This event is organized by MIT Industrial Liaison Program (MIT ILP) with special discounts for friends of MIT CSAIL and complimentary passes for CSAIL Alliances members.

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CSAIL Alliances Members, contact your CRC for a fully complimentary pass.

While 2025 presented challenges and uncertainty, it also opened the door to new opportunities. Navigating this landscape with insight allows us to turn obstacles into growth.

This is the MIT ILP flagship event of the year, featuring keynote talks, technical tracks, startup presentations, and moderated discussions with industry leaders—designed to encourage learning and connection.

Day 1 will open with researchers and practitioners examining global drivers of change, focusing on AI, the future of work, advanced manufacturing, robotics, national security, and the dynamics of scarcity and geopolitics. The day will also include lightning talks from 10 startups from MIT Startup Exchange.

On Day 2, attendees can choose from six concurrent tracks covering developments in entrepreneurship, sustainable energy, space technology, cybersecurity and data analytics, advanced materials, and life sciences.

Please join CSAIL Alliances and Google for  “PhD Research & Engineering Insights” event at CSAIL on November 6. The session will also include application and interview tips. Food will be served! Registration is required to attend.

We’re excited to welcome back two recent MIT graduates, CSAIL grad Suvinay Subramanian and RLE grad Anny Zheng, now working at Google. They will speak with us about their experiences transitioning from the lab to the workplace. Learn more by clicking "Speakers."

Join these MIT PhD alumni for an insider's look at life as a Googler.

Learn about:

• Day-to-day experiences Hear firsthand accounts of what it's like to work on research and engineering projects at Google.
• Cutting-edge research Discover how Google fosters innovation and pushes the boundaries of technology.
• Application and interview process Get valuable tips and insights into successfully navigating the Google hiring process.

This session will feature a presentation followed by a Q&A.

Join CSAIL Alliances and Alliances member LDV Partners for an exciting fireside chat with the founder of iRobot.

Robots earned their place in our homes by being reliably useful. What will it take for them to become meaningfully social? In this fireside chat, Colin Angle—founder and longtime CEO of iRobot, now building Familiar Machines & Magic—joins Dionysis Panagiotopoulos, Partner at LDV Partners and an investor in FMM, to explore the next wave of embodied AI: machines that can “read the room,” act with social appropriateness, and earn human trust.

We’ll unpack the technical stack behind EQ (multimodal perception, intent inference, behavior policies), design principles for non-creepy interactions, and the guardrails required for privacy and safety.

A 20-minute Q&A will follow.

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