We had a grand old time at this week’s blowout Boston event, Influx. Leaders from Akamai, MIT, Harvard, and other venerable institutions met with top folks from GE Ventures, IBM Watson Health, Dell-EMC, and startups and investors, to talk about boosting their businesses—and the region’s innovation profile—for the future.
The Museum of Science was a fantastic venue for this meeting of the minds. Big thanks to our hosts for providing space that was welcoming, stimulating, and suitably elegant.
Special thanks to our gold sponsors: Akamai, Autodesk, Bayer, Massachusetts Competitive Partnership (MACP), Qatar Airways, and WuXi; and to our innovation supporters, reception sponsor, and event partners for making all of this possible. And, of course, thanks to our speakers and attendees for participating. We hope you had as great a time as we did.
You can check out photos from the event above. Big thanks to Keith Spiro Photography for the shots.
Author: Gregory T. Huang
Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003.
Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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