MIT AI Conference 2025

MORNING SESSIONS LUNCH AFTERNOON SESSIONS AWARDS & CLOSING

REGISTRATION & MORNING SESSIONS

7:30 AM 90 min

☕ Registration + Breakfast

Expert Round Tables start at 8:15 AM →

EXPERT ROUND TABLES GRAND HALL

8:15 AM - 9:00 AM

Concurrent Expert Round Tables

A: Legal Frameworks for AI at Scale - Barath Chari (Wilson Sonsini)
B: AI Pricing - Pranab Sharma (Zscaler, prev Head of Pricing at Box and Cloudflare)
C: Fundraising for AI Startups - Sheena Jindal (Sugar Free Capital)
D: AI Implementation in Organizations - Jen Garcia (Caltech CTME)
E: De-risking Agentic AI Investments - Julian Coche(Agentic Foundry)

9:00 AM 5 min

MC WELCOME GRAND HALL

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Jeff Applebaum (Siemens EDA) + Adela Jamal (Milemark Capital)

9:05 AM 5 min

WELCOME GRAND HALL

Welcome

Shuja Keen (Founder, MIT AI Conference & President, MITAS)

9:10 AM 15 min

FIRESIDE CHAT GRAND HALL

Opening Fireside: "Leading Innovation: AI's Future Through the Lens of MIT and Silicon Valley"

Guest: Mark Gorenberg (Chair, MIT Corporation)

Host: Wendi Zhang (Egon Zehnder)

9:25 AM 15 min

VIRTUAL TIM TALK + LIVE Q&A GRAND HALL

Refik Anadol

Guest: Refik Anadol

Host: Sally Yu (Mount George Partners, ODC/Dance)

9:40 AM 20 min

RESEARCH SLAM GRAND HALL

Research Slam Presentations

1. Gauri Gupta (Co-founder & CEO, NeoSigma): "Curating Intelligence through Data in the Post-Web Era"
2. Vinith Suriyakumar: "Safely Open-Sourcing Foundation Models"
3. Adam Goldstein (Co-founder and Head of Research at Softmax): "Understanding Organic Alignment"

Host: Jen Garcia (Caltech CTME)

WORKSHOP LOVELACE

Improving Operational Efficiency in the Enterprise through AI

Richard Rabbat, Anthony Johnson, Mikey Kindler (Lighty)

30 min

10:05 AM 45 min

TIM TALK HAHN

AI Agents in Action: Redefining Productivity, Reasoning, and Human Collaboration

• Sam Udotong (CTO & Co-founder, Fireflies AI)
• Tod Hynes (CEO & Co-founder, Maigent)
• Kanjun Qiu (CEO & Co-founder, Imbue)
• Gene McKenna (VP, TMobile)

Host: Yousuf Khan (Ridge Ventures)

TIM TALK GRAND HALL

AI for Health: Transforming Care, Data, and Decision-Making

• Jean-Claude Saghbini (President, Lumeris)
• Tom Hale (CEO, OURA)
• Vivek Mohta (Founder & President, Manifold)
• Dr. Theo Zanos (Division Head of Health AI at Northwell)

Host: Nancy Wang (Agentic Foundry)

10:50 AM 30 min

☕ Coffee & Connect

WORKSHOP LOVELACE

The Battle for the Agentic Web: Surviving and Thriving Beyond Big Tech's Walled Gardens

Ramesh Raskar (Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab)

11:20 AM 40 min

PANEL HAHN

AI in Action – From Code to Customer to Knowledge

• Ramin Hasani (Founder/CEO, Liquid AI)
• Tim Shi (Cofounder, Cresta AI)
• Wen Sang (Cofounder/COO, Genspark.ai)

Host: Rocky Yu (Founder of AGI House)

TIM TALK GRAND HALL

AI in Digital Experiences, Personalization, and Media

• Barbara Peng (CEO, Business Insider)
• Dr. Gavin S. P. Miller (Head of Research, Adobe)
• Ziad Sultan (SVP of Personalization, Spotify)

Host: Luna Maroun (Adobe)

12:05 PM 15 min

FIRESIDE CHAT HAHN

Robots: Beyond Imagination

Brad Porter (CEO, Collaborative Robotics)

Host: Sophia Luo (Greylock)

LUNCH & CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

12:20 PM 90 min

🍽️ Lunch Break

🤝 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM: Cofounder Speed Matching in HAHN
Host: Thalita Berpen

Workshops also available in Lovelace →

WORKSHOP LOVELACE

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

BCG: How AI will disrupt Consumer Insights

Ksenia Moiseeva and Matt Kropp

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Genspark: One prompt → Instant Podcast

