RIDE, MIT-WPU

Each year, we turn MIT-WPU into a living, thinking space where students, founders, investors, artists, and academics collide, not just to talk about the future, but to build it, question it, and even laugh at it. With panels that don’t preach, expos that actually prototype, and a stage that comfortably flips between a pitch and a performance, R.I.D.E. is stitched together by urgency, irreverence, and unexpected insight. R.I.D.E. 2025 takes on the theme: The Future of Work. Not as a trend, but as a tension, between humans and machines, flexibility and burnout, meaning and metrics. We’re not just forecasting careers; we’re challenging the entire idea of productivity, purpose, and play in this age.