Program

Day 0 – Monday, 05 June

16.30 - 18.00 Walk tour & Network Official Tour by current Harvard University Student

18:00-22:30

Networking dinner

Woodstock Room, Grafton Street Pub & Grill, Harvard Square

 

Day 1 – Tuesday, 06 June

09.30 - 10.00

Coffee and network

Harvard SEC building, Lower Level 2 atrium

10.00 - 10.10

Welcome Speech

TBC, UBS

10.10 – 11.00

Making Chemistry Green

Prof. John Warner, chemist, inventor, educator, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Green Chemistry

11.00 – 11.20

Harvard Innovation Ecosystem

Rebecca Xiong, Managing Director, Programs and Engagement Harvard innovation labs

11.20 - 12.10

Micromaterials Megaimpact

Prof. David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics; Core Faculty Member, Wyss Institute at Harvard University

12.10 - 12.45

Curing incurable diseases while extending life span

Michael Florea, Founder of Olden Labs PBC

12.45 – 14.00

Lunch and network

Harvard SEC building, Lower Level 2 atrium

14.00 - 14.30

Innovation disrupting HealthTech panel

Bella del Hierro, President Harvard Business School Health Care Club
Meridith Cass, Founder & CEO, https://nixbiosensors.com/
Paul Hayre, Executive Director, Harvard Grid

14.30 – 15.10

Turning ideas into companies

Jorge Cortell, Harvard University Venture Innovation Fellow and Harvard Innovation Labs Senior Advisor, Health & Life Sciences; European Commission Expert on Venture & Investments

15.10 - 15.50

AR/VR in Mental Health

Sacha Moreau and Alexandra Therond, Augmend

15.50 - 16.30

Harvard iLab Pagliuca Life Lab – innovation ecosystem and laboratory tour

Tour of the Harvard iLab Pagliuca Life Lab by Tim Jarrett, and different labs in the SEC building TBC (Microrobotics, Nano-design, Bioelectronics, Motion Capture, Quantum Materials and Optics, Robotics, Stem Cell...)

18.00 - 22.00

Apero & Networking Dinner

Harvard Faculty Club

 

 

Day 2 – Wednesday, 07 June

10.00 - 10.15

Meeting point

Harvard SEC building, Main lobby

10:15 - 11.00

The Governance of Security Concerns in Science

Sam Weiss Evans, Project Coordinator, Trust in Science - Senior Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society - Research Fellow, Harvard Data Science Initiative

11:00 - 11:45 AI in perspective Jorge Cortell, Harvard University Venture Innovation Fellow and Harvard Innovation Labs Senior Advisor, Health & Life Sciences; European Commission Expert on Venture & Investments
11:45 - 12.30 Causal AI Raminderpal Singh, CEO Incubate.bio

12.30 - 13.30

 

Lunch

 

13.30 - 15.00

Connect with entrepreneurs disrupting childbirth, beauty, therapeutics, healthcare access, insurance, and carbon capture:
RockFix - Gustavo Marquez or Allen Liang
PeriPeach - David Koi
InGel Therapeutics - Pierre Dromel
Halo Braid - Yinka Ogumbiyi
PatientFirst.AI - Fiza Shaukat
Basys.ai - Amber Nigam

15.00 - 15.10

Event closure

*Agenda subject to change upon speaker availability.