Riccardo LoCascio, Regional Business Development Manager at Novozymes Riccardo oversees partnerships, collaborations and investments for Novozymes new growth and innovation areas in North America. Prior to Novozymes he was in the Strategy and M&A team at DuPont Industrial Biosciences, and has held various business development positions in the Ag, Nutrition and [...]
Heather Loftsgard, Director of Synthetic Biology, Integrated DNA Technologies Heather Loftsgard is the Director of Synthetic Biology at Integrated DNA Technologies. She has a background focusing heavily on quality control, process development, and support of GMP products. Her current role focuses on managing the day to day operations for all synthetic biology [...]
Eric Schmidt, Technical Advisor to Alphabet Inc Eric Schmidt is Technical Advisor to Alphabet Inc., holding company of Google Inc, where he advises its leaders on technology, business and policy issues. Eric was Executive Chairman of Alphabet from 2015-2018, and of Google from 2011-2015. From 2001-2011, Eric served as Google’s Chief [...]
Sajith Wickramasekara, Founder and CEO of Benchling Sajith is the Founder and CEO of Benchling, the next-generation life sciences software R&D company. Sajith led the adoption of Benchling to over 55,000 scientists worldwide and has raised $13M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and Y Combinator. Prior to Benchling, he [...]
Dror Berman, Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors Dror co-founded Innovation Endeavors with Eric Schmidt, MIT Innovation Fellow and former CEO and Executive Chairman of Google/Alphabet Inc., in 2010. Dror invests in early-stage startups that are driving exponential rates of change in their industries — from agriculture and computational biology to fulfillment centers [...]
Tom Kalil, Chief Innovation Officer at Schmidt Futures. Tom Kalil is Chief Innovation Officer at Schmidt Futures. In this role, Tom leads initiatives to harness technology for societal challenges, improve science policy, and identify and pursue 21st century moonshots. Prior to Schmidt Futures, Tom served in the White House for two [...]
Jenny Rooke, Founder and Managing Director of Genoa Ventures. For over a decade, Genoa Ventures’ founder and managing director Dr. Jenny Rooke has been deploying capital at the frontiers of life sciences innovation, with a penchant for technology-fueled solutions and category-defying opportunities. Jenny got her start in venture at Fidelity Biosciences, [...]
David Nunn, Vice President, Research and Innovation at Conagen Dr. David Nunn is a biotechnology professional with over thirty years of experience as an educator, researcher, and inventor in multiple fields including genetic engineering, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, renewable energy and mechanisms of microbial disease. He began his professional career as a [...]
Miller Tran, Vice President of Research and Development at Triton Algae Innovations Dr. Tran is a co-founder of Triton Algae Innovations and is the Vice President of Research and Development. At Triton, Dr. Tran oversees the research and development efforts to identify powerful new microbial organisms, to develop scalable processes to [...]
Drew Endy, Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University Drew Endy is a member of the bioengineering faculty at Stanford University and BioBricks Foundation president (biobricks.org). His research teams pioneered amplifying genetic logic, rewritable DNA data storage, reliably-reuseable standard biological parts, and genome refactoring. Drew helped launch the new undergraduate majors [...]
