Announcing HUBweek 2016
It’s here!
Tonight, alongside our four founders, MIT, Harvard, Mass General Hospital and The Boston Globe, we officially launched HUBweek 2016.
We’re thrilled to share that HUBweek 2016 will take place this fall from Sunday, September 25 through Saturday, October 1, hosted across Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. This year, three concepts that are critical in fueling our innovation & creative economy will be explored in-depth.
- Ideas to impact: Exploring a paradigm shift in how we perceive, support and further early-stage ideas and slower-growing concepts; creating systematic ways to help entrepreneurs deliver their ideas to the world.
- Intersections (in art, science, and tech): The next digital revolution is being fueled by the intersection of art, science, and technology. Delving into the impacts and possibilities of creativity and artistic/design processes on technological and scientific advances; understanding cultural implications of these rapid advances.
- Inclusive innovation: Creating economic opportunity for all workers in the digital era; mission-driven innovations that lead to access for non-represented populations, breakthroughs for positive impact.
Throughout the week, these themes influence programming, activations and conversations at every level.
One of the first 2016 events we’ve announced falls under the Inclusive Innovation theme. Just yesterday, the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy announced the Inclusive Innovation Competition, a challenge that was born out of MIT’s Solve @ HUBweek last fall. This competition seeks to inspire, showcase and celebrate solutions and organizations that create greater economic opportunity across society through innovation.
At the heart of this competition is an open challenge: How can technology drive progress and growth, while ensuring that ALL of our society is brought along into a brighter future?
All organizations of any size, age or type are welcome to submit their ideas and applications are open now through June 1. The competition will culminate in a celebration and showcase during HUBweek, at which time four winners will be each awarded a grand prize of $125,000 to implement their solutions.
What else is in store?
Fenway Forum @ Faneuil Hall with Harvard professor Michael Sandel returns to HUBweek. New thought leaders. Similar deep dive into ethical dilemmas brought on by advances in technology — questions like should we make machines that outthink us? Craft perfect kids?
An expanded Celebrate Boston Party, a workspace takeover with non-profits, startups and over 2,000 young professionals & community members.
De-Stress Boston, a massive community-wide event, hosted by MGH. Last year’s event hosted 500 Bostonians and led them in various relaxation and stress-busting techniques.
We’ll have many more details and announcements to come in the next few months, and our first schedule will be available mid-June. In the meantime, don’t forget to save the date for HUBweek, and check out all the ways you and your organization can get involved. Bold ideas, creative minds, unexpected experiences, and a whole lot of fun. You’re not going to want to miss it.
This is truly just the beginning. We are so energized by all the thinking and ideas that are already coming to life. Sharing will accelerate creativity and innovation. And, we can’t wait to see what we create together in 2016.
