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! Automation and the Internet of Things in Manufacturing Workshop June 17, 2015 One Main Street, Cambridge, MA

AGENDA 8:30 am Breakfast and Registration

8:45 am Welcome: “MIT’s Automation Startups,” Trond Undheim, Ph.D., Lead, Startup Initiative, MIT Industrial Liaison Program (host)

9:05 am Introductory remarks: “Connecting Industry to Research, Innovation, and Startups,” Karl Koster, Executive Director, MIT Industrial Liaison Program

9:10 am Keynote I: “Factory automation challenges - an industry perspective,” Scott Hibbard, VP for Factory Automation, Bosch

9:20 am

Lightning Talks – (MIT-connected startups, ILP member companies, MIT innovators, etc.) Noramay Cadena, Co-founder and Managing Director, Make in LA; Eugene Chang, Founder, Integrated Strategies & Tactics LLC; Gonzalo Garcia, Chief Business, Marketing and Development Officer, Air Liquide aB&T; Lee Scheffler, Founder and Principal Technologist, Cognitivity; William T. Townsend, Ph.D., CEO & Founder, Barrett Technology; Walid Negm, Global Lead, Industrial Internet of Things, Accenture

Coffee & Networking Break

9:50 am Keynote II: “Disruptive new materials in manufacturing," Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering

10:00 am Keynote III: “Strengthening the Innovation Ecosystem for Advanced Manufacturing: Pathways and Opportunities for Massachusetts," Elisabeth Reynolds, Executive Director at the MIT Industrial Performance Center (IPC). Also see the WGBH’s Morning Edition interview (May 19, 2015) where she summarizes the recently issued eponymous report.

10:10 am Keynote IV: "Sensing, Data Processing and Big-Data Analytics, Process Control, Cyber Physical Systems - In Manufacturing and In Healthcare," Brian W. Anthony, Ph.D., Co-Director, Medical Electronics Device Realization Center, Director, MIT Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Program

Coffee & Networking Break

PANEL DISCUSSION

10:30 am -11:30 am

Panel Discussion: The Future of Automation The discussion kicks off having built a renewed awareness among the workshop participants about the trends in automation/IoT/IT/tech startups from MIT (and elsewhere) as well as the reality of manufacturing. The questions facing the panel is related to how to act on these trends and the new challenges/opportunities they bring:

• What are the key collaboration challenges & opportunities between strategics/industry, university, government, and startups? • How to overcome the barriers to new technology adoption?

Panelists: • Brian W. Anthony, Ph.D., Co-Director, Medical Electronics Device Realization Center, Director, MIT Master of Engineering in

Manufacturing Program • Scott Hibbard, VP for Factory Automation, Bosch • Elisabeth Reynolds, Executive Director at the MIT Industrial Performance Center (IPC) • Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

MIT-connected startup executives: George Arnold, CEO, Tercio Solutions Christophe Mandy, Manufacturing Lead, Formlabs Daniel Theobald, CTO, Vecna Technologies and Board Member, MassRobotics innovation hub

The panel will be moderated by Mitch Tyson, Principal, Tyson Associates, Former CEO, PRI Automation and Advanced Electron Beams, Co-chair, MA Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative Associated Opportunity

• Bosch seeks tech/manufacturing startups

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! Panelists

Brian W. Anthony, Ph.D., Co-Director, Medical Electronics Device Realization Center, Director, MIT Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Program Dr. Anthony is Co-Director of MIT’s Medical Electronic Device Realization Center, Director of MIT’s Master of

Engineering in Manufacturing Program, and Deputy Director for the MIT Skoltech Initiative. With over 20 years experience in product realization – Dr. Anthony won an Emmy (from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) in broadcast technical innovation. Dr. Anthony designs instruments and techniques to monitor and control physical systems. His work involves systems analysis and design, calling upon mechanical, electrical and optical engineering, along with computer science and optimization, to create solutions.

The focus of Dr. Anthony’s research is in computational instrumentation. His research includes the development of instrumentation and measurement solutions for manufacturing systems and medical diagnostics and imaging systems. His research and product development interests cross the boundaries of computer vision, acoustic and ultrasonic imaging, large-‐‑scale computation and simulation, optimization, metrology, autonomous systems, and robotics.

In addition to his academic work, he has extensive experience in market driven technology innovation, product realization, and business entrepreneurship and commercialization at the intersection between information technology and advanced manufacturing. He has extensive experience in market driven technology innovation as well as business entrepreneurship.

