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2015 MIT Brazil Challenge of Innovation Conference
Thinking out of the box with MIT
May 13-14, 2015 | Sao Paulo, Brazil | ilp.mit.edu/2015/brazil
Day 1: Wednesday, May 13
Day 2: Thursday, May 14
13:00
Registration
8:00
Registration
9:00
Welcome and Introduction
Tony Knopp
14:00
Welcome and Introduction
Tony Knopp, Senior Industrial Liaison Officer, MIT Office of
Corporate Relations/Industrial Liaison Program
Karl F. Koster, Executive Director, MIT Office of Corporate
Relations/Industrial Liaison Program
CERTI
SENAI
9:30
Towards a Sustainable, Bio-based Economy
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Willard Henry Dow Professor of
Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering; MIT Department of
Chemical Engineering
The Accidental Entrepreneur: the Road to Commercialization
of Ultrathin Vapor Deposited Polymer Films
Karen Gleason, Associate Provost; Alexander and I Michael
Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering; MIT Office of the
Provost
10:20
Bringing Biofunctionality to Synthetic Materials
Bradley Olsen, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
11:10
Networking Break
11:40
Platform Shift - How New Business Models are Changing
the Shape of Industry
Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor, Department of Management
Information Systems, Boston University; Visiting Scientist, MIT
Sloan School of Management
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Crossing Boundaries: UAV Academic and Industry Research
Nicholas Roy, Boeing Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and
Astronautics; MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
14:50
Sustainable Materials: Capitalizing on Mineral Resources
Antoine Allanore, Thomas B King Assistant Professor of
Metallurgy; MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
15:40
Why Information Grows: the Evolution of Order from Atoms
to Economies
César Hidalgo, Asahi Broadcast Corporation Career Development
Assistant Professor in Media Arts and Sciences; Head, Macro
Connections Group; MIT Media Laboratory
16:30
Closing Remarks
17:00
Coffee Break
14:20
15:10
Systems of Innovation: the Brazilian Context
Elisabeth Reynolds, Executive Director, MIT Industrial
Performance Center
16:00
Networking Break
16:30
Game Changers: Energy Innovation and Economic Impact
Robert Armstrong, Director, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI);
Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering; MIT
Department of Chemical Engineering
17:20
18:10
Water and Food for 9 Billion
John Lienhard, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water and
Food; Director, Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food
Security Lab; Director, Center for Clean Water and Clean
Energy; MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
Making Investments in Innovation Work
Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT Center for Digital
Business; Visting Fellow, Martin Trust Center for MIT
Entrepreneurship; Visiting Fellow, Imperial College Department of
Innovation and Entrepreneurship; MIT Center for Digital Business
19:00
Happy Hour - Innovation Congress
19:30
National Innovation Award - Innovation Congress
* All schedule and speakers are subject to change without notice. (ver. 5.6.15)
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