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VusionGroup
VusionGroup
Accelerate the digital transformation of physical commerce
Accelerate the digital transformation of physical commerce
Why this Challenge?

VusionGroup is the global leader in digitalization solutions for physical commerce. We develop technologies that create a positive impact on society by enabling sustainable and human-centered commerce.

By leveraging our IoT & Data technologies, we empower retailers to re-imagine their physical stores into efficient, intelligent, connected, and data-driven assets. We unlock higher economic performance, facilitate seamless collaboration across the value chain, enhance the shopping experience, create better jobs, cultivate healthier communities, and significantly reduce waste and carbon emissions.

Reinventing the In-Store Customer Experience

Join the VusionGroup Challenge to reinvent the in-store customer experience, and enable retailers as well as brands to better connect with consumers.

Context / Need:
At VusionGroup, we invent IoT & digital technologies that create a positive impact society by enabling human-centered commerce. During VivaTech, we want to highlight startups that can help us achieve that and create new experiences for consumers in stores.

Expected Solutions
The solutions highlighted should help consumers to have a better experience while shopping, through in-store navigation, better information, richer content, activations and all solutions that can enable great interactivity in stores.

Scope
The solutions must be designed to be operating in physical stores, through digital technologies such as IoT, Data & AI.

Selection Criteria
Relevance of solution

The solution needs to be impactful for shoppers with tangible use cases in the retail world.

Scalability

The solution needs to be scalable at the scale of a full chain (hundreds / thousands of stores).

Technologies

Built on digital technologies such as IoT / Data / AI. Solutions must be exclusively designed for physical stores.

Global
Maturity

The solution needs to be ready to be piloted or deployed in physical stores and used by consumers.

Rewards
  • Be with us on our booth

    Be featured on our booth at VivaTech during the four days of the show

  • Attend the 9th edition of VivaTech

    Win 4-day passes for the 9th edition of VivaTech

Play an active role in our six business sectors

Your solution, product or service demonstrates that you can play an active role in LVMH's ecosystem and deliver on a large scale. Whether it be the creation process, the omnichannel customer journey, or operation and manufacturing, you support the Group's legacy of excellence and innovation in all areas of its 6 business sectors.

  • Fashion & Leather Goods

  • Wines & Spirits

  • Perfumes & Cosmetics

  • Watches & Jewelry

  • Other Activities

  • Selective Retailing

Timeline

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  • Startup Challenge opens

  • Startup Challenge closes

  • Selected startups announced

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    20/06/2026

    VivaTech Paris

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Your personal data is collected by Crédit Agricole S.A., 12 Place des Etats-Unis, 92120 Montrouge, as the data controller, so that you can participate in the Challenge organized from 18/03/2026 during the Vivatech event, called: “Digital Sustainability Training Modules”. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right, under the conditions provided by law, to access your personal data at any time, to exercise your right to data portability, to have it rectified, to request its erasure in compliance with legal obligations, to object to its processing, to define general or specific instructions regarding the fate of your personal data after your death, or to restrict its processing for legitimate reasons. You can access more detailed information on the protection of your personal data by consulting, in particular, Article 13: “Personal data protection” of the challenge rules.

Your personal data is collected by Crédit Agricole S.A., 12 Place des Etats-Unis, 92120 Montrouge, as the data controller, so that you can participate in the Challenge organized from 18/03/2026 during the Vivatech event, called: “Digital Sustainability Training Modules”. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right, under the conditions provided by law, to access your personal data at any time, to exercise your right to data portability, to have it rectified, to request its erasure in compliance with legal obligations, to object to its processing, to define general or specific instructions regarding the fate of your personal data after your death, or to restrict its processing for legitimate reasons. You can access more detailed information on the protection of your personal data by consulting, in particular, Article 13: “Personal data protection” of the challenge rules.

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