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Mark Platshon

Managing Director

Icebreaker Ventures' Autonomous World Fund

Mark Platshon is Managing Director of Icebreaker Ventures’ Autonomous World Fund which invests in electric, connected, autonomous and shared mobility technologies. Mark’s career as an entrepreneur and VC have included being a serial CEO for 20 years. His investments include Tesla, Peloton, Nauto, Amprius, ChargePoint, Dreamweaver, Cellink and Seurat. Mark is a Cyclotron Road mentor, Advisor to BMW, and venture partner with Birchmere Ventures. He earned a BSE from Michigan and an MBA from Stanford.

Speakers

Mark Gorenberg

Zetta Venture Partners

Managing Director

Diane Greene

Google Cloud

Chief Executive Officer

Megan Smith

United States

3rd U.S. Chief Technology Officer

Aileen Lee

Cowboy Ventures

Founder & Managing Partner

Hemant Taneja

SB '97, SM '99, MNG '99

General Catalyst

Managing Director

Steven Tamm

Salesforce.com

Chief Technology Officer

Eric Horvitz

Microsoft Research

Technical Fellow & Director

Danny Lange

Unity Technologies

VP of AI and Machine Learning

Othman Laraki

Color Genomics

CEO & Co-Founder

Ann Miura-Ko

Yale University

Member Board Of Trustees

Anna Patterson

Gradient Ventures

Found & Managing Partner

Dina Katabi

MIT

Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor

Vivek Mohta

Manifold

Managing Director

Thuan Pham

Shuja Keen

The Resource Group

Managing Director

Jeff Arenberg

Apple

Anne Westbrook

Julia Yoo

SB '10, MBA '14

Autodesk

Global Sales Strategy

Nancy Hua

Apptimize

Prabha Kannan

Apple

Karen Robinson

SB '03 '04, MEng '03

Tangible Product Strategy

Managing Partner

Zeenat Patrawala

Google Brain

Partner Development

Hesham Younis

SM '97, PhD '02

Health Outcomes

Wendi Zhang

Gradient Ventures

Head of Business Development

Jake Seid

SB '98, MEng '98

Stone Bridge Ventures

Managing Director

Rami Elkhatib

Acero Capital

Managing Partner

Jike Chong

LinkedIn

Data Science, Hiring Marketplace

Kara Sprague

MS ' 04, M.ENG ' 02, BS ' 01

F5 Networks

Executive Vice President and General Manager, Application Services

Dr. Ayesha Khanna

CEO

Zia Chishti

Afiniti

Elena Grewal

Airbnb

Head of Data Science

Anima Anandkumar

NVIDIA

Director of ML research

John Axerio-Cilies

Arterys

Max Cantor

Atrium

Head of Data and Machine Learning

Sterling Anderson

Aurora

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Sangeeta Chakraborty

Checkr, Inc.

Vice President, Customer Success

Fang Yuan

Baidu Ventures

Niven Narain

Berg

Co-Founder, President & CEO

Anna Khan

Bessemer Venture Partners

Ananth Madhavan

Blackrock

Managing Director

Audrey Chaing

Blockchaing

Cryptocurrency Trader& Blockchain Analyst

Eric Newcomer

Bloomberg

Startup and Venture Capital Reporter

Selina Wang

Bloomberg

Rebecca Lynn

Canvas Ventures

Co-founder & General Partner

Youssef Lahrech

Capital One

Senior Vice President

Bret Hartman

Cisco Systems

Venkat Rangan

Clari Inc.

