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Event Date | Tue Sep 17 EDT - Thu Sep 19 EDT (over 5 years ago) |
Location |
MIT Media Lab
75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA |
Region | Americas |
EmTech MIT is your opportunity to discover future trends and to understand the technologies that will drive the global economy in the years ahead. A defining challenge of our time remains unsolved in the decades-long effort to develop sustainable, affordable energy sources to power a growing global population. Now, with the effects of climate change growing more visible around the world, to a very real extent our time is up. We will examine the innovative initiatives underway to support communities and regional economies through adaptation to a climate changed. It seems inevitable that breakthroughs in science and technology will come with unintended consequences. Yes, the stakes are rising as new technologies are created and shared nearly immediately at global scale, from artificial intelligences we don’t fully understand to developing the ability to edit the human genome. To benefit from the promises while mitigating the risks of new breakthroughs, technical literacy across a surprising range of fields is your new normal.
2019 Speakers
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Yoshua Bengio
Founder and Scientific Director, Mila, Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Sonia Vallabh
Group Leader, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Candace Worley
Vice President and Chief Technical Strategist, McAfee
Greg Wyler
Founder and Executive Chairman, OneWeb
SPEAKERS:
Rediet Abebe
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Katie Bach
Managing Director, Good Jobs Institute
Anurag Bajpayee
Co-Founder and CEO, Gradiant Corporation
Jainey Bavishi
Director and Deputy Chief Resilience Officer, NYC Mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency
Vence Bonham
Senior Advisor to the NHGRI Director on Genomics and Health Disparities, NIH
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau
CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
Noam Brown
Research Scientist, Facebook
Jason Buenrostro
Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Silvia Caballero
Senior Staff Scientist, Vedanta Biosciences
Vivian Chu
CTO and Co-Founder, Diligent Robotics
Joseph Coughlin
Director, MIT AgeLab
César De La Fuente
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Dawei Di
Principal Investigator, Zhejiang University and University of Cambridge
Olga Dudchenko
Postdoctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine
Kerry A. Emanuel
Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT
Camille Francois
Chief Innovation Officer, Graphika
Tracy Frey
Director of Strategy, Google Cloud AI
Nicole Gaudelli
Senior Scientist, Beam Therapeutics
Martin Giles
San Francisco Bureau Chief, MIT Technology Review
Grace Gu
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Song Han
Assistant Professor, MIT
Karen Hao
AI Reporter, MIT Technology Review
Steven Hill
Global Head of Innovation, KPMG
Guosong Hong
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Patrick Hsu
Principal Investigator and Salk Helmsley Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Qichao Hu
Founder and CEO, SolidEnergy Systems
Benjamin Hurlbut
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University School of Life Sciences
Cliff Justice
Principal, US Leader, Intelligent Automation, KPMG
Abhinav Kandala
Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Mekala Krishnan
Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
Marc Lajoie
Co-Director, Lyell Immunopharma
Himabindu Lakkaraju
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Hao Li
CEO and Cofounder, Pinscreen
Jinxing Li
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University
Gideon Lichfield
Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review
Riana Lynn
CEO, Journey Foods
Joan Mannick
Cofounder, Chief Medical Officer, Board Member, resTORbio
Azalia Mirhoseini
Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain
Daragh Murray
Senior Lecturer, Human Rights Centre and School of Law, University of Essex
Mutale Nkonde
Fellow, Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society, Harvard University
William Oliver
Principal Investigator, Engineering Quantum Systems Group, MIT
Chirag Parikh
Director, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
Ida Pavlichenko
Technology Development Fellow, Harvard's Wyss Institute
Raluca Ada Popa
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Mariana Popescu
Postdoctoral Researcher, Block Research Group, ETH Zurich
Ritu Raman
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
Antonio Regalado
Senior Editor for Biomedicine, MIT Technology Review
Michael Reilly
Executive Editor, MIT Technology Review
David Rotman
Editor at Large, MIT Technology Review
Isaac Sesi
Co-Founder and Team Lead, Sesi Technologies
Gadi Singer
VP, Artificial Intelligence Products Group and GM, Inference Products Group, Intel
Brandon Sorbom
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Kimberly Stachenfeld
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Alex Stamos
Director, Stanford Internet Observatory
James Temple
Senior Editor for Energy, MIT Technology Review
Archana Venkataraman
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Danielle Wood
Director, Space Enabled Research Group, MIT Media Lab
Liang Xu
Deputy Chief Engineer, AI Department, Ping An Technology
Wojciech Zaremba
Co-Founder and Head of Robotics, OpenAI
Yi Zeng
Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2019 Partners
PRESENTING PARTNERS:
• Intel
• KPMG
EVENT PARTNER:
• Lemelson-MIT
• MIT
• Dashlane