (Bogotá, noviembre 2015).

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On Monday March 2nd, the Imagine Express winners presented at the 4YFN event in Barcelona 

Monday morning, all the dreamers from Imagine Express 2015 landed in Barcelona after an intense journey. Since they met for the first time in Barcelona at 8 am Friday 27th at Mobile World Center they have lived incredible experiences. All participants have worked very hard to come up with outstanding projects. They developed their projects under a lot of pressure, 5000 minutes from start to end. It all began with an speed dating activity to form groups: one creative mind, one business profile and one developer in every team. They didn’t know each other but at the end of the journey they were authentic friends. 

We departed form Barcelona to Paris Friday early in the afternoon, working on the Lombard methodology and during this first part of the trip, the Dreamers focused on re- framing the problem and generating new  ideas. Once in Paris and after only a few hours sleep, the dreamers started working on their prototypes, late in the afternoon they were ready to start the communication phase.

We arrived to London safe and sound by Eurostar the day after. With Nerves, mixed emotions and tiredness all groups were ready to pitch their projects at London Eye in front of a very qualified jury.

From 10h to 13h the dreamers presented their projects. Congratulations to all of them for the hard work and the great results! Four of the teams (one of each category) were rewarded with a prize but honestly all of them were incredibly talented. The jury had a very hard time to choose the winners… who finally were:

Fintech category sponsored by Banc Sabadell

Fun for Family:

Congratulations Montserrat Perarnau, Ines María Marquez, Isabel Blas

Health category sponsored by Sanofi

Buddy Fit:

Congratulations Oliver Pou, Santiago Flores, Albert Cerezo

Water category sponsored by Aquology

Safe&Sound:

Congratulations Xavier Guardia, Alessio Beoni, Josep Segarra

Open Theme category sponsored by Audi

Hybrid Play:

Congratulations Diego Díaz, Desirée García, Marc Expósito

And last but not least we all flew back to Barcelona on Monday morning, by 17h o’clock in the afternoon the big event at 4YFN was taking place . Full house, high expectations and big surprises were awaiting for us. Not only the 4 winning teams ended up presenting on stage,  two more groups had the possibility to do the same: Cocoon (Rodrigo Martínez, Guillem Camprodón, Oleguer Bardalet) the winning category voted by all dreamers got an special Dreamer prize and Circle WeJ (Pau Argelaguet, Elizabeth Lee, Franco Perez) received the prototype prize, this last one given by Ajuntament de Barcelona.

We cannot close this post with out talking about the music challenge. The musicians coach sponsored by Estrella Damm had the challenge to compose a song during the trip. These three musicians who didn’t know each other, formed a band, composed two songs and played a gig in less than 5000 minutes! Incredible!!!!! Treamers is their name and they played live at 4YFN event, no words to describe that beautiful and rhythmical music! All followed by the videoclip produced and filmed by David Victori and his team, using mobile phones only. Creative talent was onboard and we are thankful to have shared this experience with them.

We can’t wait for Express 2016. Thanks to everyone who made this dream come true and all of you who attended the event, hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

12 BREAKTRHOUGH IDEAS FOR IMAGINE EXPRESS 2015

A few days to go and we will be on route to Paris and London! So exciting!

Imagine Express will be our train-office to develop some awesome projects in the mobile apps and the Internet of Things sector.

There are 12 projects that have been selected from thousands of applicants, the following creative minds will team up with one business profile and one developer dreamer to progress with their breakthrough ideas:

1. EduChore – Fintech Category, sponsored by Banc Sabadell

By Montserrat Peranau, Credit Risk Manager at Banco Sabadell

“EduChore is a game thought to motivate family members to share house- family domestic tasks in a fun way. EduChores aims to manage savings, to educate and to share values”

2. CUBS – Fintech Category, sponsored by Banc Sabadell

By Josep Maria Guiu, Servicing Director

“CUBS enhance relationships between clients and their bank within the most personal environment, at home.This is an electronic device that facilitates a convenient and bidirectional communication”

3. Solvia Social Sphere – Fintech Category, sponsored by Banc Sabadell

By Francisco Espuig,  Manager at Factoría Genexus

“Solvia Social Sphere is the Solvia clients club. The project aims to improve relationships between Solvia and their clients in a long term basis.  Throughout the social club and a services platform,  Solvia connects and problem-solves client needs  before, during, and after the acquisition of a house”

4. El Camino – Health Category, sponsored by Sanofi

By Rudi Subirà, Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) at Sanofi

  El Camino will be an app that takes you to El Camino de Santiago and encourages you to become  a pilgrim in this adventure of 775km in 31 phases, it goes from Sain Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela. And you don’t even need to move out of your town!

