PwC Accelerator Why How Mateusz Nowak

1. PwC Accelerator
Why? How?
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2. Who the hell is he?
Why is he here?
?

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Why corporates are interested in
working with startups?
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Growth
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Corporations are good at flavour innovation
Source: @cbinsights
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The disruptive moonshots are often harder
Source: spacex.com
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Death by thousand cuts
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Worry less about these competitors
Disruptive, discontinuous innovation rarely comes from your giant peers
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And worry more about death by a thousand cuts
There are army of emerging players that are attacking legacy players at an individual
product & service level
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Technology adoption is quicker than ever
The penetration of technology happens quicker than ever before. Time is not on our side
Adoption of technology as % of U.S. households
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Source: @cbinsights

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Technology development is cheaper then ever
There are less and less barriers of entry and the pace of innovation will grow
Cost of launch of a Tech Startup
2000
5,000,000
2005
50,000
2009
500,000
5,000
2011
Open source and
horizontal scaling
Cloud APIs
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Source: @cbinsights

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How?
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Case study 1 – light touch
CSR?
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„Thanks! The analysis totally exceeds my expectations!”
„Great marketing materials and big help in making business
decisions in the future”
„The analysis is a very valuable material for our growth. I have to
admit we have received more than we had expected”
Cooperation started in January 2016
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Analysis completed
38
Analysts involved
4
Groups working on
different projects
100%
Positive feedback
received
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Gain new insight
Save time
and money
Staff available
for business
purposes
Market
information
Knowledge
Sharing
Self
Development
Teamwork
Thorough
Analysis
Everyone Benefits!
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Time spent supporting startups in Gdynia?
Over 8800 hours so far…
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Case study 2 - Internal innovators
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We a have xLoS community
of innovators
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For 2,5 years
Advisory
12 innovators 70% left the
firm
29 innovators working xLoS
TLS Assurance
Since June 2015
PwC

19. Innovation@Poland
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What made the difference
Drivers and enablers
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1900
hours spent
on developing
innovative
solution
Investment of an innovation
team or company per annum1
New hires with
different background
Up to PLN mln reward for
innovation
2.5
10
3
15%
Hours of mentoring sessions per
innovator
to date no spending
Search in progress
In progress
2 projects earning
revenue
In progress
Quarterly firmwide
communications
1mln innovation budget

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Case study 3 – moon shot
Let’s talk money
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Drone Powered Solutions
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PwC Drone Powered Solutions – What we do?
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Final
products
• Analytical reports based on high quality technical data (orthophotomaps and numerical models and 3D
models)
• PwC Geospatial Application - tool for integration, presentation and management of processed
comprehensive data sets
Configuration Drone Operations Data Processing Delivery
Key element in using information received from drone operations is its processing and further usage
allowing for permanent access to measurable and comparable data.

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Completed projects and on-going initiatives of
Drone Powered Solutions
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Transformation of
investment
monitoring process
– integration of
existing GIS data
and processed
drone data
leveraging
photogrammetry
Gas
Enhancement of
inspection of
insured objects
(industrial plants,
agriculture, etc) for
premium
calculation and
claim settlement
Insurance
Inspection of high,
medium and low
power transmission
network with optical
and thermal
imaging
Energy
Life saving drone
transportation
services
Transportation
Designed and field
tested tracks
construction
supervision and
maintenance
monitoring tool
based on processed
drone data
Infrastructure

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Going further
Acceleration
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PwC Accelerators from around the globe
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Acclerator in
Luxemburg
PwC as a
partner of
MITEF Poland
SeedPlus
in Singapore
Techstarts IoT
program in
NYC
Unique approach
&
methodology
Experience
Tools
(sample)
Network of over 208k employees Mentors

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Global FinTech Hackcelerator
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Thank you for listening
Mateusz Nowak
Innovation and R&D, Grants and
Incentives
mateusz.nowak@pl.pwc.com
Twitter: @matuesz
Mobile: 519 506 985
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