Thursday, November 6, 2025
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Le Meridien Boston Cambridge
20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Join MIT’s System Design and Management for an evening of connection and community.
Systems Night returns in the fall of 2025. This year’s theme is entrepreneurship and innovation. We will also present two awards: the John Helferich Award for Excellence in the Systems Community at MIT, and the SDM Student Award for Leadership, Innovation, and Systems Thinking. The evening will also include time for networking and a Q&A with our panelists. We hope you’ll be able to join us!
Our guests for the evening include:
- Tim Chiang, Partner and Co-Founder, Myriad Venture Partners
- Jeremy Katz, Vice President of Engineering at Sonar
- Noemie Midrez, Technical Program Manager at Nth Cycle
Please RSVP on Eventbrite.
Speakers
Tim Chiang
Tim Chiang SDM ’16 is a Partner and Co-Founder at Myriad Venture Partners. He leads deep tech and industrial transformation investments for the fund, leveraging his extensive background in systems engineering, intellectual property, product development, and early stage investing at GC Ventures and GE Ventures. He is also a founding member of ven^x, a Boston-based collaborative deep tech VC hub. Tim holds engineering degrees from MIT and the University of Illinois.
Jeremy Katz
Jeremy Katz SDM ’08 is a hands-on startup engineering leader with over two decades of experience in software development, architecture, building large scale systems, and leading teams. Much of his professional career has involved work in and around open source software. He has worked at Red Hat, HubSpot, Stackdriver (acquired by Google), Google, and then co-founded Tidelift, which was acquired by Sonar in December of 2024. Today he is the Vice President of Engineering for Code Security at Sonar, leading teams across the US and Europe. Jeremy graduated from the SDM program in 2010.
Noemie Midrez
Noemie Midrez SDM ’22 is a Technical Program Manager at Nth Cycle, a startup whose mission is to refine critical metals to keep them in circulation forever thanks to its electroextraction technology. While building the function of program management at the company, Noemie also serves as a data architect/analyst supporting the operations of Nth Cycle’s first commercial plant. She began her career at HP in Metals 3D printing as an R&D process development engineer, where her interest for solving complex, technical, and organizational problems sparked. Noemie holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University as well as her SDM degree.
About Systems Night
Since 2017, Systems Night has brought together current SDM students, alumni, faculty, and local industry leaders for evenings that feature new ideas and personal stories about systems thinking. Systems thinkers embrace the challenge of solving interdisciplinary and inter-industry problems in an increasingly complex world. These evenings include lightning talks and panel discussions from a range of distinguished speakers as well as time for networking and discussion. Systems Night offers an opportunity for the entire SDM and MIT community to share their thoughts on solving today’s challenges with a systems approach.