5. Duo Movilization – Health Category sponsored by Sanofi

By Oliver Pou, Head of Market and Customer Knowledge at Sanofi

Duo Movilization is a project that encourages you to do sport together with someone from your social or family circle, it will improve your physical conditions as well as your relationships.  Compete with other tandems in a local or international level and win special prizes.

6. Dibox – Health Category sponsored by Sanofi

By Olga Casals, Business Excellence / Talent Graudate Program at Sanofi

Dibox is an application addressed to people who suffers diabetes type 2. Overcoming challenges and using geo-localitzation, they will be able to meet routes in special places, marvellous or hidden, simple places that are probably close but they would have never found.

7. Gamin’ Operation – Water Category, sponsored by Aqualogy

By Xavier Guardia, Founding Partner at Soft for you

“Gamin’ Operation aims to develop a helping service for mobile applications. Designed by levels such as in a video game, this application would be licensed with training and as part of a career plan”

8. Digital Footprint – Water Category, sponsored by Aqualogy

By Rodrigo Martínez, Senior Java Developer

“Digital Footprint is a water consumption gamification project. Thanks to footprints digital lecture technology, consumer profiles can be categorised. The project aims to premium responsible consumption in hotels, gyms, spas or rental apartments according to consumer profiles.

9. WEJ Circle – Water Category, sponsored by Aqualogy

By Pau Argelaguet, CTO & Co-Founder at WEJ

WEJ Circle for Ôasys converts the process of choosing music into a social, seamless and pleasant experience through a gorgeous interface that perfectly matches the aesthetic of Ôasys device. Ôasys is an interactive device that enhance the way you experience water.

Among other features you can monitor water consumption, the hydration level of your body or even detect leaks, features can easily be personalised for each member of the family.  Now Wej will integrate the music to generate a holistic experience.

10. Synthia – Open Theme Category (Social Innovation), sponsored by Audi

By Fergus Simpson, Cosmologist -

“Everybody listens to music, but few have the patience to learn an instrument or to create their own music. Guitar Hero was hugely successful as it let players pick up and play without a steep learning curve. Synthia provides the same level of instantaneous accessibility to composing music from scratch, simply by drawing shapes on the screen, or even by taking a photograph”

11. HybridPlay – Open Theme Category (Social Innovation) sponsored by Audi

By Diego Diaz, New Media Artist, Researcher and Professor 

HybridPlay is a project that transforms playgrounds into video games scenarios. Multi-age & inclusive, promotes social games, sports and ludic learning. Thanks to the HybridPlay technology, a sensor is adapted to swings and sledges to transform them into video games. Children must jump, balance or swing to get out of a labyrinth or avoid a rain of asteroids

12. Woow – Open Theme Category (Social Innovation) sponsored by Audi 

Carlos Caballero, Product Trainer

Woow allows young passengers to interact with the exterior world from inside a car using a tablet or a mobile phone.  Combining both real aspects (localization, window views) and virtual ones (device) the app encourages creative attitudes throughout a number of activities. These activities are designed in accordance with users age and aim to stimulate curiosity to learn new things on real and virtual landscapes.

Thursday night we spent an evening full of emotions and happiness, thanks to everyone who came to the «Last Dreamers selection event of Imagine Express 2015″ at Fabrica Damm.

Previous to the event, we did a hackaton with 4 amazing developers, the challenge lied on the development of an app in less than two hours, the jury was formed by Valenti Freixanet – Founder & CEO Biapum, CoFounder of Dineyo, Professor at ELISAVA & UVIC, Oriol Blanc – iOS Engineer at Kerad Games, S.L.and Javier Ideami- Founder of Ideami studios, Fernando Garcia – Freelance senior mobile developer gave the seat to Olaguer Bardalet. Congratulations and welcome on board!

Creative minds had a 90 seconds pitch opportunity to expose their ideas with some visual materials support in front of a full-house audience,  the jury formed by Philippe Delespesse – Fundador de Inteligencia Creativa y Binnakle Innovation Games, Silvia Carrascosa – Responsable of Audi Attitudes, Jéssica Fernández – Manager of Engineering Project Area at Elisava and Dan Peisajovich – Founding Partner of Complot Escuela de Creativos, the winner of this contest is Carlos Caballero.  Congratulations and welcome on board!

Last but not least the Business profiles had the challenge to make a pitch about themselves and convince the audience and the jury that he or she was the best person to fill the position, the jury formed by Cristina Salvador – Directora en aPortada, Maria Salamero – Directora Aqualogy Development Network (ADN) en AGBAR, Xavier Olba – Digital Business Strategy Manager for Sanofi Iberia and  David Roman – Associate Professor EADA Business School gave the seat to Pau Rodríguez.  Congratulations and welcome on board!

