MIT EmTech, Monday, September 30, 2024 – Tuesday, October 1, 2024 on MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA. Big Ideas. Big Decisions. Big Impact. In-person and online
Dr. Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN, Founder
Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence Group, LLC, Doing Business As LPBI Group, Newton, MA
will be in VIRTUAL attendance
covering this event in REAL TIME for
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8:00 AM
Networking and morning refreshments for our live audience
Leading with Innovation (9:00 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.)
Technology is reshaping the world at a rapid rate and, for some, has surpassed businesses’ ability to keep pace. Two forces must now be factored into every business decision: AI and climate impact. We examine the in-depth implications, as well as the broader landscape of breakthrough technologies, to understand their impact on strategic business decisions
9:00 AM
Technology isn’t just a tool but a strategic lever that shapes business models, influences competitive dynamics, and drives value creation. As the pace of technological change and convergence accelerates, the ability to make informed, forward-looking decisions will be a key differentiator for businesses navigating this digital era.
Mat Honan
Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review
9:15 AM
The wave of innovation on the horizon is intense, potent, and so pervasive it will reshape human existence. As this tech cycle unfurls, there will be the victors and the vanquished, those who seize the reins of this epochal change and those who are swallowed whole. For business leaders, investors, and policymakers, understanding this tech “supercycle” is paramount.
- Data mining of sessmic data
- Risk on teachers vs beating dead hourse – absent tong-term planning
- Strong economy –>>>>>>>> high profitability <——–> Weak economy –>>> low profitability
- W. Virginia 2020 will happen aELSEWHERE in the World as AI revolution of GPT wil reshape society as a whole
Converging technology long-term transformation – LIVING INTELLIGENCE
- Generative AI – AI – General purpose technology
- Biotech
- advanced sensors
- BioEngineering + AI: prompt as input and a molecule as Generative Biology
- Google DeepMind: new materials by combinatorics of elements – synthetic biology
- make gloves which are in shortage by new materials
- Shortage of chips to make computers:
- Organiod Intelligence (OI) – biological material: Biocomputer
Amy Webb
Founder and CEO, Future Today Institute
9:45 AM
Innovations in electric vehicles are a bellwether for industry and society as we move from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. The transition requires changing attitudes, infrastructure, and technology in a way that benefits the consumer, the producer, and global climate objectives. We explore the delicate balance involved in disruptive, essential change.
- Not 100% of cars will be electric. Very many will be Supply chains allowing EV to become leaders in car manufacturing many successful EV projects around the World choices in EV
- Competition in EV is a must have to scale
- Europe 2025 any new vehicle will be EV
- In USA, CA leading the way 2025 avoid combustion enery fossil fuel free auto markets
- Policies are critical
- Charging Infrastructure for parking EV at apartment complexes vs single family homes – enabler for mass scaling
RJ Scaringe
Founder and CEO, Rivian
10:10 AM
Twenty-five years ago, experts believed it would take 100 years for computers to reach human-level intelligence. Ray Kurzweil predicted that we would reach that goal by 2029, and now some others would argue that this may be possible. We take a leap forward to hear Ray’s latest predictions on artificial general intelligence, singularity, and the infinite possibilities of an AI-integrated world.
- 62 years in AI
- AGI – Artificial General Intelligence – each computer can perform at level of intelligence of Humans
- Faster & Better than any human
- 1999 Conference – 100 years no one said 30 years
- 2025 reach singularity – exponential growth Price-Performance in computation
- 1939 (7 relay calculations per second) to
- 2023 (2MM Transistor calculation per second becoming Billion of calculations per second)
- Electricity demand for computation: World Renewable Electricity generation (not including hydroelectricity)
- 1/10,000 more efficient Watts per year
- Solar energy growing and unlimited
- US Personal Income growth per capita: 1960 to 2022
- Life span quick development of drugs for longevity
Ray Kurzweil
Principal Researcher and AI Visionary, Google
Networking Break (10:40 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.)
Networking and refreshments for our live audience.
