Overview
Join our MAS.664 AI for Impact: Venture Studio class. The rapid developments in AI 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 Scientists, VCs, CEOs and Academics. The course will focus on opportunities in the broad sectors of digital health, sustainability and mobility with data and AI centric technologies such as identity, privacy-tech, foundation models, blockchain, VR/AR and Web3. 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 February 15th
- Step 2: Finishing the Online AI blockchain course (Link 2) by February 16th
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.
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- Socials: (Link 1, Link 2)
- Facebook group: (Link)
- LinkedIn group: (Link)
Class Schedule: Thursdays 10 AM -12 noon in room E14-633 at MIT Media Lab starting February 8th
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'23: AI + Web3 for Impact: Venture Studio
- Spring'23: AI + Web3 for Impact: Venture Studio
- 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:
- 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
Timeline:
- Meet and Greet held at MIT/Harvard
- First day of class: February 8, 2024
- Mid-term review: March 14, 2024
- Final Class Presentations and “Demo Day” awards: May 9, 2024
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 Thursday 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)
Judges:
- John Hawthrone (Two Lantern VC)
- Giuseppe Stuto (186 Ventures)
- Hesam N. Motlagh (Kohsla Ventures)
- Raza Shaikh (Launchpad Venture Group)
- Ali Mahmoud (Glasswing Ventures)
- Imran Saeed (MITSloan)
- Stephen Marcus (Riot Ventures)
- Rana el Kaliouby (Entrepreneur)
- Cavin Mozarmi (Remus Capital)
- Mark Castleman (Intel Ignite)
- Bo Vargas (BV Capital Partners)
- Milo Werner (The Engine)
- Beth Porter (Esme Learning)
- Otkrist Gupta (Lendbuzz)
- Alex Pentland (MIT)
- David Zug (HarbourVest)
- Kahini Shah (Obvious Ventures)
- Jorge Cortell (Harvard Innovation Labs)
- Davey Bakhshi (FORTEFAi)
- Geoff Oblak (Data Point Capital)
- John Sharp MD (Harvard Medical School)
- Rob Fisher (Cogo Labs)
- Terry V. Eagan MD (Eagan Medical Group, Inc)
- Narendra Kale (Kale Logistics Solutions)
- Rick Mehra (Continuum Health Ventures)
- Jadyn Bryden (Xfund)
- Mohamad Ali
- Dafu Gao (OnePieceLabs)
Agenda
All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST)
February 07, 2024
Meet & Greet 1: Course pre-meetup
Registration Link: (Link)
Join us to meet instructors and understand the pre-homework, timeline and expectations.
February 8, 2024
February 8, 2024
First day of class
MIT Media Lab, E14-633
February 15, 2024
Second Session of Class
February 22, 2024
Third Session of Class
February 29, 2024
Fourth Session of Class
March 7, 2024
Fifth Session of Class
March 14, 2024
Sixth Session of Class
Midterm
March 21, 2024
Seventh Session of Class
March 28, 2024
Eighth Session of Class
Individual Meeting
April 2, 2024
Ninth Session of Class
April 11, 2024
Tenth Session of Class
April 18, 2024
Eleventh Session of Class
April 25, 2024
Twelfth Session of Class
May 2, 2024
Thirteenth Session of Class
May 9, 2024
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
Slides from Spring 2023 Demo Day at the Media Lab
Spring 2023 Demo Day at the Media Lab
"Web 3++ and Unspoken Opportunities" by Professor Ramesh Raskar at Web3 Summit MIT 2022