Solve at MIT 2024

In this interactive session, attendees will hear from and meet with the 2023 cohort of health Solvers. The six innovators will showcase their progress since selection in September, and participants will form ad hoc ‘brain trusts’ to provide advice and brainstorm opportunities for improvement, partnership, and investment. 

The Health in Fragile Contexts Solvers are:

• Climate Health Vulnerability Mapping (India) - Geospatial analysis for communities vulnerable to climate related health impacts

• Elythea (USA / Across Africa) - A machine learning (ML) platform to catch and prevent life-threatening complications of pregnancy in low-resource settings.

• Rology - (Egypt / Across Africa) Strengthening health care access and resilience in fragile contexts through remote and AI-driven radiological diagnostics.

• Savyn (Canada) - Evidence-based digital trauma therapy platform using neuroscience to advance mental health care accessibility for marginalized communities.

• HERA Digital Health (Turkey) - an open source mobile health platform that focuses on bridging women and children to reproductive, neonatal and vaccination health care services.

• SAVE By Briota Technologies (India) - Enabling early and precise diagnosis of Chronic Respiratory Diseases (COPD, ILD, Post TB, Long Covid, Asthma) in resource constrained settings.

In this interactive session, attendees will hear from and meet with the 2023 cohort of climate Solvers. The innovators will showcase their progress since selection in September, and participants will form ad hoc brain trusts to provide advice and brainstorm opportunities for improvement, partnership, and investment. 

The Climate Adaptation and Low-Carbon Housing Solvers are:

• Omiflo (Kenya) - Omiflo combats severe wastewater pollution using energy and chemical-free systems that convert wastewater to clean water using natural plant-based biotechnology.

• GeoAir Con (Pakistan) - GeoAir Con is a pioneer for affordable climate control systems, enhancing climate adaptation and resilience for the developing world.

• La Firme (Peru) - La Firme’s digital platform provides accessible and affordable architecture and engineering services for families to design their home and plan their construction.

• Build Up Nepal (Nepal) - Build Up Nepal is on a mission to replace fired bricks with low-carbon, affordable bricks and make safe houses affordable for all. 

• Nelplast (Ghana) - Nelplast retrieves all kinds of waste plastics from the environment and transforms them into interlocking sand-plastic bricks and paving tiles for low-carbon affordable housing and construction projects in low-income communities.

• Synnefa (Kenya) - Creates Smart Greenhouses fitted with FarmShield IoT sensors to optimize irrigation, increase yields, reduce input costs, and build farmers’ resilience to climate change

In this interactive session, attendees will hear from and meet with the 2023 cohort of learning Solvers. The innovators will showcase their progress since selection in September, and participants will form ad hoc brain trusts to provide advice and brainstorm opportunities for improvement, partnership, and investment. 

The Learning for Civic Action Solvers are:

• Seeding Citizen Problem Solvers (India) - Activating and incubating the youth in India through grassroots mobilization and civic tech to become problem solving citizens through local - data, campaigns and solutions.

• Bijak Memilih (Indonesia) - Improving Indonesian politics, one informed vote at a time.

• Mapping Justice (USA) - trubel&co champions underserved youth to tackle complex societal challenges using equitable data analytics, responsible technology, and inclusive design.

• UnlockED (USA) - Justice-impacted developers building open source technology to increase education access in prison, while simultaneously creating scalable data infrastructure to support decarceration efforts.

• Politize! (Brazil) - Developing a generation of citizens who are aware and committed to democracy, bringing civic education to anyone, anywhere.

• GNYPWD Accessible Connect (USA / Global) - Accessible and inclusive platform to empower people with disabilities with information, resources, opportunities, and knowledge to advocate for their rights and pursue their aspirations.

Solve Innovation Future, MIT Solve's venture philanthropy vehicle, is a disruptive model using philanthropic capital to accelerate social and environmental outcomes while generating financial returns. Join us for a conversation to learn and engage with experts advancing the impact investing and venture philanthropy fields, and explore why partnerships are critical to this work.

In this interactive and action-driven session, attendees will hear from US-based innovators who will showcase the progress they have made since being selected as part of the Gender Equity in STEM Challenge in September 2023. During the session, participants will form ad hoc brain trusts, providing advice and brainstorming opportunities for improvement, partnership, and investment to the cohort of innovators.

