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Meet Some of Our 2022 Speakers

An incredible spectrum of innovators, thought leaders, and industry experts

Cathie Wood

Founder & CEO

Ark Invest

Amy Webb

CEO

The Future Institute Today

Eric Schmidt

Co-Founder of Schmidt Futures, Former CEO & Chairman of Google

Niya Gupta

Co-founder & CEO

Fork & Goode

Renee Wegrzyn

Director of ARPA-H

Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)

Jason Kelly

Founder & CEO

Ginkgo Bioworks

George Church

Professor

Harvard & MIT

Drew Endy

Martin Family Fellow in Undergraduate Education

Stanford University

Emily Leproust

CEO

Twist Bioscience

Lisa Dyson

CEO

Air Protein

Ernesto Simon

VP, Flavors & Fragrances

Conagen

Ginger Dosier

CEO

Biomason

Michael Leonard

CTO

Motif Foodworks

Mark Kotter

Founder & CEO

bit.bio

Keith Wood

CEO

Light Bio

Christine Gould

Founder & CEO

Thought For Food

Sean Hunt

Co-Founder & CTO

Solugen

Amy Trejo

Director, R&D - Responsible Materials Innovation

Procter & Gamble Company

Eric Hobbs

CEO

Berkeley Lights

Jeff Ubersax

CEO

Demetrix

Ursheet Parikh

Partner

Mayfield

Rob Carlson

Managing Director

Planetary Technologies

Gaurab Chakrabarti

Co-Founder & CEO

Solugen

Julianna Lemieux

Senior Science Writer

Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

Nicole Richards

CEO

Allonnia

Charles Dimmler

Co-founder & CEO

Checkerspot

Megan Palmer

Senior Director, Public Impact

Ginkgo Bioworks

Sean McClain

Founder & CEO

Absci

Jake Glanville

CEO & President

Centivax

Ena Cratsenburg

Chief Business Officer

Ginkgo Bioworks

Eric Abbate

Director of Analytical Biochemistry

Inscripta Inc.

Tim Lu

Co-Founder & CEO

Senti Biosciences

Steffen Hellmold

Senior Vice President, Business Development

Twist Biosciences

Rakhshita Dhar

Senior Director, Pharma Venture Investments

Leaps by Bayer

Alexander Titus

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Bioeconomy.XYZ

John Cumbers

Founder

SynBioBeta

Justin Dillon

Founder & CEO

FRDM

Bob Van Hove

Program Director

Ginkgo Bioworks

Kate Rosenbluth

Director, Chief Scientific Officer

Cala Health

Ruth Helen Faram

Chief Scientific Officer

HigherSteaks

JJ Johnson

Chef, Founder, TV Personality

Matthew Hayes

Chief Technology Officer

Evonetix

Matt Hill

Vice President of Research & Development

Elegen Bio

Ranjan Patnaik

Chief Technology Officer

EVERY

Xi Chen

CEO

Rootpath Genomics

Anna Wexler

Assistant Professor

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Fiona Mischel

Director, Human Health Content and Innovation

SynBioBeta

Dietrich Stephan

Chairman & CEO

Neubase

Alex Lorestani

CEO & Co-Founder

Geltor

Erin Kim

Creative Director

Geltor

Ben Chiarelli

Founder & CEO

Cellibre

Brian Pepin

Founder & CEO

Rune Labs

Marcus Gerhardt

Co-founder & CEO

Blackrock Neurotech

Jacob Robinson

Associate Professor

Rice University

Jojo Platt

President

Platt & Associates

Aaron Sato

CSO

Twist Bioscience

Katherine Oglesby

Sr. Vice President & Head of Sensegen

Blue California

Kevin Holden

Head of Science

Synthego

Amy Kruse

Partner

Prime Movers Lab

Julia Moore

Managing Partner

Breakout Ventures

Kristen Tran

Head of Automation

Ginkgo Bioworks

Avery Bedows

Founder

The Substrate Group

Abril Estrada

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer

Wild Earth

Kimi Sato

CEO

bitBiome, Inc.

Carlton Fleming

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP

Lloyd Kunimoto

CEO

Amfora

Daniel Rines

Senior Director, R&D Strategy

Strateos

Konstantinos Alataris

President & CEO

Nesos

Linda Elkins

Head of Gore Innovation Center

W. L. Gore & Associates

Jaleh Daie

Chairman, AgFoodHealthSpan

Band of Angels

Karyn Riegel

Dep. Director, Brand/Community Engagement

Leaps by Bayer

Eben Bayer

CEO

Atlast Food Co.

Bill Efcavitch

Chief Scientific Officer

Molecular Assemblies

Howard Hutton

Research Fellow

The Procter & Gamble Company

Frank Tate

CEO

SynBioBeta

Joel Makower

Chairman & Co-founder

GreenBiz Group

Karim Engelmark Kassimjee

Co-founder & CEO

EnginZyme

Nikhita Singh

Co-founder & CPO

Artificial Inc

Robert Leachman

Professor

University of California, Berkeley

Martin Moore

CEO

Meissa Vaccines

Milana Trounce

Director of BioSecurity / Founding Chair of BioSecurity

Stanford / American College of Emergency Physicians

Moji Karimi

Co-founder & CEO

Cemvita Factory

Matt Angle

Founder & CEO

Paradromics

Nishan Degnarian

Special Advisor

World Economic Forum

Massimo Portincaso

Executive Chairman/Chairman

Officinae Bio/Hello Tomorrow

Sunil Chandran

Chief Science Officer and Head of R&D

Amyris

Tracy Kambara

Head of Molecular Biology

CATALOG

Mathew Miller

Senior Scientist, Molecular Engineering

Codexis

Weston Kightlinger

Co-founder & CTO

SwiftScale Biologics

Nabiha Saklayen

Co-founder & CEO

Cellino

Timothy Stiles

Creator, Lead Developer of Poly

(Poly)merase

Troy Lionberger

Associate Director, Technology Development

Berkeley Lights

Zachary Sun

Co-founder & CEO

Tierra Biosciences

Dayal Saran

VP, Research

Allonnia

Thomas Weingarten

PhD, Computational Biology

Google

Yasunori (Yas) Aizawa

Co-founder & CEO

Logomix Inc

Taryn Southern

Emerging Tech Storyteller / Creative Director

Blackrock Neurotech (Creative Director) & Far Future Media (Founder)

Tom Treynor

Founder & CEO

R2DIO, Inc

Nasir Bashiruddin

CTO

OriCiro Genomics, Inc.

Tal Zeltzer

Co-founder & CTO

Phytolon