Dr. James W. Weis is an entrepreneur, investor, and researcher. He earned his Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab for developing network-analysis algorithms to predict and prioritize high-impact scientific work, published in Nature Biotechnology and featured by MIT News, and his S.M. from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for applying information-theoretic methods to protein simulations. As founder and CEO of Hatch.Bio Labs, he built an incubation platform that has helped accelerate more than 60 startups over the last eight years, collectively raising $3.6 billion USD, creating over 3,000 jobs, and reaching a combined market valuation exceeding $13 billion USD. He also co-founded the MIT Biotech Group and the MIT Life Sciences Angel Group, co-instructed the Revolutionary Ventures course at the MIT Media Lab (cross-registered with MIT Sloan and Harvard Business School), and runs a principal investment firm that leverages network-science analytics.