Dylan Morris

CRV

General Partner

Jack Kim

Data Capital Management

Chief Risk Officer

Maryanna Saenko

Khosla Ventures

Brendan McCord

DIUx

Head of Machine Learning

Christina Qi

Domeyard LP

Karpagam Narayanan

eKryp

Brandon Rohrer

PhD '02, SM '99

Facebook

Vipin Mayar

Fidelity Investments

AI / Analytics Lead

Hannah Kuchler

Financial Times

San Francisco Correspondent

Jared Souter

First Republic Bank

Chief Data Officer

Joanne Chen

Foundation capital

Michael Dolbec

GE Ventures

Managing Director

Slava Zhakov

Genesys

Richard Rabbat

PhD '01, SM '98

Gfycat

Co-Founder & CEO

Aashima Gupta

Google

Global Head - Healthcare Solutions, Google Cloud Platform

Aparna Chennapragada

Google

VP of Product, AR & VR

Been Kim

PhD '15, SM '10

Google Brain

Research Scientist

Malika Cantor

Google Launchpad Studio

Beena Ammanath

HP Enterprise

Global VP for Big data, AI & Innovation

Francesca Rossi

IBM

Rania Khalaf

MEng. 01, SB '00

IBM Research AI

Director of AI Engineering

Jeffrey Welser

IBM Research

VP, Lab Director IBM Research Almaden

David Elkington

InsideSales.com

Cristina Dolan

iXledger

Co-Founder & COO

Keith Rabois

Khosla Ventures

General Partner

Arvind Rajan

Cricket Health Inc.

Co-Founder & CEO

Archana Dubey

HP

Healthcare Technology Advisory Council

Amar Kendale

Livongo

Chief Product Officer

Afsana Akhter

MEng '99, SB '98

SkinIQ

Bernadette Del Chiaro

California Solar & Storage Association

Executive Director

Peter Gibson

LG Chem Michigan Inc.

VP Energy Storage

Lior Handelsman

SolarEdge

VP Marketing & Product Strategy, Founder

Jan Pepper

Peninsula Clean Energy

Chief Executive Officer

Barry Cinnamon

Cinnamon Energy Systems

Al Guido

Elevate Sports Ventures

Yvonne Wassenaar

Snyk

Swami Sivasubramanian

Amazon Web Services

Vice President AI

Susan Hakkarainen

Lutron Electronics

Co-Chairperson and CEO

Sailu Challapalli

MEng '01, SB '01

Kyruus

VP Market Development

Vivek Krishnappa

Lending Club Asset Management

Ajay Sudan

MEng '04, SB '03

Lightspeed Ventures

Bruce Welty

Locus Robotics

Catherine Havasi

MEng '04, SB '03

Luminoso Inc.

CEO & Co-Founder

Matyas Tamas

Manifold

Senior Staff ML Engineer

Sourav Dey

PhD '08, SM '04, SB '03

Manifold

Managing Director & Head of Machine Learning

Vinay Seth Mohta

MEng '98, SB '97

Manifold

Managing Director

Todd Mostak

MapD

CEO & Co-Founder

Nikhil Naikal

Mapper

Michael Chui

McKinsey

Mike Beaumier

Mercedes-Benz R & D North America, Inc.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Jaime Teevan

