--- title: Solve Challenge Finals 2024 | Invite Request --- [![mit_logo_std_rgb_white](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hubfs/mit_logo_std_rgb_white.png)](http://web.mit.edu/) ## **SOLVE CHALLENGE FINALS ** ## New York City | September 23, 2024 ![challenge_finals_2023_preview-21-1](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/challenge_finals_2023_preview-21-1.jpg?width=5472&height=3648&name=challenge_finals_2023_preview-21-1.jpg) ## About the Event Solve Challenge Finals is an unparalleled opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation in service of a better world. This event, hosted annually in New York City, unveils Solve’s latest cohort of innovators and their solutions to our Global Challenges. Attendees gather to meet innovators from all over the world, hear them pitch their solutions, and watch them win funding from a more-than $1 million prize pool to catalyze scale. Amidst leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week, Solve Challenge Finals is progress in action. [SOLD OUT](https://events.solve.mit.edu/scf-2024#register) ![challenge_finals_2023_preview-21-1](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/challenge_finals_2023_preview-21-1.jpg?width=5472&height=3648&name=challenge_finals_2023_preview-21-1.jpg) ## What you can look forward to Outside of reveling in the buzz of NYC during the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week, these are just a few reasons to join us. - **Meet our new cohort**—these 30 entrepreneurs from around the world are brilliant, eager, and ready for partnerships that scale their impact. Their solutions were selected as the most promising from a pool of 2,200+ applications from 130 countries.  - **Network with like-minded industry leaders and peers**—our Solve community includes The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, HP, GM, Sony, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Tiger Global Impact Ventures, and many other social impact leaders looking to scale their impact and reach.  - **Experience progress in action**—at Solve, we don’t just talk about the intractable problems of our time. We find those individuals who are solving them—and connect them with a community working towards a more prosperous and sustainable future for all.  [SOLD OUT](https://events.solve.mit.edu/scf-2024#register)         ## Featured Speakers - ![Screenshot 2024-09-12 at 12.25.29 PM](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.25.29%20PM.png?width=448&height=418&name=Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.25.29%20PM.png) **David Bank** Editor and CEO Impact Alpha - ![Screenshot 2024-09-12 at 12.25.08 PM](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.25.08%20PM.png?width=436&height=430&name=Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.25.08%20PM.png) **Eric Grimson** Chancellor, Academic Advancement MIT - ![Screenshot 2024-09-12 at 12.26.43 PM](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.26.43%20PM.png?width=488&height=416&name=Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.26.43%20PM.png) **Hala Hanna** Executive Director MIT Solve - ![Screenshot 2024-09-12 at 12.25.14 PM](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.25.14%20PM.png?width=446&height=402&name=Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.25.14%20PM.png) **Cilia Holmes Indahl** CEO EQT Foundation - ![](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.26.47%20PM.png?width=468&height=416&name=Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.26.47%20PM.png) **Mosun Layode** Executive Director African Philanthropy Forum - ![Screenshot 2024-09-12 at 12.26.52 PM](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.26.52%20PM.png?width=470&height=420&name=Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.26.52%20PM.png) **Alice Lin Fabiano** Vice President, Global Philanthropy Johnson & Johnson - ![Screenshot 2024-09-12 at 12.31.00 PM](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.31.00%20PM.png?width=464&height=446&name=Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.31.00%20PM.png) **Kristen Siemen** Chief Sustainability Officer General Motors - ![Screenshot 2024-09-12 at 12.30.44 PM](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.30.44%20PM.png?width=480&height=406&name=Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.30.44%20PM.png) **Brendan Vaughan** Editor in Chief Fast Company - ![Screenshot 2024-09-12 at 12.30.48 PM](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.30.48%20PM.png?width=478&height=426&name=Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.30.48%20PM.png) **Tricia Wang** Founder, Data Storyteller Sudden Compass - ![Screenshot 2024-09-12 at 12.25.23 PM](https://events.solve.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.25.23%20PM.png?width=472&height=424&name=Screenshot%202024-09-12%20at%2012.25.23%20PM.png) **Jacqueline Innocent** Senior Vice President, Integrated Programs Habitat for Humanity International ## Tickets **Tickets for this event are sold out.** Learn how you can get involved with MIT Solve beyond Climate Week at [solve.mit.edu/support](https://info.solve.mit.edu/support-open-innovation?hsLang=en).       [SOLVE\_Logo](https://solve.mit.edu/?hsLang=en) - [Privacy Policy](https://solve.mit.edu/privacy-policy) - [Terms of Service](https://solve.mit.edu/terms-of-service) - [Accessibility](http://accessibility.mit.edu) At MIT Solve, we believe that to achieve a more sustainable and equitable future for all, we need new voices and solutions. 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