10:40 AM
Networking Break
10:45 AM
Exclusive networking opportunity for our Innovation Circle attendees, hosted by Mat Honan, editor in chief at MIT Technology Review.
Mat Honan
Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review
Algorithms of Influence (11:10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
Explore the profound impact of AI algorithms on social influence and knowledge transfer across education, business, and politics. This session examines how algorithms shape our perceptions, thoughts, and decisions and influence everything from the products we purchase to the way we cast our votes.
11:10 AM
As the world faces an increase in climate-related events, there is an urgency among businesses to use technology to drive sustainable solutions. A recent survey revealed that, while 80% of organizations see great significance in technology’s role to achieve their goals, only 37% believe they are making full use of it in their organizations. We explore how technologies such as AI can help companies automate sustainability measurement today, while helping them move toward predictive analytics that assess scope 3 emissions, forecast energy consumption, and anticipate potential risks in the future.
- ISO Certification for execution on Global Sustainability integration into 2-yrs Business strategy: modernizing paths for digital transformation
- 16 Countries Study and multiple industries leverage AI to predict what to do in Scenario Analysis
- Energy efficient AI: decapling AI from Carbon AI production in reneable energies. Data centers to use AI.
- Efficiently coding, Governance and ethics are key
- AI for Humanity – UN initiative on Governance and ethics
- Leveraging AI: intent for using AI
Faith Taylor
Global Sustainability & ESG Officer, Kyndryl
11:25 AM
The Internet was supposed to enable large-scale conversation, but this vision has been eroded by fragmentation and toxicity, closing down conversations and exacerbating divides. To solve the problem, we must build back trust, and understand how the nature of trust has changed. Trust in information is no longer determined solely by the authority of its source, but by its authenticity and other heuristics that help situate us relative to “truth”. We explore how the latest tech may be leveraged to establish new forms of public trust and conversation and in so doing, lay a firmer foundation for democracy aligned with the original promise of the internet.
- Information seeking: Trust authority is declining Authenticity and safe Trust algorithms extended to institutions Government and media Trust is participatory horizontal institutions are vertical
- Using AI ML to build models that identify hate and harassment
- Taiwan – anyone in the Country is invited to comment on the Internet, used on Trust in Uber the input used for making a LAW
- Bring together an entire Country – Technology platform for facilitating such participation
- AI – What will happen to us or for us
- Before the Internet Talking one to one or one to many – on the Internet Many to Many
- Democracy vs Autocracy – Conflict transformation, disagreement bot not poalrizing
- Audience to advise when to engage and when not to
- Social space: Gen Z alternative fact checking signals taken from comments online – Authenticity vs Fake – create directional talks
- India vs USA – GPT used to analyzed interactions in Social spaces
Yasmin Green
CEO, Jigsaw (a unit at Google)
11:55 AM
Checkout how algorithms influence purchasing decisions and fill the contents of online shopping carts. We explore the intricacies of platform design, the potential for bias, and the importance of transparency as organizations seek to drive sales and deliver exceptional online shopping experiences.
- Social impact of Technology, AirBnB using Analytics on data
- Hosts rejects Black guests
- Develop a Team to study Social Bias
- Accept / Reject decisions
- Why AirBnB missed the Bias: They are Data driven but topic was not research and data disconnected to social impact. Bring diversity to the Leadership team,
- Old lessons in NEW Era
- Societal impact on society – what are changes positive and desirable to improve society
- Adjust measurement for improving business decisions
- Experiment during Pandemic: Encouragement of Vaccination, cost effectiveness of advertisement on vaccination to move the needle in Public Health toward desirable behavior
- Yelp – Mitigate Bias in advertising vs Demand
Michael Luca
Professor, Johns Hopkins University
12:20 PM
We review session highlights with an MIT Sloan School of Management faculty member who breaks down the business impacts and how they can translate into insights that attendees can take home with them and put to work within their own organizations.
Lunch and Networking Break (12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.)
12:30 PM
Lunch and Networking Break
Generative AI and Beyond (1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.)
