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Most startups and SMBs don't fail for lack of ideas - they stall for lack of the right support at the right time. Breaking the mold isn't just about disrupting markets. It's about dismantling the idea that entrepreneurs have to figure it out alone.

Roberta Godoi, CEO of Claro Empresas, and Ana Paula Padrão, journalist, entrepreneur and founder of Unna, get real about what it takes to walk alongside startups and small businesses - not just at launch, but through every stage of growth. Expect honest talk on building ecosystems that actually serve entrepreneurs, and what true partnership looks like beyond the pitch.

Breaking the mold: how the right partner can truly show up for small businesses

The Latin American real estate market has operated under a heavy information asymmetry where the true value of assets is restricted to a few. City of Rio municipal secretary of economic development and CCPar president Osmar Lima joins Bel Radar founder Maria Eduarda "Duda" Herriot to address how the democratization of transactional data is not only changing the way we buy and sell real estate but also how we understand and plan urban development.

How data is redesigning Latin American cities

Most super apps are built on a single, unified rollout - offering the same services, and in the same sequence in every market. inDrive has taken a different approach. Rather than imposing a fixed product suite, it has built its super app to be modular, letting local demand dictate what launches where and when. In Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia, for example, drivers struggling to access traditional credit drove the launch of inDrive.Money, which extends loans to gig economy workers. In other markets, however, demand for affordable groceries have driven the launch of inDrive.Groceries. For inDrive, the product always follows the problem, and catering to local preferences is everything.

Scaling a super app: why emerging markets break the standard playbook

Why do corporate innovation pilots fail to scale globally? Because tech can't succeed in a vacuum. True transformation requires aligning three pillars: infrastructure, AI, and a ready workforce. Join Felipe Garcia (Nokia), Jen Hoskins (NVIDIA), and Jose Roberto Paim Neto (GI Group Holding) as they share the blueprint for scaling innovation from the cloud to the talent at the keyboard.

The trinity of enterprise scale: infrastructure, AI, and the modern workforce

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