Program at a Glance

Join us at the Check-In and Welcome Reception starting at 7pm on Monday evening, 11 May.

Room Location:
The Loft, 1st Floor of the Le Meridien Cambridge-MIT

Registration Opens, 3rd Floor Executive Foyer

Speakers:

RICHARD SERINO, Former Deputy Administrator of FEMA
Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard University School of Public Health

VINCENZO BOLLETTINO, Executive Director
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

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“Team Rubicon Technology Overview”
Stephen Hunt
Chief Information Officer
Team Rubicon

“Human Agent Collaborations (HACs): The Future Force Multiplier“
David Jones
Chief Executive Officer
Rescue Global

PATRICK MEIER, Director of Social Innovation
Qatar Computing Research Institute

JAKE KENDALL, Senior Program Officer
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

RAMESH RASKAR, Professor
MIT Media Lab

ANDRE KEARNS, Senior Director, US Government Product Management
DigitalGlobe

JOHN CLARK, Skybox Partner Development
Google

RHONDA JACOBS, Program Manager
Society of Exploration Geophysicists

GREG WILSON, Director
National Center for Photovoltaics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

The session will concentrate on explaining the roles and activities of the impact investor and the management of early stage humanitarian technology companies during and after an investment transaction. The panel, comprised of professionals from Impact Investment firms, will discuss:

• the benefits of Impact Investing to HumTech companies;
• the necessary requirements that HumTech companies must satisfy to become an attractive investment;
• the due diligence that makes a successful investment transaction;
• the ongoing post-close management/investor operating and reporting relationship.

The intent of the coverage areas is to give early stage HumTech company management a clear picture of the conditions that Impact Investors are looking for in early stage companies that make them attractive investments.

Moderator: Dr. Joseph Franceschi, iNGOvation, Inc.

Panelists:
JUSTIN DESROSIERS
Director of Investments,Investors’ Circle
Principal, PCC Funds

JANINE ELLIOTT, Venture Development Program Manager
VentureWell

CHRISTINA TAMER, Investment Analyst
Invested Development

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Morning Keynotes Florence

8:30 am “Delivering Protective Equipment for the Liberia Ebola Response”
Jarrod Goentzel
Founder and Director
MIT Humanitarian Response Lab

8:50 am “On the Nature of Information Management in Complex and Natural Disasters”
Tina Comes
Associate Professor
Centre for Integrated Emergency Management, University of Agder

A2. Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief
D2. Emerging Technologies

C2. Public Safety and Emergency Management
F2. Open Track: Water, Energy, Agriculture, Policy, Security, Education, …