Solve Challenge Finals 2024

New York City, New York

Overview Supporters Schedule Speakers Prizes

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. Investors and philanthropists gather to meet the innovators who join from all over the world, hear them pitch their solutions, and watch them win funding from a $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.

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:

  1. Meeting the 2024 Solver Class in person! All of our newly selected innovators for this year’s cohort will travel from around the world to meet at Solve Challenge Finals. This is the kickoff to their nine-month support program with Solve and an opportunity for them to get to know us, each other, and YOU! 

  2. Listening to the Solver pitches. Each year we leave Solve Challenge Finals feeling hopeful for the future after hearing so many world-changing ideas from these innovators dedicated to change. 

  3. Watching prize reveals! There’s nothing quite like seeing the look on someone’s face when they find out they are a prize recipient! A pool of over $1 million is available for eligible solutions.

Location

The event will take place at the Apella, 450 E 29th St, New York, NY 10016. Please bring a photo ID with you.


Featured Speakers

Nate Angell

Senior Advisor, Morgridge Family Foundation

United States

Emily Atkin

Editor-in-Chief, HEATED

David Bank

Editor and CEO, ImpactAlpha

Lynette Bell

President, Truist Foundation

Rachana Bhide

Psychologist and Broadcaster

Taina Bien-Aimé

Executive Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

Alain-Richard Donwahi

President, 15th COP of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Eric Grimson

Chancellor for Academic Advancement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hala Hanna

Executive Director, MIT Solve

Cilia Holmes Indahl

CEO, EQT Foundation

H.E. Minister Thoriq Ibrahim

Minister of Climate Change, Environment & Energy, Republic of Maldives

Jacqueline Innocent

Senior Vice President, Integrated Programs, Habitat for Humanity International

Mosun Layode

Executive Director, African Philanthropy Forum

Fatou Mandiang Diatta (Sister Fa)

Singer and Activist for Child Protection

Lauren Marks

Global Head: Partnerships and External Affairs, Johnson & Johnson Global Health Equity

Elizabeth McGovern

Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

United States

Carrie Morgridge

Vice President and Chief Disruptor, Morgridge Family Foundation

United States

Jason Newman

Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Caroline T. Nguyen

Managing Director, Millennium Challenge Corporation

Lye Ogunsanya

IUSA Emerging Leader 22

Nick Okafor

Founder and Executive Director, trubel&co

United States

David Moinina Sengeh

Chief Innovation Officer, Government of Sierra Leone

Mariela Shaker

Violinist; Founder and Director, Highams Park Music Academy

Kristen Siemen

Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, General Motors

Cara Tabachnick

News Editor, CBS News, Director, Journalism Centre on Global Trafficking

Skylar Tibbits

Associate Professor of Design Research in the Department of Architecture, MIT

Brendan Vaughan

Editor-in-Chief, Fast Company

Tricia Wang

Co-Founder, Sudden Compass

Sarah Woodcock

CEO, The Anti-Slavery Collective

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