Delve into today’s most critical elements of AI development, control, and deployment. As predictive and generative AI weave themselves further into the fabric of our lives, we examine exciting advancements, concerns, and the near-future possibilities brought on by the technology’s ubiquitous presence.
1:30 PM
After an incredible debut, generative AI is moving quickly from promise to production. Powering these advances are large language models and their ability to synthesize text, images, and video. We’ll cover what’s going on in Google’s labs, what they’re hearing from customers, and what lies ahead in the space — from the challenges that remain to be solved to the business models that will turn potential into profit.
- AI innovations comes from companies: Boise, Volkswagen
- Create affinity with information
- Prompt Statement to start, in engineering that is the way
- Tesla turned the switch from Engineering to Production
- Models in Gemini, design workflows AGENTS, declarative interface, without commitments spin the model, instructions and functions defined.
- Create transformation models: Personalized Education, Look at data and business problem to solve – experiment, measure, try again, measure
- AI, Data, scale computations: it ok to be wrong
- Capture AI – an application used inside Google for meetings to generate scripts of meetings.
- Now used to creates titles at the bottom of the screen generated by AI
- Big query on Online shopping, create an AI interface to Databases
- Create Services with AI, enable choices for applications produced by others – be very digital, interface with ACCENTURE, DELOITTE,
- Cloud and AI: Generative AI, speak to complex data files, 3D design in Engineering
- Enterprises have now incentive to interact with models in the Cloud – being digital company vs single vendor or single partner strategy
- Culture, Data, synthetically to unlock data models
Will Grannis
Chief Technology Officer, Google Cloud
2:00 PM
Explore the cutting-edge convergence of AI and robotics, where intelligent systems enhance robotic capabilities. Discover innovations transforming industries, from manufacturing to health care, and understand the future potential of “the machines.”
- Robots in manufacturing – preprograms 30 years ago
- Immobine SMART robots
- Mobile robots
- Industry investment in robots, lower cost, performance: Technology meet demands
- High Throughput 16MM objects move to delivery safety, efficiency creating value: different size, material, shape
- AI element in FedEx robots deployment
Rebecca Yeung
Corporate Vice President, Operations Science and Advanced Technology, FedEx Corporation
2:30 PM
We review session highlights with an MIT Sloan School of Management faculty member who breaks down the business impacts and how they can translate into insights that attendees can take home with them and put to work within their own organizations.
- Models as a Service
- Test and learn quickly and create value
- Agents connecting workflows, instructions for robots to have a sense of touch and nudge
- Partnering to get to accomplish
Peter Weill
Chairman and Senior Research Scientist, MIT Center for Information Systems Research
Networking Break (2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.)
Networking and refreshments for our live audience.
2:45 PM
Networking Break
The Idea Factory (3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
The promise of automation is to accelerate the pace of innovation. What used to take months now takes only minutes. But without ideas, there is no innovation. We explore the ideation process and the secret sauce that brings ideas to life.
3:15 PM
Characterized by longer-term time frames, “tough tech” is transformative technology that solves the world’s most important challenges through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership. In conjunction with The Engine, an MIT spinoff and startup accelerator, we explore the ideation process that brings long-term tough tech projects to market as economically and efficiently as possible.
Reed Sturtevant
General Partner, Engine Ventures
Nabiha Saklayen
CEO & Cofounder, Cellino
Francesco Benedetti
Cofounder & CEO, Osmoses
Adam Slavney
CEO and Cofounder, Pascal
4:00 PM
Scientific entrepreneurs who begin their work in the lab often find that the most valuable lessons they learn come from testing their product out in the real world. We’ll talk with our entrepreneurs about what it took to set up their first field trial or build their first pilot facility, and what lessons they took from that experience.
- Claire Nelson – Cofounder and Chief Technology Officer, Cella; 2024 Innovator Under 35 – Geologist, rocks underground
- Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao – Senior Consultant for Carbon Dioxide Removal, DNV; 2024 Innovator Under 35
4:25 PM
Uncover the unique challenges faced by intrapreneurs incubating ideas within large enterprises. This session explores the how-tos for fostering innovation, overcoming corporate inertia, and leveraging your organization’s resources to transform visionary concepts into reality within the walls of established organizations.
