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MIT CIO is recruiting startups for the annual Innovation Showcase

Deadline: March 31, 2026

2026 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium & Innovation Showcase are back on May 18-19, 2026! The Innovation Showcase highlights 10 outstanding early-stage companies with cutting-edge solutions that combine both value and innovation to Enterprise IT. Portfolio companies of MIT Startup Exchange are invited to apply. 

 

Selection Criteria
  • Enterprise IT solution with product available in the market

  • Innovation and/or strategic value, or uniqueness of the solution

  • Potential impact on the Top and/or Bottom Line

 

Qualification Criteria
  • Start-up with <$10 million in annual revenues

  • Selling enterprise IT solutions to CIOs or corporate departments.

 

Selection Process
  • The online application is free

  • Applications due March 31st - APPLY HERE

  • Finalist decisions announced mid-late April.

The Innovation Showcase Judges consist of MIT faculty and students, entrepreneurs, and early stage investors.

Deadline: March 31, 2026
Posted on: March 13, 2026
Location: Cambridge, MA

2026 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium & Innovation Showcase are back on May 18-19, 2026! The Innovation Showcase highlights 10 outstanding early-stage companies with cutting-edge solutions that combine both value and innovation to Enterprise IT. Portfolio companies of MIT Startup Exchange are invited to apply. 

 

Selection Criteria
  • Enterprise IT solution with product available in the market

  • Innovation and/or strategic value, or uniqueness of the solution

  • Potential impact on the Top and/or Bottom Line

 

Qualification Criteria
  • Start-up with <$10 million in annual revenues

  • Selling enterprise IT solutions to CIOs or corporate departments.

 

Selection Process
  • The online application is free

  • Applications due March 31st - APPLY HERE

  • Finalist decisions announced mid-late April.

The Innovation Showcase Judges consist of MIT faculty and students, entrepreneurs, and early stage investors.

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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.