The MIT Startup Exchange Lightning Talks listed below are part of the full agenda for Manufacturing and Supply Chain (Zoom Webinar).
In today’s dynamic landscape, manufacturing and supply chain operations face increasing complexity, driven by global risks, environmental considerations, and rapid technological advancements. The upcoming MIT ILP Lead Edge Webinar, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, will explore critical challenges and emerging strategies shaping the sector's future.
Topics will include managing supply chain risks, evaluating environmental impact scenarios, and leveraging AI and digitalization to improve operational efficiency and resilience. The webinar will also address approaches to carbon footprint mitigation and the role of accurate carbon accounting in advancing sustainability objectives.
Register today to gain valuable perspectives on navigating the evolving manufacturing and supply chain environment.
Program Manager, MIT Startup Exchange
Ariadna Rodenstein is a Program Manager at MIT Startup Exchange. She joined MIT Corporate Relations as an Events Leader in September 2019 and is responsible for designing and executing startup events, including content development, coaching and hosting, and logistics. Ms. Rodenstein works closely with the Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) in promoting collaboration and partnerships between MIT-connected startups and industry, as well as with other areas around the MIT innovation ecosystem and beyond.
Prior to working for MIT Corporate Relations, she worked for over a decade at Credit Suisse Group in New York and London, in a few different roles in event management and as Director of Client Strategy. Ms. Rodenstein has combined her experience in the private sector with work at non-profits as a Consultant and Development Director at New York Immigration Coalition, Immigrant Defense Project, and Americas Society/Council of the Americas. She also served as an Officer on the Board of Directors of the Riverside Clay Tennis Association in New York for several years. Additionally, she earned her B.A. in Political Science and Communications from New York University, with coursework at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City, and her M.A. in Sociology from the City University of New York.
Co-Founder, Neta
Mar is from Mexico and a recent MBA graduate of MIT Sloan School of Management. She has extensive experience in corporate finance, investor relations, and carbon management.
She worked at a Kenyan-based forestry company, where she experienced firsthand the struggles businesses face in navigating the complexities of carbon projects.
She has developed strong domain expertise and a robust network of connections in the carbon space. In her free time, you can find her sailing on the Charles River or running marathons around the world.
CEO & Co-Founder, Helix Carbon
Evan Haas is CEO & Co-Founder of Helix Carbon, an industrial decarbonization company that turns CO2 into carbon-negative industrial chemicals. Prior to Helix, he was the Senior Fellow at E14 Fund, the MIT-affiliated venture fund that invests in deep technology startups, and a consultant at BCG where he focused on military aerospace and climate technology commercialization & policy with Breakthrough Energy and the Biden Administration. Evan holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Yale University an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and MBA from MIT.
Disclaimer: MIT Startup Exchange can make introductions that ideally provide open ended discussions in order to share mutual interests and potentially create common ground that incite the parties to collaborate. MIT Startup Exchange introductions may eventually lead to mutual partnerships, but that is not in any way guaranteed by MIT, MIT Corporate Relations, MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) or MIT Startup Exchange, which takes no responsibility for these outcomes and no formal part in such discussions following our introduction. MIT Startup Exchange and its activities and events are not for purposes of soliciting investment or offering securities.