
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
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Alexander Titus
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Bioeconomy.XYZ
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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