University of Massachusetts Amherst Selected to Host Hult Prize Impact Summit

Hult Prize

The Hult Prize Foundation has officially announced the locations and co-hosts of its 2021 Impact Summits. This year’s summits will take place across 50 different cities around the world, each hosting the regional final round of the Hult Prize flagship one-million-dollar startup challenge.

University of Massachusetts Amhersthas been selected as a co-host for one of the 50 summits happening in March and April. In its 12th year, the Hult Prize Foundation received a record number of city-wide bids from over one-thousand applicants across the world, representing more than 3,000 organizations including private foundations, NGOs and higher education institutions.

“We are grateful and excited to host the Hult Challenge Regional competition. The University of Massachusetts is a significant intellectual and economic driver for New England, with a top food science program in our College of Natural Science and strong social entrepreneurship and social justice roots. Our innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem welcomes these candidates in anticipation of hearing their ideas,” says Gregory S Thomas, executive director of the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship.

Charlemagne Quinitio, chief operating officer at the Hult Prize Foundation credits the University’s commitment to building forward thinking leaders who put an emphasis on shared value as the main reason the bid committee gave them the nod. “It’s not every day you find a partner organization that feels the exact same you do about the potential of young people to change the world. We are really looking forward to seeing the regional level impact that our Impact Summit atAmherst can have.”

Hult Prize Impact Summits have a history of being life changing experiences for attendees and bring together a community of people with an outlook of changing the world through business. Events are open to college and university students, industry professionals, academic leaders and non-profit/government executives. Planned programming includes professional networking mixers, social events, inspirational keynote speeches, workshops and the headline activity of the summit - the regional final demo day of the million-dollar Hult Prize Challenge. More than 200 short-listed entrepreneurs will be pitching startups that solve this year’s UN issued food challenge.  At stake for one lucky team is a golden ticket invitation to attend the award winning Hult Prize Accelerator program getting them one step closer to winning $1,000,000 in startup capital.

Registration for the Impact Summits open on February 27th. Learn more about the Hult Prize by visiting hultprize.org.