- Speed of change
- Product vertical solution
- Talent in AI
Raymond Liao
Vice President, Samsung Next
4:50 PM
Day 1 Wrap-Up
125th Anniversary Celebration (5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
In January 1899, The Technology Review was born on the campus of MIT with a singular mission: to be a clearing house of information and thought. From that first edition to today, MIT Technology’s Review’s journalism has been inspired by the ethos of MIT – generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge and collaborating on the world’s greatest challenges. Join us for a special networking reception at the MIT Museum, celebrating MIT Technology Review’s 125th anniversary.
Tuesday, October 1
8:00 AM
Networking and morning refreshments for our live audience
8:15 AM
Tour the MIT campus with an alumna and member of our editorial team.
Casey Crownhart
Senior Reporter, Climate, MIT Technology Review
Before the Breakthroughs: In the Classrooms* of MIT (9:00 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.)
Embark on a journey into the realms of AI, climate, computing, and biotechnology research within MIT classrooms. This session offers a glimpse into the cutting-edge research and innovations poised to shape our future. Join us to explore the seeds of tomorrow’s breakthroughs, planted today in the halls of MIT. *This on-site, in-class experience is available only to in-person attendees
9:05 AM
Join us for this special opening session in the MIT classroom with Ian Waitz, vice president for research at MIT. As corporations increasingly invest in R&D, we examine the changing relationship between academic and industry research. Is it better to publish or to profit? Should knowledge be open-sourced or private? We explore these big questions and get an insider’s look at the goings on in the labs of MIT.
Ian Waitz
VP for Research, MIT
9:30 AM
The impact of nanotechnology on society has been compared to the invention of electricity or plastic — it is transformative to nearly everything we use today, from stronger golf clubs and stain-resistant pants to more efficient microchips and new treatments for cancer. We put the world of nanotechnology under a microscope and explore the material breakthroughs transforming business in a big way.
Brian Anthony
Associate Director, MIT.nano, MIT
10:00 AM
The MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium is a new kind of academia industry collaboration, working together to accelerate the implementation of large-scale, real-world solutions, across sectors, to help meet global climate and sustainability challenges. It aims to lay the groundwork for one critical aspect of MIT’s continued and intensified commitment to climate: helping large companies usher in, adapt to, and prosper in a decarbonized world.
Desirée Plata
Co-Director, MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium
Networking Break (10:25 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.)
Networking and refreshments for our live audience.
10:25 AM
Networking Break
Climate Tech Sneak Peek (11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.)
11:00 AM
A short conversation about what businesses are doing that is successful in combating climate change and what cost-effective, productive implementation looks like
Casey Crownhart
Senior Reporter, Climate, MIT Technology Review
Amy Nordrum
Executive Editor, MIT Technology Review
11:20 AM
A decarbonized transportation system is a necessary pre-requisite for a sustainable economy. In the transportation industry, the road to electrification and greater technology adoption can also increase business bottom lines and reduce downstream costs to tax payers. Focusing on early adopters such as first responders, local municipalities, and small business owners, we’ll discuss common misconceptions, barriers to adoption, implementation strategies, and how these insights carry over into wide-spread adoption of emerging technology and electric vehicles.
The New Compute (11:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.)
Moore’s Law may be slowing, but innovation is surging. Dive into cutting-edge computing architectures that are pushing performance boundaries and opening doors to exciting new applications and ways of interacting with technology.
11:45 AM
Quantum computers hope to excel at solving problems that are too large, complex, or cumbersome for even the most powerful supercomputers, but many hurdles remain before they can be reliably put to commercial use. We explore the future expectations as well as the challenges, the stakes, the rewards, and most importantly the timelines of useful quantum computing.
