{"id":5118,"date":"2025-10-13T03:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icomagencies.com\/global-insights\/\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:53:43","slug":"turning-knowledge-into-conversacion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icomagencies.com\/global-insights\/turning-knowledge-into-conversacion\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Knowledge Into Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Miguel Pereira, Executive President, Darwin & Verne<\/em>
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Miguel Pereira<\/a> is co-founder and Executive President of Darwin & Verne, a Spanish brand consultancy and creative agency with an ecosystem of solutions designed to connect brands with audiences, including a business unit specializing in AI solutions applied to marketing. He also serves on the ICOM Board, where he leads the Innovation practice, helping independent agencies harness new technologies to drive growth and creativity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In advertising, we love to talk about\u00a0big ideas<\/em>, but rarely do we stop to consider what makes those ideas endure: the knowledge they generate. That collective intelligence \u2014the mix of insights, experiments, failures and breakthroughs\u2014 is the true capital of a business that moves at the speed of light. The challenge is how to turn it into something alive, useful, and easy to access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darwin & Verne<\/a> <\/strong>has delivered a powerful answer with Conversa efk<\/a><\/strong>, a new conversational platform built for Spain\u2019s Premios Eficacia<\/strong> (the country\u2019s Effie-style effectiveness awards). This isn\u2019t \u201cjust another chatbot.\u201d It\u2019s a step change: nearly three decades of campaigns, strategies, and data distilled into a natural-language experience that lets users talk with the history of Spanish advertising as if they were chatting with a brilliant colleague who remembers everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From static archive to living intelligence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For 28 years, Premios Eficacia have chronicled the art and science of effective marketing. Thousands of cases, videos, and insights once buried in annuals and PDFs are now unified, cleaned, and ready to talk back. The leap is more than technical; it\u2019s strategic. Conversa efk shifts the awards\u2019 archive from passive storage to\u00a0active intelligence, ready to inspire creatives, planners, and marketers in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new language for knowledge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The magic lies in natural language. Built on a secure Microsoft Azure architecture and powered by a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system that feeds GPT exclusively with the awards\u2019 own content, the platform delivers precise, context-rich answers in Spanish, English, or virtually any language. It even includes its own media viewer so users can pull up campaign videos, read summaries, or download assets without leaving the chat. It\u2019s not a search engine; it\u2019s a conversation partner that recognizes nuance and surfaces trends, analysis, and strategic recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategy before tactics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For Darwin & Verne, this project is more than an engineering feat \u2014it\u2019s a statement about technology serving creativity. \u201cWe set out to deliver knowledge, not just information,\u201d says the team at Phileas<\/a><\/strong>, the agency\u2019s AI unit. That ambition demanded careful data governance, a private Azure cloud instance, meticulous curation of more than 12,000 files, and a custom interface designed for frictionless exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result is a tool that speaks both the user\u2019s language and the industry\u2019s: accessible, secure, and most important, meaningful. True innovation isn\u2019t about piling on tech layers; it\u2019s about expanding the possibilities for thought and dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tangible benefits, deeper impact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Conversa efk offers clear use cases \u2014live access to winning campaigns, creative trend analysis, a participant\u2019s guide to the competition, and institutional information. But its real value is cultural. By making decades of collective learning easy to explore, it raises the bar for the entire market and turns memory into a springboard for the future. Campaigns come and go; knowledge endures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launch with a wink<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a creative agency, Darwin & Verne naturally took the lead on the project\u2019s positioning, messaging, and launch campaign, framing it under the slogan \u201cWhen effectiveness speaks.\u201d<\/em> The agency produced a series of playful, fully AI-generated videos featuring well-known industry figures just about to speak out their trade secrets \u2014a lighthearted nod to the idea of giving effectiveness a voice. The response has been so positive that several of those featured have asked for the clips to share on their own LinkedIn profiles, turning an inside joke into a wider conversation across the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A blueprint for the industry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the awards, Conversa efk shows how brands and institutions can unlock vast reservoirs of knowledge and transform them into conversational experiences. In a world of infinite information and fleeting attention, providing natural, secure, multilingual interaction is not just a competitive edge \u2014it\u2019s a responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Phileas leading the charge, Darwin & Verne proves that artificial intelligence isn\u2019t an end in itself. It\u2019s a means to keep ideas talking, learning, and surprising us. Because campaigns come and go but knowledge remains. When effectiveness speaks, the industry listens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miguel Pereira is co-founder and Executive President of Darwin & Verne, a Spanish brand consultancy and creative agency with an ecosystem of solutions designed to connect brands with audiences, including a business unit specializing in AI solutions applied to marketing. 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