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Welcome & IntroductionKarl F. Koster, Executive Director, MIT Office of Corporate RelationsTrond Undheim, Senior Industrial Liaison Officer, MITBradley Horowitz, VP Streams, Photos, and Sharing, Google

Panel Discussion: Organizing for Innovation What are the new models emerging? How do they play together? How to best help innovators channel their ideas into products, startups and system change?

Bradley Horowitz, VP Streams, Photos, and Sharing, GoogleMatt Huang, Partner, Sequoia CapitalJoi Ito, Director, MIT Media LabRoz Picard, Director, Affective Computing, MIT Media LabSue Siegal, CEO, GE Ventures

Lightning Presentations with StartupsHosted by Trond Undheim, Senior ILP Officer and Habib Haddad, Managing Director, E14 Fund

Ben Vigoda, CEO and co-founder, GamalonNatan Linder, CEO and co-founder, Tulip InterfacesYaniv Altschuler, CEO and co-founder, EndorGuy Zyskind, CEO and co-founder, EnigmaJulie Legault, CEO and co-founder, Amino LabsNan-Wei Gong, CEO and co-founder, Figur8

MIT Startup Showcase Silicon ValleyMarch 1, 2017

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The Investment Horizon: AI, AR, and AutonomySue Siegal, CEO, GE Ventures

Lightning Presentations with StartupsHosted by Trond Undheim and Habib Haddad

Romain Lacombe, CEO and co-founder, Plume LabsAlan Ringvald, CEO and co-founder, Relativity6Matt Beane, Chief Human Robotics Officer, Humatics Aye Moah, Chief Product Officer & co-founder, BoomerangNataly Youssef, President and Chief Analytics Officer, MyA HealthNathan Wilson, Chief Technology Officer, Nara LogicsRamiro Almeida, co-founder, Optimus Ride

Human Data AnalysisRoz Picard, Director, Affective Computing, MIT Media Lab

A Human-Centered Vision of AutonomyDavid Mindell, Founder and CEO, Humatics

Panel Discussion: Corporate and Academic Collaboration—Lessons Learned on Augmented Reality, Autonomous Transportation, and Artificial IntelligenceWhat exciting new innovations are emerging from the MIT startup ecosystem? How will the latest technology trends affect your business? What specific startup technologies are you working with? What are you looking for?

Jean-Marc Frangos, Managing Director, Products and Services Research and Open Innovation, BT Technology Service and OperationsDavid Mindell, Founder and CEO, HumaticsNina Simosko, President and CEO, NTT Innovation Institute Inc. (NTT i3)Nathan Wilson, Chief Technology Officer, Nara Logics

Driverless Cars, What’s Next?Sertac Karaman, co-founder, Optimus Ride

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Ramiro Almeida, co-founder, Optimus RideRamiro Almeida is the Professor and Director of the Innovation Lab at MDC. He recently spent three years conducting research at the intersection of innovationvand entrepreneurship at the MIT Media Lab. Prior to his appointment at MIT, he was a Fellow at Harvard University and awarded the prestigious Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design. He published A Line in The

Andes, as part of a research studio that aimed at detailing the potential for urban design solutions required to meet the transportation challenges in developing a city’s first subway line. Almeida later invested in Libri Mundi in 2006, the most prestigious bookstore and publishing company in Ecuador, which was acquired by La Favorita, the largest retail corporation in the country. During his residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab in 2013, Almeida started the project to produce a feature animation film about technology, life and evolution. With MIT colleagues, he is working on designing selfdriving vehicle systems.

Yaniv Altschuler, CEO and co-founder, EndorAltschuler is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, in the Human Dynamics and is affiliated with the City Science Center. He received a Ph.D in Computer Science from the Technion. Altschuler was a post-doctoral researcher at Deutsche Telekom Labi. He is also an alum of the Technion  Chais Excellence program. From 2011-2013 at MIT, Altschuler studied networks and the way they evolve

and act as a medium using which people interact. His research interests include information diffusion models in social networks and communities, collective and swarm intelligence, urban computing, and collaborative security methods For the past decade and in parallel to academic studies, Altschuler has been working as a researcher for companies such as IBM and Rafael. In 2007 he co-founded Memoraze, a start-up company in the field of behavior analysis in computer games that had become an integral part of one of the world’s leading game engines. Since 2015 he is the CTO and Co-Founder of Endor, an MIT spin-off that uses Social Physics to revolutionize predictive analytics.

