Conference Details
Amy Gutmann Hall
9:30 am - 10:00 am: Registration & Light Breakfast
10:00 am – 10:30 am: Welcome & Introductory Remarks
10:30 am – 11:30 am: Panel - Generative AI
Elizabeth (Liz) Golden
CEO & Co-Founder @ Wavelet Medical
Brian Halak
Practice Professor of Engineering Entrepreneurship and Managing Partner @ Medical Excellence Capital
Mel Tang
Founding Operating Partner & CFO of Matter Venture Partners; Formerly CFO for Ring.com
Mark Weber
Director's Fellow of MIT Media Lab & Investor; formerly Strategy and Ops Lead @ MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
11:30 am – 1:00 pm: Panel & Lunch - Impactful Technology Leaders
Jonathan Brassington
Partner, NewSpring Capital; formerly CEO & Co-Founder of LiquidHub
Michael Carr
Chief Technology Officer, Vanguard
Jennifer Friel Goldstein
Head of Relationship Management, Silicon Valley Bank
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm: Panel - Energy & Sustainability
Tom Cassel
Professor of Engineering Entrepreneurship; formerly co-founder & CEO @ Reading Energy Holdings
Vanessa Chan
Vice Dean of Innovation & Entrepreneurship; formerly Chief Commercialization Officer @ US Department of Energy
Cherie Kagan
Stephen J. Angello Professor in Electrical & Systems Engineering and Material Science and Engineering and Director of IoT4Ag; formerly co-Director of the Penn Center for Energy Innovation
Jeter Thomas
CFO @ Caerus Oil & Gas
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Panel - Alumni Ventures
Jeffrey Babin
Professor of Engineering Entrepreneurship & Founder & Managing Director of Antiphony Partners
Katherine Sizov
CEO & Founder of Strella Biotechnology
Miranda Wang
Co-Founder & CEO of Novoloop
Tom Zhang
CEO & Founder of Daxo Industries
Singh Center for Nanotechnology
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Networking, Cocktail Reception & Recognition of the Widjaja Fellows Program
Recognition of Sugi and Millie Widjaja for their support of the Widjaja Fellows Program.
Sugi Widjaja is a Partner at Capital Group.