Infosys and UNLEASH organize Global Innovation Lab 2022 to advance youth-led solutions in alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals

Infosys

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BENGALURU, India, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

 

The event brings together over 1,000 young minds between 18 and 35 years of age

to innovate and design sustainable solutions for the future.

 

 

    Infosys [ https://www.infosys.com/ ] (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY),

a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today

announced its collaboration with UNLEASH [https://unleash.org/], a non-profit

organization with a mission to get the youth to create innovative and scalable

solutions to help reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Together,

Infosys and UNLEASH will advance youth-led solutions aligned with the UN SDGs,

amplify ESG best practices and accelerate digital skilling, through the Global

Innovation Lab 2022. Through interactive exercises and activities based on

human-centered design thinking, participants at the Global Innovation Lab 2022

will develop tech-savvy solutions for the SDGs, while pursuing their vision to

provide quality education and learning opportunities for all.

 

    The Global Innovation Lab 2022 will be hosted from December 3rd to 10th at

Infosys' Mysuru Development Center, one of the world's largest corporate

universities. The event brings together over 1,000 young minds between 18 and

35 years of age, from around the world, to innovate and design sustainable

solutions for the future.

 

    "Infosys, since inception, has been steered by its purpose to amplify human

potential and create opportunities for people, business, and communities. We

are delighted to collaborate with UNLEASH and host the Global Innovation Lab

2022, a platform that mobilizes youth to co-create a sustainable future.

Together, Infosys and UNLEASH will facilitate the exploration of digital

solutions to address UN's SDGs and create digital solutions to improve

education reforms globally," said, Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Infosys.

 

    "We are very pleased that Infosys will be hosting the UNLEASH Global

Innovation Lab at their unique campus in Mysuru, and I can think of no better

place for UNLEASH Talents to co-create solutions to some of our times most

daunting, grand challenges. Infosys' innovative and disruptive technologies and

their focus on ESG and education is the perfect environment for an Innovation

Lab for the UN's 2030 Agenda," said Professor Flemming Besenbacher, Chairman of

UNLEASH.

 

    Infosys, furthering its commitment to digitally skill over 10 million

people by 2025 and bridge the digital divide, leverages its platform, Infosys

Springboard [https://infyspringboard.onwingspan.com/web/en/login], to

democratize quality education and strengthen the next-generation workforce with

digital and life skills. Having achieved carbon neutrality 30 years ahead of

the timeline set by the Paris Agreement, Infosys aims to further the UN's SDG

mandate through UNLEASH India. Responsibility is an opportunity unleashed with

Infosys!

 

    About UNLEASH

 

    UNLEASH is a global initiative committed to bringing youth together to

share ideas, build networks and create innovative and scalable solutions to

help reach the Sustainable Development Goals. Our mission is to accelerate

positive change towards the SDGs by mobilizing young talented people in

community leadership, problem-solving, and launching social and environmental

solutions. Every year, we unite young people from across the world for an

annual innovation lab, organize dozens of local SDG hackathons and accelerate

the implementation of top solutions. UNLEASH has been recognized as one of the

world's most influential sustainability brands, having engaged 5,000 young

people from 167 countries and facilitated the development of 700 SDG solutions

with +300 partners. Since 2017, UNLEASH has run three annual Innovation Labs in

Denmark, Singapore, and China.

 

    About Infosys

 

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting.

Over 300,000 of our people work to amplify human potential and create the next

opportunity for people, businesses and communities. With over four decades of

experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we

expertly steer clients, in more than 50 countries, as they navigate their

digital transformation powered by the cloud. We enable them with an AI-powered

core, empower the business with agile digital at scale and drive continuous

improvement with always-on learning through the transfer of digital skills,

expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem. We are deeply committed to

being a well-governed, environmentally sustainable organization where diverse

talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.

 

    Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY) can help

your enterprise navigate your next.

 

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conditions, fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates,

our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including

those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India and

the US, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time

and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client

concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our

ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology

in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system

failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential

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expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and

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