
From Research to Influence: Crafting Infosys' AI Leadership Narrative for the DAVOS Convention
How our strategic communications and thought leadership program helped amplify research across industries ahead of this major global event.
What I did
Role: Communications Writer, Editor, Content Strategist
Company: Infosys, LEWIS Communications
Year: 2018
Problem
Infosys was well-known for its consulting services and sometimes received unwanted negative press for its overseas support. It wanted to up-level the conversations around its brand and preferred to be known for its expertise and deep knowledge around digital transformation and AI.
Solution
Infosys leaned on the communications team at LEWIS to help elevate their messaging through a thought leadership program that worked in lockstep with its internal event marketing program. To support its goal, we developed a report based on research it commissioned around leadership and artificial intelligence. To amplify the report, we developed byline articles that linked back to the report and were targeted to specific industries that would find the insights interesting. It would take the findings and press around it as a conversation piece while it attended the DAVOS Convention in Geneva, which was focused on the global economy and current challenges.
I was involved in the end-to-end communications strategy, from the concepting the communications program to editing the report and ghostwriting the bylines (these were placed by PR). I worked to ensure quality, brand, and content were all top notch.
Impact
Lift in Share of Voice, with more positive sentiment noted around the brand.
In addition to the bylines, the PR team garnered 100+ pieces of press with other organizations.
Thought leadership ahead of the DAVOS convention
In partnership with Infosys’ research, I heavily edited this hefty report about AI in 2018. The goal was to help establish them as thought leaders in the space ahead of the DAVOS convention.
But it’s not enough to write and publish something and call it a day.
It’s a best practice to recycle content.
As a content strategist, I partnered with PR to come up with a plan to further amplify the findings.
As a writer, I used the data from the report to author 4 articles with slightly different takes, curated for specific outlets.
The PR team pitched the bylines and secured space.
You can read two of them below.

