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Panel moderator: Marcus Dahllof, Program Director, MIT Startup Exchange

Panelists:
Caleb Harper, Director, OpenAg, MIT Media Lab
Dilip Sundaram, President, Corporate, Mahindra Group - Americas
Jan Schnorr, CEO, C2Sense
Alan Kriz, Strategic Alliance Manager, Crop Science, Bayer
Tejal Mody, Managing Director, Rabobank

James J. Collins, Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science, MIT & co-founder of Enbiotix, Synlogic, and multiple other startups fostered in the Collins lab, including Sample6.

Alan Kriz - Open Innovation and Investment

Josh Adler, Sourcewater Founder & CEO

Introduced by Marcus Dahllof, Associate Program Director, MIT Startup Exchange; Cliff Reid, PhD, CEO, Travera; Todd Gierahn, PhD, Cofounder, Honeycomb; Laura Indolfi, PhD, CEO & Cofounder, PanTher Therapeutics; Ulrik Nielsen, PhD, CEO & Cofounder, Torque; Jason Norris, Cofounder, Elektrofi; Patrick Stern, PhD, CEO & Founder, Sextant; Carlos Castro-Gonzalez, PhD, CEO & Cofounder, Leuko Labs; and Alec Nielsen, PhD, Cofounder, Asimov.

"Trends in automotive robotics," Alexander Zak, Director Corporate R&D, Magna International

John Andrews, CEO, Celect

David Shrier, CEO & founder, Distilled Identity

Panel Discussion 

• How can technology improve the lifestyle choices we make and how productive we are at work over time?  
• As wearables move from measuring physical data to measuring brain health, how can we “listen” to our bodies to minimize stress, and avoid lost productivity?
• What nutritional technologies will enable individuals and companies to make the right dietary decisions for healthier and happier lives?
• What role do companies play in furthering these changes?

Panelists: 

• Prof. Leonard P. Guarente, Novartis Professor of Biology, MIT & co-founder, Elysium Health
• Matthew Decker, Global Technical Leader - Comfort and Biophysics Group, W.L. Gore & Associates
• David T. Thibodeau, Managing Director, Wellvest Capital
• Josh Sarmir, Co-Founder & CEO, SplitSage

Moderator: Trond Undheim, Ph.D., Lead, MIT Startup Exchange, MIT ILP

Dilip Sundaram - Corporate Keynote