MIT Alumni Startups (MITAS)

A few weeks ago, E14 Fund chartered a bus from MIT to NYC with 30 PhD students to spend the night in NYC and attend the MIT AI Conference. ?? The event was pretty amazing, but beyond the conference, it was great to see the students connect and practice their pitches on the bus ?? ... Awesome to partner on this with SE Ventures, thank you Varun Jain and the whole SE team.

Check out our blog post about our trip to the MIT AI Conference in NYC, cohosted with SE Ventures! From inspiring talks to networking with innovators in AI, it was a memorable weekend. Read more here! ?? #MIT #AIConference #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #TechCommunity #Networking

It turns out humans are still pretty important. ?? What an awesome weekend in New York City for the MIT AI Conference a couple weeks back! I wanted to share our gratitude (alongside my EZ colleagues and MIT alumni Wendi X. Zhang Christoph Wollersheim) with the organizing team below and the broader MIT community for running such a well run program and thought-provoking event. The topic of competing in the age of AI is top of mind for our Egon Zehnder clients in C-suites and on Boards worldwide. Hearing from leadership on the bleeding edge who all share MIT’s “mens et manus” ethos of putting AI to work for the broader good was timely and perfectly aligned with Egon Zehnder’s vision with respect to shaping “Leadership for a Better World.” Thank you again to the organizers for your insights and partnership: Arun Saigal Shuja Keen Rebeca Eun Young Hwang Dima Ayyash Christian Ulstrup Anvisha Pai Daniela G. Stacy Yu Adriana Catalina Vázquez Ortiz Anant Vashistha and anyone else I missed. And congrats again to highlights and award winners including: ?? Reid AI vs. Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn co-founder and Executive Chairman Reid Hoffman interviews and assesses his digital twin. ?? Lifetime Achievement Award winner Ray Stata, founder of Analog Devices. ?? Trailblazer Award Winner Dropbox Founder and CEO, Drew Houston celebrated via improv rap by Arun Saigal ??Ethan Mollick always lively and insightful views into how AI is transforming work, life, and education ?? Aparna Chennapragada Chennapragada's Wow vs. WTF ratio on balancing consumer delight vs. disappointment on AI experiments

I had to remotely accept the MIT AI Rising Star Award as fell sick. Received the award in the mail today. Honored to have received the award at the MIT AI Conference.

"Nobody knows anything yet in AI… we are in a time of flux, so take a bet." ??Reflecting on such an energizing event, the MIT AI Conference in #NYC was a powerful reminder to stay curious, embrace change, learn as we go... and to ensure that AI's "socio-economic-technical" benefits will be distributed across communities. Highlights included: ? Dynamic exchanges with "Reid AI" (Reid Hoffman's digital twin!) ? Fireside chat with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston ? Prof. Ethan Mollick's highlights from his latest book "Co-Intelligence" ? ... plus, unfiltered deep dives from numerous start-up founders, investors, global policy leaders from The Brookings Institution and the United Nations along with industry veterans at Amazon, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Spotify and many many more. MIT’s legacy of impact was palpable. Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni-founded companies form the 10th largest economy, generating $2 trillion globally and creating 4.6 million jobs—and 1,000+ new companies are formed annually. ?? ???? It’s inspiring to be part of a community that drives #innovation at such scale. Thank you to MIT Alumni Startups (MITAS) and all involved for an awesome experience. ?? Until next time, we'll see you in Silicon Valley! https://lnkd.in/ebw2BkE8 #MensEtManus #MindAndHand #AI #futureofwork #education #health #climate #policy #finance #tech #responsibleAI #humanity #equity

Geeks on a Bus! Partnering with E14 Fund today to take 35 #MIT Masters & PhD students on a bus from campus to NYC for the #MITAI conference this weekend. We’re talking all things #appliedAI, hearing pitches, Q&A with GPs, and making new friends on the ride to NYC. We’re also co-hosting a happy hour TONIGHT 5-7pm in NYC for anyone who wants to come through! https://lu.ma/86forju8 Varun Jain Habib Haddad Calvin Chin Andrea Porras Aleksandr Rakitin

Is the A.I. hype coming to an end? Will we have a burst as bad as the 1999 dot com bubble burst? Why are some C-Suite executives at some the biggest companies in the world fearful of embracing A.I. in their companies? Is training foundation models a race to the bottom? Has the speculation around job displacement due to widespread A.I. adoption been overblown or are has it been grossly understated? So many great and difficult questions asked and answered at this past weekend's MIT AI Conference in New York City, whose theme was "A.I. At A Crossroads". It was also great to meet so many MIT alumni from around the world working on tackling some of the most difficult problems out there. Special thanks to Habib Haddad, Andrea Porras, Calvin Chin and the E14 Fund, which is funding some of the most exciting startups out of Cambridge. And

Had a blast at the MIT AI Conference last week! The energy was off the roof, and the discussions around AI innovation were truly inspiring. I discussed several trends. One key takeaway: the focus in enterprise AI has shifted from model selection to platform selection. Why? Because many companies have now caught up in terms of model quality. The differentiator? The platform's ability to: - Evaluate & Customize models for specific needs - Distill & Ground models for efficiency, robustness and factuality - Enable Function Calls & Orchestration for seamless workflow integration - Deploy in a Production-Grade Environment with reliability and scale I expect this trend to continue. #AI #EnterpriseAI #MIT #AIConference #Innovation #MachineLearning

?? Exciting news to share: After being selected as finalists in the MIT AI Hackathon last week, our team went on to secure 3rd place at the MIT AI Conference pitch competition in NYC this weekend! We built VocAlarm - an intelligent wake-up assistant that transforms your morning routine through Speech-to-Speech technology. By syncing with your calendar, it delivers personalized and motivational wake-up calls to help you tackle your day's most important commitments. The competition was fierce, and walking away with $5,000 in OpenAI credits is just incredible! ?? None of this would have been possible without the amazing team: Abdul-Kareem Aliu Amir Alsad George Cheng Tarik Hasic Yimeng Li Mohammed Ali Othman Ahmed Zain Special thanks to E14 Fund, SE Ventures, and the MIT AI Conference for creating this platform for innovation. Being surrounded by leaders pushing the boundaries of AI across industries was truly inspiring. What's next for VocAlarm? Stay tuned! ??

Grateful for the opportunity to pitch at the MIT AI Conference in NYC this past Saturday with Joseph Pipia. We're building the future of patient pre-screening for medical clinics and hospitals, where AI agents prepare consultations in advance to support administrative and clinical staff on the day of the visit. Thanks to the organizers, the MIT Sloan fellows for the warm support, Baffour Appiah-Korang for the photo and the E14 Fund for letting us catch a ride on their bus (and the free jacket)!