Agenda

Generative AI: Shaping the Future
November 28, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

Kresge Auditorium

8:00-9:00 AM: Breakfast and Registration

9:00-9:15 AM: Opening remarks

  • Sally Kornbluth, President, MIT
  • Daniela Rus, Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CSAIL Director
  • Poetry Reading with Joshua Bennett, Professor, MIT Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities

9:15-10:15 AM: Keynote - Rodney Brooks

  • Rodney Brooks, iRobot co-founder, former CSAIL Director, and Robust.AI founder & CTO

10:15-10:30 AM: Break, Networking

10:30-11:30 AM: Session 1 - Generative AI Foundations

  • Jacob Andreas, Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CSAIL, Transformers Advances
  • Antonio Torralba, Professor and Head of AI + Decision-Making Faculty, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CSAIL, Stable Diffusion Advances
  • Ev Fedorenko, Associate Professor, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences and McGovern Institute Investigator, Language and Human Brain
  • Armando Solar-Lezama, Professor, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and Associate Director and COO of CSAIL, Code Generation

Roundtable Discussion

  • Moderated by: William T. Freeman, Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CSAIL

11:30 AM-12:00 PM: The Future is Now

Science Fiction Reading of Metropolis: Joy Ma, MIT Major in Physics and Computer Science, Class of 2024

Roundtable Discussion: Where are we going?

  • Joshua Tenenbaum, Professor, Computational Cognitive Science, CSAIL, and MIT Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines
  • Dina Katabi, Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CSAIL
  • Max Tegmark, Professor, MIT Physics
  • Moderated by: Daniela Rus, Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CSAIL Director

12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00-2:00 PM: Keynote - Refik Anadol

2:00-3:15 PM: Session 2 - Generative AI Applications

  • Cathy Wu, Assistant Professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, IDSS, and LIDS, Transportation
  • John Hart, Professor and Department Head, MIT Mechanical Engineering, Design and Manufacturing
  • Andrew Lo, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, CSAIL, and Director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Finance
  • Tod Machover, Professor, MIT Media Lab and MIT Opera of the Future Group Director, Music Discovery
  • Marzyeh Ghassemi,  Assistant Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, CSAIL, and Jameel Clinic, Healthcare

Roundtable Discussion

  • Moderated by: Sertac Karaman, Professor, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics and MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) Director

3:15-3:45 PM: Break, Networking

3:45-5:00 PM: Session 3 - Generative AI, Ethics, and Society

  • Simon Johnson, Professor and Head of the Global Economics and Management group at MIT Sloan School of Management, Generative AI and Jobs
  • Deb Roy, Professor, Media Arts and Sciences and Director of MIT Center for Constructive Communication, Generative AI and Democracy
  • Ashia Wilson, Assistant Professor, MIT EECS, and LIDS, Generative AI and Plurality
  • Caspar Hare, Professor, MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Generative AI Ethics
  • Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, MIT EECS and CSAIL, Generative AI and Sustainability

Roundtable Discussion

  • Moderated by: Cynthia Breazeal, Professor, MIT Media Arts and Sciences and Dean for Digital Learning

5:00 PM: Paul Winter, Lullaby for a Whale 

5:10 PM: Closing Remarks

7:00 PM: Another Body screening.

Following the MIT Generative AI: Shaping the Future Symposium, you are invited to join a screening of the Another Body documentary. Let us know if you plan to attend by registering here.

Generative AI + Education Symposium
November 29, 8:00 AM-12:30 PM

Schwarzman College of Computing

8:00 AM: Breakfast

8:45 AM: Welcome remarks

9:00-9:30 AM: Fireside Chat: Will Generative AI Transform Learning and Education?

  • Mitch Resnick, Professor, MIT Media Lab and Director, Lifelong Kindergarten Group
  • Justin Reich, Associate Professor, MIT Comparative Media Studies and Director, Teaching Systems Lab
  • Moderator: Philipp Schmidt, Director, Digital Learning and Collaboration

9:30-10:15 AM: Session 1: Reinventing the Learner Experience

10:15-10:45 AM: Break and Innovation Showcase

10:45-11:30 AM: Session 2: Reinventing the Teaching Practice

  • Eric Klopfer, Professor, MIT Comparative Media Studies and Director, Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade
  • Melissa Webster, Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Dirk Englund, Associate Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Janet Rankin, Ph.D., Director, Teaching + Learning Lab
  • Moderator: Christopher Capozzola, Professor, MIT History, and Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning

