Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation MIT School of Engineering

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Innovation at MIT







Tues. May 13th Museum of Science

6:30 - 7:30 PM Registration

6:30 - 7:15 PM "Show-N-Tell" Reception
Deshpande Center Spring 2003 grant recipients present posters

7:30 - 8:15 PM

Dinner Speaking Program

WELCOME
Dr. Charles M. Vest
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DINNER KEYNOTE ADDRESS
His Excellency Mitt Romney
Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
transcript now online

CLOSING REMARKS
Dr. Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande
Founder, Sycamore Networks

8:20 - 10:20 PM Dinner

 
Wed. May 14th MIT Stratton Student Center

7:00 AM - noon Registration

7:30 - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM Plenary Session

WELCOME
Alex d'Arbeloff
Chairman, MIT Corporation

  KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Professor Charles Fine
Author of Clockspeed
Chrysler Leaders for Manufacturing Professor
MIT Sloan School of Management
presentation now online
8:50 AM DESHPANDE CENTER GRANT RECIPIENTS
Brief overview of selected Fall 2002 projects
presentation now online

INTRODUCTION: Professor Thomas Magnanti
Dean, MIT School of Engineering

INNOVATION PROGRAMS
Michael Ernst: Automatically Generated System Specs
Douglas Hart: High Speed 3-D Imaging
Robert Langer: Tissue Engineering
Alexander Slocum: The Nanogate

IGNITION GRANTS
Marc Baldo: Exploiting Molecular Conformation Changes
Yet-Ming Chiang: Ionic Colloidal Crystals
Woodie Flowers: Active Joint Brace for Assisted Motion
Sang-Gook Kim: Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing
Scott Manalis: Label-free Detection Of Proteins

10:30 AM Networking Break
Visit Fall 2002 grant recipients and their poster presentations in breakout rooms

11:15 AM

Breakout Sessions

Track One:
TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIERS IN WIRELESS NETWORKING
presentations now online

Chair:
Prof. Hari Balakrishnan, Electrical Eng. and Computer Science

Speakers:
Prof. John Guttag, Department Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Prof. Robert Morris, Electrical Eng. and Computer Science
Prof. Greg Wornell, Electrical Eng. and Computer Science

Track Two:
TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIERS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

presentations (part 1, part 2, part 3) now online

Co-chairs:
Prof. Bruce Tidor, Biological Engineering Division and Dept. Computer Science
Prof. Peter Sorger, Dept. Biology

Speakers:
Prof. Bruce Tidor, Biological Engineering Division and Computer Science
Prof. Tony Sinskey, Biology
Prof. David Sabatini, Biology

Track Three:
TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIERS IN PORTABLE ENERGY

presentations now online

Co-chairs:
Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang, Dept. Materials Science and Engineering
David Prend, Partner, Rockport Capital Partners

Speakers:
Prof. Klavs Jensen, Dept. Chemical Engineering
Prof. Don Sadoway, Dept. Materials Science and Engineering
Prof. Marty Schmidt, Dept. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

12:30 PM Venture Lunch

INTRODUCTION
Prof. Charles Cooney, Faculty Director
Krisztina Holly, Executive Director

Faculty, VCs, and entrepreneurs exchange ideas over lunch. Sign up for lab tours. Volunteer scribes coordinated by MIT VCPI.


2:00 PM Breakout Sessions

Track Four:
IGNITION FORUM: DATA SECURITY
Market opportunities and strategies for innovation

Co-Chairs:
Prof. Stuart Madnick, MIT Sloan School of Management
Prof. Ronald Rivest, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Panelists:
Jeffrey Schiller, Network Manager, MIT Information Systems
Mark McGovern, In-Q-Tel
Paul Kocher, President & CEO, Cryptography Research
Peter Kuper, SG Gowan

Track Five:
IGNITION FORUM: POST-GENOMIC CHALLENGES IN DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT
Market opportunities and strategies for innovation

Co-Chairs:
Prof. Ram Sasisekharan, Biological Engineering Division
Prof. Stan Finkelstein, Sloan School of Management

Panelists:
Terry McGuire, Polaris Venture Partners
Alan Crane, CEO, Momentum
Viren Mehta, Managing Partner, Mehta Partners, LLC
Brian Healy, Vice President, Merck

Track Six:
PANEL DISCUSSION ON TECHNOLOGY LICENSING
Tips for identifying and licensing MIT innovations

Chair: Bob Metcalfe, Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

Panelists:
Jack Turner - MIT Technology Licensing Office
Jamie Goldstein - General Partner, NorthBridge Venture Partners
Prof. Michael Cima, Dept. Materials Science and Engineering
James DeGraw, Partner, Ropes & Gray
3:15 PM Break

3:45 - 5:15 PM Lab Tours
Coordinated by MIT TechLink

7:00 PM MIT $50K Final Awards
Entrepreneurship Competition Award Ceremony
(invitation extended to Symposium attendees)


*Please note, conference agenda is not final and is subject to change