MAY 26

Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Innovating Defense + Security in an Age of AI@MIT

AI is already reshaping the battlefield, military decision-making, and strategic foresight.

Convening the people defining what comes next — defence leaders, frontline operators, researchers, policymakers, and investors — for a day of talks at MIT on Tuesday, 26 May 2026, from 1pm to 6pm. The event is produced in partnership with MIT’s Mission Innovation X (MIX) which enables mission-driven organizations and dual-use ventures to better solve the world’s biggest challenges. MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) joins as a partner. Founded in 1940, LIDS is MIT's longest continuously running research laboratory and one of its strongest centers for computing research with decades-long deep expertise in decisions-driven intelligence and agentic, autonomous systems.

JUNE 23

Yawkey Auditorium and Atrium

250 Talks@GBH Studios

The day is part of Our America 250, a statewide initiative honoring the Revolution's quarter-millennium by treating it as a starting line rather than a finish.

Massachusetts spent its first 250 years inventing the country. Independence started here. So did public education, the telephone, the polio vaccine, the World Wide Web's first American node, and a long line of the institutions and ideas the rest of the country grew up using. Where Liberty Sparks Innovation is a one-day gathering at GBH about what this state helps invent in the next 250. The people, technologies, and institutions that carry the experiment forward to America at 500. The program convenes scientists, founders, civic leaders, artists, educators, and organizers — including voices the first 250 years left out — for the kind of cross-generational conversation Massachusetts has always been good at hosting. These talks will look to the future, and serve as living digital time capsules to be reviewed and acted on for the next 250 years.

August 13

MARTHA's VINEYARD private residence

250 Talks@Villa Rosa

The day is part of Our America 250, a statewide initiative honoring the Revolution's quarter-millennium by treating it as a starting line rather than a finish.

Massachusetts spent its first 250 years inventing the country. Independence started here. So did public education, the telephone, the polio vaccine, the World Wide Web's first American node, and a long line of the institutions and ideas the rest of the country grew up using. Where Liberty Sparks Innovation is a one-day gathering at GBH about what this state helps invent in the next 250. The people, technologies, and institutions that carry the experiment forward to America at 500. The program convenes scientists, founders, civic leaders, artists, educators, and organizers — including voices the first 250 years left out — for the kind of cross-generational conversation Massachusetts has always been good at hosting. These talks will look to the future, and serve as living digital time capsules to be reviewed and acted on for the next 250 years.