We had the pleasure to announce the full official list of Dreamers Express 2015. Selected from more than 2000 applicants who came out of the 22 contests we organised across the country, 36 dreamers who are going to live an unforgetable experience. 

The evening moved on with great surprises, the » Estrella Damm music challenge», will be a new event within Imagine Express 2015. The bar carriage will be set up as a recording studio and  3 musicians from different music backgrounds and who don’t know each other ( two of them don’t even speak the same language), they will have to compose a song during the train journey. Their first gig will be at the London Eye once the train arrives to London. In addition, we will have on board a great team of cinematographers, lead by David Victori- world winner of youtube first film festival,  they will have the challenge to film a video clip using smart phones only, a narrative video piece that will reflect the creativity process of these musicians. 

The video and the song will be presented at the Mobile World Congress on the 2nd of March together with the 4 winning projects of Imagine Express 2015!!! Good luck to everyone

To finish, we would like to especially thanks to partners who joined us in this adventure: Sanofi, Audi, Banco Sabadell, Aquology, Estrella Damm and a long list of collaborators , you made this dream come true.

The countdown starts now, one week to depart!

Santiago Flores  and Luis Moreno have been chosen to represent Everis as business profile dreamers at Imagine Express 2015. Congratulation and welcome on board!

Santiago Flores joined Everis in 2005 as Senior Consultant and last year was  promoted to a managing position within the company. He has a passion for technology and entrepreneurship, he co-founded the company Egineos. Among other interests he loves the world of mobile apps.

 Luis Moreno has an extensive experience as a business and software developer , he has contributed in the growth of Liferay since 2011 and he is currently holding a managing position at Everis. His passion for technology led him to start android.es few years ago, and nowadays is «The worldwide leader Android spanish blog». 

everis an NTT DATA Company is a is a multinational consulting firm that offers business, strategy, development and maintenance solutions of technological applications, and outsourcing. The company, which operates in the telecommunication sector, financial institutions, industry, utilities, energy, public administration and health, achieved a turnover of 591 million euros in the last fiscal year. Currently everis has 10,600 professionals located in offices and high performance centers in 13 countries.

The firm belongs to NTT DATA, the sixth company in the world of IT services with 70,000 professionals and presence in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Europe, Latin America and North America. The integration in  NTT DATA allows everis expand solutions and services to its customers, increase its capabilities, technological resources, geographically and financially  to help give the most innovative solutions to its customers.

Only a few weeks to go before the Imagine Express 2015 HACKATRAIN departs!

Applications are now open for Dreamers, we are looking for talented Creative Minds, Business Profiles and Developers. 36 seats available to join Imagine Express 2015.

12 groups formed by 3 outstanding Dreamers will be created, all will foster the common goal of developing apps for one of the 4 strategic sectors selected (Fintech, Water, Health, Social Innovation). This year, our adventure partners (Audi, Sanofi, Aquology and Banco Sabadell) have thrown a few challenges for the Creative Minds applications. Read more about them here, and if you already have an amazing idea but it does not fit within these sectors, you can apply as well, as Open Theme projects.

Software developers: to enter the contest you are required to have developed at least one app in the past.

Business driven profiles: you will need to send a short video, presenting yourself and show off your skills to become a Dreamer!

For further details on applications click here

On the 19th of February (RSVP here) the 36 Dreamers will be presented at Fabrica Estrella Damm.

The first 3 dreamers where selected during the HACKATRAM contest organised a couple of weeks ago at the T4 Tram line thanks to Tram Barcelona.

Remember, the train departs on the 27th! First stop Paris! After a busy working day in Paris the the train will head to London. All projects will be presented in the London Eye capsules in front of investors and mentors. The 4 winning projects will also present the day after, back in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress. Three intense days full of creativity, technology and idea generation.

A great adventure is about to begin, if you have never heard about Imagine Express, watch this video, you’ll get a taste of what’s about to come. Applications closing date is on the 16th of February. Don’t miss this train!

So here we are again. Today is the day, we are presenting the forthcoming edition of Imagine Express at Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona. For those who don’t know about Imagine Express is a hackatrain, by this we mean, we are looking for talented business people, outstanding developers and fresh designers who will have the challenge to develop an app during a train trip that departs from Barcelona, stops in Paris and keeps moving until London and returns to Barcelona. 4 DAYS, 12 TEAMS (3 people in each) and BIG challenges.

This morning we have planned a small hackatram, yes inside the tram. The journey has been awesome. 9 developers, 6 creatives and 6 business. They all have done their pitches but only 3 will jump in the HACKATRAIN. The new DREAMERS will be announce tonight at Arts Santa Monica at 19pm, and the call for the new ones (33 more places) is opened from today. Come and see us this eve to know all details! Online from tomorrow.

Here some images of today, Enjoy!