Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker will kick off Thursday’s morning program, featuring TED-style talks from MIT faculty and remarks by Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt, as well as a panel of entrepreneurs and investors on computing for the marketplace. The afternoon features a Q&A session with MIT President L. Rafael Reif and Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone; a discussion led by New York Times columnist and author Tom Friedman with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; and a panel discussion on “Computing for the People” chaired by Prof. Melissa Nobles, dean of MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and moderated by Friedman.