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SUMMARY:The Medtech Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:The MedTech Conference is a premier global gathering of medical technology leaders\, hosted by AdvaMed. Taking place October 18–21\, 2026\, in Boston\, the event brings together top industry executives and thousands of innovators from across the worldwide medtech ecosystem. \nSpanning medical devices\, diagnostics\, imaging\, and digital health technologies\, the conference highlights the groundbreaking advancements transforming patient care and improving lives around the globe. Attendees include scientists\, entrepreneurs\, academics\, investors\, and industry leaders who are driving innovation and shaping the future of healthcare. \nThe MedTech Conference serves as a dynamic platform for collaboration\, thought leadership\, and business development\, where participants come together to challenge existing limitations\, explore emerging trends\, and accelerate the adoption of cutting-edge technologies. Through keynote sessions\, panel discussions\, networking opportunities\, and showcases\, the event empowers the medtech community to do what it does best: put the future of healthcare in motion and improve outcomes for patients worldwide. \nSave 10%-30% with a Flex Pass – get yours here: https://themedtechconference.com/flex-pass/
URL:https://scienceinboston.com/event/the-medtech-conference-2026/
LOCATION:Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC)\, 415 Summer St.\, Boston\, MA\, 02210\, United States
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SUMMARY:Discovery After Dark
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for a night of discovery\, celebration\, and scientific wonders at this year’s “Discovery After Dark” event\, brought to you by the Broad Discovery Center and Operation Outbreak! Join us on Thursday\, October 29th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm for an exclusive\, after-hours\, free\, museum event. \nEmbrace the night with an atmosphere of excitement and curiosity as you explore the museum’s galleries and engage with interactive displays that spark the imagination. At this year’s Discovery After Dark event\, we invite you to participate in our in-person outbreak simulation\, during which a fictional pathogen will spread anonymously via Bluetooth across participating phones. During and after the simulation\, attendees can dive into the simulation results in our Outbreak Visualizer (see example here). \nBut that’s not all! We’ve prepared a fantastic lineup of entertainment with DJ Backspin\, Operation Outbreak and delights to make this event truly unforgettable.\nSpace is limited. Pre-registration is required and recommended as last year’s event filled up. \nWhat’s Operation Outbreak? \nOperation Outbreak\, an initiative of the Sabeti Lab of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard\, is an experiential education program that empowers students and society to positively impact the trajectory of outbreaks—big and small. \nIf you would like to participate in this optional opportunity\, download the Operation Outbreak mobile app (iOS and Android) before 6 pm Thursday\, October 29. A code to join the simulation will be forthcoming in a future email and at the event. \nRecommended Age & Requirements \nThis event is recommended for Middle School ages and above.\nPlease note: a personal smartphone is required to participate in the simulation.
URL:https://scienceinboston.com/event/discovery-after-dark/
LOCATION:Broad Institute\, 415 Main Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02142\, United States
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SUMMARY:ACORN Summit
DESCRIPTION:The Big Tree ACORN Summit— presented in partnership with Boston University Questrom School of Business— brings together industry leaders\, investors and innovators to advance healthcare innovation and collaboration. \nAt ACORN\, networking isn’t left to chance. Throughout the day\, attendees will explore five thought-provoking questions through facilitated roundtable discussions during breaks and lunch\, driving purposeful connections around Innovation\, Investment\, Policy and Access.
URL:https://scienceinboston.com/event/acorn-summit/
LOCATION:Boston University
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SUMMARY:Comparative Neuroscience: Lessons from Biodiversity
DESCRIPTION:The Picower Institute Fall 2026 Symposium “Comparative Neuroscience: Lessons from Biodiversity”\nAnimal behavior is incredibly diverse\, from insect to human societies; from jellyfish jet propulsion to flying bats. This symposium will bring together scientists with distinct perspectives to examine how nervous systems are organized across species and how these organizational principles relate to mechanisms of nervous system evolution. We will explore questions such as: to what extent do diverse nervous systems share common principles\, and when they do\, why? What can we learn from species differences? – for example\, why are some brains more regenerative than others? How does evolution alter the nervous system to generate novel behaviors? – and how do we compare neural networks across species and levels of complexity to ask such questions? With speakers ranging from evolutionary biology to computational neuroscience\, we expect this to be an exciting and thought-provoking day of science.