George Arnold, CEO, Tercio Solutions (MIT STEX Member) George Arnold, Eng.Sc.D., has extensive experience in new product introduction, systems engineering, manufacturing automation and process engineering, intellectual property, and new ventures as an executive at AT&T, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, and the National Institute of Standards and

Technology. His experience includes development of information systems for manufacturing automation, a new venture-providing airline scheduling optimization, and R&D for cyber-physical systems including advanced manufacturing. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Scott Hibbard, VP, Factory Automation, Bosch Scott Hibbard is Vice President of Technology, Factory Automation Bosch Rexroth Corporation ��Hoffman Estates, Illinois. He has been associated with the industrial motion control industry for the past 37 years, 34 of those with Bosch Rexroth, including the former Indramat Division of

the Rexroth Corporation. Scott played a key role in the pioneering introduction of the first

practical industrial brushless AC servo drives and multi-processing CNCs used in high production manufacturing, as well as moving printing and packaging automation technology from mechanical systems to precision electronic motion control. His current responsibilities include management of Rexroth’s facility in Hoffman Estates, as well as leading product management and development for Bosch Rexroth’s factory automation markets. Scott is currently active in the development of the Industrial Internet (Industry 4.0)

focusing on standards enabling meaningful interchange of information across the manufacturing environment.

He serves on the board of directors for Sercos North America, the trade association that stewards the ongoing development and adoption of Sercos, the international real time interface standard. Scott is also chairman of the Association for Manufacturing Technology’s Technical Issues Committee, and chairs the MTConnect Technical Advisory Group.

Scott graduated from DeVry Technical Institute in 1977. He is the author of numerous technical articles and papers on AC servo, digital drive control, and open control system technologies, as well as energy efficiency in factory automation.

Karl F. Koster, Executive Director, MIT Office of Corporate Relations/Industrial Liaison Program Karl F. Koster is the executive director of the MIT Office of Corporate Relations. The Office of Corporate Relations at MIT includes the Industrial Liaison Program, which celebrated 60 years of service to the Institute and its corporate partners in 2008.

In that capacity, he and his staff work with the senior administrative and faculty leadership of MIT in developing and implementing strategies for enhancing corporate involvement with the Institute. Mr. Koster has been involved with faculty leaders in identifying and designing a number of major international programs for MIT. Many of these programs focus on institutional development and are characterized by the establishment of strong, international, programmatic linkages between universities, industry, and governments.

Mr. Koster graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in geology and economics in 1974, and received an M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1980. At the Sloan School he concentrated in international business management and the management of technological innovation. Prior to returning to MIT, Mr. Koster worked as a management consultant for seven years in Europe, Latin America, and the United States on projects for private and public sector organizations.

Christophe Mandy, Manufacturing Lead, Formlabs (MIT STEX Member) Christophe Mandy heads the manufacturing team at Formlabs, a 3D printing startup based in Boston. Prior to Formlabs, Christophe has conducted research in a variety of fields spanning control systems, system design and optimization, astrophysics and mechanics. As part of the

MIT SPHERES experiment, he implemented his research on formation flying satellites in space and prior to that he was modelling mass transfers in binary stellar systems.

He spent two years in management consulting for consumer goods and financial services companies, developing strategy IP. He also designed recommendation engines and matching algorithms for the online dating platform Coffee Meets Bagel.

Christophe holds masters degrees in mathematics and astrophysics from the University of Brussels, in aeronautics & astronautics from MIT and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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!Elisabeth Reynolds, Executive Director at the MIT Industrial Performance Center (IPC) Elisabeth Reynolds is the Executive Director of MIT’s Industrial Performance Center (IPC), an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of innovation, productivity and competitiveness.

Dr. Reynolds works on topics related to the geography of innovation, regional economic growth, and industrial innovation and competitiveness. Her current research focuses on innovation and advanced manufacturing, in particular the globalization of the biomanufacturing industry, as well as how innovative startups grow to scale.

She is a member of the Massachusetts Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative and an advisor to the Massachusetts Biomanufacturing Roundtable. Before coming to MIT, Dr. Reynolds was the Director of the City Advisory Practice at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a non-profit founded by Professor Michael Porter focused on job and business growth in urban areas. Her background also includes working as a policy analyst at the Institute for Research in Public Policy, a Canadian think tank, and as a financial analyst with Goldman Sachs.

She has an A.B. from Harvard College in Government and was the Harvard Fiske Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. She holds a M.Sc. from the University of Montreal in Economics and a Ph.D. from MIT in urban and regional studies.

