As my wife had too much work to catch up with, my daughter and I decided to go to New York for a culinary weekend. Let’s see how many times I say “delicious” in this post.
I was asked to attend and nominate speakers for the TEDxBoston AI + Future of Healthcare. I nominated 3 of my student teams (Ana-Maria, Mariam, and Amber) who did great on stage. The surprise came when I attended: I met my mentor from decades ago.

On Sunday we experienced two of the most special things the nearby Somerville has: PorchFest and Mass Hole Donuts.
On May 11th I was invited to judge Demo Day at MIT, and later I attended a workshop on generative AI and case method teaching at Harvard Business School.
The great annual event of the iLab, the President’s Innovation Challenge (where I was invited to be a judge), took place May 3rd and it was awesome.
May 2nd I attended two events: Venture Cafe’s ‘Charting the Future of Japanese Innovation’ at the Cambridge Innovation Center, and the Harvard Innovation Labs Alumni dinner at the Harvard Business School’s Spangler Center.
SEAS (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) hosted FounderCrush 2023 at the SEC (Science and Engineering Complex) atrium.