Featured Speakers
Deborah Berebichez
Chief Data Scientist, Discovery Channel TV Host, Metis, Outrageous Acts of Science
Ursula M. Burns
CEO and Chairman, VEON
Ash Carter
25th Secretary of Defense; MIT Innovation Fellow; Director, Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School
Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist, Curator of the MIT Solve Arts and Culture Mentorship Prize
Deogratias (Deo) Niyizonkiza
Founder & CEO, Village Health Works
L. Rafael Reif
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marjorie Yang
Chairman, Esquel Group
Speakers
Khaliya
Co-Founder, Falkora
Besan Abu-Joudeh
Co-Founder & CEO, BuildPalestine
Olajumoke Adenowo
Architect CEO, AD Consulting Limited
Ann Aerts
Head, Novartis Foundation
Noubar Afeyan
Co-Founder and Chairman, Moderna
Fahad Bandar al Saud
Co-Founder, Hello Tomo
Haifa Dia Al-Attia
CEO, Queen Rania Foundation
Mbwana Alliy
Founder and Managing Partner, Savannah Fund
Alex Amouyel
Executive Director, MIT Solve
Jack Andraka
Researcher, Stanford University
Fiona Bayat-Renoux
Senior Advisor & Director of Innovation, UN Women
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Pooja Bhalla
Chief Operating Officer, Boston Health Care for the Homeless
Sangeeta Bhatia
John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor, MIT
Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck
CEO & Founder, ProducePay Inc.
Rodney Brooks
Founder, Chairman, and CTO, Rethink Robotics
Erik Brynjolfsson
Schussel Family Professor & Director, MIT - Sloan School of Management, MIT - Initiative on the Digital Economy
Aziza Chaouni
Principal & Associate Professor, Aziza Chaouni Projects, University of Toronto
Nick Chedli Carter
Director of Advocacy, VICE Impact
Andrew Chung
Founder & Managing Partner, 1955 Capital
Thierry Déau
Founding Partner & CEO, Meridiam
Robert Desimone
Director, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
Lisa Dickson
Resilience Leader, Arup
Obi Felten
Head of Getting Moonshots Ready for Contact with the Real World, X
John Fernández
Professor, Department of Architecture Director, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
United States
Ina Fried
Chief Technology Correspondent, Axios
Anurudh Ganesan
Co-Founder & CEO, Vaccine Innovations Inc.
Nicole Goldin
Senior Advisor (non-resident), Project on Prosperity and Development, CSIS
Kavita Gupta
Founding Managing Partner, ConsenSys
Ravi Gurumurthy
Chief Innovation Officer, International Rescue Committee
Linda Henry
Managing Director, The Boston Globe
Rita Kimani
Co-Founder, FarmDrive
Eric Klopfer
Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade, MIT
United States
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M.S. Vijay Kumar
Executive Director, J-WEL & Associate Dean of Digital Learning, MIT
Raj Kumar
President & Editor-in-Chief, Devex
Kent Larson
Director, City Science Initiative and Changing Places Group, MIT Media Lab
Donna Levin
Entrepreneur in Residence, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Co-Founder, Care.com
Oliver Libby
Chair and Co-Founder, The Resolution Project
Ken Mulvany
Director & Founder, BenevolentAI
Laxman Narasimhan
Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Latin America
Clare O'Connor
Staff Writer, Forbes
Chelina Odbert
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Kounkuey Design Initiative
Max Opgenoord
Team Lead, MIT Hyperloop
Professor Olivier Oullier
Professor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Aix-Marseille University
France
Tracy Palandjian
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Social Finance
Jason Pontin
CEO, Editor in Chief, and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
Elizabeth Roscoe
Executive Director, Western Union Foundation
Sanjay Sarma
Vice President for Open Learning, MIT
Martin Schmidt
Provost, MIT
Philipp Schmidt
Director of Learning Innovation, MIT Media Lab
E. Denise Simmons
Mayor, City of Cambridge
Dr. Jeffrey Sturchio
President & CEO, Rabin Martin
Elsa Sze
Founder and CEO, Agora
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Paul Varghese
Head, Health Informatics, Verily (Google Life Sciences)
Ian A. Waitz
Dean, School of Engineering, MIT
Doug Warner
Vice President and Global Head of Tech Vision and Strategy, HP Inc.
Ryan Whalen
Director, Initiatives and Strategy, The Rockefeller Foundation
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