Daniel Theobald, CTO, Vecna Technologies (MIT STEX Member) Daniel A. Theobald serves as Chief Technology Officer and President of Vecna Technologies, Inc. Mr. Theobald is the inventor of the BEAR™, and is well versed in the engineering sciences with extensive

experience in software architecture, artificial intelligence (AI), electromechanical engineering and mobile robotics. He is the recipient of the Henry Ford II Scholar Award and the Hertz Foundation Award, as well as a fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He did graduate work at the MIT AI Laboratory including developing web-based control algorithms for a robotic Mars explorer, a progenitor of Spirit and Opportunity. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT.

Trond Undheim, Ph.D., Lead, Startup Initiative, MIT Industrial Liaison Program Trond heads up the Startup Initiative at MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program (ILP), facilitating productive relationships between industry and MIT’s

startup ecosystem. He is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Trond is a serial entrepreneur with Scandinavian roots and is currently the founder of Yegii, Inc., the insight network, and managing director of Tautec Consulting.

Trond is a leading expert on technology development across industries such as IT, Energy, and Healthcare. His knowledge spans entrepreneurship, strategy frameworks, policymaking, action learning, virtual teamwork, knowledge management, standardization, and e-government. He wrote the book Leadership From Below (2008). Trond speaks six languages and is a frequent public speaker on business, technology, and wine. Trond was a strategy/business development executive at Oracle Corp. (2008-12) and a policymaker in the EU (2004-08) where he built the ePractice.eu web platform with 120,000 members. He has worked with multinational companies, with mid-caps and startups in Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Norway, the UK, and the U.S.

Trond holds an M.A. in sociology and a Ph.D. in sociological technology and policy studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering Van Vliet earned her Sc.B. in materials science & engineering from Brown University (1998) and her Ph.D.

in materials science & engineering from MIT (2002). At MIT, Van Vliet was a National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellow, was President of the Graduate Materials Council, and won the MRS Gold Medal for her thesis research. Her MIT thesis work with Prof. Subra Suresh established the experimental and computational basis for predicting homogeneous nucleation of dislocations (plasticity carrying defects) in crystalline metals. She then conducted postdoctoral research with Dr. Marsha Moses at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she developed new experimental approaches to measure the effects of mechanical strain on cells that comprise blood vessels.

Van Vliet joined the faculty of MIT’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering in 2004, and leads the Laboratory for Material Chemomechanics. She also joined MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering in 2011.

She currently leads the Singapore-MIT Alliance in Research & Technology (SMART) BioSystems & Micromechanics IRG, which includes approximately 175 researchers in Singapore and MIT, including 8 other MIT faculty from several engineering departments and 25 Singapore-based faculty collaborators. This team invents and develops new technology platforms for diagnostics and treatment of cell and tissue disease. Within five years, this team of engineers, biologists, and clinicians has contributed several key breakthroughs and inventions to cell imaging, drug screening, and optical imaging; this includes one start-up company and several devices now involved in international clinical trials. Moderator

Mitch Tyson, Principal, Tyson Associates Mitch is an experienced high tech executive and entrepreneur, serves on a number of corporate, non-profit, and governmental boards, advises start-ups and investors, and is deeply involved in the clean energy and manufacturing ecosystems. Mitch is Co-chair of the

Massachusetts Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative and has been the CEO of several manufacturing companies.

He is Chair and Co-founder of the New England Clean Energy Council and is an Adjunct Professor at the Brandeis International Business School. Mitch is a partner in the Clean Energy Venture Group and serves on the corporate boards of Photronics (PLAB), Big Belly Solar, 7AC and Automation Engineering, Inc. Mitch is also on the boards of the Acadia Center (formerly Environment Northeast), the New England Water Innovation Network, Greentown Labs, and the Venture Café Foundation.

Tyson was previously CEO of PRI Automation, a publically traded automation and robotics company that provided hardware, software, and services to the semiconductor manufacturing industry. PRI grew from $4M to over $300M during his tenure. He has a B.S. in Physics, an M.S. in nuclear engineering and an M.S. in political science, all from MIT, where he concentrated his studies in energy technology and policy.

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Lightning Talk

Noramay Cadena, Co-founder and Managing Director, Make in LA Noramay Cadena is the co-founder and Managing Director of Make in LA, the first hardware focused accelerator in Los Angeles. In 2013, Cadena co-founded the Latinas in STEM Foundation

to inspire and empower Latinas to pursue and thrive in STEM fields. Previously, Cadena spent over 10 years working across multiple large

complex hardware products at The Boeing Company - from airplanes to satellites to space transport.

