"MIT's Food Tech Startups," Trond Undheim, Ph.D., Lead, MIT Startup Exchange, MIT ILP (host).

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Food Tech Innovation workshop:

MIT's Food Tech Startups MIT, 22 April 2015

Trond  Undheim,  PhD  Lead,  MIT  Startup  Exchange  [email protected]  

MIT  Startup  Exchange  

An innovation community run by MIT Industrial Liaison program, with the aim of connecting industry to startups. At the heart of the initiative: !•  220+ “Global 1000” member companies. !•  172 MIT Faculty who are serial co-founders of startups. !•  1000+ MIT-connected startups (including founded by alums). !•  MIT innovation players (Deshpande, Innovation initiative, VMS, etc.)!!Ingredients:!•  Cluster workshops & Conference exhibitions w/lightning talks!•  Startup profiles & database!•  Opportunity matching (f2f & online)!•  Newsletter & Analytics!

172 MIT Faculty are serial entrepreneurs! For example:!

•  Prof. Bob Langer, Koch Institute, MIT (26 companies)!

•  Prof. Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab (16 companies)!

•  Prof. Gregory Stephanopoulos, ChemE (7 companies)!

•  Prof. Michael Stonebraker, CSAIL (5 companies) !

Serial  entrepreneurs  at  MIT  

Source:  MIT  STEX  Database  (2015).  

Seven  startup  clusters  

!327!!!57!!!81!

64!!132!!!27!!64!!

n=844    Source:  MIT  STEX  Database  (2015).  

How  to  engage  with  STEX?  

An enhanced service of the ILP – available to members. !1.  Browse the database. Find startups. Ask us to connect you. !2.  Engage with your Liaison Officer or myself to post opportunities.

Startups will ask to connect with you. Their ideas might surprise you. !

3.  Keynote at our cluster workshops. Meet startups after your talk. !4.  Attend MIT ILP’s conference startup exhibits (MIT ICT conference,

MIT R&D Conference, regional events in Austria, Brazil, China). !

•  As a non-member you can attend our open workshops. !

[Mul,na,onal]  seeks  MIT  startups  

•  [Multinational] seeks long-term partnerships with MIT-connected startups for mutual benefit.!

•  We have a particular interest in breakthrough/disruptive tech in X. !•  We are looking for startups/companies with [these specific

characteristics in terms of stage of development etc.]!•  Facts, MIT track record, startup track record, and website.!

Empowers you with the knowledge to discover and enjoy over 200 varieties of fresh fruits and vegetables.!

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Founded  in  2013.  

•  Microfluidic device capable of high throughput, robust intracellular delivery of a range of materials for applications from immunotherapy and drug discovery. Founded 2013.!

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•  Innovative nanomaterial coatings and vapor-based coating processes to boost efficiencies of a wide range of thermal fluid systems. !

•  Founded in 2014.!

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•  Biowatch that measures the impact of stress on brain performance. !

•  Founded in 2010.!

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StarSng  at  $599  

•  An expressive robot that can interact naturally with humans. Jibo can see, hear, speak, help, and relate (through social and emotive cues). !

•  Founded in 2012.!

The first designer bracelet that heats and cools you.!“Thermal is personal”!Founded in 2014.!

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WRISTIFY

High quality, low cost 3D printer that enables designers and engineers to create 3D forms with the touch of a button.!Founded in 2011.!

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An (almost entirely) 3D printed speaker.

Gives computers the ability to understand people the way people understand each other.!Founded in 2011.!

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Big data text analytics dashboard

Food  tech  innovaSon  (4/22/15)    

•  How we eat, how we are being served food, what we feed animals, and what we know about nutrition is undergoing radical change.!

•  Where are these breakthroughs coming from? Farms? Universities? Technologies? Labs? Corporates? Consumers? Elsewhere? !

•  What’s hype and what’s real? !

Agenda    

•  08:30 AM !Breakfast and registration.!•  08:50 AM !Welcome: "MIT's Food tech startups," Trond Undheim,

Ph.D., Lead, MIT Startup Exchange, MIT ILP (host).!•  09:00 AM !Introductory remarks: "Connecting industry to research,

innovation, and startups", Karl Koster, Executive Director, MIT ILP.!

•  09:10 AM "Future opportunities for food tech product innovation from a research perspective", Omer Yilmaz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT, gastrointestinal pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.!

•  09:25 AM "The Future of Food", Manoj Fenelon, Director of Foresight, PepsiCo. !

Coffee break (10 min)!•  09:35 AM "Food, sensors, startups - the road ahead from a MIT

perspective", Timothy M. Swager, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry at MIT and the Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. !

•  09:45 AM "Innovation in Agricultural Productivity", Larry Gilbertson, Ph.D., Cambridge Site Lead, Biotechnology, Monsanto Company.!

•  09:55 AM "Computational food", Caleb Harper, Research Scientist, Project Manager, City Science, MIT Media Lab. !

•  10:05 AM Lightning talks (MIT-connected startups - apply online on STEX or when signing up to the event). !

Coffee break (10 min)!

•  10:30 AM: Panel discussion: What's next in food tech innovation?!–  What  are  important  trends  in  food  tech  startups  from  MIT  (and  elsewhere)?  –  What  does  the  new  food  tech  innova;on  ecosystem  look  like  (infrastructure,  

interoperability,  technology,  use  cases,  stakeholders,  success  stories)?  –  What  are  corporate  priori;es  in  food  tech?    –  What  is  the  smart  money  focused  on?  

•  Panelists !–  Larry  Gilbertson,  Ph.D.,  Cambridge  Site  Lead,  Biotechnology,  Monsanto  Company.  –  Caleb  Harper,  Research  ScienSst,  Project  Manager,  City  Science,  MIT  Media  Lab.  –  Omer  Yilmaz,  PhD,  Assistant  Professor  of  Biology,  MIT,  gastrointesSnal  pathologist,  

Massachuse`s  General  Hospital  and  Harvard  Medical  School.  –  MIT  connected  startup  execuSves  (Fredric  Abramson,  Ph.D.,  Founder,  Digital  NutriSon,  

LLC,  Dr.  Alain  C.  Briançon,  Co-­‐Founder/CEO,  Kitchology  Inc.,  Jan  Schnorr,  Chief  Technology  Officer,  C2Sense)      

–  Manoj  Fenelon,  Director  of  Foresight,  PepsiCo.    

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