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
MIT Startup Exchange Live Demo Day
April 2, 2025
FM Global is a mutually-owned, commercial, property-risk insurer based out of Johnston, Rhode Island, United States. We are a non-traditional insurer, focused on engineering analysis to determine premium and risk. FM Global believes that majority of losses are preventable. Historically, FM Global has focused on sprinklers and other conventional loss prevention technologies.
Leading petrochemical company seeks technologies to enable weight reduction of thermoplastics in packaging and the automotive industry.
Finland has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2035. Helsinki’s pledge is set for 2030. Most organizations and states have made pledges that materialize decades away. Finland is therefore leading the way in these important commitments, crucial to fight the existential threat of climate change. Constant innovation, coupled with rapid commercialization, are key to the success of these ambitious goals. Great challenges abound, and these are coupled with numerous opportunities for profitable business outcomes for Finnish companies – opportunities that are not limited to Finland but applicable around the globe.
The MIT Industrial Liaison Program and the MIT Startup Exchange, in collaboration with Aalto University, are conducting a one-day symposium at the Dipoli center in the heart of the university campus. MIT and Aalto University faculty and startups, as well as representatives from Finnish industry, will discuss the business and technology challenges needed to further accelerate sustainable innovation. Launching and commercializing these innovations quickly will ensure that Finnish companies and institutions establish a leadership role in the crucial decades ahead.
As our keynote presentation, Prof. Carlo Ratti will discuss his team’s project, Helsinki’s Hot Heart, award winner of the 2021 Helsinki Energy Challenge. The project is an innovative and transformative energy storage system to provide district heating to the city. The MIT-Aalto Symposium will be an opportunity for the Finnish business community to interact directly with Prof. Ratti on this venture, intimately linked to life in Helsinki. Participants from the business community will also be able to engage with other faculty presenters, startups and with each other, an unusual occurrence in the past two years.
MIT Professional Education and Aalto Executive Education will also offer opportunities for continued engagement and learning for the Finnish corporate community.
Think & Act Differently (TAD), powered by BHP, is a dynamic team with a passion for people and innovative ideas dedicated to assembling inquisitive minds to address today's resource challenges and revolutionize mineral and metal extraction for the future.