Svetlana Boriskina Principal Research Scientist, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
Catarina Madeira Program Director, MIT Startup Exchange Steve Weikal Head of Industry Relation CRE Tech Lead, Real Estate Innovation Lab, MIT Center for Real Estate
Principal Investigators Li-Huei Tsai , Edward Boyden , Emery Brown
Sustainability in the face of increasingly severe climate change: What, practically speaking, does that mean for the corporate world? For manufacturing, chemical, materials and process companies, it means transforming to low-emissions methods and technologies – and exploiting the growth of renewable energy to power this transformation. For other corporate enterprises it also means adaptation – leveraging computation and communications technologies for better forecasting, resilience and risk mitigation.
Day 1 of this event will showcase bold, innovative faculty, impactful MIT research programs and disruptive startups all working to decarbonize industrial processes and improve resilience. Building on this, Day 2 will feature a morning of workshops to engage more deeply with several leading MIT centers who are dedicated to solving industrial sustainability challenges in water, emissions and materials.