- The solution presented by Credicorp and ElevenLabs, which uses artificial intelligence to offer personalised financial advice and facilitate savings, and the proposal by Gatwick Airport and Archetype, to respond to the challenges of airport intelligence and optimisation of connected infrastructures, have been the winners of the Open Innovation Program 2026.
- The recognition was granted during the closing of the Open Innovation Week, held today in Malaga with the institutional participation of Alicia Izquierdo from Malaga City Council and the interventions of Miguel Teixeira and Víctor López-Barrantes, from NTT DATA
- The program has brought together startups and large companies from Europe and Latin America.
NTT DATA has announced the two winning solutions of the third edition of the Open Innovation Program, its open innovation initiative that connects high-potential startups with large organizations to respond to real business challenges and which has culminated in the celebration of Open Innovation Week in Malaga.
Organizations from Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Chile and Brazil participated in this edition, including Repsol, Unicaja, the City of Padua, Gatwick Airport, Credicorp, Codelco, EOLO and Sicredi. After defining each of its innovation priorities, NTT DATA has identified the startups with the most appropriate solutions to address them, accompanying both parties in the definition and validation of the proposals.
The winning solutions were announced today at a closing event, which was attended by Alicia Izquierdo, fourth deputy mayor of Malaga and councillor for Innovation, Urban Digitalisation, Promotion of Technological and Business Investment and Investment Attraction; Miguel Teixeira, CEO of Iberia and Latin America of NTT DATA; and Víctor López-Barrantes, general manager of NTT DATA Spain.
The winning solutions
An international jury has selected the two winning solutions for their originality, maturity, scalability, impact and feasibility of implementation.
Each will receive an award in NTT DATA services to develop a proof of concept (PoC) together with the organization that posed the challenge and accelerate the application of their solution in a real environment.
One of the selected solutions is the one developed by ElevenLabs for the Credicorp group, using artificial intelligence to offer personalized financial advice to customers based on the analysis of their financial habits and behaviors. This autonomous financial advisor identifies savings opportunities and can act within the limits established by each user, adapting to their needs and possible changes in their economic situation. In addition, it allows interaction by voice or text in Spanish, Quechua and Aymara, through everyday channels such as mobile banking, WhatsApp or phone calls, facilitating access to trusted financial guidance and promoting greater financial inclusion.Another of the selected solutions is the one jointly developed by London-Gatwick Airport and Archetype AI, which combines the airport's connected intelligence network with Archetype AI's Newton model to integrate data from sensors, video and the operational context in real time. This technology makes it possible to understand what is happening at the airport, anticipate possible incidents and facilitate the proactive action of the teams, transforming data from connected infrastructures into useful information to improve decision-making and optimize airport operations.
Business challenges defined by the organizations themselves
In addition to the two award-winning proposals, the programme has promoted solutions for nine business challenges.
The proposals addressed process optimization, improving customer experience, resource planning, fraud prevention and decision-making using generative artificial intelligence, digital twins, advanced data analysis or real-time monitoring systems, among other technologies. To participate, startups had to have active solutions in the market, demonstrate a clear fit between the problem and the solution, demonstrate traction and technical feasibility, and have the capacity to develop a PoC with the organization and NTT DATA.
Open Innovation Week 2026
For four days, startups and large companies have worked together in Malaga in an intensive program with different formats. The co-creation workshops have allowed the value propositions to be refined, while the individual sessions between each startup and the business and technology teams of the organizations have served to adapt the solutions to the specific needs of each challenge.
Throughout the week, the start-ups have also received specialised mentoring to structure the evolution of their proposals towards proofs of concept. The meeting concluded with the final presentations to an international jury, which has evaluated the feasibility of implementation, originality, maturity, scalability and impact of each proposal.
With this edition, NTT DATA consolidates the Open Innovation Program as an international platform for collaboration between technology startups and large organizations in Europe and Latin America. The program demonstrates that open innovation, when oriented to specific challenges and articulated around proofs of concept, can accelerate the arrival of solutions with tangible impact on the market and society.