EmTech MIT

Big Data

The next frontier for big data is the individual. From entertainment to health care, more accessible data and powerful analytics tools are making highly personalized new services possible. Will they be welcome or intrusive?

Featured speakers include:

• Deb Roy, Associate Professor with MIT and Chief Media Scientist with Twitter, on understanding and leveraging ties between social media and mass media 
• Mitchell Higashi, Chief Economist of GE Healthcare, on transforming healthcare with big data and the industrial internet 
• Kate Crawford, Principal Researcher with Microsoft Research, on identifying the risks of hidden bias in big data research
• Ari Gesher, Senior Engineer with Palantir Technologies, on the limitations of automated decision-making

• Steve Ramirez, Graduate Student, MIT
• John Dabiri, Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
• Leslie Dewan, Chief Science Officer, Transatomic Power
• Morgan Quigley, Cofounder, Open Source Robotics Foundation

With growing understanding of how neurochemistry and electrical impulses define our thoughts and emotions, the field's leading researchers are working to translate this evolving knowledge into new medical treatments.

• Ed Boyden, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
• Daniela Schiller, Associate Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital    
• Steve Ramirez, Graduate Student, MIT
• Theodore Berger, Director, Center for Neural Engineering, University of Southern California

Kerry Emanuel, Professor, MIT will discuss the realities of our changing climate, and the imperative to establish sustainable energy for a world of 9 billion citizens by 2050

Dirk Smit, Vice President of exploration technology with Shell, on exploring for harder-to-find oil and gas resources

Leslie Dewan, Chief Science Officer, Transatomic Power on her plan to build a nuclear reactor that costs half as much, consumes nuclear waste, and will never melt down

John Dabiri, Professor, California Institute of Technology on a new approach to capturing wind power

• Evans Wadongo, Chairman and Executive Director, Sustainable Development for All–Kenya
• Lina Nilsson, Founder, Tekla Labs
• Amos Winter, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• Roozbeh Ghaffari, Cofounder, Director of Advanced Technology, MC10

Jonathan Bush, Cofounder, CEO and President of athenahealth, on deploying cloud-based services for more efficient, personalized health-care services 

• Balaji Srinivasan, Cofounder, Counsyl
• Enrique Lomnitz, Director, Isla Urbana
• Yu Zheng, Lead Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

Fireside Chat with Angela Belcher, MIT Professor and winner of the 2013 Lemelson-MIT prize

Featured speakers:

• Katherine Frase, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer with IBM Public Sector on building smarter cities 
• Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Lab at MIT, on data-driven urban planning and climate-change amelioration plans 
• Laura Schewel, Cofounder and CEO, Streetlight Data
• Yu Zheng, Lead Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

• Per Ola Kristensson, Lecturer, UNiversity of St. Andrews
• Kira Radinsky, CTO, SalesPredict
• Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO and Founder, Pindrop Security
• Dmitri Alperovitch, CTO, CrowdStrike
• Xiaolin Zheng, Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Cybersecurity

• Craig Mundie, Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft, on cybersecurity and the importance of protecting your personal identity online

• Bright Simons, President, mPedigree Network
• Christine Fleming, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
• Liangfang Zhang, Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
• Julie Kientz, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Advanced Manufacturing

A new era of manufacturing is arriving: next-generation multidimensional printing will transform the way that many industries design and make increasingly complex products. The global economic impact is only beginning to be understood.

Featured speakers include:

• Stephen Hoover, CEO of PARC, a Xerox company, on democratizing access to product development and additive manufacturing  
• Skylar Tibbits, director, MIT Self-Assembly Lab, on 4-D printing and imaging things that make themselves 
• Stephan Biller, Chief Manufacturing Scientist, GE will share GE’s vision of the 21st century manufacturing paradigm, a digital thread that marries virtual tools with physical tools, and enables a smart factory that re-invents itself to continuously improve GE’s products and how they are made.

• David Fattal, Principal Scientist, HP Labs
• Hao Li, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
• Laura Schewel, Cofounder and CEO, StreetLight Data
• Eric Migicovsky, Founder, Pebble

• Simon Johnson, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Stephen Pair, Cofounder and CTO, BitPay
• Ben Milne, CEO and Founder, Dwolla 

How do you know when a product, or idea, is enough to build a company on?  What is the best path to success for launching in the current market climate? Attend to learn the latest thinking and best practices for navigating the path from lab to market.  

Speakers:

Luis Perez-Breva

Identifying Emerging Technologies for Commercial Impact

New technologies and ideas are exciting. Until we get our hands on them, that is. Then we realize that there is a non-insignificant amount of work left to do and we hesitate:  Should I spend any more time on this? Is this ready for (fill the blank)? Is this an innovation? When should I give up?. In lack of a crystal ball the answers (in order) read  NO, NO, NO, NOW.
The problem might appear to be in the technology. It really isn’t. It is in the questions and in a profound misunderstanding of the innovation process. This talk is about the process, hands-on innovation, asking the right questions, and allowing yourself to discover where to go from here. For the last 6 years we have taught this process hands on to over 500 students at MIT, working with over 100 MIT Principal Investigators from all across campus, to figure out what’s next for over 120 technologies from across campus and beyond.  

Bill Aulet

Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship:24 Steps to Launching Successful Innovation-Driven New Ventures … Or Revitalizing Older Ones

*Advance registration is required as seating is limited. EmTech MIT attendees will receive a separate registration URL through email.

Advance registration is required as space is limited. EmTech MIT attendees will receive a separate registration URL through email.

Options include:

• Microsoft New England Research & Development Center
• Broad Institute Genomics Platform
• Broad Institute ChemBio Tour (Robots)
• The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
• MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
• The McGovern Institute for Brain Research