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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

Gaurab Chakrabarti

Co-Founder & CEO

Solugen

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

Emily Leproust

CEO

Twist Bioscience

Sean McClain

Founder, CEO, & Director

Absci

Amy Trejo

Director, R&D - Responsible Materials Innovation

Procter & Gamble Company

Lisa Dyson

CEO

Air Protein

Charles Dimmler

Co-founder & CEO

Checkerspot

Ernesto Simon

VP, Flavors & Fragrances

Conagen

Ginger Dosier

CEO

Biomason

Michael Leonard

CTO

Motif Foodworks

Christine Gould

Founder & CEO

Thought For Food

Keith Wood

CEO

Light Bio

Sean Hunt

Co-Founder & CTO

Solugen

Jake Glanville

CEO & President

Centivax

Eric Hobbs

CEO

Berkeley Lights

Jeff Ubersax

CEO

Demetrix

Drew Endy

Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Stanford University

Julianna Lemieux

Senior Science Writer

Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

Nicole Richards

CEO

Allonnia

Ezhil Subbian

CEO

String Bio

Eric Abbate

Director of Analytical Biochemistry

Inscripta Inc.

Rakhshita Dhar

Senior Director, Pharma Venture Investments

Leaps by Bayer

Steffen Hellmold

Senior Vice President, Business Development

Twist Biosciences

Alexander Titus

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Bioeconomy.XYZ

Justin Dillon

Founder & CEO

FRDM

Ena Cratsenburg

Chief Business Officer

Ginkgo Bioworks

Kate Rosenbluth

Director, Chief Scientific Officer

Cala Health

Bob Van Hove

Program Director

Ginkgo Bioworks

Jake Wintermute

Developer Evangelist

Ginkgo Bioworks

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

Cedric Wu

Vice President, Innovation Center

Genscript

Anna Wexler

Assistant Professor

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Dietrich Stephan

Chairman & CEO

Neubase

Alex Lorestani

CEO & Co-Founder

Geltor

Erin Kim

Creative Director

Geltor

Fiona Mischel

Director of International Outreach

SynBioBeta

Weston Kightlinger

Co-founder & CTO

SwiftScale Biologics

Megan Palmer

Executive Director, Bio Policy & Leadership Initiatives

Stanford University

Tim Lu

Co-Founder & CEO

Senti Biosciences

Terri Shieh-Newton

Member

Mintz

Thomas Weingarten

PhD, Computational Biology

Google

Jacob Robinson

Associate Professor

Rice University

J. Casey Lippmeier

VP of Innovation

Conagen Inc.

Stephanie Michelsen

Co-founder & CEO

Jellatech

Tom Treynor

Founder & CEO

R2DIO, Inc

Jaime Yassif

Vice President, Global Biological Policy and Programs

NTI | bio

Marcus Gerhardt

Co-founder & CEO

Blackrock Neurotech

Massimo Portincaso

Executive Chairman/Chairman

Officinae Bio/Hello Tomorrow

Tal Zeltzer

Co-founder & CTO

Phytolon

Ryan Morhard

Director, Policy and Partnerships

Ginkgo Bioworks

Taryn Southern

Emerging Tech Storyteller / Creative Director

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

Tracy Kambara

Head of Molecular Biology

CATALOG

Kristen Tran

Head of Automation

Ginkgo Bioworks

Nikhita Singh

Co-founder & CPO

Artificial Inc

Brian Pepin

Founder & CEO

Rune Labs

Matt Angle

Founder & CEO

Paradromics

Ursheet Parikh

Partner

Mayfield Fund

Raj Judge

Senior Partner

Wilson Sonsini Goodrish & Rosati

Abril Estrada

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer

Wild Earth

Avery Bedows

Founder

The Substrate Group

Konstantinos Alataris

President & CEO

Nesos

Moji Karimi

Co-founder & CEO

Cemvita Factory

Frank Tate

CEO

SynBioBeta

Martin Moore

CEO

Meissa Vaccines

Katherine Oglesby

Sr. Vice President & Head of Sensegen

Blue California

Nandini Krishnamurthy

VP, Microbial Business Area

Inscripta

John Cumbers

Founder

SynBioBeta

Zachary Sun

Co-founder & CEO

Tierra Biosciences

Steve McCloskey

Founder & CEO

Nanome Inc.

Arvind Gupta

Partner

Mayfield

Mark Kotter

Founder & CEO

bit.Bio

Linda Elkins

Head of Gore Innovation Center

W. L. Gore & Associates

Karyn Riegel

Dep. Director, Brand/Community Engagement

Leaps by Bayer

Marilene Pavan

Scientist

Lanzatech Inc.

Mathew Miller

Senior Scientist, Molecular Engineering

Codexis

Amy Kruse

Partner

Prime Movers Lab

Dayal Saran

VP, Research

Allonnia

Trevor Martin

CEO

Mammoth Biosciences

Kevin Holden

Head of Science

Synthego

Nishan Degnarian

Special Advisor

World Economic Forum

Julia Moore

Managing Partner

Breakout Ventures

Richard Ellson

CTO & Director of Research

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

Timothy Stiles

Creator, Lead Developer of Poly

(Poly)merase

Yasunori (Yas) Aizawa

Co-founder & CEO

Logomix Inc

Bill Efcavitch

Chief Scientific Officer

Molecular Assemblies

Jojo Platt

President

Platt & Associates

Nabiha Saklayen

Co-founder & CEO

Cellino

Robert Leachman

Professor

University of California, Berkeley

Troy Lionberger

Associate Director, Technology Development

Berkeley Lights