A Historic Moment for Innovation & Disruption: Insights from Founders & Investors

📅 Date & Time:  6 PM Wednesday, April 16^th

📍 Location: Live Online (Zoom Webinar)

🎟️ Register Now: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/rYM-zU5FQGygevS2e6TZPw

The GenAI revolution is creating transformative opportunities for new digital innovators to impact education and workforce development. The $6 trillion global education market includes the PK-12, post-secondary, and workforce education sectors – and a growing set of opportunity areas such as healthcare & aging education, career & lifelong learning, and financial concepts & literacy education.

Join us and hear from EdTech experts, GenAI+Tech founders, and the largest venture capital firm in the world focused on the education technology market – all to provide you with insights on getting started, successfully applying GenAI+Tech advances in education, understanding education market sectors, getting funded, finding resources, scaling your startup, and finding your path to impact and success.

MIT is at the epicenter of the GenAI and Digital revolution with cutting-edge research, our “GenAI Impact Consortium” with OpenAI and industry partners, and a new NSF I-Corps hub led by MIT supporting a partnership of eight New England universities committed to expanding and accelerating science and technology entrepreneurship for commercial and impact success – including in education.

This informal zoom event will be focused on serving aspiring and first time founders and teams, but those interested in GenAI+Tech for education and societal impact are warmly welcome to join.

Panel 1: EdTech Landscape, GenAI+Tech Startups & Founder Roundtable

• EdTech Vision – Luyen Chou, CEO & Founder, DeweyLearn
• PK-12 & Workforce – Ricard Huguet, CEO & Founder, ROBOTIX
• College & Corporate – Steve Shapiro, CEO & Founder, FineTune
• Future of Work – Jodi McPherson, CEO & Co-Founder Work Simplr
• Moderator – Steve Smith, MIT VMS, Harvard iLab & CEO G7 Research

Part 2: GenAI+Tech Startup Opportunities to Disrupt & Improve Education

• GenAI+Tech Startups in EdTech & Workforce – Tom Costin, Managing Director, Owl Ventures
• Building GenAI+Tech Ventures - Jessie Woolley-Wilson, Operating Partner, Owl Ventures
• VCs as Funders & Partners - Lyman Missimer, Vice President, Owl Ventures
• Moderator – Alison Doucette, MIT VMS & GenAI+Education Startup Advisor