Enel hosts the first Italian Innovation Roundtable

“The digital world is extremely complex, and we’re dealing with a totally different way of designing services. It’s now possible to generate electricity at home and use the energy that is produced.” This, in short, describes the success of the Innovation Roundtable, the most important international workshop: it involves 2,500 innovation executives from over 130 companies from around the world. Talks and panels alternated with face-to-face discussions in the shape of informal round tables for exchanging ideas and insights. Enel hosted the first workshop to be organised by this network in Italy. It consisted of two days of productive, open discussion on disruptive innovation, which is now the real core of the tech sector.

The first day, which was dedicated to new disruptive business models, focused on:

• BMI (Business Model Innovation);
• Ecosystems subverting the rules of the game;
• startup accelerators;
• sharing and crowdsourcing platforms, the founding principle of the sharing economy.

Proceedings were opened by a contribution from Francesco Venturini, CEO at Enel X, on the subject of “The Change Enel X Wants to Bring to the Energy Sector: Organising and Hiring for Business Model Innovation and New Platforms.” The Enel X CEO presented the revolutionary transformation process undertaken by the Enel Group with the introduction of the new Enel X Global Business Line, which is based on an awareness of new energy sector requirements and develops and implements services reflecting the concept of digitalisation. 

Venturini told his distinguished audience about the challenges and obstacles his company has encountered in its drive for change. While it is important to identify new services, it is even more vital to know how to evolve quickly, also in relation to the market rules and mechanisms.

The CEO of Enel X also devoted a significant section of his talk to new talent, emphasising the important role startups are playing in this new framework. 

Dozens of representatives from the world’s most important companies discussed the challenges they face today and tomorrow, sharing opinions and suggestions.

That is a thumbnail sketch of Innovation Roundtable, an event where the combination of technology and ideas generates new inspiration, thereby laying the foundation for the innovation ecosystem. Enel is proud to be playing a leading role.