PhD '06, FTO '03, SM '01

Microsoft

Technical Advisor to CEO

James DiCarlo

MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Department Head

Guy Satat

PhD '19, SM '15

MIT Media Lab

Research Assistant

Ramesh Raskar

MIT Media Lab

Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Renee Richardson Gosline

MIT Sloan

Senior Lecturer & Research Scientist

Nicky Goulimis

Nova Credit

Co-Founder & COO

Mary Lou Jepsen

Openwater

CEO and Founder

Juan Benet

Protocol Labs

Founder, CEO, Engineer

Grant Fondo

Goodwin Procter

Partner and Head of Blockchain Practice

Brad Garlinghouse

Ripple

Joey Krug

Pantera Capital

Partner and Co-Chief Investment Office

Sloane Earl

Refereum

Head of Partnerships

Jill Richmond

Sparkchain

Munjal Shah

CBDF

Kristen Stone

Coinbase

Product Manager

Sarah I. Hody

Perkins Coie LLP

Lindsay Lin

Lightyear.io

Counsel & Program Manager

Sheila Warren

World Economic Forum

Head of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technology

Nancy Wojtas

Cooley LLP

John Apostolopoulos

VP & CTO

Cisco’s Enterprise Networking

Mobeen Khan

CIMCON - smart city solutions leader

Tom Rikert

M.Eng ' 99 ', BS ' 98

NextWorld Capital

General Partner

Niloy Sanyal

Omnicell

Chief Marketing Officer

Eduardo Rubia

Instagram

Head of Well-Being and Integrity Analytics

Mark Chew

Narvar

Product / Data Platform

Hoda Eydgahi

Stitch Fix

Manager of Data Science

Eric Jonas

PhD ' 13, MEng ' 09, BSc ' 05

UC Berkeley

Postdoctoral Researcher

Zoher Karu

Citi

Managing Director, Head of Data and Analytics, APAC & EMEA

Jennifer Granholm

Proterra Inc

Member Board Of Directors

Tom Wener

SunPower

Chief Executive Officer

Josh Ensign

Proterra

Chief Operating Officer

Troy Astorino

Co-Founder and CTO

Jeff Applebaum

Comedian & Entrepreneur

Ed Boyden

MIT Media Lab

James Cham

Bloomberg Beta

Mitali Dhar

Google

Director Global Product Partnerships

Pegah Ebrahimi

Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division

COO Global Technology Banking

Irfan Essa

Georgia Institute of Technology

Professor, Georgia

Andrew Fano

Accenture AI R&D

Managing Director

Chris Farmer

Afiniti

Chief Marketing Officer

Surya Ganguli

Stanford

Matt Garratt

Salesforce Ventures

Elad Gil

Color

Sarah Guo

Greylock Partners

Aaref Hilaly

Sequoia Capital

Rehan Jalil

SECURITI.ai

Ali Jameel

TPL Holdings

Tina Huang

BS ' 01 EECS ' 01

Transposit

Co-Founder & CTO

Joshua Ouellette

Raven[Ops]

Co-Founder & CEO

Peter Reinhardt

Segment

Co-Founder & CEO

Jamie Karraker

Alto Pharmacy

Co-Founder & CTO

Sara Mauskopf

Winnie

Co-Founder & CEO

Reshma Khilnani

MNG ’04, SB ’03

Health Tech Startup

Morgan Lai

Foundation Capital

Jessica Yu

Mindstrong Health

Licensed Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Program Manager

Julia Hu

Lark Health

CEO and Founder

Mahima Muralidharan

Tiatros

Licensed Clinical Psychologist & Chief Psychology Officer

Stephen Hartman

Licensed Clinical

Zulfikar Ramzan

RSA

Chief Technology Officer

Manolis Kellis

SB '99, MNG '99, PhD ‘03

MIT CSAIL and Broad Institute

Vanessa Larco

NEA

Ben Levy

BootstrapLabs

Steve McLaughlin

FT Partners

Shishir Mehrotra

SB ’00, MNG ’00

Coda

Nikunj Mehta

Falkonry

Sarah Mirza

Fenwick & West

Patent Attorney

Aye Moah

Boomerang

Chief of Product and Co-founder

Rob Neivert

500 Startups

Venture Partner

Vijay Pande

Andreessen Horowitz

General Partner

Melissa Nobles

MIT

Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS)

Philip Oreopoulos

Poverty Action Lab

Faculty Co-Chair

Vincent Quan

J-PAL

Chris Urmson

Aurora

Co-Founder & CEO

Mark Platshon

Icebreaker Ventures' Autonomous World Fund

Managing Director

Prof. Steven Shladover

Course II '72, '74 SM, '79 SCD

Ryan Richards

Compass

Real Estate Agent and Founding SF Team Member

Roberto Rivera

First Republic Bank

Senior Managing Director

Paul Zeger

Polaris Pacific

Founding Partner

Mary Robinson

HouseCanary

Molly Carapiet

Roman Polnar

Kathryn Geraghty

Dan Shugar

Jamie Karraker

SB '12, MEng '13

Alto Pharmacy

Co-Founder & CEO

Miranda Holmes

First Republic Investment Management

Managing Director

Lara N. Gilman

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Alison Darcy

Woebot Labs

Clinical Research Psychologist, CEO & Founder

Gigi Hirsch

MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation

Executive Director

Ray Wu

Wynd Technologies

Francisco Marquez

Visión Democrática

Director Ejecutivo

Juan Andres Mejias

Venezuela

Joel Pazhayampallil

Drive.ai

Robert Phillips

Uber

Head of Marketplace Optimization Decision Science

Usman Rabbani

KKR

Head of Innovation and Technology

Zulfikar Ramzan

SM '99, PhD ‘01

RSA

Chief Technology Officer

John Rodkin

SB '95, MNG ’96

Samsung Accelerator

Monica Rogati

Data Collective

Lior Ron

Otto

Alex Rosen

IDG Ventures

Managing Director

Jim Roskind

SB '80, SM '80, PHD '83

Amazon

Oliver Roup

SB '98, MNG '99

VigLink

Swami Sivasubramanian

Amazon Web Services

Vice President AI

Leonard Speiser

Neuron.VC & Markov

Investor & Founder

Jeremy Stanley

Instacart

VP of Data Science