Startupfest 2015: CHRIS SHIPLEY - "Future of" stage

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In 35 years, 9.6 billion people will inhabit our planet.

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Hungercancer

Epidemic diseaseCarbon emissions

Access toeducationAffordable housing

clean water

Income Inequality

DementiaClean energyClimate Change

Poverty

HIV/AIDS

We must start now.

We can no longer be patient, expecting the old ways of solving systemic problems to work.

Humanitarian aid

PhilanthropyPolicy reform

Technological advances

None of these alone will make enough progress fast

enough to solve our toughest problems.Market forces

We need a new approach.

ConveneCollaborate

CatalyzeConnect

Calibrate

Provide quality education to anyone, anywhere who has a desire to learn.

Leverage innovations and research to make health-care affordable and universally available.

Double energy and food production and halve carbon output.

Provide the infrastructure and economic opportunity to support nearly 10 billion people.

Let’s begin.

http://solve.mit.edusolve@mit.edu

Chris Shipleycshipley@mit.edu