The 15th Annual EmTech MIT, November 2–4, 2015, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Explores technologies highlighted in the recent 10 Breakthrough Technologies list and celebrates the 2015 Innovators Under 35.
ANNOUNCEMENT
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Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
Director & Founder
Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence, Boston
http://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com
Co-Founder, GDE,
Boston, USA and Lausanne, Switzerland
e-Mail: avivalev-ari@alum.berkeley.edu
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Monday, November 2
8:00 Registration & Breakfast
9:00 Opening Remarks
A welcome from MIT Technology Review’s Editor in Chief and Publisher, and our EmTech MIT emcee.
Jason Pontin
Editor in Chief and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
9:15 Augmented Knowledge
Our daily experience will be redefined as breakthroughs in AI make connected devices smarter, weaving them seamlessly into our environments at home, at work, and on the go.
Eric Horvitz
Distinguished Scientist and Director, Microsoft Research
On AI Futures
Yann LeCun
Director of AI Research, Facebook
Teaching Machines to Understand Us
10:15 Meet the Innovators Under 35
Yunji Chen
Professor, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2015 Innovator Under 35
Adam Coates
Director, SV AI Lab, Baidu
2015 Innovator Under 35
10:30 Break & Networking
11:00 Rethinking Urban Infrastructure
Older cities face aging infrastructure, while rapid urbanization has new cities under pressure to deliver sustainable services quickly. Around the world, cities are focusing on new technologies to help prepare for dramatic population growth.
Ryan Chin
Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab
The Urban Mobility Challenge
Steve Leonard
Executive Deputy Chairman, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Joseph Bradley
Vice President, IoE Practice, Cisco, Senior Research Fellow, Global Center for Digital Business Transformation
Connected Urban Environments
12:15 Partner Session
12:30 Lunch & Networking
2:00 Infinite Energy
Falling oil prices have many concerned about continued investment in renewable energy sources. We’ll look at innovators working to ensure that we take advantage of this trend to further expand our alternatives.
Robert Armstrong
Director, MIT Energy Initiative
The Future of Solar Energy
Leslie Dewan
Cofounder and Chief Science Officer, Transatomic Power
Rethinking Nuclear Power
3:00 Partner Session
Joseph Coray
Vice President, Technology & Life Science Practice, International, The Hartford Financial Services Group
Presented by the Hartford Financial Services Group
3:15 Meet the Innovators Under 35
Gozde Durmus
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University
2015 Innovator Under 35
Jun Ge
Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
2015 Innovator Under 35
Zhen Gu
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University
2015 Innovator Under 35
Michelle O’Malley
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
2015 Innovator Under 35
Aaswath Raman
Research Associate, Stanford University
2015 Innovator Under 35
3:30 Break & Networking
4:00 Global Entrepreneurship
A conversation with Maria Contreras-Sweet, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, on trends in technology entrepreneurship.
Hosted by Kathleen Kennedy, President, MIT Technology Review
Maria Contreras-Sweet
Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration
Global Entrepreneurship
4:20 Meet the Innovators Under 35
Yevgen Borodin
Research Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
2015 Innovator Under 35
Rebecca Steorts
Assistant Professor, Duke University
2015 Innovator Under 35
4:40 Technology Spotlight: Big Data
Examining a new era of innovation in big data.
Jeff Hammerbacher
Founder and Chief Scientist, Cloudera
A New Era of Innovation in Big Data
5:00 Better Living Through Data
Increasingly sophisticated and affordable digital health solutions are poised to improve health care and well-being around the world.
Halle Tecco
Managing Director NYC, Rock Health
The Future of Digital Health
5:30 Lemelson-MIT Prize Honors and Reception
Tuesday, November 3
8:00 Registration & Breakfast
9:00 Opening Remarks
A welcome from MIT Technology Review’s Editor in Chief and Publisher, and our EmTech MIT emcee.
Jason Pontin
Editor in Chief and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
9:15 Robots Among Us
Examining the impact as advances in AI, robotics, and automation lead to more natural interactions between humans and machines, as we prepare for an era of reliable robots assisting workers across countless global industries.
Robert Wood
Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Founding Core Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Robots Among Us
Hod Lipson
Professor of Engineering, Columbia University
Seeking Creative Machines
10:30 Break & Networking
11:00 Drones at Work
The founder of iRobots, currently inventing flying robots at CyPhy Works, shares her vision for robots that empower people.
Helen Greiner
CEO, CyPhy Works
Drones at Work
11:20Meet the Innovators Under 35
Zakir Durumeric
PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
2015 Innovator Under 35
Benjamin Tee
Singapore-Stanford Global Biodesign Innovation Fellow, Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR)
2015 Innovator Under 35
Conor Walsh
Assistant Professor, Harvard University
2015 Innovator Under 35
Melonee Wise
CEO, Fetch Robotics
2015 Innovators Under 35
11:40 Privacy & Security in the Digital Age
Data is being generated, stored, and utilized in new ways. How should individuals and organizations alike manage the implications of near total transparency?
