Daniel Dardani, Technology Licensing Officer, is an intellectual property licensing professional at the MIT Technology Licensing Office – the country’s premier technology transfer office. Daniel has over 15 years of experience at MIT managing a large and sophisticated portfolio of technologies including: computer and information technology, patented algorithms, copyrighted software, digital imaging, video games, machine learning/AI, and cyber security technologies. Daniel has negotiated license agreements with many business ventures from startup companies to Fortune 500 global corporations. He counsels university inventors and entrepreneurs on how to protect and leverage university technologies into commercialization opportunities. Daniel is a Certified Licensing Professional TM, and also co-teaches a survey course on intellectual property at Harvard University’s Summer School. Daniel is an advisory board member to the FAME (Fashion, Arts, Media and Entertainment) Law Center at Cardozo law school in New York City. He has degrees in physics and political science from the University of Rochester.