Elizabeth Conway, Director of Operations at Surterra Wellness. Elizabeth (Liz) Conway is the California Operations Director for Surterra Wellness. She leads west coast efforts for growth, strategy, partnerships, government and regulatory affairs. Prior to Surterra, Liz provided operational growth advice and strategic government and public affairs services to cannabis companies working [...]
Lisa Porter, Department of Defense Dr. Lisa Porter is the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (DUSD(R&E)), and with the USD(R&E), is responsible for the research, development, and prototyping activities across the DoD enterprise. In addition, the USD and DUSD oversee the activities of the Defense Advanced Research [...]
Michael Mendez, Founder and CEO of Renew Biopharma. With 30 years of biotech experience, Mike Mendez has been involved with ten start-up companies and has been a founder of four. He is a leading innovator in biotechnology, and has been at the forefront of the molecular biology revolution. Mr. Mendez is [...]
Rahul Dhanda, Founder, President and CEO of Sherlock Biosciences. Rahul K Dhanda is a founder and is the president and chief executive officer of Sherlock Biosciences. He also serves on the company’s Board of Directors. Most recently, Mr. Dhanda spent 10 years at T2 Biosystems where he helped grow the company [...]
Ran Chao, Co-Founder of LifeFoundry. Ran and co-workers established one of the first fully-automated biofoundries at the University of Illinois and are advancing the technology at LifeFoundry Inc. a startup dedicated to enabling algorithm-driven R&D processes of functional biosystems.
Surge Biswas, Harvard. Surge is a graduate student in George Church's lab at Harvard. He's developing machine-learning and experimental technologies to accelerate the pace of protein engineering for industrial and therapeutic applications.
Maia Smith, Team Lead, Front-End Development at AbCellera Maia leads the Data Visualization team at AbCellera. She builds tools to help scientists mine high-dimentional antibody datasets to predict the most promising therapeutic candidates.
Milana Trounce, Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford Medical School. Milana Trounce, MD MBA FACEP is a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford Medical School. She grew up in the former USSR where she was a professional ballerina. She completed a Disaster Medicine and Bioterrorism Fellowship at [...]
Arye Lipman, General Partner at MarsBio Arye Lipman is a General Partner at MarsBio, a seed-stage synthetic biology venture fund based in Los Angeles, investing in companies with lofty goals here on Earth and beyond. He currently serves as a board member and advisor for bioscience startups and accelerator programs in [...]
Nitasha Syed, Founder of Unboxd. Nitasha is a Pakistani founder with a software engineer background. She moved to the Bay 3 years ago to work for Rally Health and Unboxd, to change the stereotypes of women in the media.
