year in review

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september emtech -see below

mit100 k student competition - 3 phases through year - pitch, accelerate, final

global challenge 2 stage process

many labs have their own competitions or conferences celebrating entreprenurs

eg energy prize

MIT Clean Energy Prize

cep.mit.edu/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Get updates on deadlines, winners, and cool energytechnologies ... category will have one winner ($25,000), and one team will win the grand prize ($225,000).

-also watch out eg for dlab, legatum ,

,, 

one of biggest prizes (500000 ) Lemelson- deadline for entries is usually november of each year

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below emtech 2014

Erik Brynjolfsson

Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

Aaron Levie

Cofounder and CEO, Box

Mike Rhodin

Senior Vice President, IBM Watson Group

Astro Teller

Google[x]

2013 conference http://www2.technologyreview.com/emtech/13/speakers/

Dmitri Alperovitch

Cofounder and CTO, CrowdStrike, Inc.
2013 Innovator Under 35

Bill Aulet

Managing Partner, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Vijay Balasubramaniyan

CEO, Pindrop Security
2013 Innovator Under 35

Angela Belcher

Professor, MIT and Winner of the 2013 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

Theodore Berger

Director, Center for Neural Engineering, University of Southern California

Brian Bergstein

Deputy Editor, MIT Technology Review

Stephan Biller

Chief Scientist for Manufacturing, General Electric

Ed Boyden

Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab

Jonathan Bush

Cofounder, CEO and President, Athenahealth

Steve Case

Chairman and CEO, Revolution; Cofounder, America Online; Chairman, The Case Foundation

Joe Coray

Vice President, The Hartford Financial Services Group
Presenting Sponsor

Kate Crawford

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

John Dabiri

Professor, California Institute of Technology
2013 Innovator Under 35

Leslie Dewan

Chief Science Officer, Transatomic Power
2013 Innovator Under 35

Kerry Emanuel

Professor, MIT

David Fattal

Principal Researcher, HP Labs
2013 Innovator Under 35

Christine Fleming

Assistant Professor, Columbia University
2013 Innovator Under 35

Lee Forster

Practice Lead (commercial strategy), Technology Advisory, Sagentia

Katharine Frase

VP and CTO, IBM Public Sector

Ari Gesher

Senior Engineer, Palantir Technologies

Roozbeh Ghaffari

Cofounder, Director of Advanced Technology, MC10
2013 Innovator Under 35

Matt Grob

CTO, Qualcomm
Presenting Sponsor

Mitchell Higashi

Chief Economist, GE Healthcare

Stephen Hoover

CEO, PARC, a Xerox Company

Joi Ito

Director, MIT Media Lab

Mary Lou Jepsen

Head of Display Division, Google[x]

Simon Johnson

Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Julie Kientz

Assistant Professor, University of Washington
2013 Innovator Under 35

Per Ola Kristensson

Lecturer, University of St Andrews
2013 Innovator Under 35

Tom Leighton

CEO, Akamai

Hao Li

Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
2013 Innovator Under 35

Enrique Lomnitz

Director, Isla Urbana
2013 Innovator Under 35

Eric Migicovsky

Founder, Pebble
2013 Innovator Under 35

Ben Milne

CEO and Founder, Dwolla, Inc.
2013 Innovator Under 35

Craig Mundie

Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft

Lina Nilsson

Founder, Tekla Labs
2013 Innovator Under 35

Scot Osterweil

Research Director, MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, Creative Director, MIT Education Arcade

Stephen Pair

Cofounder and CTO, BitPay

Luis Perez-Breva

Lecturer and Research Scientist at MIT School of Engineering, Co-Director of MIT Innovation Teams Program (Joint MIT Engineering and Sloan)

Jason Pontin

Editor in Chief and Publisher, MIT Technology Review

Morgan Quigley

Cofounder, Open Source Robotics Foundation
2013 Innovator Under 35

Kira Radinsky

CTO, SalesPredict
2013 Innovator Under 35

Steve Ramirez

Graduate Student, MIT
2013 Innovator Under 35

Carlo Ratti

Director, MIT SENSEable City Lab

Deb Roy

Associate Professor, MIT, Chief Media Scientist, Twitter

Laura Schewel

Cofounder and CEO, StreetLight Data
2013 Innovator Under 35

Daniela Schiller

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

Tom Simonite

Senior Editor, IT, MIT Technology Review

Bright Simons

President, mPedigree Network
2013 Innovator Under 35

Dirk Smit

Chief Scientist Geophysics and VP Exploration Technology, Shell Global

Balaji Srinivasan

Cofounder, Counsyl
2013 Innovator Under 35

Marco Tempest

Cyber Illusionist

Skylar Tibbits

Director, MIT Self-Assembly Lab

Evans Wadongo

Chairman and Executive Director, Sustainable Development For All-Kenya
2013 Innovator Under 35

Amos Winter

Director, Global Engineering and Research Lab, MIT
2013 Innovator Under 35

Feng Zhang

Core Faculty Member, Broad Institute
2013 Innovator Under 35

Liangfang Zhang

Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
2013 Innovator Under 35

Bowen Zhao

Cognitive Genomics Laboratory, Director
2013 Innovator Under 35

Xiaolin Zheng

Assistant Professor, Stanford University
2013 Innovator Under 35

Yu Zheng

Lead Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia
2013 Inno

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lemelson prize

Improving the World Through Invention The $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize recognizes individuals who translate their ideas into inventions and innovations that improve the world in which we live. Dubbed the "Oscar for Inventors," the Lemelson-MIT Prize is awarded to outstanding mid-career inventors, who have developed a patented product or process of significant value to society, which has been adopted for practical use, or has a high probability of being adopted. By recognizing and funding younger, mid-career inventors, the prize is designed to spur inventive careers and provide role models for future generations of inventors. Lemelson-MIT Prize Objectives The Lemelson-MIT Prize seeks to highlight the pivotal role inventive activity plays in the achievement of positive social, cultural and economic goals. The objectives of the Lemelson-MIT Prize are to: recognize and reward America’s outstanding mid-career inventors encourage broad dissemination of invention(s) to achieve maximum impact celebrate individuals who enhance economic opportunity and community well-being through their inventive work foster continued inventive work that creates opportunities and overcomes challenges increase awareness of the work of inventors and the potential for commercialization and wider adoption of their inventions promote role models who can inspire young people to pursue creative lives and careers Definition of Technological Invention | Eligibility Requirements |Nomination Instructions

Nominations are Open! The deadline to nominate a candidate for the Lemelson-MIT Prize is Friday, November 28, 2014.  Eligibility Requirements Nomination Instructions Questions? Please contact the Lemelson-MIT Program [e-mail] Slideroom More about the Lemelson-MIT Program.