Featuring

MIT Future Fest foregrounds creative leaders in critical fields, from quantum and AI to climate, health and life sciences. In advance of the full program launch, we are delighted to announce the following featured participants in the inaugural MIT Future Fest line-up.

 

 

Daron Acemoglu

Institute Professor, MIT Department of Economics

Noubar Afeyan

Founder & CEO, Flagship Pioneering

Co-founder & Chairman, Moderna

Will Allstetter

Student & Fellow, MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology Program

Refik Anadol

Artist, Director & Co-Founder of Dataland

Paola Antonelli

Senior Curator, Architecture and Design
Director, Research and Development
Museum of Modern Art

Burak Arifoglu

MASA Architectural Design Studio

Amar Bakshi

Founding Co-Lead, New Social Forms (newsocialforms.com)
Partner, Portfolio (portfolio.sc)
Founder, Shared Studios (sharedstudios.com)
Co-Founder, Noro (noro.co)
Artist and Co-Creator, Our Media Diet (ourmediadiet.com)
Co-Founder, Andus Labs (anduslabs.com)

Sara Beery

Homer A. Burnell Assistant Professor, MIT

Natalie Bell

Chief Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center

Sangeeta Bhatia

Sangeeta N. Bhatia, MD, PhD

John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Engineering, MIT

Director, Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies

Director, Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine

Ben Bray

Geospatial Applications Developer, MIT Sea Grant

DMSE Breakerspace

Will Broadhead

Associate Professor of History

SHASS Undergraduate Education Chair

MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT

Markus J. Buehler

McAfee Professor of Engineering, MIT

Martin Camacho

Martin Camacho is the President and Co-Founder of Suno, the world’s leading AI music company dedicated to unlocking the joy of music making for everyone, everywhere. Before Suno, Martin graduated from Harvard at 18 and went on to serve as Chief Architect at Kensho. A musician since childhood, Martin brings a lifelong passion for jazz and classical piano to his work at the intersection of technology and creativity.

Ximena Caminos

Founder | REEFLINE

Stuart Candy

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Artist in Residence, Caltech Theater Arts

Fellow, The Long Now Foundation

Chair, Center for PostNatural History

Advisor, MIT Future Fest

Anantha Chandrakasan

Provost; Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Jerry Chow

IBM Fellow & CTO, Quantum-Centric Supercomputing, IBM

Marcelo Coelho

Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of Architecture, MIT

Director, Design Intelligence Lab

Co-Founder, playgeni

Grisha Coleman

Artist, Professor of Performance Tech, MIT

James J Collins

Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science, MIT

Aaron De Leon

Nuclear Science and Engineering Undergraduate, MIT

Music and Theater Arts Teaching Assistant, MIT

Peter de Menocal

President & Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

José Luis de Vicente

Principal and Co-Founder, FAST

Maya Detwiller

Prototype Manager at MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication

Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou

Principal Research Scientist & Head of Translational Research and Practice, MIT

Daniella DiPaola

Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Media Lab

Research Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance & Innovation, Harvard University

Deborah Douglas

Senior Director of Collections and Curator of Science and Technology

Ben Downing

CEO, Mass Clean Energy Center

Fabio Duarte

Principal Research Scientist and Associate Director at MIT Senseable City Lab

Nasibe Nur Dundar Arifoglu

Doctor of Design (DDes) Student, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Architect and Designer, MASA Architecture and Design Studio

Gert Duvenhage

Fabricator for On the Line installation.

Janet Echelman

Artist, Studio Echelman

James Edson

Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Lead Principal Investigator, Ocean Observatories Initiative

Tony Fadell

Principal at Build Collective

Inaugural Designer in Residence at MIT Morningside Academy for Design

iPod inventor, iPhone co-inventor, Nest founder.

Pap Souleye Fall

Artist & Performer

Behnaz Farahi

Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Director Critical Matter Group
Inaugural Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) Professorship
MIT Media Lab

Madebo Fatunde

Creative Director & Writer, BLKNWS

Eva Franch i Gilabert

Principal and Co-Founder, FAST

William Frank

Associate Professor, EAPS, MIT

Mary Gehring

David Baltimore Chair in Biomedical Research, Whitehead Institute

Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, MIT

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Marzyeh Ghassemi

Germeshausen Career Development Professor, MIT EECS/IMES

Rania Ghosn

Associate Professor, Architecture & Urbanism and Director, SMArchS Urbanism Program, MIT

Founding Partner, Design Earth

MIT Glass Lab

Alison Glassie

Assistant Professor, English and Marine & Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University

Michael John Gorman

Director of the MIT Museum
Professor of the Practice of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

Cynthia Graber

Co-Host & Co-Founder, Gastropod podcast

Jonathan Gruber

Ford Professor of Economics, MIT

Paul Ha

Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center

Ersin Han Ersin

Creative Director, Marshmallow Laser Feast

Honor Harger

Director & Chief Curator, Futures Imagined

Maura Healey

Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Brian Hedden

Professor of Philosophy, EECS & The Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT

Associate Dean, Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC)

Linda Henry

CEO, Boston Globe Media
Partner, Fenway Sports Group

Hugh Herr

Professor, Media Arts & Sciences
Director, Biomechatronics Group
Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics
Associate Investigator, McGovern Institute

Susan Hockfield

President Emerita and Whitehead Professor of Neuroscience, MIT

Katie Hofstadter

Co-director, Superradiance Center for Entangled Intelligence & Planetary Consciousness

Eric Höweler

Co-Founder and Principal at Höweler + Yoon

Professor of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design

Anna Huang

Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor; Associate Professor, Music and Theater Arts (MTA), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), MIT

