04.30.24-Startup-Ecosystem-Conference-Fireside-Chat-Investing-in-Science-Based-Startups

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

Tricia Dinkel
Manager of Partnerships & Engagement, MIT Startup Exchange

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

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