{"id":9766,"date":"2025-06-26T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shams-alyaoum.com\/en\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:07:59","slug":"hcl-group-and-uplink-launch-fourth-global-aquapreneur-innovation-challenge-to-boost-water-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shams-alyaoum.com\/en\/hcl-group-and-uplink-launch-fourth-global-aquapreneur-innovation-challenge-to-boost-water-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"HCL Group and UpLink Launch Fourth Global Aquapreneur Innovation Challenge to Boost Water Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/shams-alyaoum.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/photo-1k-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shams-alyaoum.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/photo-1k-8.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/shams-alyaoum.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/photo-1k-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shams-alyaoum.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/photo-1k-8-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Global conglomerate<strong>HCL Group<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>UpLink<\/strong>, early-stage innovation initiative of the World Economic Forum, have announced the fourth challenge of the Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative, the&nbsp;<strong>Water Resilience Challenge<\/strong>. The announcement was made at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China. Applications are open untilAugust 4, 2025, with winners to be announced in January 2026. The top 10 winners will receive a total financial award of<strong>&nbsp;CHF1.75 million divided amongst the innovators<\/strong>. For detailed information and eligibility criteria, visit:&nbsp;https:\/\/wef.ch\/4kTNwHD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Important Dates to Note<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>25 June to 4 August 2025<\/strong><\/td><td>Open for submissions<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>August 2025<\/strong><\/td><td>Review and selection process<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>January 2026<\/strong><\/td><td>Announcement of the winners<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative is a 5-year, 15 million CHF collaboration between UpLink, HCL Group and the World Economic Forum\u2019s Food and Water team, to create a first-of-its-kind innovation ecosystem for freshwater. The Innovation Challenge aims to empower global change-makers pioneering groundbreaking technologies, strategies and approaches to conserve, manage and protect water resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>Water Resilience Challenge<\/em>&nbsp;seeks scalable, pioneering solutions that enhance the resilience of water systems facing mounting pressures from climate change, pollution and increasing demand. Submissions are invited across&nbsp;<strong>three critical sectors<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Strengthening Infrastructure Resilience<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Solutions to strengthen urban and rural water systems including drainage, enhancing their ability to withstand extreme weather (including extreme heat, droughts, floods and stormwater), addressing infrastructure gaps and vulnerabilities, and meeting growing demand.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rethinking Agri-food Water Use<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Solutions to transform agricultural surface water and groundwater use through regenerative and nature-based approaches, improved irrigation practices, and innovations to conserve, reuse, and replenish water resources across food systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Optimising Water in the Tech Sector and Energy Systems<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Technologies to improve water efficiency and reduce water-related risks in industries such as AI data centres, semiconductor manufacturing, along with solutions that improve water-efficiency in energy generation and recover energy from wastewater.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sundar Mahalingam, President of Strategy at HCL Group<\/strong>,said, \u201cThrough HCL\u2019s collaboration with the World Economic Forum and UpLink, we are helping build a global ecosystem for water innovation \u2014 one changemaker at a time. We focus on strategic support \u2014 enabling promising innovators to access global platforms, visibility, investors, policymakers, and peer networks. In just three years, 30 innovators supported through this initiative have raised over $90 million and saved over 12 billion litres of water. Our goal is to empower at least 50 such changemakers \u2014 and many more in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>John Dutton, Head of UpLink, World Economic Forum<\/strong>, added, \u201c<em>UpLink and HCL Group\u2019s Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative recognizes that solving the water crisis demands a dynamic ecosystem to scale effective solutions. Together with the World Economic Forum&#8217;s Food and Water Initiative, we are proud to launch the Water Resilience Challenge, calling on bold early-stage start-ups addressing the most urgent water needs of our time, from rising demands in the tech and agritech sectors to climate-driven infrastructure vulnerabilities. By supporting breakthrough innovators and fostering cross-sector collaboration, we\u2019re working together to build the water resilience every industry needs to thrive in a water-stressed world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cBeing part of the Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative has been transformative. For a company at our stage, the credibility from HCL, UpLink, and the World Economic Forum has opened doors to high-level partners and investors we couldn&#8217;t have reached otherwise, including HCL itself. The financial award and global recognition have positioned us for our next stage of growth, and we&#8217;ve joined a powerful community of innovators tackling the world\u2019s biggest water challenges,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;said Mansi Jain, Co-founder and CEO of DigitalPaani, a grantee from the previous cohort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An official announcement regarding the launch of the Water Resilience Challenge will also be made on June 26 at the Chief Sustainability Officers (CSO) Meeting at the ongoing London Climate Action Week organized by the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to the growing climate variability, groundwater depletion and water-intensive industrial demands, the&nbsp;<em>Water Resilience Challenge<\/em>&nbsp;seeks to catalyze a new generation of sustainable, scalable and equitable solutions. 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