The Gender Equity in STEM innovators are:

• Super Sisters: STEM Superheroes (USA - Michigan) - A free pocket sized learning tool for BIPOC middle school girls using representative superheroes, fusing augmented reality with applied technical education with culturally responsive and holistic gamified modules

• STEM from Dance (USA - New York) Empowering girls of color with the skills, experiences, and confidence to pursue careers in STEM – all through the power of dance

• Women in Technology Cyber Security Educational Program (USA - Georgia) - Providing disadvantaged single mothers ages 23-43, interested in science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) workforce, a pathway to improve the quality of their lives and the lives of their children

• LaunchCode's National Tech Career Accelerator (USA - Missouri) - Rocketing women and folks of other marginalized genders into the tech workforce through free training and paid apprenticeship career placement

• Ada Developers Academy (Ada) Changing the face of tech (USA - Washington) - Preparing women and gender expansive people to become software developers, and training tech companies to foster more equitable working environments

• Girls on the Mic: STEM Audio Training Pipeline (USA - California) - Increasing gender/racial equity in the audio/STEM fields, providing hands-on creative technology workshops and mentorship

• Code Girls United (USA - Montana) - Building college and career pathways for 4th-12th grade girls in rural and tribal communities across Montana through leadership skills, self-empowerment, and hands-on experiences in coding, technology, and business.

In this interactive and action-driven session, attendees will hear from our Solver teams who will showcase the progress they have made since being selected at the Solve Challenge Finals in September 2023. During the session, participants will form ad hoc brain trusts, providing advice and brainstorming opportunities for improvement, partnership, and investment to the 2023 Indigenous Communities Fellows.

The 2023 Indigenous Communities Fellows are:

• Coalescence Curriculum on Carnivore Coexistence is a braiding of culture, science, and technology into a decolonized and interactive online education platform where youth can learn how to coexist with large carnivores.

• Indigeponics: Resiliency & Economic Development is creating an indigenous space in controlled environment agriculture for tribal economic development and community resiliency through training and knowledge sharing.

• Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi provides meaningful work-based learning opportunities to Native Hawaiian youth in East Maui through a service-oriented education continuum to strengthen environmental stewardship, cultural identity, intergenerational relationships, and technical skills.

• Natives Rising — Empowerment through tech & entrepreneurship is a nonprofit organization that economically empowers Indigenous communities through tech careers and entrepreneurship.

• Shawish Market- Virtual Indigenous Marketplace is a virtual marketplace dedicated to Indigenous entrepreneurs offering them an opportunity to create their own online shops with no transaction or monthly fees to its vendors, making it accessible and affordable.

• Totem is creating a new tradition of Native wealth-building through digital banking.

• Waniskâw is a free online self-directed learning platform for Indigenous youth across turtle-island to create and share digital artwork.

Explore how your organization can reach its social and environmental impact goals by launching its own customized open innovation challenge powered by MIT Solve. In this interactive workshop, participants will hear learnings from a recent client success story and apply Solve’s challenge design methodology to envision their own social innovation challenge. 

In this interactive and action-driven session, attendees will hear from our Solver teams who will showcase the progress they have made since being selected at the Solve Challenge Finals in September 2023. During the session, participants will form ad hoc brain trusts, providing advice and brainstorming opportunities for improvement, partnership, and investment to the 2023 Financial Inclusion Solver teams.

The Financial Inclusion Solvers are:

• Rahat Beema (Nepal) - Blockchain-powered micro-insurance platform building financial resilience for low-income farmers and migrants against climate shocks

• PesaKit (Kenya) - Last mile fintech and digital commerce startup building the future of money and commerce in the way people live and work in Africa

• NaYa Health (Cameroon) - Empowering low-income informal workers and health care providers with inclusive access to financial and health care services through digital health credit, community savings, and deferred payments

• Lucrefy (Brazil) - Lucrefy helps to control small company's finance figures, such as profits and cash flow, using simple text messages via WhatsApp and Telegram

• Tiny Totos (Kenya) - By digitizing and monetizing transactions in the informal childcare economy, Tiny Totos has built a robust credit worthiness tool for unbanked women to borrow against

• Agpreneur (Nigeria) - Finance, climate-smart training, and market access for farm cooperatives