She is also a member of The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Noramay holds an M.B.A., a Master’s in engineering systems and a Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from MIT.

Eugene Chang, Founder, Integrated Strategies & Tactics LLC Eugene Chang is the founder of Integrated Strategies & Tactics, IS&T, a boutique consulting firm focused on product management, product marketing, and sales channel development. The potential of great products are not

realized if the products are difficult to market or sell. IS&T has active products in cybersecurity, wireless communications, and wireless ranging. IS&T is in the process of recruiting embedded software developers to support new IoT projects.

Mr. Chang has over 30 years of experience in the engineering and marketing of high tech products. His career has paralleled the development of the Internet, beginning with communications over the analog telephone networks, to the transformation of the Arpanet into the Internet, and the explosion of wireless communications. He has contributed to the creation of standards at the EIA, ITU, IEEE, the Wi-Fi Alliance, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Mr. Chang was the founder and CEO of a start up company from 1989-1995. He is the co-inventor of six patents. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from MIT.

Gonzalo Garcia, Chief Business, Marketing and Development Officer, Air Liquide aB&T Gonzalo Garcia is the Chief Business, Marketing and Development Officer at Air Liquide aB&T. Since the late 1980’s, his professional life has revolved around

entrepreneurship and technology; primarily RFID, Mobile Computing and Analytics, with a focus on its application in process automation, supply chain and asset management.

At Air Liquide - advanced Business & Technology, IoT is built into their vision "People + Intelligence + Objects," which acts as an essential pillar to develop their next "Business and Operations.”

He was the CEO of Athelia Solutions, the Co-founder and CEO of Athelia Solutions International and the Founder and CEO of M&C Systems.

Gonzalo obtained his Business Administration (B.A.), BBA from UDIMA, and a Master’s in Computer Information Systems.

Lee Scheffler, Founder and Principal Technologist, Cognitivity Lee Scheffler is the Founder and Principal Technologist of Cognitivity, developing technology for rapid building of integrative cognitive systems.

He worked on Multics at MIT Project MAC and holds several patents. Also he has developed software security, networking, office automation, and remote database access systems.

Lee is an inventor and chief architect of DataStage parallel dataflow data integration system now at the core of IBM’s Information Server. As an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor he continued innovation in the data integration technology space.

Lee Scheffler attended MIT, ’71, ’74, and earned his S.B., S.M. and E.E. degrees in computer science.

William T. Townsend, Ph.D., CEO & Founder, Barrett Technology Dr. Townsend is the President & CEO of Barrett Technology, the Massachusetts-based company he founded in 1988 to advance the state of human-machine interaction. He is an innovator with over a dozen issued patents in the

U.S., Europe, and Japan. Products he helped design can be found today in eighteen countries across 6 continents.

In the area of human-machine devices, Dr. Townsend won the prestigious Robotic Industries Association Joseph Engelberger Award in Technology for his design of the first haptics-capable robot. This device was also chosen as the world’s most advanced robot in the Millennium Edition of the Guinness Book of Records. Mako Surgical, a division of Stryker Medical, licensed gearless drives invented by Townsend and his collaborators that constitute the core of their flagship RIO partial-implant knee-surgery robot that interacts via gentle haptic forces with the surgeon. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in engineering at MIT and his B.S. at Northeastern University. Today, Bill continues to drive future technology and product innovation at Barrett including the development of the newest Puck ultra miniature brushless motor controller and Proficio, an upper-limb rehabilitation device aimed initially at the support of research into the mechanisms of neurological disorders.

Walid Negm, Global Lead, Industrial Internet of Things, Accenture Walid Negm is a global R&D director with Accenture Technology Labs and leads Accenture’s Industrial Internet Strategic Innovation Initiative. Walid provides over-sight to Accenture’s risk management policies and best practices for Cloud Computing. Previously, Walid

led the product development of the first ‘XML’ Firewall technology, which was commercially pioneered within the U.S. Treasury Department. Mr. Negm held the position of Director of Internet Technologies at Oracle Corporation, where he worked with Fortune 500 corporations in the area of complex supply chain management. He earned his M.B.A. in International Finance/Global Studies from Georgetown University, and his B.S. in Computer Engineering and Master’s in Computer Engineering from Boston University.