The hard work of making change easy

February 3, 2026 | 5:15 – 9:00 PM

How can technology leaders make meaningful changes today that dismantle barriers to tomorrow? 

Join us for an evening designed to inspire thought and action. We’ll begin with a private guided tour of MoMA’s iconic Collection Galleries from the 1950s–70s. 

Then, we'll dine down a short walk away at the Michelin-starred Aquavit and explore leadership strategies that combine doing what’s right with doing what works, including:

  • How to shift entrenched incentive patterns
  • How to achieve lasting impact within tight budgets
  • Upending the risk/reward equation to make change worth it

 

Agenda

5:15pm Guided private tour at the MoMA (no late entries)
6:30pm Walk to Aquavit
6:45pm Champagne and canapés, followed by dinner
9:00pm Carriages

 

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Some friendly faces you can expect to see at this event:

    • Rob Mee

      CEO
      A software engineer by trade, I began my career writing natural language translation systems in Lisp at an artificial intelligence laboratory in Tokyo. I later launched Pivotal Labs which was acquired in 2019, and has been credited for shaping the software development cultures of some of Silicon Valley’s most influential and valuable companies. Today, I’m tackling what I envision as the last major problem of software; modernizing and future-proofing the critical systems that support the corporations that run our global economies.

    • Irene Sandler

      CMO
      I’m responsible for all things marketing—brand, positioning, product, content, demand gen— at Mechanical Orchard. I began programming on a Commodore 64 and have held product management and senior marketing positions at Cisco Systems and Cognizant Technology Solutions, where I was on the Executive Leadership Team. After nearly two decades in the corporate world building high-performing teams, I’ve returned to startups: Mechanical Orchard is my seventh.

    • Peter Temes

      Moderator
       

      Peter began his career as a full-time member of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and went on to found Enterprise Interactive, a consulting and research firm.

      Peter has led research initiatives for Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, Disney, EY, Pfizer, GM’s autonomous vehicles group and many other companies in the technology, finance and consumer marketing sectors. Peter has also served as Dean and Campus Chief Executive for Northeastern University, President of the Antioch New England Graduate School and President of the Great Books Foundation.

      He is the author and editor of several books, including Teaching Leadership, The Just War, and Against School Reform. Peter holds a Ph.D. and three master’s degrees from Columbia University.