The ambitious Make it Challenge, co-organised by Sunway University and Sunway iLabs, was designed to inspire participants to create more innovative solutions in the rapidly urbanizing world that we live in. The competition was launched on 8 September 2022, with a fireside chat titled “Creating the Cities of Dreams – Challenges and Opportunities.”

Designed to lay the foundations for participants to begin formulating game-changing ideas, the insightful fireside chat saw experts including Sunway Group’s  Group CEO (Digital & Strategic Investments), Evan Cheah; Sunway University Pro Vice-Chancellor and Member of the National Science Council of Malaysia, Professor Mahendhiran Nair; and Sunway Centre for Planetary Health’s Executive Director, Professor Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood sharing their valuable thoughts.

In his opening remarks, Evan reiterated the purpose of the Make It Challenge and emphasized that the participants with game-changing ideas will be fully supported by Sunway Group’s enabling ecosystem, which comprises 13 business units, making it an engine and a launchpad for transformative innovation.

“We have the funds, mentorship and university’s research capabilities and the support of Sunway Group, its partners, and the government.”

Restating Sunway Group’s commitment and mission to create a sustainable future for all he said, “Sunway has been nation-building over the past 50 years. We have built roads, hospitals, shopping malls, and universities, supporting not-for-profit universities. It’s been something we’ve been doing for a long time and for the next 50 years, we want to have more long-term initiatives – hopefully, good ideas that we can scale up for Malaysia and the world.”

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