MIT Europe Conference 2025 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

00:00 OPENER - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
01:48 INTRO - Cornelia Ertl | Moderation and MC
03:55 OPENING - Carmen Goby | Vice President, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
14:47 INTERVIEW Florian Frauscher| Director General, Economic Affairs, Innovation and International Policy, Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism
21:40 KEYNOTE Gayathri Srinivasan | Executive Director of MIT Corporate Relations
32:21 WELCOME: Randall S Wright | Program Director, MIT Office for Corporate Relations
34:36 RISK, INNOVATION AND THE NEW MANUFACTURING PIONEERS - Ben Armstrong | Executive Director and Research Scientist at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center
1:03:36 Q&A - Kosima Kovar and Phil Budden
1:12:08 NEW LEAN – THE NEW PRODUCTION SYSTEM PARADIGM FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY - Thomas Bauernhansl | Executive Director of Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation
1:43:43 Q&A - Phil Budden
1:46:12 INTERVIEW with Ben Armstrong - Kosima Kovar
1:50:21 INTERVIEW with Thomas Bauernhansl - Phil Budden
1:55:17 WRAP-UP Sessions 1 and 2 - Kosima Kovar and Phil Budden
1:58:55 INVESTING IN THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AI
AND ANALYTICS FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
- Bruce Lawler | Managing Director of MIT MIMO (Machine Intelligence for
Manufacturing and Operations)
2:41:52 TRANSFORMING BIOMANUFACTURING TO EMPOWER THE BIOECONOMY
- J. Christopher Love | Raymond A. (1921) And Helen E. St. Laurent Professor, MIT
Department of Chemical Engineering
3:15:35 INTERVIEW with Bruce Lawler - Kosima Kovar
3:17:53 MANUFACTURING-INTEGRATED DESIGN FROM THE DESKTOP TO DEEP-SEA: NOVEL
ROBOTS AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
- Kaitlyn Becker | Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department
3:47:20 INTERVIEW with J. Christopher Love - Kosima Kovar
3:50:24 INTERVIEW with Kaitlyn Becker - Kosima Kovar
3:53:49 WRAP-UP Sessions 3, 4 and 5 - Kosima Kovar and Phil Budden
3:55:54 CAPITALIZING ON CHANGE: FINANCING MANUFACTURING IN THE 21ST CENTURY -
Hiram Samel | Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management
4:30:54 WRAP-UP Sessions 6 - Kosima Kovar and Phil Budden
4:34:09 EDUCATING MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGISTS TO BE FUTURE SHOP FLOOR
LEADERS
- John Liu | Director & Principal Investigator MIT Learning Engineering and Practice
Group
4:50:24 WRAP-UP Sessions 7 - Phil Budden
4:52:40 INTERVIEW with Hiram Samel and John Liu - Kosima Kovar and Phil Budden
5:06:34 FINDING THE EXTRA GEAR FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION´S DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION
- John Carrier | Senior Lecturer of System Dynamics, MIT Sloan School of Management
5:34:58 WRAP-UP Sessions 8 - Kosima Kovar Phil Budden
5:37:35 XR IN MANUFACTURING: BUILDING THE FACTORIES OF TOMMOROW
- Sara Scheffer | PostDoc Scientist, Research Unit of Production and Maintenance
Management, TU Wien
6:07:08 WRAP-UP Sessions 9 - Kosima Kovar and Phil Budden
6:09:10 INTERVIEW with John Carrier - Kosima Kovar
6:11:27 GLOBALIZATION RETREATS, MANUFACTURING RESURGES
- Suzanne Berger | Institute Professor at Department of Political Science
6:42:49 WRAP-UP Sessions 10 - Phil Budden
6:45:04 INTERVIEW with Sara Scheffer - Kosima Kovar
6:50:54 CLOSING REMARKS - Randall S Wright and Michael Otter