THE VENDIES ‘A place where technology and innovation are celebrated’
VI caught up with Vendies sponsor Selfly Store managing director Aslak de Silva to find out what’s drawn them to get involved with the event and talk about what’s new in the world of intelligent vending
WHO IS SELFLY STORE? Selfly Store is a Finland-based technology developer of the award- winning intelligent cabinet platform, covering a wide range of use cases from the sales of food to frozen and non-food items. We have a simple purpose: Make purchasing as easy as using your home fridge, but filled
proactively to fit your need, based on purchasing data. We provide a robust cloud portal connected to other cloud-based solutions to ensure high-quality real-time data and analyses, which help our customers to provide consumers with the right products at the right time at the right location. To date, we are proud to partner with companies in 17 countries
to enable thousands of reliable daily unmanned purchases in Europe every day. All of our customers belong to our customer success programme and are invited to our Selfly Store community to learn more about how to succeed by operating intelligent vending machines.
WHAT DOES SELFLY STORE LIKE ABOUT THE VENDIES? We decided to sponsor The Vendies Awards for two main reasons. Firstly, it is the most prestigious award for the vending industry.
Not only do we believe that it is a great platform for the whole vending industry, but we also believe that by sponsoring, we can support the continuity of this important award and boost the future growth of the vending industry. Second, The Vendies is a place where technology and innovation
are celebrated. It is not easy to see any similar platforms that celebrate new technologies and innovations in the vending industry like the Vendies. We are a strong believer in the important role
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that innovations bring to the transformation and prosperity of the vending industry. Therefore, we work tirelessly and continuously to bring high-end intelligent vending products to the market. And for the same reason, by supporting The Vendies, we want to contribute our effort to facilitate the speed of introducing new innovations across the vending industry.
WHY SHOULD THE INDUSTRY GET INVOLVED BY ENTERING, VOTING AND ATTENDING? We see The Vendies is a great platform for knowledge building, innovation development, and celebration of new technologies. First, by entering and attending the event, we can meet like- minded people and companies in the same industry. When we get together, we can exchange knowledge and ideas for new innovations. Second, by voting for the best new technologies in the vending industry, we can help to recognise important players in the industry. This will help us to learn from the best to bring great practices which will improve the general growth and innovativeness of the vending industry.
THE VENDIES REWARDS INNOVATION, BUT JUST HOW ARE VENDING MACHINES EVOLVING? Just like the evolution of smartphones from traditional mobile phones, new vending technologies have transformed the vending industry. This new generation of vending machines is what we called “Intelligent Vending”. The demand for intelligent vending systems is rising significantly and steadily. There are four key drivers that fuel the future growth of the intelligent vending market:
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