Overview
Join our AI and Web3 for Impact: Venture Studio class. This course will focus on opportunities in the broad sectors of digital health, sustainability and mobility with data and AI centric technologies such as blockchain, Web3, and privacy-tech, which can enable or accelerate major positive impact throughout the world. This semester’s course will be structured as a “Venture Studio” with mentors and engagement with VCs, CEOs and Academics. Follow these steps to register for the course.
- Step 0: Register for course : For MIT (Link), For Harvard (Link)
- Step 1: Questionnaire (Link 1) before Feb 6th
- Step 2: Finishing the Online AI blockchain course (Link 2) by Feb 15th
You must finish Step 1 to attend the first class. You will be expected to finish Step 2 and upload the snapshot that you’ve finished the course. If you have finished a degree course or have a professional background in these areas, you do not need to finish the online course.
Class schedule: Thursdays 10 AM-12 noon in room E14-633 at MIT Media Lab starting Feb 9th
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Class Schedule: Thursdays 10 AM -12 noon in room E14-633 at MIT Media Lab starting Feb 9th
Background
This long running course has led to many spin offs including Dimagi, Cogito, Prosperia, Ginger, Sanergy, and nonprofit PathCheck Foundation.
Our previous class links:
- Fall'22: AI + Web3 for Impact: Venture Studio
- Spring'22: AI for Impact: Venture Studio
- Fall'21: AI for Impact ~ Building Global Ventures Solving Societal-Scale Problems
- Spring'21: AI for Impact
- Fall'20: Global Ventures ~ Data and AI for Resilience after COVID19
- Spring'20: AI for Impact ~ Towards Solving Societal-Scale Problems via Media Ventures
All other previous AI for Impact/Global Ventures class links can be found here:
Speakers & Mentors
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Course Outline
Class Goals:
- "Visualize Venture Studio" format for-credit course where instructors seed and stimulate high-impact, high-value projects that are attractive for the best engineering, design, and builder students
- Advance "Big Ideas" into MVP-seed-stage commercial consideration
Themes and Technologies:
- Themes can include, but are not limited to:
- Digital health
- Sustainability
- Mobility
- Behavior change
- Technologies can include, but are not limited to the following technologies that are essential to the 21st century:
- Blockchain
- Big data
- AI
- Computer vision
- Geospatial
Timeline:
- Meet and Greet held at MIT/Harvard in January
- First day of class: February 9, 2023
- Mid-term review: March 16, 2023
- Final Class Presentations and “demo day” awards: May 11, 2023
Class Structure:
- Venture studio format, with team projects with 5-8 students per team
- Guest speakers share leading-edge thinking
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP) by the end of the term
- Demo Day
Support for Students:
- Weekly class mentor meetings on Friday after class / guest lectures / work sessions
- Class visits to local start-ups and technology companies
- Data and AI scientists from startups for experience
- Sessions with startup coaches
Funding:
- Teams will receive milestone-based seed funds
Expected Mentors and Speakers:
- Profs / Lecturers:
- Jinhua Zhao
- Daniela Rus
- Cynthia Breazeal
- Hari Balakrishnan
- Fadel Adib
- CEOs:
- Morczinek (AirWorks)
- Kartik Venkataraman (Akasha Imaging)
- Shahid Azim (REACT Neuro)
- Rajeev Surati (Skyline Nav AI Inc)
- Kuldeep Singh Rajput (Biofourmis)
- Aditya Khosla (PathAI)
- Dan Raviv (Lendbuzz)
- Tobin Moore (Optoro)
- VCs:
- John Hawthorne (2Lantern)
- Eric Chen (OVO Fund)
- Calvin Chin (E14 Fund)
- Habib Haddad (E14 Fund)
- Dave Blundin (Link Ventures)
- John Werner (Link Ventures)
- Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures)
- Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital)
- Jon McNeil (DVx Ventures)
- Katie Rae (The Engine)
- Paul English (Boston Venture Studio)
- Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures)
- Jason Pontin (DCVC)
- Steve Jurvetson (Future Ventures)
- Reed Sturtevant (The Engine)
Agenda
All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST)
February 03, 2023
Virtual Meet & Greet 1: Course pre-meetup
Registration Link: (Link)
Join us to meet instructors and understand the pre-homework, timeline and expectations.
February 6, 2023
February 9, 2023
First day of class
MIT Media Lab, E14-633
February 16, 2023
Second Session of Class
Paul English @ 10:00am
Richard Dulude @ 10:15am
February 23, 2023
Third Session of Class
March 2, 2023
Fourth Session of Class
March 9, 2023
Fifth Session of Class
March 16, 2023
Sixth Session of Class
Midterm
March 23, 2023
Seventh Session of Class
Individual Meeting
March 30, 2023
Eighth Session of Class
April 6, 2023
Ninth Session of Class
April 13, 2023
Tenth Session of Class
April 20, 2023
Eleventh Session of Class
April 27, 2023
Twelfth Session of Class
May 4, 2023
Thirteenth Session of Class
May 11, 2023
Final Class
Student final deliverables presentation
Social Event
Hosted at MIT Media Lab
Images from Fall 2022 MIT/Harvard Course Meetup @Link Ventures, © John Werner
"Web 3++ and Unspoken Opportunities" by Professor Ramesh Raskar at Web3 Summit MIT 2022
Slides from Spring 2023 Demo Day at the Media Lab
Spring 2023 Demo Day at the Media Lab