Investing in the Drivers of the Future of Energy, Ben Sampson, Director, Energy, GE Ventures
Panel discussion
What are the latest advances in energy innovation?
· The here and now: Where are we today? What new tech tools and approaches are available? What are the most successful energy startups from MIT doing at the moment and why?
· What’s on the near horizon? What new applications are opening up? What are the investment opportunities? What is the smart money focused on? What are corporate priorities in seeking novel energy tech? What does the new energy innovation ecosystem look like (infrastructure, interoperability, technology, use cases, stakeholders, success stories)?
· The future: What advances will we see over the next few years? What's in it for consumers? What are you personally the most excited about?
Panelists:
· Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
· Dave Truch, Technology Director, Digital Innovation Organization, BP
· Ben Sampson, Director, Energy, GE Ventures
· Tor Jakob Ramsoy, CEO & Founder, Arundo
The Dubai Police is offering a partnership opportunity for the Smart City Naif project in Dubai. This concept revolves around the deployment of stable sensor networks for pedestrian movement detection, a comprehensive multimodal traffic overview system (car, pedestrian, bike), real-time incident detection, and Al based automated patrol alerts. Additionally, a physical and digital augmented 3D model will provide an interactive platform for decision-making at Naif police station.
Alec Shkolnik, CoFounder and CEO, LiquidPiston
Andrew A. Radin & Andrew M. Radin
P&G is looking for a number of solutions to improve human-robot collaboration and safety. There are three distinct use cases: highly reliable object detection, deterministic localization for mobile robots, and highly reliable recognition of humans.
Anglo American, a British mining company, is looking for startups in bio technology, rapid access, improved recovery, dry processing, mining legacy, sensor fusion, and EPC disruption.
Early-stage backers of Rivian, JIMCO seeks MIT spin-off startups that are initiating or improving commercialization efforts across multiple industries - eg. energy, water, mobility.