Transfr named winner of Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Award for Best Idea to Change the World in North America
From a solution for reusing cold plasma to treat seeds to 3D-printed living walls, the eighth annual awards honor new and inspiring solutions to today’s most daunting challenges.
NEW YORK, May 14, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The winners of Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, highlighting new sustainability initiatives, cutting-edge AI developments, ambitious pursuits of social equity and other creative projects they are helping to shape the world. Transfr’s VR workforce training offering was named the best world-changing idea in North America. The solution received additional recognition with an Honorable Mention in the Education category. Transfr’s platform hosts more than 300 simulations that focus on careers in industries that do not require a four-year degree, including Automotive, Aviation, Construction, Diesel, Electrical, Hospitality and Tourism, Manufacturing and Healthcare.
This year’s World Changing Ideas Awards features 50 winners, 127 finalists and 172 honorable mentions – with health, education, energy and AI among the most popular categories. A panel of Fast company Editors and reporters selected the winners from a pool of more than 1,300 entries in the areas of climate, social justice, well-being, politics, technology, corporate social responsibility and more. Several new categories were added this year, including beauty and fashion, health products, health services, materials, and science and technology. The 2024 awards feature entries from around the world, including the Republic of Korea, Brazil and Madagascar.
Fast companyThe Spring 2024 issue (on newsstands May 21, 2024) will reveal some of the world’s most creative minds and pioneering organizations seeking to disrupt the status quo. Solutions cover everything from renewable energy and waste storage in the fashion industry to a building made entirely from recycled concrete and a solar-powered refrigerator designed to run off-grid.
“We are encouraged by this recognition from Fast Company and inclusion among a groundbreaking list of honorees,” said Transfr founder and CEO Bharani Rajakumar in a statement published today. “Transfr is committed to a world-changing mission: providing access to classroom-to-career pathways for more people through technology solutions. This is critical to bringing opportunities to underserved communities, developing cost-effective training alternatives, and giving employers the trained workforce needed for economic development.”
“I was impressed this year by the global reach of the honorees,” he said Fast company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “It’s endlessly inspiring to see how the world is coming together to devise inventive solutions to our most challenging problems. We need ideas from everywhere, and this year’s World Changing Ideas Awards are an extraordinary summary of the innovation and creativity that is so abundant in all over the world.”
ABOUT TRANSFR
Transfr is an emerging leader in virtual reality (VR)-based professional career exploration and pre-apprenticeship training. Transfr offers immersive hands-on and simulation training for high-growth, in-demand careers that provide real-world experience in the skills needed for success, development, and retention on the job. Using a headset, trainees are guided through simulations by a digital coach to engage in career exploration, professional training, and practical and assessment use cases. Transfr’s innovative platform promotes increasingly better quality and lower development costs of VR simulations. For more information, visit https://transfrinc.com/.
ABOUT THE WORLD IDEAS AWARDS: Ideas that Change the World is one of the Fast companyof the main annual awards programs and focuses on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and bold concepts that make the world better. Judges choose winners, finalists and honorable mentions based on viability and potential for impact. With the aim of rewarding ingenuity and promoting innovation, Fast company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to work on solving the problems that affect us all.
ABOUT FAST COMPANY
Fast company is the only media brand completely dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication Inc.and can be found online at www.fastcompany.com.
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