Name: Harvard IT Summit 2025
Start: 2025-06-11T08:00
Location: Memorial Hall

Overview

A message from our Keynote Speaker

For over a decade the IT Summit has been the place for Harvard's technology teams to learn from one another, explore the impact of new innovations in fast moving areas such as AI, and showcase the ingenuity that drives our community forward.

-Klara Jelinkova, Vice President and University Chief Information Officer, Harvard University

Speakers

Michael D. Smith

John H. Finley, Jr., Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University

Mike Smith is the John H. Finley, Jr., Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University. He spent 11 years as the Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, leading Harvard’s oldest and largest school. His leadership was characterized by a deep commitment to undergraduate teaching, to faculty development and to research, both fundamental and applied.
Mike sits on the Board of Trustees of The Peddie School and he is an advisor to 1984 Ventures, GSV Ventures, CS Forward, Kira Learning, SoWork and Xfund. He was actively involved in Harvard and MIT’s launch of edX and served on its board from 2012-2018.
Earlier in his career, Mike spent time in industry building a range of computing hardware for Honeywell Information Systems and, in 2001, he co-founded the data security company Liquid Machines, which was acquired in 2010 by Check Point Software Technologies. While at Harvard, he received a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, the Alpha Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal. Mike is a member of the ACM and senior member of the IEEE. 

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Agenda

Wednesday, June 11
8:00 am Eastern	Registration, Continental Breakfast, and Exhibitors
9:00 am Eastern	Morning Plenary Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Keynote Introduction Klara Jelinkova, Vice President and University Chief Information Officer Keynote Michael D. Smith, John H. Finley, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences
10:00 am Eastern	Short Break (Travel Time)
10:15 am Eastern	Breakout Sessions
11:15 am Eastern	Short Break (Travel Time)
11:30 am Eastern	Breakout Sessions
12:30 pm Eastern	Lunch and Exhibit Hall
1:30 pm Eastern	Exhibit Hall Dessert Reception
3:00 pm Eastern	End of Summit