Josh Adler, Sourcewater Founder & CEO
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.
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas) and State Power Investment Corporation Limited (SPIC), along with the Epoch Foundation, are cohosting the inaugural TERA-Award under the theme of “Exploring zero-carbon innovations for the future”.
Does your startup have a solution for urgent Covid-19 needs? Ideally they should be validated to work and demonstrate feasibility to scale. And could contacts to corporates help you scale up? MIT Startup Exchange is looking to help you connect.
MIT Startup Exchange presents its September Startup Workshop, centered around sustainable materials innovation. Today, there is a large and growing societal interest for greater sustainability in the material systems that provide for a modern life style. The call is across all industry sectors, and includes the entire value chain including raw materials, material processing, material uses, and end-of-cycle treatment/reuse. This represents a challenge and an opportunity for companies, and many MIT startups are developing and providing innovative technology and business model solutions.
2019 MIT Startup Exchange Workshop: Sustainable Materials Innovation
December 3, 2019
MIT Startup Exchange presents its December Startup Workshop, centered around sustainable materials innovation. MIT Startup Exchange works to help create partnerships between over 1,800 MIT-connected startups and industry, represented by MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) members. Today, there is a large and growing societal interest for greater sustainability in the material systems that provide for a modern life style. The call is across all industry sectors, and includes the entire value chain including raw materials, material processing, material uses, and end-of-cycle treatment/reuse. This represents a challenge and an opportunity for companies, and many MIT startups are developing and providing innovative technology and business model solutions. This workshop will present perspectives from industry leaders, academics, and corporate investors, while showcasing several MIT-connected startups in this field.
Gerdau, a large iron & steel company with many assets, is looking for startups in energy, storage, battery, graphene. Their team is visiting the week of Feb. 11th.
Gerdau is looking for startups able to perform visual inspection on welding work, using computational image and ML/AI. Companies would be invited to present to a group of ten of Gerdau's biggest fabricator clients in the US on Oct. 8th. These presentations would be part of Gerdau's Customer Advisory Board that has a focus on digital transformation and solutions.
Are you seeking industry collaborations to launch or scale your technology in the water and sanitation space? Join us for a virtual reverse pitch session with Aegea, Brazil’s largest private water and sanitation utility, and gain direct access to business unit leaders actively scouting for tech base solutions. Register by December 4.
Leading mining company Rio Tinto seeking solutions to capture and reuse underground heat, contributing towards powering equipment needed to cool operations.