HCL Technologies Hosts Over 500 of the Top Minds and Generates Real, Actionable Ideas for Sustainable Business in Crisis Times

International Business Times, Nov 25th 2008.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy and Renowned Management Educator Gary Hamel Headline Dual-Platform Event Where Top Business Executives Discuss Solutions on How to Sustain a Successful Business in the Current Economic Climate.

ORLANDO, FL — (Marketwire) — 11/25/08 — More than 500 of the top business minds in the world discussed, debated and collaborated in Orlando last week about how to engage in a successful, sustainable, environmentally conscious business inthe wake of the current global economic slowdown as HCL Technologies Ltd.(HCL) hosted its fourth-annual Global Customer Meet. Dubbed Unstructure2008, the concept is an annual compendium of thoughts compiled from both the physical event and an online forum (www.unstructure.org) where participants have and will continue to exchange action-oriented ideas.

Highlighting HCL’s global customer meet this year was a keynote address by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who received the 2007 Nobel Prize forPeace for his efforts to enlighten the world community about the effects of global warming. During his address titled, “Thinking Green – Economic Strategy for the 21st Century,” Gore hailed U.S. President-Elect BarackObama for his support for the Green movement and told those in attendance that environmentally sound practices, once thought to be a draw on the bottom line, are today viewed not only as economically sound, but also as a necessity for sustainability of businesses.

In closing, Gore noted that in the future, our children will look back onthe first years of this century and either say “what were you thinking, why didn’t you act,” or, “how did you find the courage to rise up and solve theproblem?” “I hope they say the latter,” he closed. “We have everything weneed to solve this problem except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”

— HCL Advances Go Green! Initiative with Carbon Neutral Global Customer Meet: announced HCL’s plans to offset carbon emissions with carbon offsets purchased from Carbonfund.org and to plant 650 trees in the Himalayas.– HCL Technologies and TIBCO Expand Global Alliance: announced the expansion of HCL’s strategic alliance with TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) to include new and updated HCL solution frameworks for Business Process Management (BPM), Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Link