Events

2018 MIT Research and Development Conference

Technology and the Corporation: Accelerating Big Impact Innovations

Hosted by: MIT Industrial Liaison Program

The pace of technological innovation continues to accelerate. Fields such as artificial intelligence, life science, data science, communications, new materials, energy, novel design technology, and others are bringing paradigm changes to industry at a scale we haven’t seen before. These changes are forcing companies to acquire new core competencies in order to stay relevant in a rapidly changing landscape. What are the emerging disruptive technologies you need to watch for? How could you turn sources of disruption into fountains of future success?

Join the 2018 MIT Research and Development Conference: Accelerating Big Impact Innovations to explore these topics and more, and meet with world leading experts in these fields. In addition to plenary sessions, attendees will choose among seven tracks:

  • Technology from MIT Lincoln Lab
  • Energy
  • Digital Transformation
  • Nanotechnology in Life Science
  • MIT Quest for Intelligence
  • Material Research
  • Design Technology

Moreover, attendees will be offered a unique opportunity to join one of three field visits on the MIT Campus after the conference. Field visits include:

  • Tour of The Engine: A home for tough tech founders building the next generation of world-changing companies.
  • Tour of the International Design Center (IDC): Center for radical design innovation for relevant solutions. IDC faculty and researchers forge unique collaborations with industry to innovate, excite and change the world through intense design innovation.
  • Tour of Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA): Heralding the dawn of the future fabric that can see, hear, sense, communicate, store energy, and more.

Details

November 14–15, 2018

MIT Buildings W16, E14, and E52

Registration Fee:

  • ILP Members: Complimentary with membership
  • Current MIT Faculty / Students / Staff: Complimentary
  • General Public: $2,250
  • Startup Exchange Members, MIT Alum, Sloan Exec Ed Members, Professional Education Members: Email conferences-www@mit.edu for a discount code.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.