September 23-24, 2014 | MIT, Cambridge, MA

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, MIT Technology Review

Emerging Technologies That Matter Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots, [x]

9:30 a.m. The Internet of Things Yoky Matsuoka, Vice President of Technology, Nest Labs Bryan Hannegan, Associate Lab Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

10:15 a.m. Meet the – Group One David He, Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer, Quanttus Fadel Adib, Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT CSAIL Rumi Chunara, Instructor, Harvard Medical School

10:30 a.m. Break and Networking

11:00 a.m. Engineering Abundance – Food and Water Security for 9 Billion Molly Jahn, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison John Lienhard, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water and Food, MIT Andras Forgacs, Co-founder and Chief Executive, Modern Meadow

12:00 p.m. Meet the Innovators Under 35 – Group Two Miles Barr, Cofounder and CEO, Ubiquitous Energy Emily Cole, Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer, Liquid Light Sarah Kearney, Executive Director, PRIME Coalition Hui Wu, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University

12:30 p.m. Lunch and Networking Accelerating Innovation: Imagining the Next Generation Digital Workplace Presented by Citrix Michael Harries, Chief Technologist, Citrix Startup Accelerator In conversation with Kathleen Kennedy, Chief Strategy Officer, MIT Technology Review 2:00 p.m. What’s Next For Watson? Mike Rhodin, Senior Vice President, IBM Watson Group

2:30 p.m. Genome Editing Feng Zhang, Core Faculty Member, Broad Institute

2:50 p.m. Better Health Through Sequencing Francis deSouza, President, Illumina

3:20 p.m. Connected Health Jeannette Tighe, Business Development, Health Advisory Services, Sagentia

3:30 p.m. Break and Networking

4:00 p.m. Mobile Collaboration Aaron Levie, Cofounder and CEO, Box

4:30 p.m. Microscale 3-D Printing Jennifer Lewis, Professor, Harvard University

5:00 p.m. Meet the Innovators Under 35 – Group Three Emily Balskus, Assistant Professor, Harvard University Jinha Lee, Interface Designer, Interactive Visualization Lab, Samsung Electronics Maria Nunes Pereira, Head of Adhesive Technologies, Gecko Biomedical Kathryn Whitehead, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Tak Sing Wong, Assistant Professor, The Pennsylvania State University

5:30 p.m. Lemelson-MIT Prize Honors and Reception An interview with 2014 Lemelson-MIT Prize Winner Sangeeta Bhatia, followed by a reception in her honor.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, MIT Technology Review

Hacking the Soul Christof Koch, Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute for Brain Science Steven Hyman, Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute Pamela Sklar, Professor, The Mount Sinai Hospital

10:00 a.m. Meet the Innovators Under 35 – Group Four Maryam Shanechi, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Duygu Kuzum, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania Kay Tye, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Jonathan Viventi, Assistant Professor, New York University

10:30 a.m. Break and Networking

11:00 a.m. Techonomics and Society Erik Brynjolfsson, Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

11:30 a.m. Meet the Innovators Under 35 – Group Five George Ban-Weiss, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Kuang Chen, Founder and CEO, Captricity Kurtis Heimerl, CEO, Endaga Santiago Villegas, CEO, Aliados Web Ayah Bdeir, Founder and CEO, littleBits

11:45 a.m. Innovation in Robotics: How to Build Robots Like Us Charles Bergan, VP of Engineering, Qualcomm

12:00 p.m. Lunch and Networking

1:30 p.m. Machines Like Us: Agile Robots Marc Raibert, Founder and CEO, Boston Dynamics

2:00 p.m. Machines Like Us: Robots and Drones at Work Julie Shah, Assistant Professor, MIT Rodney Brooks, Founder, Chairman and CTO, Rethink Robotics Jonathan Downey, Founder and CEO, Airware Brandon Basso, Director of Research and Development, 3D Robotics

3:00 p.m. Break and Networking 3:30 p.m. Your Heartbeat is Your Password Andrew D’Souza, President, Bionym

3:45 p.m. China’s Search Giant Goes Deep , Chief Scientist, Baidu

4:15 p.m. Meet the Innovators Under 35 – Group Six Rand Hindi, Founder and CEO, Snips Severin Hacker, Cofounder and CTO, Duolingo Quoc Le, Research Scientist, Google Brain Megan McCain, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

4:45 p.m. Mobile Collaboration Presenting Partner Bret Taylor, CEO and Cofounder, Quip

5:15 p.m. Closing Reception Honoring the Innovators Under 35