It’s easy to think that the challenges facing us today are insurmountable – that the issues are too big and complex, that we are too divided and gridlocked to actualize solutions at scale. Yet, year after year, the Solve community uncovers incredible entrepreneurs and innovators who are facing these issues head-on and making a real difference in their communities and the world. Join us for Solve at MIT 2023, May 4-6 on MIT Campus, along with 400 social impact leaders to get inspired, build partnerships, tackle global challenges in real-time, and celebrate progress.
About the Event
Solve at MIT is an inspiring, interactive three-day event that brings together our Solve community and cross-sectors leaders from around the world committed to solving global challenges. Over the course of the event, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from leaders in social impact, connect with innovators looking to scale their solutions, form partnerships with like-minded individuals and organizations, and learn about the upcoming 2023 Global Challenges.
Our annual Global Challenges are open to anyone, anywhere in the world. Through an open innovation platform, we source tech-based ideas, businesses, or products that solve urgent global problems. The most promising social entrepreneurs from across the world are chosen to join our Solver class in the areas of Economic Prosperity, Climate, Learning, and Health. Solve also selects a group of Indigenous Communities Fellows who are helping to make Native communities in the US thrive.
View the event schedule here.
Want to join us for Solve at MIT?
Experience the magic of Solve at MIT from anywhere! Livestreamed plenary sessions will begin at the following times:
- Opening Plenary: Unlocking our Collective Potential Thursday, May 4: 1:00pm ET
- Morning Plenary: Ensuring a Just Transition to Net Zero Friday, May 5: 10:30am ET
- Closing Plenary: Bringing us Together or Tearing us Apart? Saturday, May 6: 11:30am ET
Featured Speakers
Lewis Akenji
Managing Director, Hot or Cool Institute
Hina Baloch
Executive Director of Sustainability and Environment, General Motors
United States
Manish Bapna
President and CEO, National Resources Defense Council
Norhan M. Bayomi
postdoctoral research associate at the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and Lead Research and Co-Lead of the MIT Climate Machine, MIT
Lynette Bell
President, Truist Foundation
Adam Bly
Founder and CEO, System
Heather Clancy
Vice President and Editorial Director, GreenBiz
Nighat Dad
Founder and Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation
Kami Dar
Co-founder and CEO, Uniti Networks
Celina De Sola
Co-Founder & President, Glasswing International
Ellen Fitzsimmons
Chief Legal Officer & Head of Public Affairs, Truist
William Gumede
Founder and Executive Chairperson, Democracy Works Foundation
Adrianne Haslet
Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor, Global Advocate for amputee rights
Jacquelyn Ingram
Midwife, global health advocate, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii
United States
Atif Javed
Executive Director, Tarjimly
United States
Nneka Jones
Artist
Mariama Kabia
Digital Equity Accelerator Lead, Social Impact, HP
Sophia Kianni
US Representative, United Nations Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
Mtamu Kililo
CEO, MycoTile Ltd
Kenya
Sangbae Kim
Director of the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory and Professor of Mechanical Engineering , MIT
Janelle Knox-Hayes
Professor of Economic Geography and Planning, MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Sally Kornbluth
President, MIT
Kelly Levin
Chief of Science, Data and Systems Change, Bezos Earth Fund
Elizabeth McGovern
Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
United States
Aida Murad
Impact Artist & Entrepreneur
Amy Nordrum
Executive Editor, MIT Technology Review
Ms. Cheri Smith
MIT Solver & 2022 Indigenous Communities Fellow | President & CEO, Founder, Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy
United States
Kelsey Wirth
Co-Founder & Chair, Mothers Out Front
Beatie Wolfe
Artist
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Founder and CEO, Bumble
Emily Young
CEO and Founder, Moving Health
United States
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