Calling on all great start-ups, individual teams and university departments – submit description of your idea/product/prototype or solution to participate in the AccorHotels Budapest competitive event. We're challenging you to level up our guests’ experience by upgrading hotel bathrooms with technological enhancements. The winner will go on to develop the winning idea within AccorHotels and have the opportunity to pitch at the Central Innovation Unit in Paris.
The AccorHotels Budapest event is a one-day event organized around guest experience themes that AccorHotels in Eastern Europe wishes to tackle. By tapping into the most innovative ideas of the best minds within start-ups and companies, or any creative makers wherever they are, we aim at discovering the best solutions for aspecific customer touchpoint, and thus enrich the overall guest experience at our hotels.
Prizes include:
- A contract with AccorHotels - see your solution deployed in all Eastern European hotels!
- €4,500 in cash
- Vouchers for AccorHotels in Eastern Europe
We are looking for a ready-to-use solutions or advanced prototypes that can be piloted without any human interaction or help, and monitored from a central point or administrator position. All solutions received need to be ready for implementation in the future in order to enhance the typically dull image of the hotel bathroom.
How to submit
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The digital bathroom / Interact
Accor Hotels wants to say goodbye to ordinary hotel bathrooms by transforming them with new digital technologies!
Guests know that most hotel bathrooms follow a fairly predictable pattern in terms of design and options, and are accustomed to seeing the same kinds of facilities no matter where they go. We can change all that! Let's upgrade them with something cool without spending a huge amount of money or impacting other systems. Our goal is to evoke emotions as part of the hotel bathroom experience via digital solutions so that guests can encounter the unexpected. How can we personalize this space with new digital technologies?
This session focuses on INTERACTION. How can we, as customers, interact with different elements in our bathroom (mirrors, scale, etc.) for information, entertainment, health, daily routines, and in other surprising ways? We’re very excited to see what you create!
Also, check out the Warsaw edition!
Inspirations
We're looking for ultimate bathing experience with smart technologies. It may be about:
- innovative toilets;
- innovative shower tubes / bathtubes (maybe we could make our show a SPA experience!);
- interactive mirrors;
- new materials;
- novel water conservation technologies;
- innovative bahtroom furniture;
- creative amenities;
- innovative plumbing fixtures;
- new bathroom automation concepts;
- novel lights and sounds systems;
- any other stuff i.e. maybe novel aromatherapy system.
Literally everything that has potential to make hotel guests' life easier and more fun. We believe that anything in the bathroom can be disrupted. It may be something as little as novel cabinetry handles or as big as completely new bathroom organization idea. There's no limits to imagination! We're excited to see your solutions and discuss potential cooperation opportunities.
Competitive event details
The AccorHotels Budapest competitive event is a one-day event focused on guest experience themes. The event will take place at the Novotel Budapest City (Alkotás u. 63, Budapest). All travel costs must be covered by the participants. All participants are offered a special accommodation option:
- Novotel Warszawa Airport (14/12 - 15/12): 366,5PLN (1 pers.) or 399PLN (2 pers.) Bed & Breakfast OR 183PLN (1 pers.) or 215 (2 pers.) for the night 15/12 - 16/12 (to get the discount when booking, please enter the code: HACK17)
- Novotel Budapest City (12/12 - 15/12): €69 Bed & Breakfast + 4% city tax (to get the discount when booking, please enter the code: HACCK17)
The competitive event will start the next day (13th December) at 8:30 am. Remember to bring any useful devices and essential equipment with you. You are provided with aspace for working in, as well as for meals and drinks. Afterwards, each team will pitch their idea to the Jury. The winners will be announced at apress conference the following week. The winning team will have to choose between either the opportunity to pitch at the Central Innovation Unit in Paris OR the cash prize (€2000).
Are you ready to be a part of a hotel revolution? If so, don't hesitate. Register today!
Judging criteria
All projects presented during the event will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
- The quality and attractiveness of the solution
- The functionality and innovativeness of the solution
- The easiness of the implementation
- Aesthetics and design
- Social potential
- The relevancy to the main theme