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MEDIA INVITATION : MALAYSIAN YOUTH & SPORTS MINISTER Y.B. SYED SADDIQ TO LAUNCH GLOBAL HACKATHON (MALAYSIA): REBOOT THE EARTH (FRIDAY, 16 AUGUST 2019 - 9AM FOR MEDIA REGISTRATION, SUNWAY ILABS)
Thursday 15/08/2019
We are pleased to share that Malaysian Youth & Sports Minister Y.B. Syed Saddiq will be launching the Global Hackathon (Malaysia): Reboot The Earth initiative with details being as follows:
Day/Date : Friday 16 August 2019
Time : 9.00 am starts for media registration
Venue : Sunway iLabs, Menara Sunway
Jalan Lagoon Timur, Bandar Sunway
47500 Selangor Darul Ehsan
PROGRAMME
9.00 am : Media registration
: Arrival of Malaysian Youth & Sports Minister Y.B. Syed Saddiq
: RebootTheEarth – Introduction Video
: Welcome address by Niloy Banerjee, UNDP Resident Representative for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam
: Welcome address by Dr Elizabeth Lee, CEO of Sunway Education Group
: Opening Keynote by Malaysian Youth & Sports Minister Y.B. Syed Saddiq
: Honourable Minister announcing the Challenge titles
: VVIP photo / Group photo session
Approx 10.00 am : VVIPs signing-off
The hackathon is organised by the United Nations Youth Envoy along with Office of Information and Communication Technology (OICT) and UN Technology innovation Labs (UNTIL) in partnership with SAP and Deloitte. Sunway iLabs, in turn, is a unique, not-for-profit concept where Sunway University, Sunway Group, and Sunway Ventures (Sunway’s Corporate Venture Capital arm) work closely together in a collaborative space to foster entrepreneurship and stimulate market-driven innovations.
This challenge is planned as a social coding event that brings young computer programmers, techies, startups, entrepreneurs and Tech/ Engineering/ IT university students and other interested people together under the auspices of the United Nations to improve upon or build a new software program that addresses the current climate crisis. This event is aimed at identifying a solution that would drive positive change towards the global climate action.
The event will witness teams working in groups across 2 intense days of coding, with assistance from mentors who coach participants towards the development of a curated idea. The winning solution will be incubated in one of the global UN Technology Innovation Labs (UNTIL) to foster the ideas with the right means and expertise. Representative of the winning team will win a trip to New York City, USA at Reboot the Earth award ceremony on September 21, 2019, at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019. Final solutions will stand a chance to be showcased at Davos in January 2020 during the week of the World Economic Forum.
All in all, this initiative is designed as a collaborative effort globally to build climate resilience using youth led solutions to propel a dramatic solution for climate change.
You are cordially invited to send a reporter and photographer/cameraman to attend and cover the event.
SOURCE : Sunway iLabs and UN Technology Innovation Labs (UNTIL)
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Sunway iLabs
Director of PR
Name : Jerrine Koay
Email : jerrine@sunway.edu.my
UNTIL
Name : Prem Nair
Email : nair6@un.org
AL Consulting (external PR)
Name : Michael Ang
Email : mike.ang@alconsulting.asia
-BERNAMA
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