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Meet Some of Our 2022 Speakers

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

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

George Church

Professor

Harvard & MIT

Sri Kosaraju

CEO

Inscripta

Sean McClain

Founder, CEO, & Director

Absci

Lisa Dyson

CEO

Air Protein

Charles Dimmler

Co-founder & CEO

Checkerspot

Christine Gould

CEO

Thought For Food

Ernesto Simon

VP, Flavors & Fragrances

Conagen

Ginger Dosier

CEO

Biomason

Nicole Richards

CEO

Allonnia

Michael Leonard

CTO

Motif Foodworks

Keith Wood

CEO

Light Bio

PJ Amini

Director of Venture Investments

Leaps by Bayer

Sean Hunt

Co-Founder & CTO

Solugen

Eric Hobbs

CEO

Berkeley Lights

Jake Glanville

CEO & President

Centivax

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

Maris Paden

Government Affairs and Health Policy Associate

Todd Strategy Group

Bob Van Hove

Program Director

Ginkgo Bioworks

Kate Rosenbluth

Director, Chief Scientific Officer

Cala Health

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

Cedric Wu

Vice President, Innovation Center

Genscript

Xi Chen

CEO

Rootpath Genomics

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

Abril Estrada

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer

Wild Earth

Aaron Sato

CSO

Twist Bioscience

Amy Kruse

Partner

Prime Movers Lab

Avery Bedows

Founder

The Substrate Group

Arvind Gupta

Partner

Mayfield

Bill Efcavitch

Chief Scientific Officer

Molecular Assemblies

Ben Chiarelli

Founder & CEO

Cellibre

Brian Pepin

Founder & CEO

Rune Labs

Carlton Fleming

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP

Daniel Rines

Senior Director, R&D Strategy

Strateos

Eben Bayer

CEO

Atlast Food Co.

Fiona Mischel

Director of International Outreach

SynBioBeta

Frank Tate

CEO

SynBioBeta

Howard Hutton

Research Fellow

The Procter & Gamble Company

J. Casey Lippmeier

VP of Innovation

Conagen Inc.

Jacob Robinson

Associate Professor

Rice University

Jaime Yassif

Vice President, Global Biological Policy and Programs

NTI | bio

Jaleh Daie

Chairman, AgFoodHealthSpan

Band of Angels

Joel Makower

Chairman & Co-founder

GreenBiz Group

John Cumbers

Founder

SynBioBeta

Jojo Platt

President

Platt & Associates

Julia Moore

Managing Partner

Breakout Ventures

Karim Engelmark Kassimjee

Co-founder & CEO

EnginZyme

Karl Handelsman

Founder

Codon Capital

Karyn Riegel

Dep. Director, Brand/Community Engagement

Leaps by Bayer

Karl Schmieder

CEO

Messaging Lab

Katherine Oglesby

Sr. Vice President & Head of Sensegen

Blue California

Konstantinos Alataris

President & CEO

Nesos

Kevin Holden

Head of Science

Synthego

Kimi Sato

CEO

bitBiome, Inc.

Kristen Tran

Head of Automation

Ginkgo Bioworks

Libby Schaaf

Mayor

City of Oakland

Lloyd Kunimoto

CEO

Amfora

Linda Elkins

Head of Gore Innovation Center

W. L. Gore & Associates

Marcus Gerhardt

Co-founder & CEO

Blackrock Neurotech

Magi Richani

Founder & CEO

Nobell Foods

Mark Kotter

Founder & CEO

bit.Bio

Marilene Pavan

Scientist

Lanzatech Inc.

Martin Moore

CEO

Meissa Vaccines

Massimo Portincaso

Executive Chairman/Chairman

Officinae Bio/Hello Tomorrow

Mathew Miller

Senior Scientist, Molecular Engineering

Codexis

Megan Palmer

Executive Director, Bio Policy & Leadership Initiatives

Stanford University

Matt Angle

Founder & CEO

Paradromics

Milana Trounce

Director of BioSecurity / Founding Chair of BioSecurity

Stanford / American College of Emergency Physicians

Nabiha Saklayen

Co-founder & CEO

Cellino

Moji Karimi

Co-founder & CEO

Cemvita Factory

Nandini Krishnamurthy

VP, Microbial Business Area

Inscripta

Nasir Bashiruddin

CTO

OriCiro Genomics, Inc.

Nikhita Singh

Co-founder & CPO

Artificial Inc