11:30-12:00 PM: Moonshots: Big Ideas from MIT

  • Pattie Maes, Professor, MIT Media Lab and Director, Fluid Interfaces Research Group
  • Hal Abelson, Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CSAIL
  • Megan Muniz, CLO, AI Accelerator
  • Moderator: Philipp Schmidt, Director, Digital Learning and Collaboration, MIT Media Lab

12:00-12:30 PM: Closing Remarks and Innovation Showcase

Generative AI + Health Symposium
November 29, 12:30 PM-4:30 PM

Koch Institute

12:30 - 1:30 PM: Lunch

1:30-2:30 PM: AI and Health of the Planet

  • Paul O’Gorman, Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
  • Jinhua Zhao, Professor, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Professor and Development Chair, MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Priya Donti, Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

2:30-2:40 PM: Break

2:40-3:30 PM: Panel Discussion                     

  • Lydia Bourouiba, Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
  • Noelle Selin, Director, MIT Technology and Policy Program
  • Collin Stultz, MD, PhD, Director of Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology, MIT CSAIL
  • Matthew Vander Heiden, Director of Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
  • Anna Marie Wagner, SVP and Head of AI and Corporate Development at Ginkgo Bioworks
  • Sherrie Wang, Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and IDSS

3:30-4:30 PM: AI and Health of People

Generative AI + Creativity Symposium
November 30, 8:30 AM-12:30 PM

MIT Media Lab

8:30 AM-12:30 PM: Expo of creativity

9:00 AM: Opening by Program Co-Chairs

  • Dava Newman, Professor, MIT Astronautics and Director, MIT Media Lab Director
  • John Ochsendorf, Professor, MIT Architecture & Civil and Environmental Engineering and Founding Director of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design

9:10 AM: Welcome

  • Mark Gorenberg, Chair of MIT Corporation and Founder and Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM: Panel Discussion 1

  • Caitlin Mueller, Associate Professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture
  • Zach Lieberman, Adjunct Associate Professor, MIT Media Arts and Sciences
  • Michael Running Wolf, Software Engineer, Founder, Indigenous in AI/ML
  • Caroline Running Wolf nee Old Coyote, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Buffalo Tongue, Inc.

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM: Student Lightning Talks
Valdemar Danry, Cathy Fang, Pat Pataranutaporn, Vera van de Seyp, Manuel Cherep & Nikhil Singh, Hope Schroeder, Kevin Dunnell, Leticia Izquierdo, Manaswi Mishra, Lingdong Huang,  Lancelot Blanchard, Kayla Briët, Serena Bono, Nelson Hidalgo, Shrestha Mohanty, Sarah Ornellas, and Ana Schon, Cassandra Lee

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Break

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM: Student Lightning Talks
Valdemar Danry, Cathy Fang, Pat Pataranutaporn, Vera van de Seyp, Manuel Cherep & Nikhil Singh, Hope Schroeder, Kevin Dunnell, Leticia Izquierdo, Manaswi Mishra, Lingdong Huang,  Lancelot Blanchard, Kayla Briët, Serena Bono, Nelson Hidalgo, Shrestha Mohanty, Sarah Ornellas, and Ana Schon, Cassandra Lee

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM: Panel Discussion 2

  • Pattie Maes, Professor, MIT Media Lab and Head of the MIT Fluid Interfaces Group
  • Joshua Bennett, Professor, MIT Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities
  • Pelin Kivrak, Senior Researcher, Refik Anadol Studio

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM: Closure

Generative AI + Impact on Commerce
November 30, 12:15 PM-5:00 PM

Wong Auditorium

12:15 PM: Boxed Lunch | Ting Foyer

12:45 PM: Welcome remarks | Wong Auditorium

12:50-1:35 PM: Session 1

  • Kate Kellogg, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, Impact on Knowledge Workers
  • Manish Raghavan, Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management and EECS, Fairness
  • Retsef Levi, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, The Resilience of AI-Enabled Business Processes and Systems

1:35-2:30 PM: Session 2: The Venture Capital and Private Equity Perspective on GenAI

2:30-2:45 PM: Break

2:50-3:35 PM: Session 3

  • Mert Demirer, Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, The Productivity Effects of Generative AI: Evidence from a Field Experiment with GithHub Copilot
  • Dimitris Bertsimas, Professor and Associate Dean for Business Analytics, MIT Sloan School of Management, Legal Regenerative AI
  • Danielle Li, Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, Generative AI and Worker Upskilling

3:40-5:00 PM: Policy Panel - Session 4

  • Max Katz, Legislative Fellow, Office of Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
  • Cate Johnson, Staff Director, Research and Technology Subcommittee, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
  • Alan McQuinn, Professional Staff Member, Minority Staff, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
  • Moderator: David Goldston, Director, MIT Washington Office

5:00 PM: Closing Remarks

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