Last Friday, November 13th, Ángel Lovera was interviewed in the program of Corporate Trade Radio, by IP Radio Digital, in charge of Darío Ascanio. The interview was part of a series of interviews that were carried out gradually in the said program within the framework of the First Congress of Electronic Commerce Venezuela 2020. Below, we share part of what it was the interview with Ángel Lovera.
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Presentation
Darío Ascanio: Today, we have two luxury guests, two guests that for me is an honor that have accepted our invitation and become part of this group of professionals that have come throughout twelve programs that we have developed, in this special series in relation to the framework of the First International Congress of E-Commerce Venezuela 2020, they are, the friend Desire Izaguirre who is the CEO of Virtual Professional, and our friend Ángel Lovera who is the CEO of Barraduda Soluciones.
They are going to participate and have a theme in this First Congress of E-Commerce Venezuela 2020, they are part of the speakers. In the case of our friend Desire, she will be talking about How to operate and manage your E-Commerce remotely effectively. Our friend Ángel will be talking to us and his presentation will be about Electronic Commerce in Aviation. Welcome to IP Radio Digital Desire and Ángel Lovera.
Ángel’s greeting
Ángel: Yes Darío, thank you very much, it is truly an honor for me too and I am grateful for the opportunity and hope you enjoy it and I make again the invitation for all the listeners to this Congress on November 23rd and 24th.
Next activities of CAVECOM-E
Darío: There are different activities and it is important for our listeners to know, within the framework of this First International E-Commerce Venezuela 2020, we are talking about two days where obviously the main topic is Electronic Commerce and more than 28 presentations; there are 7 countries that will be participating, many more than 10 success stories.
Everything is being done virtually, electronically in this case, via Streaming from Youtube, within these activities that will be developed within these dates there is the delivery of the E-Commerce Venezuela 2020 awards. Also on November 27th there is the BlackFriday Venezuela, a special edition will be made by the hand of the Venezuelan Chamber of Electronic Commerce, to call it in some way, will be celebrated in Venezuela on Black Friday and it is important that you are aware of this information, and the most important thing is that also the Venezuelan Chamber together with all these companies that are going to accompany us are developing the program of certification of Electronic Commerce, all the part of security, and what they intend with this program is to give seal of confidence to all the managements of Electronic and they have called it “know your seller,” what is this about? This is about every time you enter a platform, social networks, both virtually and in person, you are going to get a logo and will give that seller the confidence since that logo will indicate that you have the certificate. It is important that you participate in whatever business development you have; both virtual and in-person so that you can be part of this first congress and get to know first-hand from all those experts what is being done in the field of Electronic Commerce.
And this is the case of Ángel Lovera who is with us and is the CEO of Barracuda Soluciones.
You are part of this congress Ángel, once again I welcome you to IP Radio Digital, and well nothing, we would like to know a little about your presentation, and above all that you tell us about Barracuda Soluciones, because your topic is about e-commerce in aviation.
Ángel: Yes, Darío, well, first of all, thank you very much, I want to take the opportunity in advance, I am extremely grateful to be able to share with a group of professionals in the field of Electronic Commerce, these last weeks I have had the opportunity to share with Desire who is an excellent professional, in charge of the production, we have had some rehearsals, we have been in all the preparations, and the truth is that the group of Venezuelan professionals, who are in Venezuela and abroad, is quite wide and the knowledge is very good, I am really very grateful to participate in programs like yours and to be able to be a speaker in this first congress.
I honestly, particularly recently found out about the congress; my company Barracuda Soluciones Aeronáuticas was born in 2014, as we were talking even before the program, you were asking me a little bit about me, I am a retired Air Force Pilot, I entered the Venezuelan Air Force when I was 17 years old in 2001, and well, after my career as a combat pilot in the Air Force, for reasons that are already professionals , I decided to take a new direction; I was in private aviation a couple of years, I had the opportunity to be chief pilot of several companies in the United States, traveling through different countries, different latitudes, and see how I’ve always been a lover of technology and have been very linked to technology; I remember when I graduated my thesis was the design of two flight simulators, when I was 21 years old, and the truth is that I’ve always been very linked to technology, and after seeing in the other countries of the world how e-commerce and technology in the aviation world has been developing, we wanted in the year 2014 to open the company Barracuda Soluciones Aeronáuticas. A handful of us were three people, I took one of my best friends, I am not a Systems Engineer or anything like that, I am a professional pilot lover of technology, and well, with two or three people we set up Barracuda Soluciones Aeronáuticas in the year 2014, and I can tell you that it has been a beautiful journey, as Desire said, one begins with something very little and really that innovation and a pretty strong engine that is the Venezuelan talent, the professionals who are working in the company today have been adding and adding experience and professionals.
The aeronautical services payment platform
Ángel: We were pioneers in the year 2017 when the boom of international airlines departures in Venezuela began; I had the initiative or the idea of generating this digital payment platform for aeronautical services so that the airlines would not have, as it were, to deal with all the bureaucracy and all this issue with the states bodies, the airport, the aeronautical institutions, but that we could be, as it were, that support, using teleworking a lot. We have a complete brain within the company that is the technical support, and the international airlines that operate in Venezuela rely on us to operate since the year 2017. We started with some private planes and we expanded to the international airlines at the Maiquetía Airport, and nowadays, also the INAC, all the airlines that flight over the air space of Venezuela pay all their services through our electronic platform. Then, the truth is to see how a product grows and the way one goes forming from nothing a group of boys with zero experience and suddenly we are little by little forming that experience and we are making a great product.
Topics to be discussed at the congress
Ángel: So the truth is that I feel very pleased to participate in this congress, as you say I will be talking a little bit about intelligent airports; in some trips that I have made in some other countries I have seen which are the characteristics that airports should have to be intelligent, I will talk a little bit about that, how these systems should be, which should be the virtues of these systems. To learn about Ángel Lovera’s participation in the congress you can do it in our article entitled Video conference about Intelligent Airports.
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