IAIFI is pleased to host our first “IAIFI Industry Day” on Friday, August 14, 2026 at the MIT Samberg Conference Center. The goal of this event is to foster collaboration, awareness, and networking between IAIFI industry partners, IAIFI researchers, and attendees of the IAIFI Summer Workshop.

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Friday, August 14, 2026

11:00am-11:50am: Flash talks from industry partners

These will be brief, 5-minute self-introductions where industry partners will share about themselves and their work. This will directly lead into the networking portions of the day.

11:50am-12:10pm: Coffee Break

12:10pm-1:00pm: Flash talks from industry partners, cont’d

1:00pm-2:15pm: Networking Lunch

2:15pm–3:45pm: Industry Partner Expo and Reception

Participating industry partners will host tables at the expo.

Industry Partners

Organization Flash Talk Presenter Expo Participation
Agentoid Praneeth Vepakomma ✓
Amazon Rahul Gupta  
Draper Loyd Waites  
Engine Ventures Alaina Hartnett  
Extropic Nahuel Freitas ✓
Fine Structure Ventures Tobias Egle  
First Principles To be confirmed ✓
Glasswing Ventures To be confirmed ✓
IBM Research Dongsung Huh  
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) Petros Boufounos ✓
MathWorks Ari Biswas  
Physical Superintelligence To be confirmed ✓
QuEra Computing Alan Bidart and Tommaso Macrì ✓
Stripe Shankar Krishnan  

This project is supported by National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement PHY-2019786. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.