Agenda

October 17, 2026

Oct 17, 2026

9:00 AM

Welcome

Hahn Auditorium

Jeff Applebaum
MITAI 2026
Emcee
Luna Maroun
MITAI 2026
Co-Chair
Mark Cramer
MITAI 2026
Emcee
Rachel Lang
MITAI 2026
Co-Chair
Sasha Hoffman
MITAI 2026
Event Producer

9:05 AM

Hahn Auditorium

Shuja Keen
MITAI / MITAS
Founder & Chair / Founder & President
Mitali Dhar
Disco Dialogues
Co-Founder
Wes Sonnenreich
Plymouth Rock Assurance
Chief AI Officer
Aly Siessa
Vound
Co-Founder
Osman Siddique
Sciloop
Co-founder & CTO
Luna Maroun
MITAI 2026
Co-Chair
Rachel Lang
MITAI 2026
Co-Chair

9:20 AM

Hahn Auditorium

Vivek Ranadivé
Sacramento Kings
Chairman & CEO
Lifetime Achievement Award
Brad Porter
Cobot
Founder & CEO
Trailblazer Award
Daron Acemoglu
MIT
Professor, Nobel Laureate
Better World Award
Carina Hong
Axiom Math
Founder
Rising Star Award

Award Presenters

David Fung
MIT Alumni Association
President
Shuja Keen
MITAI / MITAS
Founder & Chair / Founder & President

Moderators

Calvin Chin
E14 Fund
Managing partner
Susie Wee
DevAI
Co-Founder & CEO
Luna Maroun
MITAI 2026
Co-Chair

10:10 AM

Hahn Auditorium

Abhinav Adduri
Arc Institute
ML Tech Lead
Ivan Burazin
Daytona
Founder
Maggie Chung
Voio
Co-Founder
Nancy Wang
1Password
CTO
Feyza Haskaraman
Felicis
Partner

Grand Hall

Ana Pinczuk
SentinelOne
President & CPTO
Bhawna Singh
Lightspeed Commerce
CTO
Mike Hamilton
Genesys Works / Cloudflare
Board Member / Former CIO
Omar Khawaja
Databricks
Field CISO
Jake Seid
Ballistic Ventures
General Partner

BooleWorkshop

Maria Gorskikh
Maritime (YC F26)
Co-founder and CEO

11:00 AM

Hahn Auditorium

Nikhil Buduma
Ambience Healthcare
Co-founder & CEO
Reshma Khilnani
Medplum
Co-founder & CEO
Vanessa Colella
Stellarus
President & CEO
Julie Yoo
Andreessen Horowitz
General Partner

Grand Hall

Felipe Chavez
Robot.com
Co-Founder & CEO
Kevin Peterson
Bedrock Robotics
CTO
Manal Habib
MightyFly
CEO
Swati Chaturvedi
Calculus VC
Managing Partner

BooleWorkshop

Rob Derow
BCG X
Managing Director & Partner

11:40 AM

Fireside Chat: Shishir Mehrotra

Hahn Auditorium

Shishir Mehrotra
Superhuman
CEO
Rachel Lang
MITAI 2026
Co-Chair

12:30 PM

BooleWorkshop

Dane Patterson
Goodwin
Partner
Danny Saposnik
Goodwin
Tech M&A Partner

1:30 PM

Fireside Chat: Bret Taylor & Fawad Ahmad

Hahn Auditorium

Bret Taylor
Sierra / OpenAI
CEO / Chairman of the Board
Fawad Ahmad
ADT
COO and CCO

2:15 PM

Hahn Auditorium

Dan Huttenlocher
MIT
Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Mark Gorenberg
Zetta Venture Partners
Managing Director
Mubarik Imam
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Lecturer & Advisory Council

Grand Hall

Hadi Partovi
Code.org / Payam Music
Founder / CEO
Sarah Mirza
Squire Patton Boggs
Partner & Patent Attorney

BooleWorkshop

Kelly Porter
Woodside Capital Partners
Lead Managing Partner

2:50 PM

What Could MIT do if it had an Unlimited Workforce of AI Agents?

Hahn Auditorium

Arun Saigal
Thunkable
Co-Founder & CEO
Esther Lee
Crimson Tiger
CEO
Murtaza Jameel
Barclays
Technology Investment Banking

Research Slam Presentations, Hackathon Demos and Startup Pitches

Grand Hall

2:50 – 3:15 PMResearch Slam: Lab to Market 3:15 – 3:30 PMHackathon: Dorm to Market 3:30 – 3:45 PMStartup Showcase

Full run of show

3:30 PM

Hahn Auditorium

Ann Miura-Ko
Floodgate
Managing Partner
Justin McCarthy
Diffusion AI
Founder
Sam Schillace
Microsoft
CVP, Deputy CTO
James Cham
Bloomberg Beta
Partner

4:10 PM

Hahn Auditorium

Hugo Barra
Meta
VP of Product, Superintelligence labs
Michael Grinich
WorkOS
Founder
Moin Nadeem
Phonic
Co-Founder
Anvisha Pai
Moda
Founder & CEO

Grand Hall

Anna Sun
Nowadays
Co-Founder
Jessica McKellar
Pilot
Founder & CEO
Selin Kocalar
Delve
Co-Founder & COO
Umair Khan
Mentors Fund
Founding Partner

4:50 PM

Hahn Auditorium

Suhas Patil
Cirrus Logic
Founder
DJ Patil
The White House
Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist

BooleWorkshop

Manjula Shivanna
Legaleez
Co-Founder & CTO
Patrick Parker
Legaleez
Founder and CEO

5:15 PM

Closing Remarks

Hahn Auditorium

Shuja Keen
MITAI / MITAS
Founder & Chair / Founder & President
Mitali Dhar
Disco Dialogues
Co-Founder
Wes Sonnenreich
Plymouth Rock Assurance
Chief AI Officer
Osman Siddique
Sciloop
Co-founder & CTO
Aly Siessa
Vound
Co-Founder
Nancy Wang
MIT AI Conference
Co-chairs 2027
Anas Chentouf
MITAI 2026
Research Slam Lead

5:30 PM

Fireside Chat: Aparna Chennapragada

Hahn Auditorium

Aparna Chennapragada
Meta
VP of Wearables Product
Arun Saigal
Thunkable
Co-Founder & CEO