Kahlil Joseph

Filmmaker & Artist

Alina Jugan

Nuclear Science & Engineering PhD Student, Graduate Research Assistant, MIT

Bettina Kames

CEO & Co-Founder, LAS Art Foundation, Berlin

Eric Klopfer

Professor and Director, Scheller Teacher Education Program, MIT

Co-Director, Responsible AI for Social Empowerment & Education (RAISE) and AI Education Committee, MIT

Christopher Knittel

George P Shultz Professor of Energy Economics, MIT

Koch Institute at MIT

David S. Kong

Director of Community Biotechnology Initiative; Research Scientist

Sally Kornbluth

MIT President

MIT LEAP Group

Cassie Lee

MIT CCC Research Designer

Andrea Lipps

Senior Curator of Visual Arts, Media, and Technology, MIT Museum

J. Christopher Love

Associate Director, Koch Institute

Raymond A. (1921) and Helen E. St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering

Faculty Co-Director, MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing

Giorgia Lupi

Partner at Pentagram

Samuel Madden

Professor and Head of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT

Co-Chair, MIT Committee on AI in Education

Keeril Makan

Vice Provost for the Arts, MIT

Scott Manalis

Principal Investigator, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

David H. Koch (1962) Professor of Engineering

Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering

Associate Department Head, Biological Engineering

Admir Masic

MIT CEE | Associate Professor

MIT EC³ Hub | Co-director

MIT DMSE CMRAE | Faculty Fellow in Archaeological Materials

Usha McFarling

Director, Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT

Rhea McTiernan Huge

Research Assistant & Content Creator, New Social Forms, MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Kara Miller

Host, It Turns Out podcast

“The Big Idea” Columnist, The Boston Globe

David Mindell

Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing (STS) Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

MIT CSAIL

MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)

MIT.nano

Seth Mnookin

MITHIC faculty co-lead (with Heather Paxson)

CMS/W Department Head

Graduate Program in Science Writing Director

Kisholay Mohanta

Student and Teaching Assistant

Katie Morrell

Administrative Assistant, MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Kari Mulholland

Creative Lead, New Social Forms, MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Founder and Creative Director, Helium World Studio

Bob Mumgaard

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Dava Newman

Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics

Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science

Patrick Noack

Executive Director, Dubai Future Institute, Dubai Future Foundation

Mimi Ọnụọha

Independent Artist

Co-Director, A People’s Guide to Tech

Asu Ozdaglar

Mathworks Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Head, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Deputy Dean of Academics, Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT

Eric Paley

Eric Paley,

Commonwealth Secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development

Pat Pataranutaporn

Assistant Professor, MIT

Founding Director, Cyborg Psychology Research Group

Co-director, Advancing Humans with AI, MIT Media Lab

Heather Anne Paxson

Associate Dean for Faculty, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology, and Faculty Co-lead of MITHIC, MIT

Rosalind Picard

Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology, MIT Media Lab

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Empatica Inc.

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC)

Katie Rae

CEO & Managing Partner, Engine Ventures

Ana Rajcevic

Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab (Biomechatronics Group);
Distinguished Artist, MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST); Founder & Director, Ana Rajcevic Studio

Marina Rakhilin

Program Lead, realtalk@MIT, MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Ramesh Raskar

Associate Professor, Program in Media Arts & Sciences

Director, Camera Culture Research Group, MIT Media Lab

Carlo Ratti

Director, MIT Senseable City Lab

Antonio Regalado

Senior Editor, Biomedicine, MIT Technology Review

Mitchel Resnick

Professor of Learning Research, MIT Media Lab

Seth Riskin

Studio Director, MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery

Eugene Roddenberry

Founder, The Roddenberry Foundation

Eric Rosenbaum

Director of Scratch Lab
Scratch Foundation

Jordan Rudess

Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Distinguished Visiting Artist, MIT CAST

Daniela Rus

Director, MIT CSAIL

Natalie Rusk

Research Scientist
Lifelong Kindergarten Group
MIT Media Lab

Themistoklis Sapsis

William Koch Professor of Marine Technology, MIT

Director, Center for Ocean Engineering

Director, MIT Maritime Consortium

Jay Scheib

Class of 1949 Professor
Section Head for Music & Theater Arts, MIT

Kate Selig

Climate and Environment Reporter, The Boston Globe

Senseable City Lab

Emilija Škarnulytė

Artist

MIT Spatial Sound Lab

Gerfried Stocker

Co-CEO / Artistic Director, Ars Electronica

Mary Ellen Strom

Professor of the Practice, Media Arts

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University

Collin Stultz

Nina T. and Robert H. Rubin Professor, MIT
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Co-Director, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Andy Sun

Iberdrola-Avangrid Professor in Electric Power Systems, MIT

Daniel Sundlin

Partner, Bjarke Ingels Group

Skylar Tibbits

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Programs, MIT
Assistant Director for Education at the Morningside Academy for Design

Michael Triantafyllou

Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director, MIT Sea Grant Program.

Sherry Turkle

Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology

Founding Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self

Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas

Nomeda Urbonas is artist and researcher at MIT ACT.

Gediminas Urbonas is associate professor at MIT SA+P.

Troy Van Voorhis

Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry, MIT

Faculty Director, MIT Climate Project

Wiesner Student Art Gallery

Sarah Williams

Professor of Technology and Urban Planning, MIT
Director Civic Data Design Lab and the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, MIT

Danielle Wood

Director of the Space Enabled Research Group

Associate Professor of Media Arts & Sciences and Aeronautics & Astronautics

Carl Wunsch

Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography, Emeritus, MIT

Associate, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

Maria Yang

Vice Provost for Faculty

William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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