Maximize your impact for a better world:The importance of developing your technical leadershipand communication skills while at MITFireside chat with L. Rafael Reif, MIT President EmeritusHosted by Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, Dean of the School of EngineeringIn addition to an exceptional technical education, what capabilities do you need to tackle the world’s biggest challenges? How can technical leadership skills propel your career and ability to make a difference in the world?Join us for a fireside chat with Rafael Reif hosted by Anantha Chandrakasan as they explore how technical leadership and communication skills can transform your aspirations into world-changing reality. They will share their experiences as pioneers in their fields and how they developed to be outstanding leaders.Whether your focus is industry, entrepreneurship, or academia, you will learn how investing in technical leadership capabilities now will greatly increase your effectiveness and success in the future.

John Waugh Lecture

Speaker/ Moderator: Manish Bharadwaj, Ph.D.Manish directs Keller Center's Design for Innovation program for faculty in the humanities and social sciences. He was previously the James Wei Visiting Professor at Keller, where he taught idealism in entrepreneurship. Manish is the CEO and co-founder of Innovators In Health, which is devoted to delivering world-class healthcare to the rural poor in India. Manish is also a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. Manish believes that a venture to make the world more just is fundamentally a moral, not technical, undertaking. It requires cultivating a moral imagination, an ability to imagine why people do right or wrong, the root of empathy, itself the root of all enduring change. He believes that accompaniment, to stand with the marginalized, literally and figuratively, is a moral imperative, and in and of itself a powerful means of change.

Conor Walsh Univ. of Columbia

Time: 3:30 PMLocation: Cambridge, MA

Sugarcane is a powerful documentary by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie that explores the impact of Canada's Indian residential schools through the lens of a community reckoning with long-suppressed truths and generational trauma. As they follow the investigation into unmarked graves at St. Joseph’s Mission, the filmmakers uncover both personal and collective stories of pain, resilience, and enduring love within Indigenous families.Resources for survivors & families, those who are unfamiliar with the history, and educators can be found on the Sugarcane website.If you have any questions please email cbsoll@mit.edu.