The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is focused on fundamental research with the goal of unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). The Lab was founded in September of 2017 with a $240m, 10 year investment from IBM to create one of the largest industry-university collaborations on AI. The Lab brings together top researchers from MIT and IBM to create radically new software and hardware that pushes the frontiers of AI.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. With Microsoft Azure you can build, deploy, and manage applications with a comprehensive set of cloud services designed for you. We can't wait to see you at Hack MIT—where we'll be celebrating innovative tech projects with great prizes and swag. Start building the future now with access to 25+ free services on Azure and $100 in credit towards Azure paid services. Check out aka.ms/azure4students.

Algorand, Inc. is a blockchain technology company founded by cryptography pioneer, Turing award winner and MIT professor, Silvio Micali. Algorand’s blockchain platform creates full transparency, protection and speed within a truly decentralized network. It achieves velocity on par with large payment and financial networks while securely scaling to billions of users. Algorand’s pure proof-of-stake approach is the first of its kind to provide immediate transaction finality without forking.

Our purpose is to shape the future of travel. Travel broadens horizons, creates connections and builds economies. Travel powers progress. And Amadeus powers travel. We build the critical solutions that help airlines and airports, hotels and railways, search engines, travel agencies, tour operations and improve the travel experience, billions of times a year, all over the world. We've been doing it for more than 30 years, and we're just getting started. Innovating. Moving Fast. Working with customers and partners to power better, more rewarding journeys. Leading the industry forward to shape a better future of travel.

For 13 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 165 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 66 Availability Zones (AZs) within 21 geographic regions, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act-on, and manage agreements. As part of our cloud-based System of Agreement Platform, DocuSign offers eSignature—the world’s #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, more than 425,000 customers and hundreds of millions of users in over 180 countries use DocuSign to accelerate the process of doing business and to simplify people’s lives.

At DRW, we identify and capture trading and investment opportunities globally. What sets us apart is our diversified approach—trading across many asset classes and instruments, in markets around the world, with horizons from seconds to years. With nearly 1000 employees and several global offices, we succeed by leveraging technology, research and risk management. We offer the best of both worlds: the opportunity and spirit of a startup and the benefits and stability of an experienced firm.

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together.

Prepare for a cloud-first workplace. Grow your career, startup, or business with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. Learn more at g.co/cloud.

Salesforce is the global leader in customer relationship management (CRM), bringing companies closer to their customers in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, internet of things, and artificial intelligence—to connect to their customers in a whole new way. Salesforce will power more than 2 trillion B2B and B2C transactions this year for more than 150,000 companies.

Veritone is a leading artificial intelligence company that has developed aiWARE™, which unlocks the power of AI-based cognitive computing to seamlessly and automatically process, transform and analyze unstructured public and private audio and video data for clients in the media, politics, legal and law enforcement industries. The open platform integrates an ecosystem of best-of-breed cognitive engines and powerful applications, orchestrated together to reveal valuable, multivariate insights.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking. No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.

CHAOSSEARCH is the creator of the first solution to make cloud storage searchable. The platform enables organizations to store, search, query and visualize terabytes of data within their own Amazon S3 infrastructure with disruptive cost economics. CHAOSSEARCH gives customers a multi-tenant, service-model designed to accelerate innovation and drive business growth.

The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm. Founded in 1988 over a small bookstore in downtown New York City, we began with six employees and quickly became a pioneer in computational finance. Since then, we've built a reputation for successful investing based on persistent innovation, analytical rigor, careful risk management, and uniquely talented employees.

Hudson River Trading brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.

Kensho uses machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and data visualization techniques to solve some of the hardest analytical problems and create breakthrough financial intelligence solutions for our parent company, S&P Global. Kensho was founded in 2013 by Harvard & MIT alums and was acquired by S&P Global in 2018. Kensho continues to operate as a startup in order to maintain its own distinct, independent brand and promote breakthrough, innovative culture. Our team of engineers enjoy a dynamic and collaborative work environment that runs autonomously from our parent company, while leveraging the unparalleled breadth and depth of data and resources available as part of S&P Global. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA with offices in New York City, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles.

