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Afsana Akhter MEng '99, SB '98

Moderator, Digital Health Entrepreneur

Afsana is passionate about building Digital Health companies that empower consumers and also improve healthcare quality and cost outcomes. Afsana is currently the co-founder and CEO of SkinIQ – a company that uses AI and smartphone technology to help people manage their skin conditions. Prior to that, Afsana was Chief Commercial Officer of Cardinal Analytx, VP of Health Plan Strategy and Sales at Livongo Health, and VP of Sales and Marketing at Medullan. Afsana holds BS and MEng degrees in Electrical Engineering with Computer Science from MIT.

Speakers

Megan Smith

United States

3rd U.S. Chief Technology Officer

Aileen Lee

Cowboy Ventures

Founder & Managing Partner

Mark Gorenberg

Zetta Venture Partners

Managing Director

Dina Katabi

MIT

Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor

Othman Laraki

Color Genomics

CEO & Co-Founder

Aparna Chennapragada

Google

VP of Product, AR & VR

Shishir Mehrotra

SB ’00, MNG ’00

Diane Greene

Google Cloud

Chief Executive Officer

Hemant Taneja

SB '97, SM '99, MNG '99

General Catalyst

Managing Director

Cristina Dolan

iXledger

Co-Founder & COO

Keith Rabois

Khosla Ventures

General Partner

Renee Richardson Gosline

MIT Sloan

Senior Lecturer & Research Scientist

Zulfikar Ramzan

SM '99, PhD ‘01

RSA

Chief Technology Officer

Francesca Rossi

IBM

Ramesh Raskar

MIT Media Lab

Associate Professor

Mary Lou Jepsen

Openwater

CEO and Founder

Rehan Jalil

CEO

Zia Chishti

Afiniti

Ann Miura-Ko

Floodgate

Co-Founding Partner

Richard Rabbat

PhD '01, SM '98

Gfycat

Co-Founder & CEO

Joanne Chen

Foundation capital

Amar Kendale

Livongo

Chief Product Officer

Anna Patterson

Gradient Ventures

Found & Managing Partner

Swami Sivasubramanian

Amazon Web Services

Vice President AI

Yvonne Wassenaar

Snyk

Surya Ganguli

Stanford

Tina Huang

Transposit

Co-Founder & CTO

Arun Saigal

Thunkable

Co-Founder & CEO

Reshma Khilnani

SB ’03, MNG ’04

Control Panel

Co-Founder & CEO

Peter Reinhardt

Segment

Co-Founder & CEO

Jaime Teevan

PhD '06, FTO '03, SM '01

Microsoft

Technical Advisor to CEO

Vivek Mohta

Manifold

Managing Director

Thuan Pham

Nancy Hua

Apptimize

Karen Robinson

SB '03 '04, MEng '03

Tangible Product Strategy

Managing Partner

Zeenat Patrawala

Google Brain

Partner Development

Wendi Zhang

Google

Product Partnerships - Hadware

Rami Elkhatib

Acero Capital

Managing Partner

Jike Chong

Acorns

Chief Data Scientist

Kara Sprague

Dr. Ayesha Khanna

CEO

Elena Grewal

Airbnb

Head of Data Science

Anima Anandkumar

Amazon AI

Principal Scientist

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

Michael Dolbec

GE Ventures

Managing Director

Slava Zhakov

Genesys

Aashima Gupta

Google

Global Head - Healthcare Solutions, Google Cloud Platform

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

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

Arvind Rajan

Cricket Health Inc.