Christopher Soghoian
Principal Technologist, ACLU
Privacy and Security in the Digital Age
12:20 Partner Session
12:30 Lunch & Networking
2:00 Breaking the Code for Better Health
A timely examination of breakthroughs in genomic engineering to fight human diseases.
Katrine Bosley
Chief Executive, Editas Medicine
Transformative Genome Editing
2:30 Meet the Innovators Under 35
Polina Anikeeva
Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
2015 Innovator Under 35
Canan Dagdeviren
Postdoctoral Researcher, The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
2015 Innovator Under 35
Gilad Evrony
Physician-Scientist, Mount Sinai Hospital
2015 Innovator Under 35
Cigall Kadoch
Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
2015 Innovator Under 35
Rikky Muller
CTO and Cofounder, Cortera Neurotechnologies
2015 Innovator Under 35
2:45 Partner Session
3:00 Investing in Big Ideas
Insights into investing in big ideas, from a thought leader in the VC industry and board member of companies including Tesla and SpaceX.
Steve Jurvetson
Partner, DFJ
Investing in Big Ideas
3:30 Break & Networking
4:00 Technology Spotlight
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2015: Nano-Architecture
Julia Greer
Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics, California Institute of Technology
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2015: Nano-Architecture
4:20 Meet the Innovators Under 35
Travis Deyle
Senior Hardware Engineer, Google
2015 Innovator Under 35
Jeannette Garcia
Research Staff Member, IBM
2015 Innovator Under 35
Jamie Shotton
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
2015 Innovator Under 35
4:40 Virtual Reality
The way that we engage with our connected environments is evolving radically. How will the growing use of virtual reality solutions intersect with expectations for augmented capabilities in the real world?
Mary Lou Jepsen
Executive Director of Engineering, Facebook, Head of Display Technologies, Oculus
Virtual Reality
5:10 Closing Remarks
5:30 Reception
A Celebration of the 2015 Innovators Under 35
Wednesday, November 4
8:30Registration & Breakfast
9:00 Disruptive Entrepreneurship: 3D Printing
Skylar Tibbits
Director, MIT Self-Assembly Lab
Innovation in 3-D Printing
Shawn DuBravac
Chief Economist and Head of Research, Consumer Electronics Association
2016 Trends: Entrepreneurship in 3D Printing
11:00Tours of MIT Labs, Kendall Square
Separate registration required.
Program Highlights
Steve Jurvetson
Partner, DFJ
Insights into investing in big ideas, from a thought leader in the VC industry and board member of companies including Tesla and SpaceX
Topics
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Augmented Knowledge
Our daily experience will be redefined as breakthroughs in AI make connected devices smarter, weaving them seamlessly into our environments at home, at work, and on the go.
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Better Living Through Data
From powerful new tools for sharing and analyzing genetic information to the increasingly sophisticated biometric tracking capabilities of connected fitness devices, data-driven, personalized health care has arrived.
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Infinite Energy
Falling oil prices have many concerned about continued investment in renewable energy sources. We’ll look at innovators working to ensure that we take advantage of this trend to further expand our alternatives.
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Rethinking Urban Infrastructure
Older cities face aging infrastructure, while rapid urbanization has new cities under pressure to deliver sustainable services quickly. Around the world, cities are focusing on new technologies to help prepare for dramatic population growth.
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Robots Among Us
Recent advances mean we will see robots deployed in many global industries and in new and surprising ways. Leading innovators are designing machines to interact more naturally—and safely—with humans in our existing environments, as well as reimaging productivity for the future.
Who Should Attend
MIT Technology Review events consistently attract senior-level business and technology decision makers who drive the global innovation economy. EmTech is a must-attend for:
- CEOs, CTOs, CIOs
- Policy Leaders
- Innovators
- Tech Media
- Entrepreneurs
- Venture Investors
- IP Attorneys
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A Tradition in Technology
For almost 115 years, MIT Technology Review has been identifying important new technologies and deciphering their practical impact. We’ve brought that mission and our journalism to life through EmTech since 1999, gathering the sharpest minds in the technology, engineering, academic, startup, and management communities to provide insight into the innovations that shape the world and your business.
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Venue + Travel
EmTech happens at the MIT Media Lab in the heart of the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. Here, you can’t help but feel the excitement and inspiration of being on the campus of the top university in the world, and surrounded by the top technology minds anywhere.
November 2-4, 2015
MIT Media Lab
75 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-5960
General questions? Contact eventsreg@technologyreview.com
Speakers
The technology and business leaders driving the new global economy are here. We tap the rich diversity of the tech community to gather experts who’ll give you the inside track on the technologies and businesses that disrupt industries, create entirely new markets and change society.
Speaker nominations are no longer being accepted for EmTech MIT. If you would like to nominate a speaker to be considered for our 2016 conference series, you may do so on our speaker nomination page.
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