• Charles M. Vest, MIT President

Moderator: Kenneth Oye, Center for International Studies

• Defining the problem: decision making and uncertainty
  Daniel Hastings, MIT Engineering Systems Division
  
• Need for technology assessment and foresight exercises
  Cindy Williams, MIT Center for International Studies
  
• Historical perspective on emerging technologies and society
  David Mindell, MIT Program on Science, Technology and Society
  
• The problem w/ technology assessment exercises of the past: a retrospective
  Larry McCray
  
• The MIT IGERT on Emerging Technologies
  Kenneth Oye, Center for International Studies, and
  Dava Newman, Technology and Policy Program

Moderator: Merritt Roe Smith, MIT Program on Science, Technology and Society

• Survey of Emerging Biotechnologies
  Angela Belcher, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  
• Economic Perspective
  Marc Goldberg, BioVentures Investors in Cambridge
  
• Security Perspective
  Rocco Casagrande, Abt Associates
  
• Ethical and Cultural Perspective
  Joshua Cohen, MIT Department of Political Science
  
• Discussion

12:55 pm Keynote Address

• “Dual Use Solutions to Biotechnology”
  Gerald Fink, MIT Department of Biology

Moderator: Frank Field III, MIT Technology and Policy Program

• Emerging technology highlights
  David Clark, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
  
• Economic perspective
  Richard Lester, MIT Industrial Performance Center
  
• Security, privacy, and identity
  Gary Strong, Department of Homeland Security
  
• Ethical and Cultural Perspective
  Rosalind Williams, MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society
  
• Discussion

• Dava Newman, MIT Technology and Policy Program
• Kenneth Oye, MIT Center for International Studies
• Wyn Jennings, National Science Foundation