Alex Amouyel of MIT Solve

The world has many problems, but few solutions—too few good, effective, *scalable* solutions. MIT Solve seeks to change this. Solve, “a community of cross-sector leaders devoted to identifying and supporting solutions to actionable challenges through open innovation,” is helmed by Executive Director Alex Amouyel, who recently popped over to our Boston studio for a chat with Gaurav Rohatgi, Co-Lead of EPAM Continuum’s Life Sciences Vertical. Amouyel explains that Solve is a “marketplace for social impact innovation,” to which Rohatgi asks: *Why* is such a marketplace necessary? In this free-flowing conversation, Amouyel talks about many topics: How her biochemistry background helps her communicate with her STEM-based network, a Solver team's cool childhood development milestones app, and the profound importance of optimism in social innovation. She also provides important details about the Challenge Design Workshop we’re co-hosting with Solve, in our Boston studio, on Tuesday, January 28, at 3 p.m. We hope you enjoy this dialogue and invite you to join us for the workshop—and perhaps a chance to have your *own* conversation with Amouyel.