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 and CEO, Flagship Pioneering

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

Sara Beery

Homer A. Burnell Assistant Professor, MIT

Natalie Bell

Chief Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center

Sangeeta Bhatia

John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Will Broadhead

Associate Professor of History

SHASS Undergraduate Education Chair

MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT

Markus Buehler

McAfee Professor of Engineering, MIT

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

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

Kate Crawford

Kate Crawford, Professor at USC, Author of Atlas of AI, Co-creator of Calculating Empires

Alexander Dale

Director, Global Programs, MIT Solve

José Luis de Vicente

Principal and Co-Founder, FAST

Maya Detwiller

Prototype Manager at MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication

Deborah Douglas

Senior Director of Collections and Curator of Science and Technology

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

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

Eva Franch i Gilabert

Principal and Co-Founder, FAST

William Frank

Associate Professor, EAPS, MIT

Marzyeh Ghassemi

Germeshausen Career Development Professor, MIT EECS/IMES

Michael John Gorman

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

Jonathan Gruber

Ford Professor of Economics, MIT

Paul Ha

Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center

Maura Healey

Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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

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

Christopher Knittel

George P Shultz Professor of Energy Economics, MIT

David S Kong

Director of Community Biotechnology Initiative; Research Scientist

Sally Kornbluth

MIT President

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, Pentagram

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

Seth Mnookin

MITHIC faculty co-lead (with Heather Paxson)

CMS/W Department Head

Graduate Program in Science Writing Director

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

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

Pat Pataranutaporn

Assistant Professor, MIT

Founding Director, Cyborg Psychology Research Group

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

Rosalind Picard

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

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Empatica Inc.

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

Jordan Rudess

MIT CAST Distinguished Visiting Artist.

Keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist for the platinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning progressive rock band, Dream Theater.

Daniela Rus

Director, MIT CSAIL

Jay Scheib

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

Kate Selig

Climate and Environment Reporter for The Boston Globe

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.

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

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