Media Lab Venture Summit

Agenda

Tuesday, January 28

• 8:30am: Registration and breakfast

• 9:00am: Welcoming note: Deb Roy, Habib Haddad, Calvin Chin

• 9:15am: Opening panel: Joe Chung (Redstar) | moderator, John Underkoffler (Oblong), Ayah Bdeir (Littlebits), Eran Egozy (Harmonix), Rana El Kaliouby (Affectiva), Nan-Wei Gong (Figur8)

• 10:15am: Venture Showcase: Session 1: Formlabs, Ori, Diligent Robotics , 10xMotion, Treau, Graviky, Labby, Cortico, SAIL, Wise Systems, Lendbuzz, Kiwi Technologies, Catalia Health, Humanyze, OptimusRide, Tulip.

• 11:15am: Break

• 11:30am: Rebecca Xiong (MIT ILP)

• 11:35am: Lighting round: Riff Learning, Mui Lab, Leela, Hint, Graph Commons, Akkio.

• 11:40am: Venture Showcase: Session 2 : Figur8, Desktop Metal, OPT Industries, Pathr, Sourcemap, Lumii, Scratch, Empatica, Overjet, Biobot, Elemind, Ramona Optics, Volta Labs, C16 Biosciences, Brelyon.

• 12:40pm: Lunch

• 1:30pm: Demos & Meet the Founders

• 3:30pm: Breakout sessions

• 5:00pm: Reception and demos

Wednesday, January 29

• 9:00am: Startup site visits: Formlabs, Tulip, Ginkgo Bioworks

• 1:00pm: Lunch

Descriptions of participating ventures: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/ventures-mlvs-2020/

* subject to change