URL:https://scienceinboston.com/event/comparative-neuroscience-lessons-from-biodiversity/
LOCATION:Singleton Auditorium\, 43 Vassar St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Water: A Lo-TEK Experience
DESCRIPTION:Julia Watson and Melissa Hunter Gurney explore what water teaches us about resilience\, ancestral wisdom\, and living technologies.\n\nJoin us for a dynamic public lecture and dialogue exploring ancestral wisdom and living technologies. Grounded in Lo-TEK Water: A Field Guide for TEKnology\, this program showcases how Indigenous knowledge addresses our greatest environmental challenges\, from water innovation to climate resilience. Through powerful examples and interactive storytelling\, learn to see oceans not as resources\, but as living relatives\, and reimagine our relationship with the natural world. \nWe have a limited number of free tickets available for full-time students with ID. Please reach out to museumregadmin@mit.edu. \nThis program is presented as part of the MIT Museum’s thematic focus on OCEANS. \nAdmission:\nGeneral Public: $15\nMIT Affiliates: $5
URL:https://scienceinboston.com/event/living-water-a-lo-tek-experience/
LOCATION:MIT Museum\, 314 Main Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02142\, United States
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SUMMARY:After Dark: Decoding Whales and Dolphins
DESCRIPTION:Discover the hidden world of whales and dolphins. Experience talks\, hands-on activities\, and immersive installations that celebrate these incredible creatures. \nFeatured Activities: \nAt 7:00 pm\, join marine biologist Laela Sayigh as she reveals the surprising ways dolphins communicate with their babies: signature whistles and specially adapted sounds that’ll make you rethink these ocean geniuses \nReady to play? Challenge your crew to cetacean trivia with NOVA (bragging rights included)\, and then craft your own salmon hat in the Maker Hub\, a cultural trend orcas started in 1987 and revived in 2024 \nCrack the code with the New England Aquarium\, as they reveal how baleen\, blubber\, blow\, and behavior uncover the secrets of large whales \nPrepare to be blown away by MIT researcher Loïcka Baille’s cutting-edge work: AI and thermal imaging technology that’s saving whales from vessel strikes \nDive headfirst into “Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale” in our Sensing Oceans exhibition. An immersive experience where you echolocate like a whale. Follow bottlenose dolphins\, humpbacks\, and sperm whales as they navigate their underwater world through your ears \nDrinks and bites from Pagu available for purchase \nBring friends\, get curious\, and dive deeper with the ocean’s most astonishing communicators.
URL:https://scienceinboston.com/event/after-dark-decoding-whales-and-dolphins/
LOCATION:MIT Museum\, 314 Main Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02142\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Pox on Fools
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging evening with author Thomas Levenson as he discusses his new book\, “A Pox on Fools: The True Believers\, Grifters\, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines\,” in conversation with MIT Museum Director Michael John Gorman.\n\nSince the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century\, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser\, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of the greatest public health insights of the modern era\, inspiring the invention of numerous vaccines and saving countless human lives. But\, just as humanity acquired the superhuman ability to stop infectious disease in its tracks\, some feared we had gone too far\, leading to skepticism that has hijacked public health discourse today. \nIn three sweeping essays written for our current moment of scientific mistrust\, Thomas Levenson searches for the origins of the most common arguments against vaccines: that they are unnatural; that they are more dangerous than the illnesses they claim to prevent; and that they are an affront to freedom. Each arose from the earliest development of particular vaccines and the campaigns to distribute them. Even as the pattern repeats\, Levenson reveals how innocent that skepticism initially was and\, in each case\, how very human fears and questions ultimately turned into something darker\, where no truth would be enough to overcome the doubt. \nCopies of A Pox on Fools will be available for purchase and signing after the talk\, courtesy of the MIT Press Bookstore. \nWe have a limited number of free tickets available for full-time students with ID. Please reach out to museumregadmin@mit.edu. \nGeneral admission: $5
URL:https://scienceinboston.com/event/a-pox-on-fools/
LOCATION:MIT Museum\, 314 Main Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02142\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pharma Partnering US Summit
DESCRIPTION:The Pharma Partnering Summit is an exclusive Life Sciences Industry event\, with the aim to help companies expand their network and put together licensing deals\, research collaborations and financing. Our platform brings together senior executives from different parts of the world specialising in Business Development & Licensing\, Alliance Management\, Research Collaborations\, M&A and Investment. In addition to identifying products and partners as well as investors\, the forum also serves to disseminate knowledge through expert speakers\, for the best practices in the field of corporate partnerships.
URL:https://scienceinboston.com/event/pharma-partnering-us-summit/
LOCATION:Hilton Boston Logan Airport\, One Hotel Drive\, Boston\, 02128\, United States
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SUMMARY:After Dark: The Twilight Zone
DESCRIPTION:Ready to meet some seriously weird creatures? Venture into the ocean’s shadowy depths and discover the research happening in our ocean’s Twilight Zone. \nFeatured Activities: \nAt 6:45 pm\, join Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Scientist Emeritus\, Dana Yoerger as he shares Mesobot’s journey into the Twilight Zone \nAt 7:30 pm Harvard Professor Peter Girguis shines the light on the bizarre creatures lurking in the deep—from armored isopods to glowing denizens \nExplore specimens from the ichthyology collection at Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology \nGet hands-on with MIT Sea Grant and discover how democratizing marine technology empowers anyone to explore and sample the waters around us \nTake inspiration from the twilight zone’s trickiest hunters and craft your own bioluminescent creatures using paper circuits and LEDs \nWine and specialty beverages from Nashoba Valley Winery and Distillery and small bites from Viet Citron available for purchase
URL:https://scienceinboston.com/event/after-dark-the-twilight-zone/
LOCATION:MIT Museum\, 314 Main Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02142\, United States
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