MIT and Accenture: Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology

Building on an alliance of almost 20 years, the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology brings together Accenture’s technology, strategy, and industry experts with the best minds from across MIT. This bold collaboration is accelerating the adoption of new disruptive technologies, providing research insights to improve decision making, and helping industry and technology leaders better understand how they can maximize the power of convergence to re-imagine industries and create new opportunities.

In October 2020, the MIT School of Engineering and Accenture, announced a five-year collaboration that will further advance learning and research through new business convergence insights in technology and innovation. The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology aims to draw faculty, researchers, and students from across MIT.

Ongoing collaboration focuses on the following:

• Advancing a portfolio of research projects that address technology and industry convergence in the near and long-term. This includes MIT research that is data-driven that connects to topics including AI, knowledge curation, and talent.
• Providing five annual fellowships awarded to graduate students working on research in industry and technology convergence who are underrepresented, including by race and ethnicity and by gender.
• Establishing multiple educational programs that bring learnings to the broader Accenture community by leveraging MIT’s most innovative digital learning methodologies; and opportunities for the MIT student community to engage with Accenture thought leaders.