ASI INNOVATION WEEK will be held from november 7 to 11 in virtual format, and will become the meeting point for national and international specialists, technology companies and entrepreneurs. The week will feature a series of events designed by ASI, showcasing transformative ideas and companies that are evolving through innovation and emerging technological changes.

This year, the ASI INNOVATION WEEK is called: "Transforming People towards an Innovative Industry". It will feature high-level experts and speakers who, throughout the day, will be expanding and deepening different topics related to innovation through panel discussions, conferences, networking, breakout sessions and other special activities.

This event aims to promote an innovative culture that allows the strengthening of the industrial sector through innovation and technological changes, promoting the use of new business strategies, applying the integrated trends of the fourth and fifth industrial revolution, and strengthening the skills of human talent to close the gap between labor supply and demand, allowing the development of high quality products and services, and integrate value chains between entrepreneurs and industrialists in El Salvador, to stimulate the emergence and permanence of new businesses.

The following topics will be developed during the week of Innovation:

Monday, november 7:

INDUSTRIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE CHALLENGES IN EMERGING BUSINESSES

• Startups: Beyond a trendy concept
• How to get out of the valley of death?
• Salvadoran Technological Entrepreneurship: Success Cases
• Unicorn companies: How to become one?
• Salvadoran Technology Ventures: Success Stories
• Support Programs for Startups
• Impact investing under the microscope.
• Tuesday, November 8:

EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION: PREPARING THE NEW GENERATION OF INNOVATORS

• Mindfulness and Emotional Education
• Digital fluency and STEM skills
• Artificial Intelligence for teaching
• Flipped Classroom or Reverse Pedagogy
• Educational Gamification
• Workshops with teachers
• Generational changes
• Beyond robotics
• Infrastructure for virtual education
• Technological tanks for education
• Project-based learning
• Virtual Reality and Visual Thinking
• Dual education system: Germany case

Wednesday, november 9:

INNOVATION: INNOVATION IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY

• Organizational strategy
• Hyperconnected business mindset change
• Decision intelligence: augmented analytics and uses of artificial intelligence.
• Building Super Teams: innovative teams
• Flexible work models with alternative environments
• Intrapreneurship and open innovation
• Creative financing for industry innovation
• Total Experience: integration of the multi-experience of the collaborator, the customer, the user.
• Knowing the DNA of the Industry
• New business schemes Nearshoring
• Personal Branding: the determinant of innovative businesses.
• Closing gaps with financing
• Sustainable eco-smart resources.

Thursday, november 10:

INDUSTRY 4.0 and 5.0: TOWARDS COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION

• Designs for industrial additive manufacturing
• Cognitive technologies
• Electronic invoicing: immediate applications
• E-commerce: industry uses and success stories
• Metaverse and its applications in manufacturing
• Blockchain in production processes
• Digital Twins, advantages and challenges for salvadoran industry
• Strategies for the development of smart factories
• Digitalization of traditional industries
• Intelligent systems: a concept or a benefit
• Digital transformation in industry value chains
• Cybersecurity: An essential element in the operations of the future
• Web data: the super power of business

Friday, november 11:

SCITECH DAY: STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRY

• Technology Skills Development Center
• Innovation Centers, Demonstrations
• Incubator and Accelerator Ecosystems
• Community Expo
• Creating compelling applications from the ground up for manufacturing
• Research for Manufacturing
• Applications and Programs for industry

ASI Technology Industry Awards 2022

In addition, as part of INNOVATION Week, on november 11, for the second time and in a face-to-face format, ASI will present the ASI TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY AWARDS, with which the association seeks to stimulate and recognize the work of companies in the technology sector and its link with the Salvadoran industry with cutting-edge products and services that improve the operations of the business sector in El Salvador, in three categories: INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIAL COMPANY AWARD, TECHNOLOGICAL COMPANY AWARD and TECHNOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEUR AWARD.