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Startup Challenges by Orange

Bring the start, we bring the up

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators, with revenues of 39.7 billion euros in 2023 and 128,000 employees worldwide at 30 September 2024.
 The Group has a total customer base of 292 million customers worldwide and is present in 26 countries (including non-consolidated countries). Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business.

Our Challenges

Orange is moving to a provider of digital services and capabilities. We seek partners to co-innovate and integrate our platform

Telco as a Platform

Context / Need: 
Orange is on the way to deploy one platform to deliver a wide range of services relying on an on-demand, secure and quality-driven infrastructure for B2B, B2B2C, Wholesale business, developers and partners at scale. 

Expected Solutions: 
Orange offers B2B customers a software defined secured connectivity that can be enriched with network services. Solutions to distribute compute at edge to improve performance and energy efficiency.
 
On Smart Industry: predictive maintenance, overall equipment effectiveness follow-up, worker safety, augmented worker, drones for data collection to enhance processes. Solutions to feed production models with AI, to aggregate local data to monitor KPIs, to enable near miss detection and prediction of at-risk contexts.
 
Orange develops its network API ecosystem to create value on B2B. Embedding APIs to invent new services or proposing new API services. 

Scope: 
#Telcoasaplatform #Telco #Platformization #SmartIndustry #NetworkForAI #AI #API #Edge

Orange launches prplOS in its LiveBox, and mobile New Calling. We seek partners to promote innovative services.

Enriched services for consumer

Context / Need: 
Orange in association with other telcos opens two new ecosystems for partners to transform the daily life of our customers at home and on the move. These initiatives leverage our local assets, including home services seamlessly integrated into the Livebox, repeaters, and other in-home devices, as well as mini-app services on the go, seamlessly embedded into audio and video calls on mobile devices. Theses mini apps invoked during a call and shown in the calling display are based on Web technologies and APIs.
 
More info www.prplfoundation.org and https://www.gsma.com/get-involved/gsma-foundry/5g-new-calling/
 

Expected Solutions: 
Orange places its home gateway as an assistant for the family leveraging IA capabilities to facilitate the daily life. Lan and Wifi excellence, cybersecurity, are our priority use cases already engaged, but all contexts of the life are subject to dedicated services: personal care, user presence detection etc. Use cases can be software embedded in the prpl compliant gateway and/or IOT devices connected to home LAN.
 
New Calling mini-apps services are expected to be monetize as premium voice service, initial targets could be professionals and enterprises that wants to deliver an enriched experience for their customers: business cards exchange and call notes resume are already available by default. This could include of course IA solution on top of mini apps such as Intelligent Agent, conservation analysis,…. 

Scope: 
#CustomerExperience #CustomerEngagement #Prpl #NewCalling #NG-RTC #Mini-app #VoiceCall #LiveBox #HomeLan

Selection Criteria

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★ Innovation and market differentiation of the value proposition 
★ Business potential with the Orange teams 
★ Company's execution performance 
★ Quality of the team

Rewards

★ Winners will be showcased at prominent global marketing and tech events 

★ They will be invited to exhibit at VivaTech 2025 and will get 4-day passes for the event

Global Marketing and Tech Events

★ Access to Orange Open Innovation start-up acceleration facilities, offering infrastructure expert support to qualify business opportunities with Orange and with its customers

Orange Open Innovation start-up program

★ Potential distribution agreement with our business units in Europe and MEA leveraging our PrplWrt and New Calling direct to consumer channels &nbsp;&nbsp;

Bring the start, we bring the up

Our Challenges

Telco as a Platform

Enriched services for consumer

Selection Criteria

Rewards

Global Marketing and Tech Events

Orange Open Innovation start-up program

Strategic Distribution Partnership

Our Jury

Orange at VivaTech 2024

Our Timeline