Event Speakers
2024–25 Academic Year
Paola Antonelli
Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, and Director, Research and Development at MoMA

Jessica Banks
Inventor, designer, entrepreneur, TV personality, roboticist

Kevin Bethune
Designer, Author

Benjamin Bratton
Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design

Stuart Candy
Experiential Futurist, Artist, Educator

Carissa Carter
Designer, Geoscientist, Academic Director at the Stanford d.school

Alison J. Clarke
Professor of Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Marcelo Coelho
Head of Design, Formlabs; Lecturer, MIT Architecture

Joshua Croom
Fund Management Fellow

Sheila A. Dillon
Chief of Housing and Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing for the city of Boston

Scott Doorley
Writer, Designer, Creative Director at the Stanford d.school.

Nia K. Evans
Executive Director, Boston Ujima Project

Kathleen Evans
Senior Director of Capital Deployment at MassHousing

Tony Fadell
Engineer, designer, entrepreneur, and investor

Behnaz Farahi
Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Asahi Broadcast Corp Career Development Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab

Declan Keefe
Entrepreneur, Innovator, Cooperative Organizer

Anaya Raikar
High school student

Susanne Schindler
Research Fellow, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

Michael Sheldrick
Policy Entrepreneur

Justin Steil
Associate Professor of Law and Urban Planning, MIT DUSP

Bob Weis
Designer, Imagineer

2023–24 Academic Year
Pedro Ignacio Alonso
Associate Professor of Architecture

Kelli Anderson
Designer

Jeanette Andrews
Artist, Magician, Researcher

Lynda Barry
Award-winning Author & Artist

Benjamin Bratton
Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design

Dario Calmese
Designer

Tiffany Cheng
Designer

Teddy Cruz
Professor

Catherine D'Ignazio
Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning

Paula Ehrlich
DVM, PhD, President & CEO

Fonna Forman
Professor

Janelle Knox-Hayes
Professor of Economic Geography and Planning, MIT DUSP; Director of the Resilient Communities Lab

David Sun Kong
Synthetic biologist, bio designer, community organizer, musician, and photographer

Dennis Liu
PhD, Vice President of Education

Adriana Mallozzi
Entrepreneur, Technologist, Passionate advocate for disability inclusion

Gita Manaktala
Executive Editor

Aditya Mehrotra
Mechanical Engineer

Ayr Muir
Founder, CEO

Dietmar Offenhuber
Designer, Urban Planner

Hugo Palmarola
Associate Professor of Design

Richard Perez
founding director, Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking, University of Cape Town

Jesse Louis-Rosenberg
Artist, Computer Programmer, Maker

Jessica Rosenkrantz
Artist, Designer, Programmer

Hannah Wong
Master of Architecture Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Project Manager, Critical Design Lab

2023 Power of Design Conference
2022–23 Academic Year
Maria Aguiar
MIT SEVT Vice-Captain

Saeed Arida
Co-founder and Chief Excitement Officer, NuVu

Maria Yang
Kendall Rohsenow Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Director, Morningside Academy for Design; Faculty Director for Academics, MIT D-Lab; Founder and Director, MIT Ideation Lab

Norhan Bayomi
Environmental scientist, architect, inventor, electronic music producer, and Trance DJ

Justin Brazier
Architect, Environmentalist

Cynthia Breazeal
Professor Media Arts and Sciences, Media Lab; MIT Dean for Digital Learning; Director, MIT RAISE Initiative

John Cary
President and CEO, Eames Institute and The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity

Natsai Audrey Chieza
Founder and CEO, Faber Futures

Svafa Grönfeldt
Professor of Practice, SA+P; Faculty Director, MITdesignX

Sara Hendren
Writer, Design Researcher, Artist, and Cultural Producer; Associate Professor, Northeastern University

Tony Hu
Director of MIT’s Integrated Design & Management Master’s Program

Sheila Kennedy
MIT Professor of Architecture, innovator and educator

Bon Ku
Marta and Robert Adelson Professor of Medicine and Design, Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Jae Rhim Lee
Design Strategist, Entrepreneur, Senior TED Fellow at TED Conferences

Miho Mazereeuw
Associate Professor, Architecture and Urbanism; Director, Urban Risk Lab at MIT

Michael Murphy
Thomas Ventulett Chair of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dava Newman
Apollo Professor of Astronautics; Director, MIT Media Lab

Maria Nicanor
Director, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Kristala L.J. Prather
Arthur Dehon Little Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering Executive Officer

Mark Rober
Engineer, Educator, YouTuber

Jana Saadi
Engineer, Designer

Arvind Satyanarayan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Adam Savage
Maker, Designer

Amy Smith
Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering; Founding Director, MIT D-Lab

Daniel Sweeney
D-Lab Research Scientist, Biomass Fuel & Cookstoves; Lecturer

Skylar Tibbits
Associate Professor, Architecture; Director, Self-Assembly Lab at MIT; Assistant Director for Education, Morningside Academy for Design

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall
Dean of the Faculty of Design at Ontario College of Art and Design University

Fernanda Viégas
Professor at Harvard, data visualizer, computational designer, speaker

Martin Wattenberg
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Havard

Rosa Weinberg
K-12 Design Education Lead

Patrick Whitney
Professor in Residence, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Steelcase Endowed Chair and Dean Emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology

Sarah Williams
Associate Professor, DUSP; Director, MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism

Jonathan Zong
Computer Scientist, Artist

2022 Power of Design Conference