Registration and Networking Breakfast

Opening Remarks

Cathy Chute, Assistant Dean for Professional and External Programs, Harvard SEAS

Michelle Carmichael, Director of Administration and Finance, MIT IDSS

Keynote Presentation

Talk Title: Efficient Computing for AI and Robotics

Vivienne Sze, Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Department, MIT

Coffee Break

Lightning Talks (20 lightning talks of 1 minute)

Program Break

Morning Panel 1 - Sustainable Computing: Climate

Moderator, Kayla Woputz, Data Scientist, Earth Science Researcher and Lecturer,

Microsoft

Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, MIT EECS Faculty of AI and Decision Making 

and CSAIL, MIT

Abigail Bodner, Assistant Professor, Departments of Earth, Atmospheric and

Planetary Sciences, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Loretta J. Mickley, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School of

Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Lunch, Recruiting, Poster Session, Speed-Networking & Mentoring Sessions

Speed Networking Sessions: Sign Up

Session #1 (11:35am - 12:10pm)

Session #2 (12:20pm - 12:55pm)

Mentoring Office Hours: Drop-In Style, Limited to 5 people at a time

Session #1 - 11:40am - 12:10pm

Session #2 - 12:15pm - 12:45pm

​Afternoon Panel 2 - Industry Perspectives: Career Journeys

Moderator, Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences in the

Department of Political Science, and the Director of the Institute for Data, Systems,
and Society (IDSS), MIT

Lisa Bonalle, ​Chief Executive Officer, GDS Link

Vanessa Liu, Co-Founder and CEO, Sugarwork

Tina Reich,​ Independent Board Director and Advisor

Lisa Schirf, Managing Director, Global Head of Data & Analytics, Tradeweb

Julia Taitz, Data Scientist at Instagram, Meta

​​​Coffee Break

​​​​Afternoon Panel 3 - Sustainable Computing: Systems & AI

Moderator, Emily You, Data Scientist, Microsoft

Lisa Amini, Director of IBM Research Cambridge, IBM

Cathy Wu, Associate Professor at CEE/IDSS, MIT

Minlan Yu, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard John A. Paulson

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Closing Remarks & Prizes

Closing Reception, Recruiting, Poster Session, Networking

End of Conference