MIT Sloan School of Management fellow Jean-Jacques Degroof has more than three decades of experience in venture capital. Heavily involved in MIT initiatives, Jean-Jacques Degroof is a member of MIT Solve. Solve challenges innovators and entrepreneurs to seek new solutions to the problems facing humanity. One of these relates to the uncertain future of work. Advances in technology, from artificial intelligence to automation, are transforming how work is performed on factory floors, equity-trading desks, and even farms. These advances will displace people from their current positions and squeeze wages for other workers. However, all is not lost. Many believe that these transformations will also create new jobs and unleash the creative potential of humanity. In the future, there will be a need for continuous learning, as more people are forced to reskill and find new roles. Solve seeks to support innovators who have developed tech-based solutions that will ensure no one gets left behind in tomorrow’s workforce. The community opened submissions from companies that offer paths to reskill and retrain employees, develop inclusive platforms for temporary and freelance workers, and include disenfranchised groups while creating new technologies and jobs. These submissions will be judged by a group of renowned professionals chaired by World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Eventual winners will receive grant funding to pursue these goals.
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