Hyatt Regency Cambridge

Registration opens
Networking breakfast/Poster preview

Plenary Session

sponsored by Polaris Venture Partners

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Remarks by Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DESHPANDE CENTER GRANT RECIPIENTS
Brief presentations from some of the most exciting grant recipients.

Networking break

Grant recipients available by posters for questions.
sponsored by Bessemer Venture Partners

11:15 AM -
12:30 PM

Breakout Sessions - Ignition Forums™

Each Ignition Forum is a more intimate group discussion focused on a particular industry trend and opportunities for technology to make an impact in the next 2-4 years. Hosted by thought leaders from MIT and industry, the discussion starts with several researchers giving insights into where they think the featured technology is headed, followed by comments from industry experts and moderated discussion.

Topics:

• A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned: Adding to the Bottom Line with Smarter Energy Technologies
  sponsored by BP
  
  MODERATOR: Steve Connors, Director, Analysis Group Regional Elec. Alternatives, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, MIT
  
  FEATURED GUESTS include:
  - James L. Kirtley, Jr., Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
  - Una-May O'Reilly, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  - David Prend, Partner, Rockport Capital Partners
  - Maria Thompson, MIT School of Architecture
  - Judy Wagner, Term Director, Projects Academy, BP
  - Dave Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
  
  
• Video Games Invading your Home, Office, and Gym
  sponsored by Atlas Ventures
  
  MODERATOR: Jeff Andrews, Partner, Atlas Ventures
  CO-CHAIR: David Edery, MIT Sloan School of Management
  
  FEATURED GUESTS include:
  - Mitch Davis, CEO, Massive Incorporated
  - Henry Jenkins, Director, MIT Comparative Media Studies Program; Co-Director, Media in Transition
  - Tom Nichols, Vice President of Marketing, Turbine
  - Christopher Weaver, Visiting Scholar, MIT Comparative Media Studies Program; Founder, Bethesda Softworks
  
  
• Reinventing the Rust Belt: New Material Approaches to Traditional Industries
  sponsored by North Bridge Venture Partners
  
  MODERATOR: Jamie Goldstein, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
  
  FEATURED GUESTS include:
  - Karen Gleason, Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
  - Anastasios John Hart, MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
  - Jack Howard, Professor Emeritus, MIT; Chairman and Founder, Nano-C
  - Steven Reznek, Vice President, Cabot Corporation
  - Carmichael Roberts, President, Surface Logix
  - Alexander Slocum, Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Experimental Study Group; MacVicar Fellow
  - David Soane, Chairman and CEO, Soane Labs
  
  
• Medical Imaging
  sponsored by Flagship Ventures
  
  MODERATOR: Ed Kania, Managing Partner and Chairman, Flagship Ventures
  
  CO-CHAIRS: Thomas Byrne, Senior Lecturer, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Jim Matheson, General Partner, Flagship Ventures
  
  FEATURED GUESTS include:
  - Moungi Bawendi, Professor, MIT Department of Chemistry
  - Hans Breiter, Mass General Hospital
  - Clark Colton, Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
  - Eric Grimson, Associate Department Head/Gordon Prof of Medical Engineering, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
  - Dick Lanza, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
  - Greg Sorenson, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
  
  
• Portable Devices: The Hundred Million-Unit Value Chain
  sponsored by Matrix Partners
  
  MODERATOR: Stan Reiss, Partner, Matrix Partners
  
  FEATURED GUESTS include:
  - Yet-Ming Chiang, Professor, MIT Materials Science and Engineering
  - Seth Coe-Sullivan, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
  - Steven Gray, Head, Nokia Research Center USA Operations
  - David Perreault, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  - Greg Wornell, Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  
  
  

Venture Lunch

sponsored by Choate Hall & Stewart


DISCUSSION TABLES
Each table hosted by a grant recipient: brainstorming around applications and market opportunities.

Innovation Showcase

Breakout sessions: Each session features 4-6 "pitches" selected from projects proposed by faculty and students who believe they have a marketable innovation. Presentations are 10 minutes long, followed by a 5-minute Q&A with the audience. Moderated by session chair.

• Health Care - sponsored by Highland Capital Partners
  

  PRESENTERS:

  • Implant Coatings for Sequential Drug Delivery, Paula Hammond
  • Kidney Monitoring Device, Inder Singh
  • New Compound Stops Bleeding Instantly, Rutledge Ellis-Behnke
  • Robopsy, Conor Walsh
  • Tissue Replacement, Eric Aizian
  • Wound Closure System, Andrew Fox
    
    
• Tiny Tech & Materials - sponsored by Harris & Harris
  

  PRESENTERS:

  • A Better Way to Make Ice Cream, i-Team presenters
  • Cleaner, Cost-Competitive Titanium Production, i-Team presenters
  • Fine Chemicals in One Step, Tim Jamison
  • HexFlex Nanomanipulator, i-Team presenters
  • Low-Cost Multispectral Infrared Detector Arrays, Lionel (Kim) Kimerling
  • Slim-Format Spectrometer, i-Team presenters
    
    
• IT/Communications
  sponsored by Accenture
  

  PRESENTERS:

  • AirNet, Kurt Keville
  • Hybrid DBMS Optimized for read-intensive applications, i-Team presenters
  • EigenCluster: finding innate clusterings on the fly, Santosh Vempala
  • IMetrico: Focus Groups, Anmol Madan
  • MetaSensorTaps: passive wireless sensor tags for spatially distributed monitoring, Ruaidhri O'Connor
  • Visible Measures, Brian Shin
    
    

Networking break

Afternoon speakers available by their posters for questions.

Closing Plenary

KEYNOTE
David Breashears, Producer, Director & Cinematographer, Arcturus Motion Pictures, Inc.

"Leadership at 26,000 Feet: Managing Risk and Creating Opportunities in Unlikely Places"
In the spring of 1996, Breashears co-directed and photographed the first ever IMAX film shot on Mount Everest. When the now infamous blizzard of May 10, 1996 hit Mount Everest, killing eight climbers, Breashears and his team were in the midst of making this historic film. In the tragedy that soon followed, Breashears and his team stopped filming to assist several of the stranded climbers to safety. He and his expedition members were later recognized for their courageous efforts. Breashears and his team then regrouped and reached the summit of the mountain on May 23, 1996, achieving their goal of becoming the first to attain IMAX film images from Earth's highest point. The film, titled Everest, premiered in March 1998 and has been shown in more than 300 IMAX theaters throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Everest was the most eagerly anticipated and successful IMAX film ever released.

Closing Reception

Join us for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres in the Spinnaker Room, overlooking the Boston skyline!

With this reception, we will merge two conferences into one. The close of IdeaStream 2005 will help kick off the Science and Engineering Business Club's Technology and Entrepreneurship Forum (TEF), which will begin on April 27. Stay to network with David Breashears, other
IdeaStream 2005 participants, and entrepreneurial students attending TEF.