! 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) MIT Technology and the Corporation Conference Series
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