Pete Shadbolt
Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum
12:15 PM
Get an inside look at the future of minimally invasive brain-computer interfaces that enable humans to use their thoughts to control digital devices. As research advances, we look at early results and the issues raised by the development of these new technologies. Where are the ethical lines being drawn? What are the limitations and what are the realistic expectations of this new digital interface?
Riki Banerjee
Chief Technology Officer, Synchron
Lunch and Networking Break (12:40 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.)
12:40 PM
Lunch and Networking Break
Technologies of the Green Economy (1:40 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.)
New green policies and shifting consumer demands are forcing businesses to find more sustainable ways of delivering products and services. The new green economy will be built on renewable-energy innovations and climate-tech infrastructure that solves for sustainability and economic growth.
1:40 PM
Michigan is at the forefront of the clean energy transition, setting an example in mobility and automotive innovation. Other states and organizations can learn from Michigan’s approach to public-private partnerships, actionable climate plans, and business-government alignment. Progressive climate policies are not only crucial for sustainability but also for attracting talent in today’s competitive job market.
Hilary Doe
Chief Growth & Marketing Officer, Michigan Economic Development Corporation
Laurel Ruma
Director of Custom Content, U.S., MIT Technology Review
2:00 PM
Business leaders are tackling carbon footprints, but addressing the climate crisis requires going beyond the basics. By investing strategically and making smarter energy and material choices, we uncover new innovative approaches to reduce emissions, advancing sustainability efforts for both businesses and society.
Lucia Tian
Head of Clean Energy & Decarbonization Technologies, Google
2:30 PM
One Boston Wharf will be the largest net-zero-carbon office building in Boston at the time of its completion in 2024. This remarkable achievement will reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 90% below code requirements and eliminate 5.1 million pounds of CO2 emissions annually. We deconstruct this project to examine all of the interconnected innovations forming the new foundations of modern construction.
Yanni Tsipis
SVP, Development at WS Development; Faculty, MIT Center for Real Estate
Joe Hicken
Vice President of Business Development and Policy, Sublime Systems
3:05 PM
We review session highlights with an MIT Sloan School of Management faculty member who breaks down the business impacts and how they can translate into insights that attendees can take home with them and put to work within their own organizations.
Networking Break (3:15 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.)
Networking and refreshments for our live audience.
3:15 PM
Networking Break
3:20 PM
Private lab tour at the MIT Media Lab, available to Innovation Circle attendees only.
Kent Larson
Director, MIT City Science
The Front Lines of Change (3:50 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.)
Gain insights from real-life case studies from those at the forefront of technology-driven change. This session shares firsthand experiences from individuals and organizations navigating the rapid pace of innovation in real time. Learn how they adapt, overcome challenges, and harness new technologies to drive progress.
3:50 PM
The paradox of the connected world is that we have more ways to reach people but it’s becoming harder to connect with them. With the fractions of attention brands can now hope to get online, AI driven marketing holds the potential to redefine how we create awareness, deepen desire, and illicit action from consumers. We explore AI’s ever-increasing role in building brand relationships with consumers.
Rebecca Sykes
Partner, The Brandtech Group
4:20 PM
Intellectual property is a multi-trillion-dollar asset class stuck in an antiquated legal system that makes it illiquid and inaccessible. Given the intangible nature of intellectual property, capturing ownership and defining usage rights has always been tedious, and today this system is breaking under the load of AI generated media. Programmable, blockchain-based, licensing offers a potential solution that allows creators to license and control their creative IP. Will it work?
Jason Zhao
Cofounder and Chief Protocol Officer, Story
4:50 PM
The struggle to balance innovation and experimentation with safe and practical applications is a challenge. Is it better to optimize productivity by fitting AI into their existing processes? Or to focus on brand new ways of working, like using autonomous agents to free workers for higher-level tasks? This session shares a strategic yet practical vision for this moment where people, data, and AI are coming together and how leaders can accelerate their business and scale performance.
Denise Dresser
CEO, Slack
5:10 PM
Closing Remarks
Closing Toast (5:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.)
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