Ryan Bethencourt, co-founder and CEO at Wild Earth. Ryan is a co-founder and CEO at Wild Earth, bringing years of experience in leading, building and advising high-growth food and biotechnology companies. Ryan is a biotech entrepreneur, investor, and one of the founders of the biohacker movement. He’s a co-founder, former Program [...]
Daphne Koller, CEO and Founder of insitro. Daphne Koller is the CEO and Founder of insitro. Daphne was the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she served on the faculty for 18 years. She was the co-founder, co-CEO and President of Coursera for 5 years, and the [...]
Ellen Jorgensen, Co-founder and CSO of Carverr Dr. Ellen Jorgensen is cofounder and Chief Science Officer at Carverr, a biotech startup that safeguards supply chains and promotes sustainable practices by using biomolecules and probiotics to track and trace food and other products. In 2017, Fast Company magazine named her one of their [...]
Megan Palmer, Senior Research Scholar at CISAC at Stanford University. Dr. Megan J. Palmer is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. She leads a research and practice program on risk governance in emerging technology development, with a focus on how security [...]
David Lips, Researcher at Spiber David Lips is a researcher at Spiber working on the design and production of protein materials for the next generation of manufacturing applications. One of the leading biotech startups in Japan, Spiber initial targets are the automotive and apparel industries, two huge markets which have the [...]
Keira Havens, Industry and Regulatory Affairs Manager at Pivot Bio. Keira Havens has been deeply involved in synthetic biology as a scientist, an entrepreneur, a communicator, and a thought leader. Her work has engaged all facets of the synthetic biology economy in the pursuit of beautiful biotechnology – well designed, elegant [...]
Mike Cox, founder and CEO of Anaerobe Systems. Mike Cox is the founder and CEO of Anaerobe Systems, a microbiology manufacturing and research company. He has a degree in microbiology from the University of Houston. Mike began his career as a medical microbiologist. While working at Stanford University Medical Center he [...]
Jason Slingsby, Chief Business Officer at Oxford Biomedica. Jason joined Oxford BioMedica in 2015 as Head of Business Development. He has 20 years experience in the biotechnology industry in biologics, vaccines and gene therapy. He has worked in international business development roles at Sosei Co., Ltd, and Intercell AG and was [...]
Sebastian Cocioba, Co-founder of MicroSynbiotiX. Sebastian Cocioba is a Plant Biotechnology researcher with a focus on the production of commercially and industrially valuable plant species. He is the Co-founder of MicroSynbiotiX, a company that has developed oral vaccines to combat diseases and infections in aquaculture using a novel method using genetically [...]
Ákos Nyerges, Harvard (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Akos’ research targets healthcare and biotechnology with bacterial synthetic biology. He earned his PhD in Hungary while working with Csaba Pal and currently he is doing his postdoctoral research with George Church at Harvard. Akos is interested in advancing genome editing to accelerate evolutionary [...]
