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2015 MIT Information and Communication
Technologies Conference
April 29-30, 2015 | Media Lab (E14), MIT | ilp.mit.edu/2015/ict
Day 1: Wednesday, April 29
Day 2: Thursday, April 30
8:00
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00
Welcome and Introduction
Karl F. Koster, Executive Director, MIT Office of Corporate
Relations/Industrial Liaison Program
9:00
Welcome and Introduction
Karl F. Koster, Executive Director, MIT Office of Corporate
Relations/Industrial Liaison Program
9:05
Connection Science: The Technology of Innovation
Alex Pentland, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences;
Head, Human Dynamics Group; Director, Media Lab
Entrepreneurship Program; MIT Media Laboratory
9:05
9:50
Keynote: The Future Enterprise
John Roese, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
EMC Corporation
Beyond Description and Prediction: Prescriptive
Analytics
Dimitris Bertsimas, Boeing Leaders for Global Operations
Professor of Management; Co-Director, Operations Research
Center (ORC); MIT Sloan School of Management
9:50
Modeling Choice with Limited Data
Vivek Farias, Robert N Noyce Career Development Associate
Professor of Operations Management; MIT Sloan School of
Management
10:35
Networking Break
11:05
Keynote: Digital Technologies Transforming Healthcare
Ripley Martin, VP, Strategy & Business Development;
Philips Healthcare
11:50
Viral Innovation: Why Now and What's Next?
Andrew Lippman, Associate Director, MIT Media Lab; Senior
Research Scientist; Co-Director, MIT Communications Futures
Program; MIT Media Laboratory
12:35
Lunch and Startup Exchange Exhibit
1:45
Towards a Dominant IoT Architecture: CloudThings
Sanjay Sarma, Dean of Digital Learning (ODL); Fred Fort Flowers
(1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical
Engineering; Director, MIT/SUTD Collaboration Office; Margaret
MacVicar Faculty Fellow; MIT Office of the Provost
2:30
Understanding IoT Architecture
David Clark, Senior Research Scientist; Co-Director, MIT
Communications Futures Program (CFP); MIT Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
3:15
Goal-directed Collaborative Systems: From HumanRobot Coordination to Sustainable Energy
Brian Williams, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics;
Director Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems
Group; Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory, MIT; MIT Department of Aeronautics and
Astronautics
4:00
Networking Break
4:20
Wireless Possibilities: Sensorless Tracking and
Monitoring
Dina Katabi, Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering; Director, Center for Wireless Networks and
Mobile Computing (Wireless@MIT); MIT Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
5:05
The Concept is the Machine
Daniel N. Jackson, Professor, Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science; Associate Director,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory;
VanBuren N Hansford (1937) - MacVicar Faculty Fellow;
Director, Middle East Education Through Technology (MISTI
MIT-MEET); MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
5:50
Networking Reception with Startup Exchange Exhibit
* All schedule and speakers are subject to change without notice.
MIT Technology and the Corporation Conference Series 10:35
Networking Break
11:05
Panel discussion: Prescriptive Analytics – Real World Use
Cases
Moderator: Dimitris Bertsimas
Panels: Retsef Levi, Gina Mourtzinou, Georgia Perakis,
Alexander Sauer-Budge, Stephen Sofoul
12:00
Making Digital Happen Now
George Westerman, Research Scientist; MIT Sloan Initiative on
the Digital Economy; MIT Sloan School of Management
12:45
Adjournment & Bagged Lunch