Speakers Include Luminaries in Energy, Life Sciences and Financial Services
-- Justin Adams, Director of Technology Strategy, BP -- Jeff Andrews, Partner, Atlas Ventures -- Richard Chleboski, Vice President, Worldwide Expansion, Evergreen Solar -- Dennis Costello, Partner, Braemer Energy Ventures -- William Davis, President and CEO, Ze-gen -- John Doyle, Vice President, Projects, Verenium Corporation -- Jim Gordon, President, Cape Wind -- Christina Lampe-Onnerud, Founder and CEO, Boston-Power, Inc. -- Andrew Perlman, President and CEO, Great Point Energy -- Peter Rothstein, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Flagship VenturesHealthcare and Life Sciences Track
-- Noubar Afeyan, Ph.D., Managing Partner and CEO, Flagship Ventures -- John Brennan, Partner, Director and Global Leader of Healthcare and Medical Technologies Practice, Arthur D. Little -- Eugene Chiu, Co-founder and Vice President Business Development, Prediction Biosciences -- Daniel Cole, General Manager, Spray Venture Partners -- Bob Creeden, Managing Director of the Center for Innovative Ventures, Partners Healthcare -- Omid Farokhzad, M.D., Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School -- Rainer Fuchs, Executive Director, Biogen Idec Innovation Incubator (bi3) -- Michael Greeley, General Partner, IDG Ventures -- Amar Sawhney, Co-founder, President and CEO, Confluent Surgical -- Anupendra Sharma, Investment Partner, Siemens Venture Capital -- Martin Young, Vice President of Corporate Development, Phase ForwardFinancial Services Track
-- James Bildner, General Partner, New Horizons -- Joost Bonsen, Founding Program Director, MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship -- Michael Chu, Managing Partner, Ignia Fund -- Todd Dagres, General Partner, Spark Capital -- William Foote, President and Founder, Root Capital -- Bob Higgins, Managing General Partner, Highland Capital Partners -- Shane Hughes, CEO and President, Pyxis Mobile -- Anthony Jimenez, President and CEO, MicroTech LLC -- Stephen Killeen, Carbon Neutral -- Luda Kopelkina, Founder, Noventra Corporation -- Michael Lannon, CEO, KoKo FitnessA closing keynote panel, "Taking New England Global," will focus on how New England and its institutions supporting innovation can capitalize on its strengths to continue to build market value. The panel will feature Travis Bradford, Founder, President and Director of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development; Elliott Hillback, Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations, Genzyme; Vinit Nijhawan, Chairman of TIE; and Doug Solomon, chief technology strategist of IDEO. The panel will be moderated by Mark Bonchek, CEO of The Truman Company. For more information on "Power, Drugs and Money," please visit www.PowerDrugsandMoney.com. This event is expected to sell out quickly and registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Early-bird member registration is $195 and early-bird non-member registration is $235. (Early-bird rates are available through January 17.) Walk-in registration at the conference is $295. The rate for full-time students is $25. About the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge is a volunteer, nonprofit organization based at MIT whose mission is to promote and strengthen the process of starting and growing innovative science- and technology-oriented companies by providing services and programs that educate, inform and support the entrepreneurial community.
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