We’re crazy about tech! 🎉 That’s why we’re thrilled that Getnet Brasil celebrated the 6th edition of its hackathon! 🚀 It’s getting bigger every year, and for this post-covid edition they had the opportunity to bring all the teams together, in person, with the presence of 10’s of participants and 20 mentors. 🇧🇷 The event took place at Getnet TecnoPUC office in Porto Alegre – Rio Grande do Sul, as part of an open initiative to build an innovative ecosystem thinking and focusing on the customer needs first. The main goal was to increase the long tail customer base (small businesses), and to make it happen they worked on a strategic plan called “Plano BBB”: ✅ Boost ✅ Balanced strategy ✅ Breakeven 🏆 The winners? A group called Team Wowracle, with the brilliant idea of using big data and geolocation to boost sales and improve customer service. A real Wow! 👏 Congratulations to all and can’t wait for the next edition!
🙋🏽♀️ Our colleague Sreelekha Sankar, CTO at PagoNxt Merchant Solutions - Getnet is offering her perspective on why gender diversity is key for payments success 📈 As a leading woman in the payments industry, she is sharing her experience, and explain why the value of gender diversity in improving innovation is more explicit in the payments space. In addition, she recently participated in the EMEA Women in Payments Symposium, which addressed the main trends in the payments sector, where she also had the opportunity to discussed the importance of leadership, innovation, and the use of technology in the development and evolution of this industry.
