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Networking breakfast/Poster preview

Plenary Session
Sponsored by: Choate Hall & Stewart

Welcome & Introduction

William B. Asher, Partner, Choate Hall & Stewart

Claude Canizares, Vice President for Research, Associate Provost, and Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics, MIT

Deshpande Center Grant Recipients
Brief presentations from grant recipients in different phases of the Deshpande “lifecycle.”

Michael Cima, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT: Medicine delivery method for bladder disorders

Emanuel Sachs, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT: High efficiency multi-crystalline solar cells

Klavs Jensen, Lammot du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT: High throughput cell microinjector

Seth Coe-Sullivan, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, QD Vision: QD Vision

Networking break with posters

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.

SESSIONS

Energy and Transportation – Changing the Dynamics
Sponsored by: Atlas Venture
Advances in batteries, liquid fuels, auto efficiency, & other work that will change the energy consumption of transportation.

Moderator
Jeff Andrews, Partner, Atlas Venture

Panel
Ric Fulop, Co-Founder and VP Business Development & Marketing, A123Systems

Steve Connors, Director, Analysis Grp Regional Elec Alternatives, MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment

John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director, the Sloan Automotive Laboratory.

Anthony J. Sinskey, Professor, MIT Department of Biology

Whatever Happened to Photonics?
Sponsored by: Matrix Partners
Advances in photonics and related semiconductors and how these will impact communications and computing.

Moderator
Stan Reiss, General Partner, Matrix Partners

Panel
Marc Baldo, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering , MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Fred Leonberger, Senior Advisor, MIT Center for Integrated Photonics

Rajeev Ram, Director, MIT Center for Integrated Photonics

Healthcare and Medical Devices: Improving Our Quality of Life.
Sponsored by: North Bridge Venture Partners
How advances in materials will enable new types of medical devices and improve health care

Session Chair
Jamie Goldstein, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

Moderator
Dr. Jeffrey D. Carbeck, Partner and Chief Science Advisor of NanoTerra, and scientific co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of WMR Biomedical.

Panel
Patrick A. Anquetil, BioInstrumentation Laboratory, MIT

Elazer R. Edelman, Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT

Simona Socrate, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

Innovative Therapies for Health Care
Sponsored by: Polaris Venture Partners
Advances in tissue engineering, stem cells, drug delivery, that will make new therapies possible.

Moderator
Amir Nashat, Principal, Polaris Venture Partners

Panel
Robert Gould, Director, Novel Therapeutics, Broad Institute

Harvey Lodish, Member, Whitehead Institute, Professor, MIT Department of Biology & Profeesor, MIT Bioengineering

John Maraganore, President and CEO, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Alan Smith, Senior Vice President, Research; Chief Scientific Officer, Genzyme

Lunch

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

Innovation Showcase
Each session features 4-6 "pitches" selected from projects proposed by faculty and students who believe they have a marketable innovation. Presentations are 10-12 minutes long, followed by a 5-7 minutes of feedback with the audience. Audience is encouraged to give feedback on the technology, market and opportunity, and the overall presentation.

SESSIONS

IT/Communications
Sponsored by: Highland Capital Partners

Moderator
Sean Dalton, Managing General Partner, Highland Capital Partners

Presenters
Henk Wymeersch, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science : Cooperative Techniques for Ubitiquous Location-Awareness

Nicholas Makris, Associate Professor, MIT Mechanical Engineering: Fish Populations Revealed by Instantaneous Continental Shelf-Scale Imaging

Dimitrios Vyzovitis, Graduate Student, MIT Media Arts and Sciences: Global Real-Time Media Distribution

Michael Stonebraker, Adjunct Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Morpehus - Next-generation Data Transformation Tool

Saman Amarasinghe, Associate Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Retargetable Programming Environment for Multicore Architectures


Tiny Tech/Materials/Energy
Sponsored by: Harris & Harris

Moderator
Doug Jamison, President / Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Harris & Harris

Jeff Karp, Senior Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Chemical Engineering: Application of Nanotechnology to consumer Heath Care Products

Daniel Pressl, Graduate Student, MIT Materials Science & Engineering: Endothermic SuperInsulation

Lawrence F. Hancock , President, Iptyx: Iptyx: Free Volume Based Materials Design

Andrew Peterson, PhD Candidate, MIT Chemical Engineering : A New Biofu el: Propane from Corn or Cellulose (C3 BioEnergy)


Healthcare/Medical Devices

Moderator
Jeff Arnold, Founder, Arnold Management Consulting

Presenters
Peter Tarsa, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Biological Engineering: Allosteric Discoveries - Single Molecule Proteomics for Drug Discovery

Shawn Kelly, Visiting Scientist, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Research Lab for Electronics: The Boston Retinal Implant Project

Erik Bassett, Graduate Student, MIT Mechanical Engineering: Capstan Clutch for Medical Devices

François Berthiaume, Assistant Professor, MIT Mechanical Engineering and Surgery MGH: Drug Delivery System to Enhance Wound Healing in Burn Patients

Mekhail Anwar, Graduate Student, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Wireless Biosensor for Glucose Detection

Networking break
Afternoon speakers available by their posters for questions.

Closing Keynote
Sponsored by: Accenture

Introduction: Bob Suh, Chief Technology Strategist, Accenture

Keynote: Tim Brown (BIO), President & CEO, IDEO