Speakers

Professor Dame Fiona Murray CBE DCMG is the Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT School of Management and William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship. Her research, teaching and professional activities focus on the intersection of critical technologies, entrepreneurship, and geopolitics. She has examined the role of innovation ecosystem stakeholders in supporting the formation and scaling of deep tech ventures that solve global challenges - most notably in defense, security, and resilience. She is also an expert on how high-performing organizations - in the public and private sectors - engage with these innovation ecosystems to support their strategic innovation priorities.