Giselle Rosado

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

1:50 PM 15 min

TIM TALK HAHN

Work 3.0: From Tool to Teammate How AI is Rewriting the Org Chart and Redefining Productivity

Guest: Aparna Chennapragada (Chief Product Officer, Microsoft)

Host: Zeenat Patrawala

2:05 PM 15 min

FIRESIDE CHAT HAHN

Building the Future of Autonomous Vehicles

Qasar Younis (CEO, Applied Intuition)

Host: Umair Khan (Mentors Fund)

2:20 PM 15 min

FIRESIDE CHAT HAHN

Going from 0-100M ARR in 6 months

Amjad Massad (CEO, Replit)

Host: Habib Haddad (E14)

WORKSHOP GRAND HALL

Prompt to Product: Rapid AI App Creation

Arun Saigal (Thunkable)

30 minutes

2:35 PM 15 min

FIRESIDE CHAT HAHN

AI-powered Decisioning to Improve Care

Wardah Inam, PhD (Founder & CEO, Overjet)

Host: Calvin Chin (E14)

2:50 PM 25 min

FIRESIDE CHAT HAHN

Building AI-Powered Products: Rituals & Frameworks for Success

Shishir Mehrotra (CEO, Coda & Board of Grammarly + Superhuman)

Host: Wes Sonnenreich (Practera)

3:15 PM 30 min

☕ Coffee & Connect

WORKSHOP LOVELACE

The State of AI in Compliance

Selin Kocalar (Delve)

3:45 PM 40 min

TIM TALK HAHN

From Calls to Creativity: Redefining Interaction in the AI Era

• Maria Belousova (CTO Daydream)
• Burkay Gur (Founder, Fal.AI)
• Ankit Gordhandas (Co-founder, Pear)
• Sinchan Banerjee (Co-founder, Pear)

Host: Teddy Lee (OpenAI)

TIM TALK GRAND HALL

Shipping Secure AI

• Fawad Ahmad (COO/CCO, ADT)
• Bhawna Singh (CTO, Okta)
• Rania Khalaf (Chief AI Officer, WSO2)

Host: Rachel Lang (Cheyenne Ventures)

4:30 PM 30 min

HACKATHON DEMOS HAHN

Hackathon Demos

Citable - AI citation platform for search engine visibility
Auto Nuclear - AI agent for nuclear engineering simulations
Delirio - AI-powered mobile fitness coaching app
Mastra - Voice interview platform for customer insights
Cachette - Smart caching for reliable AI agents
AnyStream - AI swarms creating interactive live streams

Hosts: Dima Ayyash (Pebble) & Richard Rabbat (Lighty)

AWARDS & CLOSING CEREMONY

5:00 PM 15 min

FIRESIDE CHAT HAHN

AI for Healthcare: Ensuring Fairness and Equity in Clinical Models

Marzyeh Ghassemi (Associate Professor, MIT)

Host: Mitali Dhar (Disco Dialogues)

5:15 PM 15 min

FIRESIDE CHAT HAHN

Restoring the maritime industry with software at the core

Sampriti Bhattacharyya (Founder & CEO, Navier)

Host: Feyza Haskaraman (Felicis)

5:30 PM 25 min

FIRESIDE CHAT HAHN

Transforming Industries with AI: Building Companies that Empower Humanity

Hemant Taneja (CEO, General Catalyst)

Hosts: Adriana C. Vázquez Ortiz (Lilu), Daniela Gorza (Maigent)

5:55 PM 15 min

AI AWARDS HAHN

AI Excellence Awards Presentation

Lifetime Achievement Award: Hemant Taneja (CEO & Managing Director, General Catalyst)
Trailblazer Award: Shishir Mehrotra (CEO, Coda + Grammarly)
Rising Star Award: Sampriti Bhattacharyya (Founder & CEO, Navier)
Better World Award: Marzyeh Ghassemi (MIT Professor)

Hosts: Michelle Huang (TikTok), Whitney Espich (MIT AA)

6:10 PM 10 min

AWARD PRESENTATIONS HAHN

Award Presentations

Research Slam Finalists +
Hackathon Finalists

Host: Rebecca Hwang (Kalei Ventures) & Arun Saigal (Thunkable)

6:20 PM 5 min

THANK YOUS HAHN

Thank Yous

Shuja Keen (President MITAS & Founder MIT AI Conference)

6:25 PM 15 min

CLOSING CHAT HAHN

AI, Humanity, and What Comes Next: Closing Reflections

Emmett Shear
CEO of Softmax, Former CEO of Twitch & interim CEO of OpenAI

Hosts: Rachel Lang & Luna Maroun

6:40 PM 60 min

🍦 Social Hour & Ice Cream