Hyatt Regency Cambridge

Registration opens
Networking breakfast w/ grant recipient posters

sponsored by Polaris Venture Partners

Plenary Session

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Includes brief remarks by Provost Robert Brown
and Dr. Desh Deshpande

DESHPANDE CENTER GRANT RECIPIENTS
Selected grant recipients discuss their innovations, potential market impact, and how they are progressing towards commercialization. Topics include data storage, biomedical devices, wireless communications, imaging, and MEMS.

Networking break

Grant recipients available by posters to answer questions and exchange ideas.
sponsored by Seed Capital Partners

11:00 AM -
12:30 PM

Technological Frontiers

Breakout sessions featuring prominent faculty presenting and debating different perspectives on the most provocative technologies to impact their industry in the next 2-4 years:

• Engineering Systems Biology
  sponsored by Flagship Ventures
  
  SESSION CHAIR:
  Noubar Afeyan - Flagship Ventures
  
  SPEAKERS will include:
  Prof. Doug Lauffenburger - Co-Director MIT Biological Engineering Division
  Dr. Drew Endy - Biological Engineering Division and Dept. of Biology
  Dr. Peter Hecht - CEO, Microbia
  
  
• Beyond Moore's Law
  sponsored by NorthBridge Venture Partners
  
  SESSION CHAIRS:
  Jamie Goldstein - NorthBridge Venture Partners
  Prof. Martin Schmidt - Director MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL)
  
  SPEAKERS:
  Prof. Joseph Jacobson - MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
  Prof. Rafael Reif - Associate Department Head, MIT Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  Prof. Vladimir Bulovic - MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics
  
  
• Wireless: Cutting Edge Research to Cut the Wire
  sponsored by Matrix Partners
  
  SESSION CHAIR:
  Stan Reiss - Matrix Partners
  
  SPEAKERS:
  Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan - MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)
  Prof. Moe Win - Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)
  Prof. Samuel Madden - Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  
  

Venture Lunch

sponsored by Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP

LUNCH KEYNOTE
Lita Nelsen, Director of the MIT Techology Licensing Office, speaks about technology licensing success factors in a university setting and how to work with the TLO.

DISCUSSION TABLES
Lunch tables hosted by Deshpande Center grant recipients: brainstorming about technologies and market opportunities.

Innovation Showcase

Breakout sessions: MIT researchers have been selected from a pool of applicants to pitch their most exciting marketable innovations. Feedback encouraged!

SEE THE 2004 INNOVATION SHOWCASE PROJECTS

• Biotech and Medical Devices
  sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers
  
  MODERATOR: Tom Montminy - PricewaterhouseCoopers Entrepreneurial Svcs Center
  STUDENT HOST: Jose Pacheco
  
  
• TinyTech and Emerging Technologies
  sponsored by Atlas Venture
  
  MODERATOR: Jeff Andrews - Atlas Venture
  STUDENT HOST: Terry Angelos
  
  
• IT/Communications
  sponsored by Highland Capital Partners
  
  MODERATORS: Sean Dalton and Jo Tango - Highland Capital Partners
  STUDENT HOST: Avtandil Garakanidze
  
  Sessions co-hosted by MIT VCPE and MIT TechLink

Networking break
Innovation Showcase presenters available by posters
sponsored by Harris & Harris Group, Inc.

Plenary session

TECHNOLOGIES IN CONTEXT
Session chairs give brief summaries of the morning breakouts and put technological innovation into context of the marketplace.

KEYNOTE
"Creating Entrepreneurs: Looking at Innovation, Education, and Sex”
Rob Chernow, Senior Vice President for Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation: Opening with an entertaining video, this thought-provoking talk uncovers surprising facts about entrepreneurship and asks what we can do to spark more successful new ventures.

Reception

Dinner reception in the Spinnaker Room overlooking the Boston skyline. Grant recipients available to exchange ideas.