The MIT Startup Exchange team is excited to announce that we will be taking our virtual Demo Day on the road and bringing it live to California! This one-day gathering will bring disruptive innovation to the forefront, with compelling lightning talks from MIT-connected startups and keynote presentations from industry leaders and MIT faculty. Some of the crucial and transformative areas that will be covered include energy and sustainability, manufacturing and robotics, supply chain, mobility, digital transformation, fintech, life science, human-AI collaboration, and work of the future.
Silicon Valley and a changing landscape present a significant opportunity to join the conversation, with featured startups showcasing their groundbreaking technologies and solutions for industry. We will also look at successful startup-corporate collaborations, emerging technologies, growth acceleration, and much more. Don’t miss it!
2019 MIT Startup Exchange Workshop: Sustainable Materials Innovation
December 3, 2019
MIT Startup Exchange presents its December Startup Workshop, centered around sustainable materials innovation. MIT Startup Exchange works to help create partnerships between over 1,800 MIT-connected startups and industry, represented by MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) members. Today, there is a large and growing societal interest for greater sustainability in the material systems that provide for a modern life style. The call is across all industry sectors, and includes the entire value chain including raw materials, material processing, material uses, and end-of-cycle treatment/reuse. This represents a challenge and an opportunity for companies, and many MIT startups are developing and providing innovative technology and business model solutions. This workshop will present perspectives from industry leaders, academics, and corporate investors, while showcasing several MIT-connected startups in this field.
Matthew Decker
Global Technical Leader - Comfort and Biophysics Group,W.L. Gore & Associates
Rei Goffer, Cofounder & Chief Strategy Officer, ClimaCell
Gerdau, a large iron & steel company with many assets, is looking for startups in energy, storage, battery, graphene. Their team is visiting the week of Feb. 11th.
Hear from distinguished MIT faculty and startups on topics such as recent advances in precision medicine for a more targeted and personalized treatment, immunotherapy to fight cancer cells, gene therapy, AI to improve diagnosis, treatment, and patient outcomes, and more.
Anurag Bajpayee, Founder and CEO, Gradiant
Dubai Police would like to invite 5 MIT-connected startups to participate as part of an MIT Regional Conference in Dubai on 5-7 Mar 2024. Startups will be featured for a 5-minute presentation and will also have an exhibit booth for all 3 days of the conference.