Sia is the leading decentralized cloud storage platform. This means there are no signups, no centralized servers, and no company that you need to trust. Today’s cloud storage industry, monopolized by tech giants, struggles with fundamental challenges in price, privacy, and reliability. Sia, the leading decentralized cloud storage platform, leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers. Data storage on Sia currently costs about $1 per TB per month – an order of magnitude cheaper than Amazon S3 – and provides users with true privacy and control over their data. We are backed by notable VCs such as Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, A.Capital, Collaborative Fund, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Hack VC, INBlockchain, and SV Angel.

Our mission is to create great work from home jobs, powered by AI. Our freelancers have the freedom to choose their work, set their own hours, and work where they want. AI boosts productivity for both freelancers, who can do more work in less time, and customers, who get their files back much faster. Everything we do to serve our customers helps us create more job opportunities in our marketplace and fulfill our mission.

Appian makes building complex software simple. We've built our low-code platform from the ground up with the power to address some of the world's toughest business problems. It's exciting and challenging work with tangible and fulfilling rewards. It takes the right person… is that you?

BookBub is one of the fastest-growing consumer tech startups in Boston (and we’re profitable). Millions of readers use BookBub every day to find great books, and our service empowers thousands of leading publishers and authors to drive sales and find new fans.

We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering computer science, data science, and design students to create social good by breaking down the barriers to entry in social impact spaces. Our flagship initiative, the Civic Digital Fellowship, is a first-of-its-kind technology, data science, and design internship program for innovative students to solve pressing problems in federal agencies. From machine learning to product design, our Fellows work across a range of disciplines to build 21st-century products and services for the American people. You can check out their work at github.com/codingitforward. We also manage the First Act Fund, in partnership with Schmidt Futures. The First Act Fund is a new source of catalytic funding for young technologists working on impactful and innovative ideas. Learn more at firstactfund.com.

DigitalOcean and its Developer Cloud™ simplify modern app creation for new generations of developers — from individuals developers to startups and SMBs. Its infrastructure and platform-as-a-service (IaaS and PaaS) solutions provide a “no DevOps required” experience, allowing developers to focus their energy on creating innovative software. By combining the power of simplicity, love for the developer community, an obsession for customer service, and the advantages of open source, DigitalOcean brings software development within technical and economic reach of anyone around the world.

Expanse helps IT operations and security teams discover, manage, and secure all of their global internet assets. Current Expanse customers comprise more than 10 percent of the routable internet and they use the company's platform to monitor for real-time changes to their infrastructure. Founded in 2012, Expanse is headquartered in San Francisco and is now backed by more than $135M in funding.

LightStep builds observability tools, based on distributed tracing, for proactively monitoring software in today's cloud-driven world. Fundamentally new software architectures require fundamentally new solutions. We’re a team of engineers building software for other engineering teams, and are the only company that builds observability tools at the scale and complexity that enterprises need them.

Making healthcare better is our priority, and we believe medical technology can play an even greater role in improving people’s lives. With challenges facing families and healthcare systems — such as rising costs, aging populations, and the burden of chronic disease — we are using the power of technology to take healthcare Further, Together. Innovation and collaboration are central to who we are. Since the late 1940s, we have been working with others to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Today, we are a medical technology leader, employing more than 84,000 people worldwide, and offering therapies and solutions that enable greater efficiency, access, and value — for healthcare systems, providers, and the people they serve. Learn more at Medtronic.com.

At Niantic, we have a long history of viewing the world differently. We are the world’s leading augmented reality company with an initial focus on augmented reality games. We see a future where our technology paves the way for new entertainment experiences, advanced robotics, and scaled adaptive computing — and games are where we incubate some of our most audacious thinking. We’ve built the world’s only planet-scale augmented reality platform for current and future generations of augmented reality hardware. We think of this platform as a global operating system for applications that unite the digital world with the physical world. Technology has already transformed our lives, bringing together people, ideas, and information in unimaginable ways. We’re hard at work on a new technological chapter that connects the digital world with reality. When the digital world and reality come together, something magical happens. But you need to understand reality in order to augment it…. We pioneered real world gaming — adventures on foot with others — which has helped transform the Earth into the new game board.