Matt Beane, Chief Human Robotics Officer, Humatics What happens when we introduce robots into professional work? How will people react? How do work practices change? What are the implications for organizational performance? These are some of the questions Beane addresses through his research at MIT. Beane holds a masters in Management Research from MIT and a B.A. in Philosophy from Bowdoin College. He has also studied Jazz

Performance at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Beane currently lives in Belmont, MA with his wife Kristen.

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Jean-Marc Frangos, Managing Director, Products & Services Research and Open Innovation, BT Technology Service and OperationsAs Managing Director, Products & Services Research and Open Innovation, Jean-Marc Frangos is responsible for managing the research programs to prepare BT’s future offering aimed at the Consumer and Business markets, including areas such as TV over IP, Virtual Reality, IoT

and Cloud Technologies. He is also responsible for innovation partnerships with venture capitalists, start-ups and industry peers in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Based in Silicon Valley, he runs the internal idea management process which identifies the best innovation candidates from 100,000+ BT employees worldwide. His team also designed and runs BT Infinity Labs, a novel incubator concept based in Shoreditch, London, to foster collaboration with the UK entrepreneur community.

Nan-Wei Gong, CEO and co-founder, Figur8Dr. Nan-Wei Gong is a researcher, engineer, and serial entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Circular2, and a research affiliate of the MIT Media Lab. Her start-up, 3dim Tech Inc, received the grand prize of the MIT $100K entrepreneurship competition in 2013, and was acquired in 2014. She founded Circular2 in 2014, a technical consulting agency that specialized in on body sensing, low-power

wearables and digital textile R&D. Their clients include top universities and fortune 500 companies. Her past work includes flexible and customizable printed sensing surfaces for gestural control, time-of-flight modules for 3D gesture tracking, and wearable sensing for dynamic management of ubiquitous media. She has worked in a number of industrial research labs, among them Microsoft Research and the Nokia Research Center, and was assigned as the R&D lead of Project Jacquard at Google ATAP in 2014-2016. She holds a PhD and MS degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and a MS in Materials Science and Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. 

Habib Haddad, Managing Director of E14 the MIT Media Lab FundHabib is currently the Managing Director of E14 the MIT Media Lab fund focused on early stage companies out of the Lab. Prior to that he was the founding CEO Wamda, a platform of programs and networks that aims to accelerate entrepreneurship across the MENA region. He also served as a Venture Partner of Wamda Capital, a growth capital

VC fund. His work in the MENA region is credited with playing a key role in strengthening its nascent entrepreneurship ecosystem. Before Wamda, Habib was based in Boston where he founded Yamli, which focused on linguistics and

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the Arabic language. In 2012 he sold the technology to Yahoo! He was also the founding member of Mok3, a venture backed MIT CSAIL spinoff that developed image based modeling software. In 2009, the World Economic Forum recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader, and he was named a top innovator under 35 by the MIT Technology review in 2011. In 2013, He was the Vice Chair of the WEF council on entrepreneurship and currently sits on the Global Future Council on Systems and Platforms.

Bradley Horowitz, VP Product, Google Apps, GoogleBradley Horowitz is VP of product for Google’s social products, including Google+. He has also led product for Google’s consumer application division which includes Gmail, Gtalk, Google Docs, Google Voice, and Calendar. Before joining Google in 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo’s VP of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator,

and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. He was responsible for the company’s initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN). Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy. Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics, and image processing, which resulted in a patented technique for the recovery of structure, motion, and camera parameters from video sequences. Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Matt Huang, Partner, Sequoia CapitalThe former founding CEO of Hotspots, a Y Combinator company acquired by Twitter in 2012, Huang spent time in Twitter’s ad analytics team before joining Sequoia Capital. The MIT grad works on investments like Reddit and Yik Yak for the firm. He’s an angel investor in companies including Instacart and Teespring. Matt holds a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT.

Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media LabEffective July 1, 2016, MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito has been appointed as Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. Ito, who became director of the Media Lab in 2011, has had a long career at the vanguard of the Internet and World Wide Web, championing emergent democracy, privacy, and Internet freedom. He helped establish the first Internet service provider (ISP) in Japan,

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and was involved in establishing many Japanese start-ups, including Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. He invested in numerous start-ups such as Twitter, Flickr, Kickstarter, littleBits, and Formlabs prior to joining the Media Lab. He is currently a board member of The New York Times Company, Sony Corporation, Digital Garage, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Ito briefly attended Tufts University, majoring in computer science, and the University of Chicago, majoring in physics. He received an honorary D.Litt from The New School in New York City in 2013, and an honorary doctor of humane letters from Tufts University in 2015. His book, “Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future,” (co-authored with Jeff Howe) is due out in December 2016.

Sertac Karaman, Class of ‘48 Career Development Chair, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, co-founder, Optimus RideSertac Karaman is the Class of ‘48 Career Development Chair Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He is a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Institute for Data, Systems and Society. He has obtained B.S. degrees in mechanical

engineering and and in computer engineering from the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2007, an S.M. degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 2009, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2012. His research interests lie in the broad areas of robotics and control theory. He studies the applications of probability theory, stochastic processes, stochastic geometry, formal methods, and optimization for the design and analysis of high-performance cyber-physical systems. The application areas include driverless cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed aerial surveillance systems, air traffic control, certification and verification of control systems software, among many others. He has won numerous awards, including the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award in 2015 and the NSF Faculty Career Development Award in 2014.

Karl F. Koster, Executive Director, MIT Office of Corporate Relations/Industrial Liaison ProgramKarl F. Koster is the Executive Director of the MIT Office of Corporate Relations where he and his staff work with the leadership of MIT and senior corporate executives to design and implement strategies for fostering corporate partnerships with the Institute. Koster and his team have also worked to identify and design a number of major

international programs for MIT. Most recently these efforts have been extended to engage the surrounding innovation eco-system, including its vibrant startup and small company community, into MIT’s global corporate and university networks. Koster also serves as the Chairman of the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership, that seeks to enhance the value of collaborative partnerships between

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universities and corporations. Koster graduated from Brown University in 1974, and received a M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1980. Prior to returning to MIT, Koster worked as a management consultant in Europe, Latin America, and the United States on projects for private and public sector organizations.

Romain Lacombe, CEO and co-founder, Plume LabsRomain Lacombe is the founder & CEO of Plume Labs, a startup to inform citizens of what they breathe and empower communities to beat air pollution. Lacombe is a French public servant, World Bank consultant, MIT environmental economics research assistant, Fulbright scholar and mathematics student, and a advocate of the power of openness who spent the past five years building

open data policies to make governments more accountable. From 2011 to 2014, he was the co-founder and head of innovation of Etalab, the French Prime Minister’s task force for access to information which he helped create after authoring the first report on open data’s potential for France. At task force Etalab, Lacombe focused on policy, startups outreach, and international relations, representing his country in the G8 Open Data Charter negotiations and coordinating France’s recent adhesion to the Open Government Partnership. Lacombe is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and MIT, and a recipient of the MIT Technology Review ‘Innovators Under 35 Award.

Julie Legault, CEO and co-founder, Amino LabsJulie Legault is the creative director, founder and CEO of Amino Labs, the company pioneering accessible bioengineering in the home and school. As a designer, Julie works to make scientific and technological innovations approachable to the public. She holds a Master of Art from the School of Materials at the Royal College of Art, degrees in both design technology and arts from Concordia

University, and a Masters of Science from the MIT Media Lab. She has taught at Birmingham’s Institute of Art and Design and worked with multi-nationals (Aston Martin, Nokia, Bombay Sapphire, Audi, etc), museums, and pop stars like Rihanna and Imogen heap to develop smart materials, wearable technologies, and interactive art. Legaiult is a fellow of the coaching fellowship program for Extraordinary Young Women Leaders of Impact. 

Natan Linder, CEO and co-founder, Tulip InterfacesNatan is a co-founder of Formlabs and a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab. His work fuses design and engineering to create novel human experiences. Natan’s background is in computer science, product design and entrepreneurship. A 15 years industry veteran, he worked for Sun Microsystems, and was the

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co-founder of Samsung Electronics Israel R&D center and served as its Mobile R&D General Manager. He was also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Jerusalem Venture Partners, Just before joining the Fluid Interfaces group, he was the Lead UI Designer at Rethink Robotics. Natan holds a BA in Computer Science from the IDC in Herzliya and an S.M. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. His research interests span mobile technologies, rapid prototyping, robotics, augmented reality, and industrial design.

