Bhaskar Pant is the Executive Director of MIT Professional Education. Prior to joining MIT, Mr. Pant held senior leadership positions in academic and corporate organizations around the globe.

Edward Schiappa is Professor of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he holds the prestigious John E. Burchard Chair of Humanities. From 2013 to 2019, he also served as the program's Head.

Markus J. Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT. Professor Buehler pursues new modeling, design and manufacturing approaches for advanced bio-inspired materials that offer greater resilience and a wide range of controllable properties from the nano- to the macroscale. He received many distinguished awards, including the Feynman Prize, the Drucker Medal, the J.R. Rice Medal, the Leonardo da Vinci Award, the Washington Award, and many others. Buehler is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. 

Professor Dov Dori is Harry Lebensfeld Chair in Industrial Engineering and Head of the Enterprise System Modeling Laboratory at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests include model-based systems engineering, conceptual modeling of complex systems, systems architecture and design, software and systems engineering, and systems biology.

Bruce Cameron is the Director of the System Architecture Lab at MIT and a co-founder of Technology Strategy Partners, a consultancy. His research interests include technology strategy, system architecture, and the management of product platforms.

Timothy Simpson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include product family design and platform-based product development, multidisciplinary design optimization, trade space exploration, and additive manufacturing.

Prof. de Weck is a leader in systems engineering research. He focuses on how complex man-made systems such as aircraft, spacecraft, automobiles, printers, and critical infrastructures are designed and how they evolve over time. His main emphasis is on strategic properties that have the potential to maximize lifecycle value (a.k.a the “iIities”).

Sanjay Sarma is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Sloan School of Management. 

Robert M. White, Jr., CRE, FRICS, President of Real Capital Analytics Inc., founded the company in 2000 to bring greater transparency to the investment markets by providing real-time data of capital flows and prices of commercial properties. He is a noted authority on the real estate capital markets who is frequently cited in the press and has authored numerous articles for industry publications and the firm’s own Capital Trends publications.

Professor Manish Srivastava is a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a full-time clinical professor of real estate finance & investment and the former academic chair and real estate finance program chair of New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.