Stakeholders

Key State of MA AI Eco-System Stakeholders and Key Contacts Draft for AI Blueprint for MA

City Category AI Focused Stakeholder Organization
Boston
Academic
  • UMass-Boston Paul English Applied AI Institute (Paul English, founder)
  • UMass-Boston Venture Development Center
  • Northeastern University Institute for Experiential AI (Usama Fayyad, Executive Director)
  • Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences
  • Boston University College of Engineering and Center for Information & Systems Eng. (CISE)
  • Emerson College
  • Health Systems Innovation Lab (HSIL), Harvard School of Public Health (Prof. Salim Afshar, AI Translation Lead)
Industry
  • NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center
  • Boston Dynamics’ Robotics & AI Institute
  • Mass General Brigham Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory (SAIIL)
  • Mass General Brigham Multimodal, Generative & Agentic AI for Pathology Laboratory
  • Unravel Healthcare (Erik Bullen, COO)
Investor
  • GlassWing Ventures (Rudina Seseri, Partner)
  • Pillar VC (Jamie Goldstein, Partner)
  • Flybridge Ventures (Partners Chip Hazard and Jeffrey Bussgang)
  • Mass Ventures
  • Underscore VC (Richard Dulude, Lily Lyman, Chris Gardner, James Orsillo, Brian Devaney)
Non-profit
  • MassTLC (Sara Fraim, Executive Director)
  • MassChallenge (Caitlin Reimers Brumme, CEO)
  • Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce (Jim Rooney, President)
  • Massachusetts Competitive Partnership
  • Massachusetts Technology Cooperative (MTC)
  • MassRobotics
  • Mass Open Cloud (MOC)
  • MassBio (Kendalle Burlin-O’Connell)
  • Unravel Healthcare Alliance
Government
  • Executive Office of Economic Development (EOED) (Yvonne Hao, Secretary of Economic Development)
  • Massachusetts Office of Business Development (MOBD)
  • Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment (MOITI)
Cambridge
Academic
  • Harvard Business School (Professors: S. Ghosh, K. Lakhani, J. Bussgang, T. Eisenmann)
  • Harvard Business School Rock Center (Elise Bates, Director)
  • Harvard University D^3 (Jenny Stave, Executive Director)
  • Harvard University I-Lab (Rebecca Xiong, Executive Director)
  • Harvard University Grid (Paul Hayre, Executive Director)
  • Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (David Parkes, Dean)
  • Harvard University Generative AI research program
  • Harvard Medical School Zitnit Lab for AI Medicine and Science
  • Harvard Medical School Rajpurkar Lab
  • MIT Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL) (Daniela Rus, Executive Director)
  • MIT Media Lab (Ramesh Raskhar, Associate Director and Professor)
  • MIT (Breakthrough Tech AI)
  • MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship (Doug Williams)
  • MIT Jameel Clinic
  • Hult International Business School
Investor
  • C10 Labs (Shahid Azim, Partner)
  • The Engine (Emily Knight, CEO)
  • Link Ventures (Dave Blundin, Partner)
  • Blue Tulip Ventures (Rana el Kalioby, Ph.D)
Non-profit
  • CIC Kendal Square (Tim Rowe, President)
  • Imagination in Action (John Werner, President)
  • SundAI Club (Artem Lukoianov, Founder)
  • Boston Generative AI Meetup (Judah Phillips, founder)
  • Venture Cafe Cambridge (Sam Rowe)
  • Kendally Project (Brendan Mcsheffrey, President)
  • Kendall Square Association (Beth O’Neill Maloney)
  • LabCentral
  • AI Tinkerers (Sal Darji, Val Velasquez, Will Sargeant)
Worcester
Academic
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) (Kristen Keane, Director, Industry Partnerships and Program Management)
  • Holy Cross
  • UMass Chan Medical School
  • Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS)
  • Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDigi) at WPI
Non-profit
  • Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI)
  • MassMEP
Co-working spaces
  • Worcester BDC Idea Lab
  • WorcLab
Amherst
Academic
  • UMass-Amherst Center for Data Science & AI
  • Massachusetts AI & Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease (MassAITC)
Holyoke/Springfield
Non-profit

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC)

  • Berkshire Innovation Center (BIC)
  • UMass Donahue Institute
State-wide
Academic
  • Babson College (Dr. Erik Noyes; The Generator, Babson Interdisciplinary AI Lab, AI labs ecosystem visualization)
  • Babson College C. Dean Metropoulos Institute for Technology and Entrepreneurship (MiTE) (Trond Undheim, Executive Director)
  • Olin College
  • Bentley University (Sean Ferguson, Vice President of Strategy & Innovation)
  • UMass-Dartmouth Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • UMass-Lowell M2D2
  • Umass-Lowell iHub
  • Beverly Innoventure Labs
  • The Enterprise Center at Salem State University (Salem/North Shore)
Non-profit
  • ABI-LAB (Natick)
  • Our Massachusetts (Kendalle Burlin-O’Connell, JD Chesloff)
Industry
  • >1,000 life science companies
  • The Stellix Group Customer Experience Center, Foxboro (Jenn Azar)