Wolfram is the company where computation meets knowledge. A leader in scientific and technical innovation, Wolfram continues to build toward a future where sophisticated computation and knowledge-based programming are universally accessible. Combined, the new Wolfram Language, Wolfram Engine and Wolfram Cloud will make possible a computable model of the world—in essence, a global brain. Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, the world’s foremost technical computing program; Wolfram|Alpha, the widely used computable knowledge engine; and the Computable Document Format (CDF), the interactive core technology behind digital content offerings by all major STEM publishers. Computation. Knowledge. Content. Interaction. Infrastructure.

Citadel is a leading investor in the world’s financial markets. For over a quarter of a century, we have sought to deliver industry-leading investment returns to clients including corporate pensions, endowments, foundations, public institutions, and sovereign wealth funds. Our global team works to help our clients’ capital fulfill its greatest potential across a diverse range of markets and investment strategies, including fixed income & macro, equities, quantitative, commodities and credit. For more information, visit Citadel.com. Citadel Securities is an award-winning global market maker that helps meet the liquidity needs of asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, government agencies, and public pension programs. We offer a broad array of fixed income and equity products, utilizing a unique set of capabilities and tools designed to drive down the cost of transactions. We strive to provide the most efficient execution and highest caliber of client services, making markets more fair and accessible for all. For more information, visit CitadelSecurities.com.

Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker that has its main headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand.

Founded in 2015, Instabase's mission is to advance the state of the art by building tools that help people solve important problems, make discoveries, and create new breakthroughs. Instabase is an operating system designed for operational efficiency. It uses the web browser as the user interface, a pluggable storage system for managing data (files and databases), and an app store for applications. These applications run on the Instabase Platform, which provides the core management capabilities for managing diverse, distributed datasets; support for collaboration and access control; and a runtime for Instabase Applications.

Lucid is a market research platform that provides access to authentic, first-party data in over 90 countries. Our products and services enable anyone, in any industry, to ask questions of targeted audiences and find the answers they need – fast. These answers can be used to uncover consumer motivations, increase revenue, and measure the impact of digital advertising. Founded in 2010, Lucid is headquartered in New Orleans, LA with offices in Dallas, New York, London, Sydney, Gurgaon, Prague, Singapore and Brazil (Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro).

Nasdaq provides the infrastructure, tools and strategic insights tailored for the capital-market opportunities of today and the expectations of tomorrow. Our Technology Solutions represent Nasdaq’s commercial technology and software business. They provide exchange and business technology that supports our financial industry and corporate clients in all aspects of their business or marketplace. Our Market Technology business is the world’s largest provider of exchange technology solutions and a top provider of broker solutions. Our technology powers 90 marketplaces in 50 countries and 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our Boston-based Innovation Lab focuses on strategic initiatives, including the Future of Markets, Dynamic Data Exchanges, and Markets as a Service – which enables firms beyond Capital Markets to spin up their own B2B and B2C marketplaces.

OCA Ventures is an early stage (Seed, Series A, and Series B) venture capital firm focused on equity investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in technology and highly-scalable services businesses. OCA invests in many industries, with a preference for technology, financial services, education and healthcare technology. Founded in 1999, the firm is investing out of its fourth fund in companies spread throughout the United States.

PicnicHealth is a San Francisco-based, venture-backed health tech startup with the mission of structuring the world’s medical data to make it useful. We give patients the first truly useful personal health record by doing all the legwork to collect medical records from any US provider and digitizing them to create a unified timeline. Life Sciences companies sponsor PicnicHealth accounts for patients who consent to contribute their anonymized medical data to research registries -- patients get the PicnicHealth service free of charge, companies get critical data on how diseases look in the real world, and academic researchers get free access to data sets that drive cutting edge medical research.