Solve at HUBweek offers local showcase, global springboard for solutions to society’s challenges
How can the benefits of the digital economy be shared more broadly? How can recent technological advances — from algorithms to apps, and from Big Data to mobile devices — be leveraged to build skills, jobs, and opportunities for more workers? Proposals for addressing such consequential questions and others will emerge during Solve at HUBweek, set to take place during the annual “HUBweek” celebration of innovation and creativity in Greater Boston, where Solve debuted last year. Solve, a project of the MIT Office of the President whose mission is to uncover, evaluate, and advance plausible solutions to human problems, provides a platform for teams of innovators to propose their ideas at events such as Solve at HUBweek. The teams with the best solutions will be advanced to a central gathering in May 2017, called Solve at MIT, where the Institute will convene experts and influencers who can help turn the finalists’ ideas...