xTechIgnite is a competition for eligible small businesses across the U.S. to engage with the Department of Defense (DoD), earn prize money and submit a Phase I or Direct to Phase II (D2PhII) Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal.
Wise Systems: AI-driven platform to optimize fleet-wide efficiency James Agan, Product Marketing Manager, Wise Systems
DUST Identity: Linking objects to digital records to solve complex supply chain security needs Ophir Gaathon, CEO & Co-Founder, DUST Identity
Aulera: Create and Leverage Digital Identities for Physical Products Nathan Stempel, CFO & Co-founder, Aulera
Colvin Run Networks: Defense-grade assurance and analytics solutions Michael McComas, VP of Innovation, Colvin Run Networks
SourceTrace: Agri-Food digital solutions for sustainable farming and efficient, transparent and traceable supply chains Venkat Maroju, CEO, SourceTrace
Lightning Talk
Backed by the first-ever student-run VC fund at MIT, the Future Makers Pitch Competition is where visionary founders meet the global VC community.
AltaStata, founded by MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers, is offering a strategic partnership to MIT AI startups by providing a free self-service toolkit to our design partners.
Alec Shkolnik, CoFounder and CEO, LiquidPiston
Panelists include Sangbae Kim, Grant Allen, Alexander Zak, Sampriti Bhattachryya, Tom Ryden, and Maja Haji
Paula Hammond, PhD, David H. Koch Professor in Engineering and Department Head, Chemical Engineering, MIT, Member of the Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, and Cofounder of Svaya Nanotechnologies and LayerBio