Sustainability and digitization: Valencian design adds value to industrial transformation

alencia will be the World Capital of Design in 2022 and Valencian designers reflect on the challenges of innovation and how to do more with less. Retos de la innovación(Spanish)

We are very proud of been selected by Xavier Giner to participate with two products at this exhibition. Our selected products are #SoulSeries2 and Multifruit.
A great opportunity to claim and show design value and its global impact at our region before we become World Design Capital in 2022.

Interview about design impact at Zumex Group.

https://economiadisseny.com/zumex/

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Next 27th of June 2020 I will be sharing a round table with other experts about creativity in the economy.

Creativos/as en la economía

José González, Chief Innovation Officer de Zumex.

Cesar Taboas, Director de I+D+i de Royo Group.

Pedro López, Director General de Chocolates Valor.

Modera: Olga Broto

I was invited at Business Mindsets to talk about “Blue oceans” as business model. I had the chance of explain Zumex case and how my company started as pioneer generating a market from scratch.

Business Mindsets explores new possibilities to think and do business in innovative ways. Applying new perspectives and mindsets to existing businesses or creating new opportunities from them. The role that innovation has played in recent years in the transformation of business has led us to explore blue oceans, agile methodologies, new segments in the bottom of the pyramid, new capitals in the form of information and data, and an infinite network of relationships and perspectives with our value chain.

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Colloquium with the students of design at Shizuoka University of Art and Culture www.suac.ac.jp/english/

It was an interesting experience and nice opportunity to talk with the students.

Valencian design has been a protagonist in the European Parliamen. The main topic “the role of design in European reindustrialization”. This event was organized by Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero, ADCV and the CDICV.
Five Valencian companies Porcelanosa, Zumex, RNB Cosmetics, LZF Lamps and Actiu have intervened to explain how a strategic management of design is a driving force for thier development and have been part of their corporate succes.
José González, Director of Innovation and Creativity at Zumex, has highlighted the fundamental role played by design in the expansion of Zumex, present in a hundred of countries. I have affirmed that innovation is the main driver to its development.