David Mindell, Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Founder & CEO, Humatics, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and SocietyDavid A. Mindell, PhD, Founder, and CEO of Humatics, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing

at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has spent twenty-five years researching the myriad relationships between people and machines. He has led or contributed to more than 25 oceanographic expeditions and developed and commercially licensed spread-spectrum sonar technologies for undersea navigation. He is the author of five books, including Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy, Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in the First Six Lunar Landings, and Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics.

Aye Moah, Chief Product Officer and co-founder, BoomerangAye is Chief of Product and Co-founder of Boomerang which makes thoughtful productivity software to help you focus on what matters. Boomerang is the most popular extension for Gmail and the most popular extension for Outlook, enabling millions of people to email more effectively with artificial intelligence. Boomerang Respondable is the first

artificially-intelligent system that improves our writing, based on the likelihood that an email we write will get a response. Moah worked with data scientists and engineers every step of the way: writing code to collect training data, choosing quality metrics to train the AIs, prototyping interfaces based on different machine learning algorithms, and figuring out how to represent optimal combinations of writing styles as intuitive graphs. Moah was born and raised in Burma until she came to the U.S. to study Computer Science at MIT.

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Rosalind Picard, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab, Director, Affective Computing Research, Faculty Chair, MIT Mind+Hand+Heart, Co-founder Empatica, Inc., Co-founder Affectiva, Inc. Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D. is founder and director of Affective Computing. Today that field has its own journal, international conference, and professional society. Picard was a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee

on Wearable Information Systems. She is a recipient of several best paper prizes, including work on machine learning with multiple models (with Minka). One of her papers (with Healey), measuring stress in Boston drivers, was recognized as “best paper of the decade 2000-2009” for IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems. Picard holds multiple patents, including wearable and non-contact sensors, algorithms, and systems for sensing, recognizing, and responding to human affective information. Picard has served on international and national science and engineering committees, boards, and panels, including the Advisory Committee for the NSF’s division of Computers in Science and Engineering, the National Institute of Health National Advisory Mental Health Council, and the IEEE Ethics Initiative Affective Computing Committee. Picard has consulted for companies such as Apple, AT&T, BT, HP, Merck, and Samsung. Her group’s achievements have been featured in The New York Times, The London Independent, National Public Radio, Scientific American Frontiers, ABC’s Nightline and World News Tonight, Time, New Scientist, and BBC.

Alan Ringvald, CEO and co-founder, Relativity6Alan Ringvald is a 2-time founder, former Googler, and graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is the co-founder and CEO of Relativity6, a machine learning start-up based on his MIT Master’s Thesis.

Sue Siegel, CEO, GE VenturesSue Siegel is CEO of GE Ventures, GE’s growth and innovation business. GE Ventures invests in and partners with the entrepreneurial ecosystem across Healthcare, Energy, Software, Advanced Manufacturing, and Lighting and starts and grows companies via its New Business Creation unit. She also leads Healthymagination, GE’s innovation catalyst for addressing healthcare’s global

challenges. Previously, as a financial VC, Siegel led investments and served as board member of companies in personalized medicine, digital health, and life sciences at MDV. Before venture capital, at Affymetrix as President and board

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member, she drove the company’s transformation from a pre-revenue start up to a global, multi-billion dollar market cap genomics leader. And previously, Siegel led strategy, technology development, licensing, manufacturing, as well as new market creation & development at Bio-Rad, DuPont, and Amersham. Siegel currently serves on the Boards of: the National Venture Capital Association, Stanford Hospital Board’s IT Council, University of California’s Innovation Council, Harvard Partners’ Innovation Advisory Board, the Cleveland Clinic’s Innovation Council, and USC’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy. Most recently she served on President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, and served as a Board member for the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences. Siegel serves on the Executive Committee of Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, is a President’s Circle member of the National Academies of Science, a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, is a member of YPO-WPO, and Women Corporate Directors. In the bestselling business book: Multipliers: How The Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Siegel was a featured “Multiplier”. She was recognized as one of “The 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley”.

