Emilio Frazzoli, MIT Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, nuTonomy CTO
This forum will bring together senior executives with thought leaders from MIT to explore the best methods for creating and organizing corporate innovation and venturing groups. We will also discuss how the MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) helps firms engage with the world-leading thinkers at MIT who tackle humanity's most vexing challenges and the entrepreneurs who turn MIT innovations into working solutions.
Alan Kriz - Open Innovation and Investment
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.
Sertac Karaman, Cofounder, Optimus Ride
JC Gutiérrez-Ramos, President and CEO, Synlogic
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.
The IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge is MIT’s longest running social entrepreneurship program housed in the PKG Public Service Center. For more information and to apply, please read here.
Matthew Decker
Global Technical Leader - Comfort and Biophysics Group,W.L. Gore & Associates