North Stars and New Routes — Fifty Years of Technology Policy

MIE Associate Professor Babak Heydari was invited to serve as a distinguished speaker at the MIT Technology and Policy Program 50th Anniversary Symposium during session 4 at 11:45 am, focusing on “The Future of Technology Policy as a Field”, where his insights will help illuminate the path forward for the next generation of technology policy thinkers and practitioners.

This milestone event will be a celebration of five decades of transformative education, research, and global impact at the intersection of technology and policy. A vibrant and diverse community of technology policy leaders from around the globe will be convened — alumni, faculty, students, staff, partners, collaborators — to honor TPP’s legacy, to discuss the most consequential intellectual technology and policy questions of our time, and to chart bold new directions for the future.

The symposium will feature a full day of dynamic talks and discussions in MIT’s iconic Kresge Auditorium, followed by a celebratory reception in Morss Hall. The event will be live streamed and recorded, and a transcript will be published as a commemorative compendium book — capturing the ideas and inspiration shared during this landmark occasion.

Planned sessions include:

• Session 1: Energy Policy in Artificial Worlds: Simulation as Strategy
• Session 2: Reimagining Global Environmental Governance: Technology as Catalyst
• Session 3: Governing The Machine: Aspiration as Architecture
• Session 4: The Future of Technology Policy as a Field
• Session 5: Redefining Security Policy: Trust as Infrastructure
• Session 6: Materials, Manufacturing, Econeutral Prosperity: Policy Design as Directive
• Session 7: Future of the Research University and The Role of Technology Policy: Pedagogy as Leadership

Location: Kresge Auditorium, MIT

Register