Nina Simosko, President and CEO, NTT Innovation Institute, Inc.Nina serves as President and CEO of NTT Innovation Institute Inc. (NTT i3), the prestigious innovation center for NTT Group, one of the world’s largest ICT companies. NTT i3 works with established enterprise companies interested in investigating new approaches to evolving into technology-first, digitally-driven businesses. Accelerating innovation

from initial idea to marketplace implementation, NTT i3 combines access to the global infrastructure resources, investment fund, research knowledge, and trusted long-standing customer relationships of NTT Global with its own software startup expertise and deep enterprise relationships. Previously, Nina was led the creation and execution of Nike Technology strategy, planning, and operations world-wide. Prior to that, she was Senior VP of SAP’s Global Premier Customer Network. At SAP, she led both the PCN Center of Excellence and SAP’s Global Executive Advisory Board. During her eight year tenure, she was a part of SAP’s Global Ecosystem & Partner Group which was charged with continuing to build and enable an open ecosystem of software, service and technology partners together with SAP’s communities of innovation. Additionally, she served as the Global COO for the worldwide Customer Education organization, responsible for driving more than half a billion euros in global education software and services revenue. Currently, Nina serves on the advisory boards of two early-to-mid stage technology companies: Reflektion and AppOrchid.

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Trond Undheim, Lead, Startup Exchange, MIT Industrial Liaison ProgramTrond heads up the Startup Initiative at MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program (ILP), facilitating productive relationships between industry and MIT’s startup ecosystem. He is a former Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Undheim is currently the Founder of Yegii, Inc., the insight network, and Managing Director

of Tautec Consulting. Undheim is a leading expert on technology development across industries such as IT, energy, and healthcare. His knowledge spans entrepreneurship, strategy frameworks, policy making, action learning, virtual teamwork, knowledge management, standardization, and e-government. He wrote the book Leadership From Below. Undheim was a strategy/business development executive at Oracle Corp. and a policy maker in the EU where he built the ePractice.eu web platform with 120,000 members. He has worked with multinational companies, with mid-caps and startups in Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Norway, the UK, and the US. He has a PhD in Multidisciplinary Technology Studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Ben Vigoda, CEO and co-founder, GamalonBefore founding Gamalon, Ben was technical co-founder and CEO of Lyric Semiconductor, a startup that created the first integrated circuits and processor architectures for statistical machine learning and signal processing. The company was named one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies by Technology Review and was featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, EE Times,

Scientific American, Wired, and other media. Lyric was successfully acquired by Analog Devices, and Lyric’s products and technology are being deployed in leading smart phones and consumer electronics, medical devices, wireless base stations, and automobiles. Vigoda completed his PhD at MIT developing circuits for implementing machine learning algorithms natively in hardware. He has won entrepreneurship competitions at MIT and Harvard, fellowships from Intel and the Kavli Foundation/National Academy of Sciences, and has held research appointments at MIT, HP, Mitsubishi, and the Santa Fe Institute. He has authored over 120 patents and academic publications and recently served on the DARPA Information Science and Technology steering committee. Vigoda also co-founded Design That Matters, a nonprofit that helps solve engineering and design problems in under-served communities and has saved thousands of infant lives by developing low-cost, easy-to-use medical technology such as infant incubators, UV therapy, pulse oximeters, and IV drip systems that have been fielded in 20 countries.

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Nathan Wilson, Chief Technology Officer, Nara LogicsNathan is the driving force behind Nara’s revolutionary neural network technology, and has spent his career as an expert at the intersection of neuroscience and computer science. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT in brain and cognitive sciences, a Master’s in computer science and artificial intelligence from Cornell, and has numerous patents and publications in top journals including Nature, Neuron, and the MIT Press.

Nataly Youssef, President and Chief Analytics Officer, MyA HealthNataly Youssef is the head of healthcare analytics at Boston- based MIT spinoffs, P2 Analytics and MyA Health. Her current work involves developing machine learning algorithms and optimization under uncertainty toward healthcare applications. She has a PhD in analytics and optimization from the MIT Operations Research Center.

Nataly took 15.071 in 2012 and enjoyed teaching regression and optimization for the Executive MBA class at MIT in 2013 and 2014.

Guy Zyskind, CEO and co-founder, EnigmaMost recently, Zyskind was CTO of Athena Wisdom (now Endor), an MIT spin-off focused on network analysis research and big data. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University. Today, Zyskind is a dedicated Bitcoin evangelist, and as part of his ongoing work on blockchain applications, he is currently developing technology that enables secure cloud

computing at scale. Ultimately, this platform would allow researchers, companies, and governments to make use of data without ever directly accessing them in their raw form. Zyskind also teaches Blockchain Technologies: “Decentralize all the Things” this fall at MIT.

