Our Key Account Manager, Cristóbal Almagia, took part in the "Rooted innovation" panel at the CONCAIC 2026 congress, held from October 22 to 24 at the PUCV School of Business and Economics in Valparaíso.
It was a conversation with business engineering students from all over Chile about how to innovate and add value from the regions. For Yoy, which was born in Valparaíso, the topic and the venue could not have been a better fit.
What is CONCAIC
CONCAIC is Chile's National Council of Business Engineering Student Associations, which every year organizes a national congress of students of the degree at a different university in the country.
The 2026 edition was hosted by the School of Business and Economics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso under the motto "Connect. Transform. Lead. Creating what comes next". Over three days there were talks, panels and workshops on innovation, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, leadership, regional development and the world of work.
Beyond the content, the organizers wanted students from different universities to meet each other and leave with new contacts.
The "Rooted innovation" panel
Cristóbal shared the stage with Vanessa Peña, Paulina Pozo and Emilio Hernández. In front of an audience of business engineering students from different universities, the conversation revolved around three topics:
Innovating and adding value from the regions: how to build companies and projects with national and international reach without leaving the place where they were born.
The keys to strengthening the entrepreneurial spirit, drawing on each panelist's experience.
Good practices learned along the way, shared for those about to enter the working world or start their own project.
Innovating from Valparaíso
Yoy Simulators was born in 2013 in Valparaíso, and from here it develops virtual and extended reality simulators to train workers in high-risk industries: mining, energy, logistics and training centers.
That is why the panel's name resonated with us. Since 2013 we have been showing that cutting-edge technology can be created from the regions, and talking about it with the people who will lead the companies of the future is part of how we see our role.
Thank you
We thank the CONCAIC 2026 organizing team and the PUCV School of Business and Economics for the invitation and for opening this space. And to every student who came to the panel: we hope some of those ideas end up becoming projects.
If you want to see how we use virtual reality to train teams, visit us at www.yoysimulators.com.
