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The Full Schedule
Day 1: May 8, 2026
5:30pm
Registration Opens
Lobby Outside 32-123
6:00pm
Opening Ceremony
Tomás Palacios
Susan Feindt
32-123
Keynote:
6:30pm
Trusting AI to Build Chips
Mohamed Kassem, Co-Founder & CEO NativChips.ai
32-123
7:15pm
The Bittersweetness of Scaling AI in Chemistry and Materials
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, CSO, Physical Sciences, Lila Sciences
32-123
8:00pm
Dinner and Reception
TSMC Lobby
Day 2: May 9, 2026
7:00am
Hack Rooms Open
32-144 & 32-124
8:00am
Breakfast
TSMC Lobby
10:00am
10:20am
10:40am
Tutorials and Workshops
TCAD with AI Agent
Jung-Han (Sharon) Hsia, MIT PI: T.Palacios
Tool-in-the-Loop LLMs for Chip Design
Jiahe Shi, MIT PI: D. Boning
Prompt, Simulate, Iterate-Analog Circuits Design
Yan Xu, MIT PI: R. Han
32-141
11:00am
Espresso Dave Bar
& Teaming Deadline
Outside 32-141
1:00pm
Lunch & Keynote
AI for Chip Design
Nimay Shah, Senior Director, System Verification, Digital Implementation & Validation, ADI
32-123
2:00pm
2:20pm
Seminars
AI Assisted Hybrid Approach to Cleanroom Education: Lessons Learned at EPFL
Prof. Jürgen Brugger, EPFL
A Multimodal Robotic Platform for Multi-element Electrocatalyst Discovery
Zhen Zhang
32-141
3:30pm
TeaDo Boba
Outside 32-141
Keynote & Dinner
32-123
5:00pm
Design for AI and AI for Design
5:30pm
Chuck Alpert, Fellow, Cadence Design Systems
Habib Haddad, Founding Managing Partner, E14 Fund
The Entrepreneurs Journey
6:00pm
Hacking
32-144 & 32-124
Day 3: May 10, 2026
7:00am
Hack Rooms Open
32-144 & 32-124
8:00am
Breakfast
TSMC Lobby
10:00am
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
Sponsored by Engine Ventures
32-144 & 32-124
12:00pm
Submission Deadline
32-123
12:00pm
Lunch & Team Presentations
32-123
2:00pm
MassTech Collaborative: NEMC Hub and Massachusetts
AI Hub
Gabriela Torres, Director of AI innovation Ecosystem Development
Farhad Vazeghoo, Director, Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, NEMC
32-123
2:30pm
Awards and Closing Ceremony
32-123
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