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Industry-ready startups STEX25 is a startup accelerator focused on fostering collaboration between MIT-connected startups and member companies of MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program (ILP). STEX25 is managed by the MIT Startup Exchange (STEX) and its parent, the ILP.

Like all the 1,000+ startups in the STEX database, STEX25 companies are technology-based startups with a connection to MIT, whether they are based on licensed MIT technology or founded by MIT faculty, staff, or alumni. STEX25 startups have been identified as particularly well-suited for industry collaboration. These young, vibrant companies have proved themselves with early use cases, clients, demos, or partnerships, and may be on the cusp of significant growth.

Partnering with industry Startup motivations for joining forces with corporate partners are varied, but the desire for substantive collaboration that creates win-win outcomes eclipses routine financing needs and the potential to be acquired. STEX startups tell us they want to:

• Apply and adapt their technologies to creatively address unique business challenges • Leverage their speed and agility to extend business lines, or create new ones • Gain insight and understanding from corporate experience and management resources • Access unique assets and infrastructure for building prototypes or scaling production • Accelerate growth by gaining access to new markets • Secure important first customers that boost sales and provide market validation• Spurring innovation • Corporate stakeholders are encouraged to leverage their ILP membership by participating as guest speakers at monthly STEX workshops or by hosting a Startup Showcase at their corporate headquarters, featuring STEX25 startups, as well as local MIT-connected startups

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Additional benefits for ILP members include• Early access to technology licensing, innovation scouting, co-creation, lead client and partnership opportunities • Coaching/mentoring opportunities for mid-level and senior executives • Visibility as a thought leader in the global innovation ecosystem

STEX25 benefits Once a startup is named to the STEX25, its appeal as an industry-ready partner is actively promoted by the ILP/STEX communications team, and the STEX25 cohort moves to the top of ILP’s priority list when discussing and advising member companies on their startup strategy.

Specific benefits provided by the STEX and ILP teams include: • Invitation to exclusive industry networking seminar for STEX25 founders/ leadership and ILP company executives• Custom assessment, outreach, and matchmaking with ILP member companies • Travel stipend to one MIT Startup Showcase event • Preferred speaker/exhibitor status for on-campus events • Honored guest at the annual MIT Startup Ecosystem Conference • Custom-produced video and in-depth innovation profile, promoted through MIT/ILP channels • Company bio in STEX Annual Startup Report • Nominate startups for STEX25

MIT Startup Exchange encourages nominations from the MIT entrepreneurial ecosystem, which includes the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, the Technology Licensing Office, the Venture Mentoring Service, and other large MIT labs such the MIT Media Lab, and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. New companies are added quarterly.

For more information about the nominating process, contact Trond Undheim, email: tundheim@MIT.EDU phone: 617-253-8983.

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Karl KosterExecutive Director of Corporate Relations/ILP617-253-0439koster@ocr.mit.edu

Marcus DahllofSenior Industrial Liaison Officer617-253-0414marcusd@mit.edu

Jewan BaeSenior Industrial Liaison Officer617-253-0416jewanbae@mit.edu

Rachel Oberai-SoltzAssociate Director, Corporate Relations617-258-0269oberai@ilp.mit.edu

Sheri BrodeurAssociate Director, Corporate Relations617-253-0421sbrodeur@mit.edu

Steven PalmerSenior Industrial Liaison Officer617-253-2423spalmer@mit.edu

Corey ChengSenior Industrial Liaison Officer617-253-2268coreyc@mit.edu

Trond UndheimIndustrial Liaison Officer617-253-8983undheim@ilp.mit.edu

Meet Industrial Liaison Officers from ILPWhen a company joins the ILP, an Industrial Liaison Officer (ILO) is assigned to be its primary contact at MIT. ILOs are professionals who bring together business experience with in-depth knowledge of all of MIT. ILOs help managers to define their interests and needs, articulate objectives for MIT interaction, and develop a plan of action to meet these objectives. In implementing this plan, your ILO will recommend, organize, and facilitate customized interactions with MIT that help your company to meet the objectives.