MIT Technology and Policy Program (TPP) 50th Anniversary Symposium
North Stars and New Routes — Fifty Years of Technology Policy
MIT TPP 50th Anniversary Symposium
October 10, 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
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We invite you to join us at MIT for a landmark symposium and celebration: the 50th Anniversary Symposium of the MIT Technology and Policy Program (TPP). This milestone event will honor five decades of education, research, and global impact, while convening our vibrant community of alumni, faculty, students, staff, and partners.
Together, we will reflect on TPP’s enduring legacy and the groundbreaking contributions of our graduates and faculty, explore today’s most pressing challenges at the intersection of technology and policy, and envision bold new directions for technology policy in the decades ahead.
Founded to confront the most consequential technological issues facing society — through the integration of deep technical expertise with rigorous policy analysis — TPP’s mission remains as vital as ever. This special event will celebrate the past, engage the present, and chart pathways toward a thriving, resilient, and impactful future.
Event Locations
MIT Kresge Auditorium
The symposium will take place in Kresge Auditorium (W16) from 8:00 am – 6:00 pm.
MIT Morss Hall
The reception will take place in Morss Hall (50) from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. The Muddy Charles Pub is located in the same building.
About The MIT Technology and Policy Program
The MIT Technology and Policy Program (TPP) is an Institute-wide, global leader in education and research focused on advancing the responsible leadership of technology through the design and implementation of policies that benefit humanity. TPP offers a rigorous research-based Master of Science degree that integrates depth in a leading technical domain within MIT’s world-class technological ecosystem with rigorous, evidence-based policy analysis, fostering dual professional excellence and preparing graduates for transformative leadership at the forefront of technology and policy. TPP enrolls approximately 55 students each year who conduct thesis research across the Institute, addressing some of the most critical technological challenges of our time, including climate and energy policy, artificial intelligence (AI) governance, national security in space, aeronautics and nuclear science and engineering, biotechnology and the bioeconomy, advanced materials and manufacturing, and more.
Operating within the MIT Institute of Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), the MIT School of Engineering, and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, TPP distinctively engages and integrates state-of-the-art modeling, simulation, and analytical methods in information and decision systems, statistics and data science, and the computational social sciences, with a diverse range of foundational, emerging, and cross-disciplinary policy analysis methods.
For over five decades, TPP’s legacy of education, research, and impact has shaped more than 1,500 alumni who are among the most distinguished technology policy leaders across the world. Embedded within MIT’s vibrant ecosystem of science, engineering, and innovation, TPP offers unparalleled opportunities for students and researchers to engage at the forefront of emerging technologies, craft transformative policies, and guide the profound societal and planetary changes that define our shared future.