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Plenary Session
Sponsored by: Accenture

IdeaStream Kick-Off
Rafael Reif
Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy

"Lifecycle of a Deshpande Grant Recipient"
From new grantee to success story, hear from our grant recipients in three distinctively different stages in the deshpande grantee lifecycle.

• Sangeeta Bhatia: Human Liver Models
• John Lock: Novel Conductors for Fleixble, Robust Electronic Devices
• Jeff Sabados: Two-year Titanium Iniative
• Micah Rosenbloom, Brontes Technologies
• Mira Sahney, Myomo, Inc.
  
  

Networking break

11:15 - 12:30 PM

Breakout Sessions - Ignition Forums™

Hosted by featured guests from both industry and the academic community, each Ignition Forum™ is a discussion highlighting a technology theme at MIT that addresses an important industry trend, with presentations from researchers and perspectives from industry.

• $1,000 Genome
  Sponsored by: Polaris Venture Partners
  Session Chair: Sundar Subramaniam & Jorge Conde, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology
  
  Featuring:
  George Church, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology
  Raju Kucherlapati, Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics
  Stan Lapidus, Helicos Biosciences Corporation
  Amir Nashat, Polaris Venture Partners
  Steven Seelig, Abbott Laboratories
  Francesco Stellacci, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering

• Alternative Energy
  Sponsored by: Matrix Partners
  Session Chair: Stan Reiss, Matrix Partners
  
  Featuring:
  Daniel Cohn, MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center
  Andrew Kadak, MIT Department of Nuclear Engineering
  Ernie Moniz, MIT Lab for Energy and the Environment
  Greg Stephanopoulos, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
  
  
• Robotics
  Sponsored by: North Bridge Venture Partners
  Session Chair: Jamie Goldstein, North Bridge Venture Partners
  
  Featuring:
  Rodney Brooks, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
  Hugh Herr, MIT Media Lab Biomechatronics Lab
  Dan Kara, President and Co-Founder, Robotics Trends
  John Leonard, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  
  
• Large Scale Electronics
  Sponsored by: Atlas Venture
  Session Chair: Jeffrey Andrews, Atlas Venture
  
  Featuring:
  Vladimir Bulovic, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  Richard Chlebosk, Founder, Evergreen Solar
  Gene Fitzgerald, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  Donald Sadoway, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  Charles Sodini, 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: PricewaterhouseCoopers
  
  PRESENTING PROJECTS:
• Cell Patterning Chip
• Hemetrics
• Human Liver Models
• One World MD Vaccine Pac
• Realizing Modern Medicine's Dream of Immediate Hemostasis
  
  
• Tiny Tech & Emerging Tech
  Sponsored by: Harris & Harris
  
  PRESENTING PROJECTS:
• Catalytic Particles for Rapid Decontamination of Carbon Filters and Clothing
• Flexible Conducting Polymer Nanowires: the ultimate solution for creating a brain-machine interface
• Nanotechnology Process Enables Fast Discovery of Ion Channel Targeting Drugs
• Nanofluids: Small Particles, Big Effects
• Terrafugia
  
  
• IT/Communications
  Sponsored by: Highland Capital Partners
  
  PRESENTING PROJECTS:
• Beam Power Technology
• CarTel Project: When Sensors Hit The Road
• Harmony Line (Hyperscore)
• Speech Recognition in Noise
• Video Network Monitoring and Query

Networking break

Afternoon speakers available by their posters for questions.

Closing Keynote
Sponsored by: Qualcomm

Eric S. Lander
Eric Lander is founding director of the Broad Institute. As one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project , Eric and colleagues are using these findings to explore the molecular mechanisms underlying the basis of human disease.

Eric is also professor of biology at MIT, professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School and member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.