Co-Founder & CEO

Archana Dubey

HP

Healthcare Technology Advisory Council

Afsana Akhter

MEng '99, SB '98

Moderator, Digital Health Entrepreneur

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

Steven Tamm

Salesforce.com

Chief Technology Officer

Susan Hakkarainen

Lutron Electronics

Co-Chairperson and CEO

Eric Horvitz

Microsoft Research

Technical Fellow & Director

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

James DiCarlo

MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Department Head

Guy Satat

PhD '19, SM '15

MIT Media Lab

Research Assistant

Nicky Goulimis

Nova Credit

Co-Founder & COO

Juan Benet

Filecoin

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

AT&T Enterprise Mobility

Executive Director

Tom Rikert

NextWorld Capital

General Partner

Niloy Sanyal

GE Digital

Eduardo Rubia

Domino Data Lab

Chief Data Scientist

Mark Chew

Teleon Health

Hoda Eydgahi

Stitch Fix

Manager of Data Science

Eric Jonas

UC Berkeley

Postdoctoral Researcher

Zoher Karu

eBay

Vice President and Chief Data Officer

Jennifer Granholm

former two-term Governor of Michigan

Professor at UC Berkeley

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

Matt Garratt

Salesforce Ventures

Elad Gil

Color

Sarah Guo

Greylock Partners

Aaref Hilaly

Sequoia Capital

Ali Jameel

TPL Holdings

Joshua Ouellette

Raven[Ops]

Co-Founder & CEO

Jamie Karraker

Alto Pharmacy

Co-Founder & CTO

Sara Mauskopf

Winnie

Co-Founder & CEO

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

Danny Lange

Unity Technologies

VP of AI and Machine Learning

Vanessa Larco

NEA

Ben Levy

BootstrapLabs

Steve McLaughlin

FT Partners

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

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

Eduardo Torres-Jara

SM '02, PhD '07, PD '07

Robot Rebuilt

Qasar Younis

Y Combinator

COO and General Partner

Shuja Keen

The Resource Group

Managing Director

Umair Khan

SB '92 , SM '95

Mentors Fund

Shan Sinha

SB '04, MNG '05

HighFive

Regina Clewlow

Populus

Will Zeng

Rigetti

Head of Quantum Cloud Services

Crystal Ciancutti

Sage Digital

Richard Socher

Salesforce

Chief Scientist

Rory O'Driscoll

Scale Venture Partners

Partner & Co-Founder

Ken Lazarus

Scout Exchange

Or Hiltch

Skyline AI

Cynthia Yeung

Softbank Robotics

Daphne Koller

Stanford University

Adjunct Professor of Computer Science

Milo Warner

Starting Something New

(formerly Tesla)

Jim Adler

Toyota AI Ventures

Managing Director

Chelsea Finn

UC Berkeley

Dawn Song

UC Berkeley

Rima Arnaout

UCSF

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Mimee Xue

UnifyID

Machine Learning Engineer

Dalia Asterbadi

Verve.ai

Atif Rafiq

Volvo Car Group

Chief Digital Officer

Elizabeth Dwoskin

Washington Post

Silicon Valley Correspondent

Menglin Cao

Wells Fargo

SVP, Enterprise NLP, Text, and Speech Analytics & Solutions

Pascal Weinberger

Telefonica Alpha

Gregory Renard

xBrain

Chief AI Officer

Anneka Gupta

LiveRamp

Jocelyn goldfein

Zetta Venture Partners

Managing Director

Asim Khwaja

Harvard University

Professor, International Finance and Development

Atif Mian

Princeton University

Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance

Maroof Syed

Center for Economic Research in Pakistan

President & CEO

Prof. Munis Faruqui

UC Berkeley

Chair, Institute for South Asia Studies, Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Carmen Lai

Color

Emily Johnston

Color

Engineering Manager

Tally Portnoi

SB '17, MEng '18

Color

Software Engineer

Ziga Mahkovec

Color

Software Engineer

Rohini Chakravarthy

NGP Capital

Alex Gladstein

Ayar Labs, Inc.

Chief Strategy Officers & Co-Founder

Shafi Goldwasser

MIT CSAIL

RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

John Leonard

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

MIT Professor of Robotics

John LeonardDNU

MIT Professor of Robotics

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Stephanie Tilenius

Founder and CEO, Vida Health

Carolyn Jasik, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Omada Health

Helen Lin, MD

Primary Care Physician, The Permanente Medical Group

Susan Hockfield

MIT

President Emerita, Professor of Neuroscience

Dr. Benjamin Santer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Atmospheric Scientist

Patrick Collison

Stripe

Victor Wang

CEO, care.coach

Mike Cassidy

Apollo Fusion, Inc

Dr. Robert Lustig

Eat REAL

Chief Science Officer

Ann Shepherd

HoneyBook

SC Moatti

Opera Software

Joanna Rees

FICO, Tentrr, Boon Supply, Prelude Fertility

Julie Cavanna-Jerbic

First Tech Credit Union

Supervisory Committee of the Board of Directors

Iris Chan

East West Bank