04.30.24-Startup-Ecosystem-Conference-Startups-Introduction

Gayathri Srinivasan | Executive Director, MIT Corporate Relations
Catarina Madeira | Director, MIT Startup Exchange

Eugene A. Fitzgerald
CEO of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) and the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Moderator:
Gayathri Srinivasan | Executive Director, MIT Corporate Relations

Panelists:
Lesley Millar-Nicholson | Executive Director, MIT Technology Licensing Office (TLO)
Thomas Holcombe | Head of Collaboration & Scouting North America, BASF
Thomas A. Collet | President, CEO, and Director, Bilayer Therapeutics

Amy Nordrum
Executive Editor of Operations, MIT Technology Review

Ron Spangler
Director, MIT Corporate Relations

Panelists:
Brendan Smith | Co-Founder & CEO, SiTration
Saskia Duyvesteyn | Chief Advisor of Research & Development, Rio Tinto
Captain Aisha Saeed Harib | Head of Knowledge, Innovation, and Development Center, Dubai Police
Joshua Sarmir | CEO, SplitSage

William (Bill) Aulet
Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice, MIT Sloan School of Management and Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Katie Rae | CEO and Managing Partner, The Engine Ventures
Carmichael Roberts | Business Lead, Investment Committee, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Co-Founder, Material Impact

Alicia Chong Rodriguez
Founder and CEO, Bloomer Tech

Chris White
COO, Gradient

Daphne Pariser
CEO, HeronAI

Jerry Shu
Co-Founder, Lendica

Stwart Peña Feliz
Co-Founder and CEO, MacroCycle

Sujeesh Krishnan
CEO, Kinnami Software Corporation

Saman Amarasinghe
Co-Founder, Venti Technologies

John Greenfield
Head of Business Development, Noya

Tairan Wang
Co-Founder & CEO, Sangtera

Kanwar Singh
CEO and CO-Founder, Skyline Nav AI

Chris Mannion
Founder, Meander

Catherine O’Shea
COO and Co-Founder, Narratize

Michael Davies
CEO, WKD.SMRT

Irina Gaziyeva
Program Coordinator, MIT Startup Exchange