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Meet Some of Our 2022 Speakers

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

Craig Venter

Vinod Khosla

Cady Coleman

Jennifer Doudna

Tristan Harris

Steve Wozniak

RJ Kirk

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

Emily Leproust

CEO

Twist Bioscience

Jason Kelly

Founder & CEO

Ginkgo Bioworks

Amy Trejo

Director, R&D - Responsible Materials Innovation

Procter & Gamble Company

Jürgen Eckhardt

Head of Leaps by Bayer

Leaps by Bayer

Niya Gupta

Co-founder & CEO

Fork & Goode

Gaurab Chakrabarti

Co-Founder & CEO

Solugen

Sri Kosaraju

CEO

Inscripta

George Church

Professor

Harvard & MIT

Sean McClain

Founder, CEO, & Director

Absci

Lisa Dyson

CEO

Air Protein

Charles Dimmler

Co-founder & CEO

Checkerspot

Nicole Richards

CEO

Allonnia

Ernesto Simon

VP, Flavors & Fragrances

Conagen

Ginger Dosier

CEO

Biomason

Christine Gould

CEO

Thought For Food

Michael Leonard

CTO

Motif Foodworks

Keith Wood

CEO

Light Bio

Sean Hunt

Co-Founder & CTO

Solugen

PJ Amini

Director of Venture Investments

Leaps by Bayer

Jake Glanville

CEO & President

Centivax

Eric Hobbs

CEO

Berkeley Lights

Jeff Ubersax

CEO

Demetrix

Drew Endy

Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Stanford University

Esther Dyson

Executive Founder

Way to Wellville

Ezhil Subbian

CEO

String Bio

Dietrich Stephan

CEO & Chairman

NeuBase Therapeutics, Inc.

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

Ramez Naam

Chief Futurist

Prime Movers Lab

Alexander Titus

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Bioeconomy.XYZ

Julianna Lemieux

Senior Science Writer

Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

Justin Dillon

Founder & CEO

FRDM

Ena Cratsenburg

Chief Business Officer

Ginkgo Bioworks

Kate Rosenbluth

Director, Chief Scientific Officer

Cala Health

Maris Paden

Government Affairs and Health Policy Associate

Todd Strategy Group

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, PhD

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, PhD

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

Tycho Peterson

Managing Director | Equity Research – Life Science Tools & Diagnostics

J.P. Morgan

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

Libby Schaaf

Mayor

City of Oakland

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

Renee Wegrzyn

Vice President of Business Development

Ginkgo Bioworks

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

Ray Chen

President of Life Science Group

GenScript

Patrick Westfall

Senior Director, Cell Biology

Inscripta, Inc.