Fazer sends young talents with impactful ideas to Silicon Valley through the Global Impact Challenge
Do you have an idea that would impact the lives of a billion people? Would you like to develop your idea further? Fazer, together with other sponsors, invites young talents to apply to Finland’s Global Impact Challenge organized together with Singularity University. The Challenge winner will secure a place in the distinguished Global Solutions Program of Singularity University held in Silicon Valley this summer.
“Fazer’s renewal agenda is inspired by entrepreneurship and new technologies that can positively impact our society. One example of such activities is our innovation programme Brainfood. Through the Global Impact challenge, we support bright minds with impactful ideas and give them the opportunity to learn from the best experts in their field”, says Heli Arantola, SVP Strategy and Renewal, Fazer. After all, Fazer was also founded by a young talent with a great idea back in 1891 when Karl Fazer opened his first French-Russian café in Helsinki.
The Global Impact Challenge is an annual competition organized by Singularity University Alumni in different countries all over the world. The challenge winners participate in Singularity University’s 10-week Global Solutions Program at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. The program is a gateway to meet world’s top influencers and thought leaders and learn about exponential technologies. Shortlisted participants will also be invited to a tech bootcamp in Copenhagen in March 2017.
“The Global Solutions program was a truly inspiring and life-changing experience. I met amazing people with exciting life stories, studied new technologies and was even coached by a former CIA agent. During the program I realized that the world’s grand challenges can also be the world’s biggest business opportunities and there has never been a better time to be a start-up entrepreneur than now”, last year’s winner Perttu Pölönen describes his thoughts.
This year the Global Impact Challenge is especially looking for applicants with a great idea and the passion to develop it further with the help of exponential technologies and finally, launch a start-up that addresses grand challenges in the fields of e.g. health, education, water, energy and food.
Young talents with innovative ideas and a passion to impact the world positively by leveraging exciting new technologies are invited to apply at su.org/gic/2017/finland.
Additional information:
Heli Arantola, SVP, Strategy and Renewal, Fazer Group, tel.: +358 500 505 762
Leena Majamäki, VP, Communications, Fazer Group, tel.: +358 40 585 1585
Fazer’s media phone serves the media Monday to Friday from 8 to 16, tel.: +358 40 668 2998
Fazer Group
Fazer is an international family-owned company offering quality bakery, confectionery, biscuit and grain products as well as food and café services. Fazer operates in eight countries and exports to around 40 countries. Fazer’s mission is to create taste sensations. Fazer’s success, ever since its establishment in 1891, has been based on the best product and service quality, beloved brands, the passion of its skilful people and the Group’s responsible ways of working. This year marks Fazer’s 125th anniversary and 150 years from the birth of Karl Fazer, the founder of this successful Group. In 2015, Fazer Group had net sales of more than 1.5 billion euros and nearly 15,000 employees. Fazer’s operations comply with ethical principles that are based on the Group’s values and the UN Global Compact.
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